Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-10
JAPANESE, CHINESE AND HINDUs
ATTACKED
VANCOUVER IN STATE or MAD
DISORDER
Canada Probably Will Be Compelled to
Pay Irdemnity-PoIice Power
less to Protect the
orientaIs
By Associated Press.

Sunday evenings the situation here in
regard to the Asiatics is increasing in
menace. The Japanese have notified
| Chief of Police Chamberlain that police
| protection Is inadequate and that they
| will take steps to protect themselves.
The Japanese employed in hotels and
restaurants have withdrawn from work.
| 1t is said that the leaders have instruct
| ed them that they must not work under
penalty of 800. The Japanese are pur-
chasing firearms and the aspect of affairs
is threatening.
The steamer Mont Eagle, due to arrive
Wednesday or Thursday with many or
ientals on board, will be met by a hostile
| demonstration. 1t is believed the ORR
entails will not be allowed to land. There
is growing uneasiness in the city. The
feeling is increasing that in view of the
number of Japanese, Chinese and Hindus
In Vancouver the militia should take
steps to protect them.
Several restaurant keepers met this
morning and resolved to employ nothing
but white labor.
The rioters numbered about 10000 and
the temper manifested was mainly
boisterous.
The crowd surged through the streets
in the oriental quarters cheering every
thing white and hooting and denouncing
everything colored. At intervals bricks
would hurtle over the intervening heads
and crash through the windows.
| Police Are Powerless
Chief of Police Chamberlain, recognize
ing the inadequacy of the force at his
disposal, relied on diplomacy, and fear
full of arousing the mob he directed his
men to lay aside truncheons and exercise
, moderation. Later, the order regarding
the truncheons was revoked. but at no
stage did the police and the popuiace
come to blows.
Personal encounters were limited to
the Japanese quarters. The Japanese,
arming themselves with knives, daggers,
clubs and bottlys, charged the crowds
with shouts of ssBanzai." The crowd
carried no arms and scattered after a
/, large amount of damage had been DONE
One white man was badly stabbed at
Powell street, another was cut by a
lstiletto and another,s head was laid open
lby broken bottle. The man stabbed Is
| in a hospital
The report that the disorders were
started by a number of Bellingham men
: L is not credited All the arrests were OF
t local persons The reports show that the
g rioting was not confined to any particu-
!, liar class. Bookkeepers, Ioggers and
: laborers were among those arrested,
: nineteen arrests in all being made.
The arming of the orientals becomes
I i more alarming. downtown dealers, in
|
cleared of their stocks of firearms. The
! oriental labor is suspended entirely and
, restaurants are hard put to carry on
their business. Lumber mills report that
oriental laborers going to work this
morning were met by pickets of fellow
countrymen and were induced to return
. to their homes.
grave view of the situation, declaring
that the coming of the steamer dont
. | Eagle, in view of the present state of
feeling among the Japanese and whites
> alike. is an incident fraught with Sc
rious danger.
| Ishii In Thick of Ii
, BY Associated Press.
E MONTREAL, Sept. 9.-The following
: telegram has been received by Consul
General Nosse at Ottawa from Imr Ishii.
3 director of commerce and trade, depart
s ment of foreign affairs. of Japan, who is
at present in British Columbia studying
the anti-Japanese movement in that
provinces:
VANCOUVER, B. c., Sept. s.-Having
arrived at Vancouver at p. m. on Sep
tember 7 / found that during the early
part of the evening there was held q
demonstration of the anti-Japanese league
| at about D. m, and a number OF rowdies,
fifty or sixty marched into the section OF
the city where the stores kept by the Jap
anese and Chinese are, threw stones,
breaking considerable glass.
.Following this attack there came an
other one this time the number being In
| creased to about 500, and the fronts of the
| stores were broken. So far as can ascer-
tain only one Japanese was wounded. The
police force did their best, but there is
J hardly any hope of relief in that direction.
Consul Morikiwaka IS staying at the seat
of the disturbance trying to impress upon
the city police to extend their protection
over the Japanese residents, and at the
same time to suppress the utmost excite
ment of the Japanese. There may be no
further disturbances"
Tells Of Riots
Mr. Iships hope was unfortunately not
! fulfilled, as late last night the consul
! wired the following telegram from Consul
Morikiwaka:
VANCOUVER, B. c., Sept. SIN con-
tinuance of the message sent by Mr.. Ishii
| have to report that fourth attack was
made by the rowdies about midnight IN
the Japanese quarters. Twice again they
tried to attack the Japanese stores, but on
, account of the vigilance os the Japanese
and the city police and also the late hour
of the night their number gradually de-
|, creased and by o'clock Sunday morning
the rowdies scattered everywhere and
tranquility was restored by dawn. Ihe
damage done to the Japanese stores is as
follows:
General stores. 49,; hotels, 8; candy and
confectionery shops, s; bath houses. 2;
barber shops, 5; shoemakers, q; banking
office, /: rice mill, 1: hatter's shop, I;
tailors, 2; matchmaker, 1. OF these fifty
stores all the windows and doors were
smashed. Two Japanese were wounded"
Consul General Nosse will lay all the facts
before Sir Wilfred Laurier premier OF
Canada.
Ishil Has Narrow Escape
SEATTLE, Sept. 9.--A special from Van
couver, b. c., dated September s. says
that following riot early in the even
ing in Vancouver. In which Chinatown
n and the Japanese quarters was raided
II and damage done approximating $4,000.
i a further demonstration occurred in the
/, early morning hours in which Aikujiro
4 Ishii chief OF the bureau of foreign cons