THE ASIATIC PROBLEM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 309, 4 January 1908, Page 2

THE ASIATIC PROBLEM.

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A UNITED POLICY URGED- " "T" , i-«« kl3 London, January 2. The Westminster Gazette says" the Motherland and the colonies would do well to devise a common policy for solving the Asiatic difficulty. " r-jt;„i AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCE.

1 fW 1 Perth, January 3. Distributing the Rifle Association prizes, the State Commandant urged the importance of rifle shooting. "Australia," he said, "has deliberately put up her fists to Asiatic races, but how are we going to keep the alien out, if he wants to come in?" He added'that, unless riflemen were ready to join the citizen soldiery, he did not know what }vas going to happen to the country during the next ten years.

WHITES ATTACKED BY JAPS. DOT OF REVENGE. 'X'f. —— THREE MEN WOUNDED. •' ' """" .'.2^ Received .Tan. 3, 10.45 p.m. Vancouver, January 3. * Three firemen were walking in th« Japanese quarter. One Btumbled, breaking a shop window. A number of Japanese surrounding them, wounded all three of the whites, one badly. Four Japanese were arrested. It in interpreted in some quarters that i the Japanese, resentful over the September rioting, were eager to take r«venge.