JAPANESE IN CANADA.
SIR WILFRID aaAURIER’S VIEWS United Press Association—Copyright (Received Sept. 23, 9.55 p.m.) OTTAWA, Sept/ 23. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, replying to a resolution adopted by the Labor Congress at Winnipeg, declined to renounce the Japanese treaty, which he said had proved of great advantage. Trade with Japan'had considerably increased. He declared that the recent disturbances were directed against Asiatics generally rather than against tho Japanese specially.
DEMONSTRATION IN THE NORTH. JAPANESE MINERS EXPELLED. Jutted Press Association—Copyright Received Sept. 24, 0.17 a.m. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23. Seventy-seven almost destitute Japanese minerß arrived at Aflin, on the Yukon border. Three hundred whites drove them aboard the river steamer Gleaner, bidding the officers take the Japanese out of the country immediately. The Gleaner conveyed the Japanese to White Horse, whence they intended to land them turn them loose in Skagway, United States territory. The mine-owners had engaged them to continue work during the winter, which the whites refused. Tho British Columbia authorities are surprised at the expulsion, inasmuch as they believed the Oriental problem was acute only in Vancouver.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2193, 24 September 1907, Page 2
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