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Show ANTI-JAPANESE LSI LAW TO CAUSE SIC STIR Feeling of Alarm Appears to Be Growing in Nipponese Nation WASHINGTON". Sept. 27. (By th Associated Press). Administration officials of-ficials continue to decline to discuss for publication an of the phases of line negotiations with Japan Krowlnn 'out of the proposed anil-Japanese land law In California, hut the Impression has gone out that a proposal from To-klo To-klo that the question bo referred to a commission would te unacceptable ; The conversations referring to the I California law whlcl have been going oh between AmbiiaoaHor Shid-hara. of Japan, and state department official arc continuing and so far as has been learned', 'he proposal for a Joint commission com-mission has not been formally com-municated com-municated to Washington by the Jup-1 Jup-1 ansae government. ALARM IN JAPAN. What progress. If any, has been ' made In th' negotiations has not been disclosed. The attitude of the state department is described as one calcu-lated calcu-lated to prevent the d , lopment of n feeling of alarm in the United 8letea that might approach even approximate!) approxi-mate!) that which appears to be growing grow-ing in Japan. Conflicting opinions of both Amerl-ean Amerl-ean and Japanoso authorities on in-tornatonal in-tornatonal law are said to have made the task of the state department officials of-ficials and the Japanese ambassador mbrs difficult. Propont nts of the California Cal-ifornia law say thai California in cn-a cn-a UriK a measure barring lh' Japanese In this country from owning land in that state would be refusing to the Japanese HO TIKlHs or privileges which are not refused by Japanese law to Americans in Japan J IPANESE l J AYS. Japtin contends that the Ccillfornla law. which is to be voted on In November, No-vember, Is discriminatory because It does not apply to all foreigners alike, as does the- Japanese law. The sug-Besilon sug-Besilon has been made in Toklo that after the law has b' n I naeted It be tested In the United Utcs Buprom court. Some Japanese authorities on international law doubt that this would be effective as ihey state frankly frank-ly that the proposed California law conflicts with the terms of the American-Japanese treaty. Or. Kobeyashii writing of the proposed pro-posed law In the "Japanese review of International law." says It Is futile to attempt opposltloin by legal methoda "Neither the present California alien lanJ law nor the proposed law." he Mini can be dealt with as legal questions ques-tions All that can bo done Is to soften soft-en them by political and dlplomatl methods." n n |