London vit Bombay, 6th December.
Congress has been opened.
President Roosevelt's Message states that the enormous power of the Trusts must be supervised, the Constitution being amended if Though rigid economy is necessary it would bea national crime to cut down the Navy or to delay the work on the Panama Canal.
The main cause of the Boycott in China has been the resentment of students and merchants against the harshness of American law towards educated Chinese. These classes should be encouraged t" come to America and treated precisely on the same footing as other foreigners in similar classes, only Chinese labour being excluded.
President Roosevelt cordially sympathised with Japan's announced purpose to stand for the integrity of China, and said such an attitude tended to preserve the peace of the Tokio, 6th December, President -Rovsevelt's message considers the navy has a sufficient number of units. The President recommends the authorisation of the lessons. Destroyers are indispensable. Fast scouts are needed. Under exceptional circumstances submarines may. be doubtless useful. But the main strength lies in bait leships.
is unwise to depart, he says, from the old American tradition, and discriminate against any man who desires to come here and become "citizen, save on the ground of the man's fitness for citizenship. We cannot afford to consider religion or nationality.
Questions connected with Chinese immigration stand by themselves, In the execution of the Chinese Immizraion Low grave injustice and wrong have. been done to educated Chinese who should have been put in the excepted class, There had been much trouble during the summer from the organised boycott. America has the friendlies: feeling for China and desi: es China's well-being.
America cordially sympathises with the announced purpose of Japan 10 stand for the integrity of Chin: Such an attitude tends to the maintenance of the peace of the world, The message details the progress of the Canul, and urges an appropriation for the continuation of the work—QOur own correspondent.
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