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Show JAPS ARRIVING AT ALARMING RATE Secretary Straus is Trying to Stop the Immigration of Brown Men to the United States. The Foree of Immigration Inspectors Along the Canatllan Dorder Has Deen Increased With a View to Controlling Flood of Asiatic Immigration. Washington Immigration of Japanese Jap-anese Into Amerlra I Increasing nt so alarming a rale that It ha been determined to adopt extraordinary measures to prevent the Introduction Into the 1'nlted Slatea not only nt Japanese but ot other Asiatic onollo labor One result uf Ihe trip of Sec-retar) Sec-retar) Straus has been au lucres In the fnrce nf immigration Inapeclons along the Canadian border with n view la controlling the flood of Asiatic, immigration It la known that morn than double the number of Japanese have come Into the United Stales thus far In Ihe year 1907 than cnm hero during Iho same period laat )ear Natural!) the figures nf tho govern inent do not Include the hundreds ol Japanese who have enme Into the couuir) surreptitiously The) have come across from the Canadian and Mexican bordirs principally without hindrance, despite Ihe means aduptoil by Ihe government to prevent the In troductlon of Japanese laborers llctiirnn from tha Canadian Immigration Immi-gration offices show that 8,S8t Asiatics Asiat-ics lauded nt the lUltlsh Columbia purl of Victoria nnd Vancouver between be-tween Jiiiiu.tr 1 and Seplembir Hi, 1907 Of Hils ntimhir 2 172 were Hindus Hin-dus and 1S1I were Japanese, most nf Ihe latter reaching Cnnndt from Hon olulu The n milnder worn Chlui-m wlui paid admission fees nf (100 for Ihe privilege nt landing In Canada. Tho field nt hbnr In that section of Canada Is limited, nnd the Investigations Investiga-tions of the l'nllcd Bitten Immigration Immigra-tion inspector have shiiwu thnt most uf Ihe Japanese and Chinese expect ultlmntcl) to gel Into Iho United States |