The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-10
RENTALS ARMED AT VANCOUVER (ieving Police Powerless They Prepare to Pro- tect Their Set
 tlement.
 jl2.NElIiK |LITIA MAY
 BE CALLED OUT Banese Officials Communi- cate With Tokio and British Govern
 ments.
ments.


 wed apprehension of further anti Mtic rioting here and all morning hnese and Chinese crowded the gun shops to buy firearms and Intuition. They declare they will nd their lives and property. In
 the Oriental quarter is again att led it is feared that there will be dshed for the Japanese and Chi
 are thoroughly aroused and are kinced that the police are power to protect them. Shortly before h the police notified the gun stores base selling firearms to anyone un- uch time as all possibility of fur outbreak had passed. Before the kr was issued, however, hundreds 8chinese and Japanese had armed &nselves.
 III Chinese and Japanese domestic Mants, of whom hundreds are em- Ned n Vancouver, have stopped Fixed and have been forced by the ats of their countrymen to act as
 of the defensive guard. Orientals Moved in the mills have also &ped work and have taken refuge he quarter occupied by their coun- hen. where they are preparing to t in opposing any further attacks
 may be made on the quarter. q vo hundred special policemen were Tn in to-day and there is talk Of Ing out the militia. There is little . bt that this will be done in case the Ing Is renewed. Feeling all over lefty runs high and another attack likely to occur at any time.
 far there have been no fatalities, Rough several of those injured in lrday nights riots are in a serious lition. Twenty-six rioters were ar ned in the police court to-day and held for further examination.
 e oriental quarter to-day shows the Ft of the riots of Saturday night,
 a window in the fifty or more es and other places of business con- ed by Japanese and Chinese re- T hs and costly stocks of goods are y damaged. It is said that ar dement's are being made to demand Ry indemnities from the city but
 reporte that Mayor Bethune has that not one cent of indemnity will paid. The matter will finally be . n to the Dominion government.
 Japanese consul here and Baron director of commerce and trade he Japanese foreign office, who is in city, have communicated the facts he Japanese government in Tokio. iron Ishii also is reported to have Braphed a report of the riot to Am |ador Kaneko in London with re- t that he take the matter up with British government In his dis 7 Ines Baron Ishii states that the po- force has done it's best to preserve Ir but that it Is unable to cope with mohs. Telegrams have also been
 to Japanese Consul General Nosse Montreal who will lay the matter re Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the pre- bur attacks were made on the orien- quarter Sunday night, and much kage was done.
 le Chinese merchants and others ' nptly fled, but the Japanese oppos- # he mob and fought valtantly to pro- their property. Anti-oriental ora
 on the street corners aroused the ole, and hundreds joined the rioters ,zen Japanese who had just arrived e attacked on the Canadian Pacific rves, and thrown into the water 2 all were rescued. During the dis ance a number of Japanese were ously injured, and several white
 were stabbed.
 he policeand the authorities are do- everything in their power to pre-
 any further outbreak, but the sit on is considered critical.
 ,ndon, Sept. 9.-Replying to a tele- ,hic inquiry from the Associated s as to his views on the anti-Jap. ,e outbreak at Vancouver. Baror nura, the Japanese ambassador, who pending a holiday in the country Id to-day:
 have no statement to make al lent.
 Eomura."
 The action of the Japanese embassy
 it is understood, will be governed ely by the attitude which the Can government assumes and whether latter takes adequate steps to pro.
 the Japanese at Vancouver from 2 tition of similar incidents and rec. enses them for their losses.