ANTI-ASIATIC.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 24 September 1907, Page 3

ANTI-ASIATIC.

SPEECH BY CANADIAN PREMIER. Received Sept. 23, 9.35 p.m. Ottawa, September 23. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, replying to a resolution adopted by the Labor Congress at Winnipeg, which denounced the Japanese treaty, said the treaty had proved of great advantage, and trade with Japan had considerably increased. He declared the recent disturbances were directed against Asiatics generally, rather than against Japanese specially. TROUBLE IN THE YUKON. JAPANESE DRIVEN OUT OF THE TERRITORY. THE AUTHORITIES SURPRISED. Received Sept. 24, 0.17 a.m. San Francisco, September 23. Seventy-seven almost destitute Japanese miners arrived at Atlin, on the Yukon l>order, where three hundred whites drove them aboard the river steamer Gleaner, bidding the officers take the Japanese out of the country immediately. The Gleaner convejed the Japanese to Whltehodse, whence it was intended to land and turn them loose at Skagway, United States, territory. Mine-owners had engaged them to continue work during the winter, which the rhites had refused to do. The British Columbian authorities are •nrprised at the expulsion, inasmuch as they believed the Oriental problem was •cute only in Vancouver.

AMERICAN FLEET QUESTION. HEAftST JOINS THE CRUSADE. Received Sept. 24, 0.17 a.m. New York, September 23. W. R. Hearst's newspapers have joined the cry in favor of stationing an American fleet in the Pacific. Hearst, in a signed article in a New York evening journal, declares the United States docs not want war with Japan, but it is conceivable and even probable that Jajan wants war; adding that Tapan has come to regard war as a profitable enterprise.