Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-08-21
Usr FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY: THOU CANS
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SERIOUS RIOTS IN JAPAN.
Police and Military Authorities En-
dcavOr to Quel Troubles.

uctNOr 10 Quell IrOuDlcS.
Toxic. Japan, Aug. }S.--There was
serious rioting in Toxic Thursday
property in the business and theater
districts.
The rioters also entered and pill
laged houses in Asakusa, the great
recreation resort Of the middle and
lower classes. A number of the dis
turbers were wounded by the police.
Troops have been called out in
nearly every important city in Japan.
Even the naval station at MaiZuru is
affected by the unrest. Two thou
sand Wcrkmen there are rioting in
conjunction with the populace.
Soldiers Fire on Rioters.
At Nagoya, noted for its manufac-
ture Of porcelains, q mob estimated
at $4,000 persons, rioted. At several
places the soldiers fired at the dis
turbers.
At Kobe the soldiers and police
also were obliged to use sabres and
bayonets against the rioters.
The newspaper comment here
seems to indicate that the food riots
throughout the country are an ex-
preston Of growing social unrest
among the people and to reflect the
belief thct the Empire is advancing
toward a social crisis. The riots are
spreading, involving alike the poor
and the middle classes, who feel i'm
PEELED to protest against economic
conditions.
1t Is remarked that the uprisings
| are often anti-capitalistic in nature,
the mobs attacking and destroying
the property of the wealthy and voic-
ing anger at evidences of luxury
Geisha girls have been stoned as
they have driven through the streets
rich have been assailed.
War Increases Misery of Poor.
While the war has created million
aires and increased the luXuries Of
| the rich, 1T has also increased the
misery of the poor because of insult
| ficient wages being paid. Factory
| hands. especially, are fomented by
! the ringleaders of the riots, which
are the first of the kind to occur
since Japan was opened to western
civilization.
Disorders began in Toxic Tuesday
night. A crowd OF 5000, which was
prevented from congregating in the
park, marched to the gina, the great
retail lhoroughfare OF the city, where
they stoned and damaged 200 stores
and restaurants, raided rice depots
and unsuccessfully attacked the min
istry of the interior. Ninety arrests
| were made and 20 policemen were
| injured Toxic tonight is occupied
| by heavy detachments Of police and
| infantry. The newspapers are for
| hidden to publish news Of any kind
| relative to the rice riots.
Mobs Attack Military Forces.
Osaka, Japan, Aug. 1S.-Mobs pill
| laged grocery and dry goods stores
! and food depots and set fire to thea
ters and other buildings. The mill
| tary forces called out to maintain or
| der were attacked.
The street railways have suspend
| ed operations at night owing to the
| confusion in the city and the Cover
| nor has forbidden the people to go
out upon the streets after dark.
1t is stated that at Maisura, where
1000 wOrkmen from the naval arse
| nal Joined the population In sacking
the rice stores, many persons were
injured in collision with the police.
Dynamite Used by Rioters.
London, Aug. IA dispatch from
Tientsin. dated Friday, says:
"The Japanese rice riots are prov
| ing the worst outbreak against the
constituted authority witnessed in
| many years. The rioters are resort
| ing to acts of extreme violence, such
as the use Of dynamite and incendiar-
ISM
Rioters Fire Many Houses.
Toxic. Aug. ia mob Of 1000
persons attacked stores and set fire to
many houses in the city of Kofu, capt.
tai of the Prefecture Of Yamashina,
| according to an official statement is
sued to-day Rioters, policemen and
soldiers were wounded. Twenty
houses were destroyed and property
damaged at Hiroshima.
An imperial ordinance issued to-
day authorizes the government to re-
QUESTION all stocks of rice. The rice
will be put on the market.
ANOTHER OIL TANKER SUNK,