The Penn's Grove record., 1907-09-13
JAPANESE ATTACKED BY
MOB IN VANCOUVER
Canadians Oppose the Inflow of
Alien Asiatics.
CONSUL COMPLAINS TO TOXIC
Apprehension in London Lest Inter-
national Complications May Re-
sult-Chinese Buy Arms and
Side With Japanese.

Vancouver. B. c. Following a
riot, in which Chinatown and the Jap.
anese quarters were raided and dam
age done approximating SIS, 600, a
further demonstration occurred later,
in which Baron Aikujire Ishii, chief
of the Bureau of Foreign Commerce,
and head of the Japanese consular
service, and Consul Saburo Hisamid-
zu, of Seattle, were the central
figures, and in which riot many Jap
anese and Chinese were bruised and
injured by broken bottles and flying
brickbats in the hands of q frenzied
mob.
Baron Ishii and Consul Hisamidzu
finally made their escape through the
mob and the affair was immediately
cabled to Toxic.
Seven or eight of the Japanese
we're unceremoniously picked up and
thrown into Buzzard Inlet.
The Asiatic Exclusion League held
a parade and later a meeting, at
which Lieutenant-Governor Duns-
muir, who vetoed the bill. intro
duced by the present Attorney-Gen-
eral, to enforce the Natal act in Brit
ish Columbia, was burned in efigy
and a resolution was passed to ask
the Dominion Government to allow
this bill to become a law.
After that the mob stormed Chi
natown, deliberately smashing the
windows in all stores. Street orators
gathered crowds, who even swarmed
up the telegraph poles, and a strong
Gordon of police across the street had
all they could do to keep the mob
from again entering the Chinese
quarter.
AS there had been threats of burn
ing, the fire brigade was ready with
hose to use this method if necessary
to keep the white men back.
While the speaking was going on
the sound of breaking glass was &C.
claimed with joyful yells by the
hoodlums. Then the mob broke
loose in Howell street, a few blocks
away in another direction, where the
Japanese reside. Here windows were
broken also, but the Japanese resent
ed, and with bottles and boards. at
tackled their assailants. Several per-
sons were injured in the counter at
tacks.
Japanese and Chinese crowded the
local gun shops to buy firearms and
ammunition. They say they will de-
fend their lives and property. In case
the Oriental quarter is again at
tackled, it is feared that there will he
bloodshed, for the Japanese and Chi
nese are thoroughly aroused and are
convinced that the police are power
less to protect them. The police or
dered the gun stores to cease selling
firearms to any n until such times
as all possibility of further outbreaks
had passed. Before the order was is
sued, however, hundreds of Chinese
and Japanese had armed themselves.
All Chinese and Japanese domestic
servants, of whom hundreds are EN-.
ployed in Vancouver, have stopped
work and have been forced by threats
of their countrymen to act as part OF
the defensive guard. Orientals en-
ployed in the mills have also stopped
work and have taken refuge in the
quarter occupied by their country
men, where they are preparing to as,
sist in opposing any further attacks
that may be made on the quarter.
London,-The news of the attacks
did not surprise the Colonial and For.
eign Office officials here. who had long
feared an outbreak against the Ash
atics in Western Canada, but they
have the greatest confidence in the
ability of the Canadians to suppress
any disturbance and protect aliens
At the same time the officials realize
that a most serious problem has
arisen, particularly as the feeling ap.
pears to be strongest against the sub
jects of Great Britain's Eastern ally
and that it requires the most careful,
handling, for whatever action is
taken is likely to be resented either
by the Colony or hY Janan.