ANTI-JAPANESE RIOTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2185, 14 September 1907, Page 2

ANTI-JAPANESE RIOTS.

BLAME PLACED ON LABOR LEADERS. United Press Association —Copyright NEW YORK, September 12. The Chamber of Commerce attributes the deplorable situation on the Pacific Coast solely to the professional agitators’ sordid desire to maintain a shortage of labor, enabling tlio unions to enforce their standards of wages and hours. NUMBERS OF ORIENTALS ARRIVING. NO WORK OR HOUSING FOR MEN. VANCOUVER, September 12. Things are quieter here. The Asiatics are resuming work. It is stated in Vancouver that there is no work for 900 Hindus, whom the steamer Monteaglo is shortly bringing, nor any means for sanitarily housing them. . Other steamers with many Orientals aboard aro due.

JAPAN WILL NOT MAKE INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT. MERELY DEMANDS PAYMENT OF DAMAGES. Roccived September 13, 8.14 p.m. OTTAWA, September 13. M. Islvii, interviewed here, said Japan would not make an international incident out of the Vancouver riots. Japan would merely demand payment of damages to individual Japanese. MESSAGE FROM CANADIAN' PREMIER. SUPPRESSION OF FUTURE RIOTS PROMISED. Received September 13, 8.55 p.m. TOICIO, September 13. The local newspaper Fijo Sliimpo to-day states that besides Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s expression of regret and assurances that measures wall he taken to -prevent incidents similar to the Vancouver one in future, a formal message was sent by the Dominion in reference to the matter.

ASIATICS ARMING. EXCLUSION LEAGUE’S MEETING TO BE STOPPED. Received September 14, 0.38 a.m. OTTAWA, September 13. The Japanese and Chinese at Seattle are arming and congregating in tho Oriental quarter. Many Japanese servants have quitted American households. The Chief of Police, W. Appenstein,. referring to the threatened Japanese and Korean Exclusion League’s proposed international demonstration at Seattle, declares he will not allow them to obstruct the streets and provoke riots. Meeting in the street is forbidden. The newspapers at Seattle snow that the best elements of the population deplore the agitation and welcome Japanese immigration.