THE COLOR WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 14 September 1907, Page 5

THE COLOR WAR.

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ATTRIBUTED TO LABOR AGITATORS. ' New York, September 12. s The Chamber of Commerce attributes the deplorable situation on the Pacific Coast solely to professional agitators with a sordid desire to maintain the shortage of labor and thus enflile the unions to enforce tlieir standards of I wages and hours. •UI'.VX WILL NOT MAGNIFY THE INCIDENT. CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES ONLY. Received Sept. 13, 8.14 p.m. Ottawa, September 13. 1L Ishii, 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. A JAPANESE STATEMENT. Received S pt. 13, 8.58 p.m. Tokio, September 13. The local newspaper .Tiji Shimpo today states that bejides Sir Wilfrid Lanrier's expression of regret and assurances that- measures would be taken to prevent incidents similar to that at Vancouver in future, a formal message was sent to the Dominion with reference to the matter. TROUBLE BREWING AT SSEATTLEJ STREET MEETINGS FORBIDDEN. BETTER CLASSES DEPLORE THE AGITATION. ' Received 14th, 0.38 p.m. Ottawa, September 13. Japanese and Chinese at Seattle are arming and congregating in the Oriental quarter. Many Japanese servants have quitted Americau households. The Chief of Police at Wappenstein, referring to th? threatened JpaneseKorean Exclusion League's proposed ill ternational Uemo)i»tration &t Seattle r declares he will not allow them to obstruct the streets or provoke riots. The newspapers at Seattle show that the better element of the population deplore the agitation, and welcome the Japanese immigration.