HOMEWARD MOVEMENT OF JAPANESE.

A statement issued by a Japanese transportation line tends to show that the return movement of Japanese to their native land is still under way. As compared with emigration from that country into the United States and Hawaii -- the ratio is about as 2 to 1.

In January, for example, the number of Japanese passengers from Japan to the United States was 145, of whom 78 were laborers and 67 non-laborers; while to Hawaii the figures were respectively 150 and 15, a total of 165. The grand total is 310.

At the same time the number of Japanese returning home was 661. From America went 597, a segregation showing 25 first class, 89 second class and 419 third class, and from Hawaii went 64 -- all third class.

While the movement from the United States is 419 as compared with 145 into this country, the ratio does not hold with respect to Hawaii. As compared with 165 who went into the Islands, there were only 64 who returned. They are practically all of the laboring class; and they are going into Hawaii twice as fast as they are leaving.