The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-09-10
JAPANESE RUSH
To ARMS; WILL
FIGHT TO DEATH
Orientals Buy Firearms in
Vancouver and Await
Coming Of Mob
MORE RIOTS FEARED
Rowdies Ready to Meet New
Throng to Arrive From
Japan Wednesday
OFFICIALS ANXIOUS
Dominion Government Says
Only Way Out Is Apol-
ogy and Indemnity

VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. g.
AS a result of disorders Satur-
day and Sunday nights, the situa-
ton here with regard to the Ash
stics 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 Chinese and
Japanese employed in hotels and
restaurants have withdrawn from
work. It is said that their leaders
have instructed them that they
must not work, under penalty of
500. The Japanese are purchas-
ing firearms and the aspect OF affairs
IS threatening. The steamer Mont
eagle. due Wednesday or Thursday
with many orlentals on board. VIII be
met by hostile demonstration. 1t is
freely declared that the orientals will
not be allowed to land.
There is growing uneasiness in the
city. The feeling is increasing that.
IA view Of the number Of japanese.
Chinese and Hindus in Vancouver, the
minister Of militia should take steps
TO protect them. Several restaurant
keepers met this morning and resolved
to employ nothing but white labor.
The early reports Of the disorders
Saturday night were exaggerated. The
crowd amounted to about 10000 but
the temper manifested was merely
boisterous The crowd surged through
the streets in the oriental quarter.
cheering everything white and hooting
and denouncing everything colored- At
intervals from an indistinguishab,e
point in the crowd. brickbats would
hurtIe over the intervening heads and
crash through the windows.
Chief OF Police Chamberlain, recog-
mixing the inadequacy OF the force at
his disposal relied on diplomacy, and.
fearful Of arousing the passions OF the
mob he directed his men to lay aside
truncheons and exercise moderation.
Later the order regarding the trunch-
cons was revoked. but at no stage did
the police and the populace come TO
blows.
Personal encounters were limited TO
the japanese quarter. The japanese
resisted the mob. Aiming themselves
with knives, daggers. clubs and bot
ties they charged the crowd with shouts
of 'banzaL" The crowd carried no arms
and scattered after much damage had
been done. One white man was stabbed,
another cut by stiletto and anothers
head was laid open with a broken bottle.
The report that disorders were
tied. The reports show that the riot
ing was not confined to any particular
class. Book keepers. loggers. laborers
were among the 19 persons arrested.
The hearing Of the charges against the
participators In the anti-Asiatic riots
was begun in the police court today.
The courtroom was thronged and
crowds lined the streets in Its vicinity.
The arming Of the orientals becomes
more alarming. Downtown stores have
been cleared OF their stocks of firearms.
Oriental labor is suspended entirely
and restaurants are hard pat TO carry
on their business. Lumber mills re-
port that oriental laborers going to
work this morning were met by pick
cts Of fellow countrymen and were
Induced to return to their homes.
Prominent japanese residents take a
grave view OF the situation. declaring
that the coming OF the steamer Mont
eagle Wednesday, in view Of the pres
eut feeling among the Japanese and
whites alike, IS an incident fraught
with serious menace.