THE VANCOUVER RIOTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 12 September 1907, Page 3

THE VANCOUVER RIOTS.

FOMENTED FOB POLITICAL REASONS. . London, September 10. The Times' Ottawa correspondent •ays: "It is unfortunate that the agis, tetkm on the Pacific coast has been fomented by one or two members of the Dominion House for political purposes. Some thirty Bellingham men organised Saturdays demonstration at Vancouver. An effigy of the Hon. James Dunsmnir, Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, was burnt." The New York correspondent of the Timea says the whole trouble on the tfaafic coast is traceable to Irish labor lesUtra.

CHINESE GO ON STRIKE. ah tt. \f Beouver . September 10. All the Chinese domestics >nd mill h«ub at Vancouver have str.tck, a ™. protest again* their treatment. They Chwed hundreds of M > "»»e of firearm, was prohibited. WOK THROUGHOUTi CANADA.

Ottawa, Septe-iilnT 10 Tte Premier, Sir W. Uurier, telegraphed to Mr Bethune, Mavor of Van- £"*;-?* ri . Gre - V ' the " Gov " nor - B»t of the indignities and crncrttV jrherorcertain sub,**, of the Empo.or ».» the *"<■ ,ri ™<l »nd allv, Were victims. He Ropes peace will hi JESS.-**** -*»*»

MOT RESUMED ON MONDAY. POLICE DISPERSE THE MOB. TWENTY BIOTEKS ARKESTED. Beccived Sept. 12, Oj a . ra . London, September 11 that il^ o .*? o " kial ve ™°" state. iZLJ^J? 0 ""* ""bowers «■! grants partapated in the J* paa Z_ «»I*«eding the Vancouver riots. The tEKV,, 0 " rioU U »™lar to Oatwit by Renter's correspondent. Swra hundred approached the Japan- « quarters on Monday night mounted police dispersing them. S ' monnted A Japanese school was set on fire but *k«Japanese extinguished H. ' Ow twenty rioters hare been ar*»ted once Satnrday ££™ °u mls at the Fore %" Office WW be done to protect the Japanese. UNITED STATHM)FFICIAL VIEW. A ffIGNIFICAXT ARGUMENT. ESCLUSIO\~p ASIATIC LABORERS.

Beceived Sept. 12, 0.11 ajn. mtii -r NeW H or s' Septonber 11. _ With reference to the Japanese trouble ton declares that State officials comment <m the importance of the bearing the £"£."£ r «*■* »«" ha« oJ the aegotiations between the State denartwsats and the Japanese Ambassador Trttt a ww to a treaty restricting the immjpmtara of Japanese coolies to the IMted States. They believe the Japlaes. mast now be convinced that the problem is really racial, and that the only solution is her formal recognition Of the right to restrict Asiatic labor, 5* vpJ "> the United States, but in British Columbia, Anstralia, and other colonies. The officials emphasise 'that Msneh a treaty should be ratified with Britain, Japan cannot refuse the same to the United States. THE HA6UE CONVENTION. DTCEBNATIOXAL PRIZE COURT. , The Hague, September 10. It is suggested at the Peace Conference that fifteen judges constitute the Bench of the International Prize Courts. Eight Great Powers would always he represented, and the oth.r thirty-eight Powers would substitute judges according to a schffne of rotation. The Great Powers insist that they are the most probable belligerents and the most likely to lose by supporting an institution of international jnristticUon.

PEIZE COCST ADOPTED. ■r' DELEGATES DELIGHTED. Beceiveil 11th, 10.30 pjn. < . The Hague, September 1L The first sub-committee of the Peace Oanrention, by 28 to 2, with 14 abstentions, including Japan and Russia, adopted the International, prize court and distribution of judges proposals. Japan declared the subject required careful consideration. The new institution must necessarily influence naoonal jurisdiction. Russia's abstention ■**". based on the incomplete nature of legislation relating to prizes, and the necessity for farther consideration, p rtknlarly of article 7, which declares the court must judge according fo anv contention between the parties, and according to general principles of justice and equity should the roles of International law not apply. The delegates are delighted at the Creation of the Prize Court after so many initial difficulties.