The Archive · 1940

Angers Tokyo

Vigorous representa! ye been filed with the Peruvian Gov-through the Japanese Charge

Government, requesting that Japan-in Lima by the Japanese L ese immigrants in Peru should not be ed and restricted, it was revealed in a. statement issued this morning by Mr. Yakichiro Suma, s n the. Japanese Foreign Office.

Mhe statement referred to the promulgation by the Peruvian Government of a presidential decree dated "May 18 suspending the entry of foreign immigrants until June on the ground that a national census would be taken, and also to the Peruvian announcement that ordinances concerning the employment of Peruvian nationals and restriction of business by immigrants would be strictly enforced.

Some points in the ordinances are dificult to understand, the statement continued, and "our representatives are investigating the real circum. stances and watching the manner of application of the laws and ordinances in question."

The statement declared that vigorous representations have been fled Esc. Peruvian Government.—

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