In connexion with anti-Japan feeling in America and British Columbia, deportation of Chinese coolies by the Japanese authorities has excited much comment here. Over 200 Chinese employed by the Kagoshima Railway have been discharged and fifty others consigned to Kobe were not allowed to land. This is said to be in accordance with an Imperial Ordinance of 1899 which provides that the introduction of foreign labour should be forthwith authorized by the authorities concerned. Some Tokio papers object to the importation of cheap Chinese labour. But the Tokio " Asahi" now asks why the authorities did not authorize the import of Chinese labour? The Imperial Ordinance is not necessarily intended to expel foreign labour, however, but Chinese introduce certain undesirable customs to Japan, including the sale of bogus lottery tickets. And if such bad customs were not controlled they would reflect upon the police and legal officials, THE "Asaur" thinks it unwise the Japanese authorities should take such attitude, in view of the immigration troubles on the Pacific coast. For here we find the JTapanese doing, in " small way, what is ing done to them on a more oxtensive scale elsewhere.
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