THE VANCOUVER RIOTS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8919, 12 September 1907, Page 2

THE VANCOUVER RIOTS.

Japanese Opinion

Effect in United States

London, September H. The Japanese official version states that 3000 labourers and vagrants participated in the demonstration of the. Japanese and Korean Exclusion League which preceded the Vancouver riots. . . The description of the riots is similar to that sent by Banter’s correspondent. ■ Seven hundred men approached the Japanese quarters on Monday night but the mounted police dispersed tuom. The Japanese school was set on nre but the Japanese extinguished it. ! Over 20 rioters have been arrested since Saturday. Renter's message from Tokio reports that the officials of the Foreign Office there are quite confident that e very thing will be done to protect the Japanese. New York, September 11. In reference to the Japanese trouble at Vancouver a telegram from Washington declares State officials comment on the imI portant bearing the Vancouver incident i will have on the negotiations between the ; State Departments and the Japanese AmI bassador with a view to a treaty restricting j the immigration of Japanese coolies to nhe United States. • They believe the Japanese must now be convinced that the problem is really a racial one and that the only solution will be her formal recognition of - the right to restrict labour not only m toe United States but in British Columbia, Australia and other colonies. The officials emphasise the fact that it such a treaty is ratified with Britain Japan cannot refuse'the same to the United States. ,

§London, Septemberj.ll.’S The correspondent declares that 'in order to lessen the feeling among the white population the British Government is likely to open negotiations with Japan with a view to limiting tho immirgation or Japanese to Canada. The Times, dwelling upon the Vancouver incident, ami the symptoms of intolerance towards Asiatics prevalent in Australia, Natal, and Transvaal, argues that _if Labour leaders who are insensible to the complexity of Empire recklessly harass and insult British _ Indians and sow the seeds of sedition auc. distrust in the minds ofpnillions, the whole question of ‘the colonists relations to Asiatics' will demand exhaustive discussion between the statesmen of the colonies and the Motherland. Whatever the ultimate solution may be the rights of all visiting British soil must unflinchingly bo upheld by the whole authority of local Governments and the Imperial Crown. The Now York correspondent of the Times says the Vancouver riot was carefully arranged in order to impress Ishii. The leaders of the demonstration wore not Canadians, but Frank Ootterilh, president of the Federation of Labour of the State of Washington; Fowler, secretary of the anti-Japanese and Boreau League in the same State; and Listman, a Labour leader in Seattle. Ottawa, The Canadian Minister of the Interior, |after visiting Vancouver, states that the feeiiug against the Japanese is intense, yet the immigration is quite legal under the recent treaty, conceding substantial trade advantages to Canada. The Toronto Globe suggests that since the immigration of Japanese into Canada from Honolulu is not under official Japanese control it should be subjected to Canadian authority.