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Show I JAPANESE DEMAND 'OPEHJIMACr FORMER PREMIER OPPOSES SECRECY SE-CRECY IN SETTLEMENT OF CALIFORNIA PROBLEM. Declares That Industrious Japanese Are Not a Menace to America, and Appeals to "Fair Judgment of Enlightened Americans." Tokio. An attack against secrecy in connection with Japan's diplomacy in the California problem is made in n statement by Marquis Okuma, former premier, lie demands that the government govern-ment respond to national opinion, which should he awakened to the gravity grav-ity of the issues. The presence of 100,000 industrious Japanese is no menace to America, says the marquis. The real menace is from tlni anarchists and bolsheviki who the Hocking to the United States 1 from Europe. After pointing out that many Japanese Japa-nese subscribed to the American Liberty Lib-erty loans and made donations to the American Red Cross, aod that some of them volunteered for af.ny service, Marquis Okuma declares: "We must appeal to the fair judgment judg-ment of enlightened Americans, and if necessary, to the nations of the world. Moreover, there is ample ground for the Japanese to insist on their legal rights, so there is no need to jump at hasly conclusions and highhanded high-handed measures." Negotiations between the Japanese and United States governments with reference to the immigration question are entering "the serious stage," Baron Sakatani, former minister of finance,, has informed the Kosekai party in the house of peers, reporting an interview with Viscount Uchida, foreigp minister. minis-ter. Baron Sakatani quoted the foreign for-eign minister as saying that both governments gov-ernments were making the utmost ef- fort to arrive at an amicable settlement. |
