The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-09
VANCOUVER RIOTING
INTERNATIONAL COMPLICA-
TONS ARE EXPECTED.
japanese Officials Attacked by Mob Make
Their Escape and Cable to Their
Government.

SEATTLE. Wash. Sept. "a dis
patch to the Post Intelligencer from
Vancouver, B.. c.. says:
Following the riot Saturday night in
Vancouver, in which the Chinese and
japanese quarters were raided and
damage lone approximating $4,000, a
further demonstration occurred later in
which Kicki yiro Ishii, chief of the
Bureau of Foreign Commerce and head
of the Japanese consular service, AND
Consul Saburo Hisamidzu, also Of Seat
tie, were the central figures of attack.
A number of people were bruised and
injured by broken bottles n flying
brick bats in the hands of the fren-
zied mob. Baron Ishii and Consul HI
samidzu finally made their escape
through the crowd and the affair was
Immediately ,cabled to Toxic.
Coincident with the riot was the ar
rival of a steamship having on board
at least five hundred Japanese. With a
common impulse the mob surged to the
water front. and as soon as the Japan
csc came down the gang plank, they
were met by the rioters. Seven or
eight of the Japanese were unceremoni-
ously picked up and thrown into Buzz
Yard Inlet.
Still further rioting occurred when a
crowd Of about 1000 laborers started
on the warpath, but were finally quelled
by the police after about twenty ar
rests nae been made.
Last night Chinatown was roped off
and the quarters of the Orientals
guarded by the police. Baron Ishii
gave out an interview in which he
stated that he had cabled to Ambassa-
dor Kaneko at London, apprising him
of the stirring events here.
Indemnity from the city to the
amount of $3.50 will be claimed.
Mayor Bethune declares the indemnity
will not be paid, and the affair will be
taken up with the Dominion Govern
nAaent.
Saturday nights r~iotingwas the worst
in the history of Western Canada. In
~tertnational complications are looked
for.i
MONTREAL, Sept. "a telegram
hast been received by Consul-G General
Ndbsse at Ottawa from Mr.. Ishii, Dr.
refctor of Commerce and Trade, De-
III of Foreign Affairs, of Japan.
Tfvho is in British Columbia studying
the anti-Japanese movement there.
He, says that on his arrival at Van
couver late Saturday night he found
that during the early part of the even
ing there was held a demonstration of
the ~anti-JaPanese and Korean League,
and about fifty or sixty rowdies
marched INTO the section of the city
where the stores kept by the Japanese
and Chinese and threw stones, break
ing considerable glass.
Following this attack there came an
other, this time the number of roughs
being Increased to about 500, and the
fronts of several of the stores were
brokenJ So far as he could ascertain
only one Japanese was wounded.
LONDON. Sept. 9.-The attack on the
Japanese and Chinese at Vancouver, b. C.,
places the English newspapers in an em-
barrassing and amusing position. Several
of the most prominent of them were par
ticulariy severe upon the San Francisco
"hoodlums' when the outbreak Of mob
VIOLENCE occurred there. They are now
confronted with a more serious situation
In a British colony and apparently are at
a loss what to say. The majority remain
SILENT.
The Times, whose American correspond
ent severely and repeatedly denounced the
San francisco hostility TO the japanese, is
the bnly morning paper commenting on
the canadian demonstration. The paper
dep6lores that ut is not at present obvious
how a permanent amelioration of the situa-
tioh is to be effected" attributes the trou-
bids entirely to labor union agitation, and
ridicules the idea that a few thousand
Japanese are likely to turn British Column
biA or California into Monaghan provinces.
ffThe Pail Mall Gazette, the only after
noon newspaper to express an opinion on
the subject, takes a directly opposite
kiew. saying: The Asiatic makes his en-
fry into Canada under the auspices of the
! great god of cheapness. He comes with
an offer to take work at half the rate or
less than paid for white mems labor, an
ARRANGEMENT which nonetheless can be car
ried out on a basis which involves a great
4 advance upon the scale of remuneration
enjoyed in his own country. In compel
ton of this character the Caucasian be.
lieves. and all economic reasoning seems
to support him. that his own standards OF
life are certain to be depleted and de-
stroyed."
Referring to British Columbia, with only
8 per cent. of its territory populated, the
Pail Mall Gazette says: IF an unrestricted
food of Asiatica were allowed to occupy
these vacant hospitable areas, 1t would re-
uuire bu a few years to produce an oriental
predominance in the fairest and richest
possession of the British Empire and per
haps defect the whole course of its civili-
cation and destiny
In conclusion the Pail Mall Gazette says
1.-The issue will not permit of indefinite
nrocrastination. Failing exclusion, the sit
nation demands an alternative policy that
will propmtly and efficiently circumseribe
the dangers so wildly realized by their
prospective victims