Making The Japanese

Behave

American Problems in Hawaii

Prom Our Own Correspondent

Honolulu, Jan. 19.

HERE are the latest developments in connection with American vigilance against the ramifications of the Japanese network in the Hawaiian Islands:— The series of articles describing the Japanese machine in action (which started in the “P.1.M.”, May last) re ported, for example, how the 150,000 Japanese in Hawaii maintain close re lationships with the homeland.

Importantly, they have been making continuous contributions to the Japanese war machine: money, scrap metals, cloth ing, food, motor trucks, and even a warplane.

Most of this stuff was shipped un checked by the U.S. customs, via Japan ese navy vessels. Lately, the Japanese were told by the customs that henceforth all shipments must be exported only in commercial liners and that they must be manifested like all exports.

On December 28 the Japanese liner “Kamakura Maru” left Oahu with 84 boxes which were not manifested. However, an American agent discovered that the 84 boxes contained war contributions from the Japanese in Hawaii. The U.S. cus toms department promptly fined the steamship company £5OO.

Another blow has been delivered at the tightly-knit Japanese network in Hawaii.

Two American-owned radio-stations allow a Japanese group to broadcast pro grammes in Japanese for a total of six hours daily. A feature of these pro grammes is the official Japanese news, gathered bv the Domei agency. Most of it, naturally, is sheer propaganda.

Pressure has been brought to bear on these stations that henceforth official Japanese news will not be broadcast, that American news will be given instead.

Mr. C. G. R. McKay, Secretary for Native Affairs in Western Samoa, arrived in New Zealand in January on leave.