ANTI-JAPANESE RIOTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2186, 16 September 1907, Page 2

ANTI-JAPANESE RIOTS.

ASIATICS ASKED TO LEAVE. MAKESHIFT HOUSING FOR HINDUS. United Press Association—Copyright OTTAWA, Sept. 13. Japanese and Chinese have been given peremptory warning to quit Bellingham. It is stated that Japanese working in the canneries are armed, and threaten to resist attempts to expel them. The Mayor, Mr. Bethune, asked Sir AVilfrid Laurier for permission to use temporarily armouries for the purpose of housing Hindus sanitarily. BATCH OF COLORED IMMIGRANTS LANDED QUIETLY. A RESTRICTIVE AGREEMENT FORESHADOWED. United Press Association —Copyright LONDON, Sept. 13. According to the Daily Telegraph’s Victoria correspondent the s.s. Monteagle landed a party of Orientals at Vancouver without disturbance. The Morning Post’s Toronto correspondent foreshadows an agreement with Japan restricting immigrants to Canada to 500 annually apart from those exempted, like professional men and students.

SAN FRANCISCO AND VANCOUVER CONTRASTED. AMERICAN AUTHORITIES ACCUSED OF HELPING RIOTERS. SEVERE ATTACK ON PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. United Press Association —Copyright Received September 15, 3.20 p.m. TOKIO, September 14. Count Okurna, leader of the Progressive party in Japan, writing to the newspaper Hochi Shimhun, declares that the San Francisco authorities directly and indirectly countenanced the riots against Japanese. President Roosevelt’s attitude at first was fair and -admirable, but after a conference with the San Francisco delegates a change came which was sadly disappointing. He adds that things at Vancouver a.re quite different. The rioters consisted of laborers, who were not supported from other quarters, while the authorities did their utmost to suppress the -riots, even permitting the Japanese to take steps in self-defence.