Notes

Certain Japanese persons, incensed at the passage of the U.S. (Johnson) Immigration Bill, advocated return of all contributions made by Americans during the past great earthquake. The Government said: "Nonsense! Such a course is unthinkable!"

For the nth time the recall of smiling Ambassador Hanihara from the U.S. was denied by the Japanese Foreign Office.

To a gathering of Japanese politicians and U. S. residents of Tokyo, Cyrus E. Woods, U.S. Ambassador, said: "There is but one subject on the minds of us all. It is futile for me to speak without dealing with it. It is the Immigration Bill. . . . The Immigration Bill is not what you want and not what I want. I know that your Government has done all that it properly could to prevent this situation. You know what President Coolidge and Secretary of State Hughes have done on our side to prevent the same."

Frost in Japan. Mulberry leaves to the value of 7,000,000 yen were destroyed. This was a big blow to the silk worms, whose staple food comes exclusively from mulberry leaves. Japan's Privy Council formally approved the Lausanne Treaty.*

*The Treaty of Lausanne ended a state of war between Turkey and the Allied and Associated Powers. Japan's approval was necessary because she was an ally of the Entente Powers during the War.