The Law in Operation, President Coolidge t proclamation embodying the new migration Law which becomes effec tive to-day und fixes the annual quotas of the different countries at 2 per cent. of the number of their emigrants resident in the United States according to the 1890 census.
Britain and North Ireland quot 34,007; Ireland 28,507; Australia 121; Africa, Egypt and the Britith Mandated ' Territories 100 feach.—Reuter's American Service.
Proposal to Abolish Dual Nation ality System Tokio, July 2.
'The Government's intention to introduce during the present session a Bill aiming at abolition of dual nationality for Japangse was one nounced by Baron Shidehara, the Foreign Minister, this morning during a debate in' the House of Peers on questions affecting Ameri ca and Japan, especially yesterday's flag incident which Government and other spankers very deeply deplored.
Baron Sakatani, who was the principal interpellator, seriously called attention to the situation and urged more practical attempts than protests to reach a solution. He suggested an interchange of views between representative Americans and Japanese.
Replying, Baron Shidehara assured the Hotise that the American Government and people appreciated and sympathized with Japan's pos He expressed the conviction that in time the American Gover ment would reciprocate Japan's efforts to solve the difficulty. The Foreign Minister added that the authorities were closely studying the enactment of an alien landownership Jaw in Japan.—Reuter's. Pacific.
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