AUSTRALIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 161, 14 December 1914, Page 5

AUSTRALIA

PEARL-FISHERS' RIOTS. ENGINEERED BY GERMANS. 1 Received 13, fi p.m. Perth, December 13. Serious rioting occurred, lasting for : several hours, at Broome, between Jap- , aneee and Koeuang crews engaged in the pearling industry. Nine Japanese and twelve Koepangers were injured, . two Koepangers seriously. Five hundred- , Japanese and two hundred Koepangers , participated. Sticks, bars of iron, an axe and a couple of revolvers were picked ' up after the police, who now patrol the town, had restored order. Further trouble is feared. Special constables have been sworn in. The riot was the outcome of depression in the pearling industry, shell being unsaleable, and many boats laid up. The crews have received no wages. Whites so far have not been-molested, but there is a fear of developments amongst some 2000 colored men, forming the crews of the pearling fleet, Faction feeling runs high. It is rumoured that since the war the German element lias been telling the natives that Australia will shortly belong to Germany, and that then they will enj joy the same rights as Europeans, being able to enter hotels, and enjoy other privileges now denied them. AUSTRALIAN' SERVICE RESUMED. Vancouver. December 11. The Australian steamship Bervice will be immediately resumed. Being a combination of roots, barks and herbs, condensed into drop desos, KURAPEPTIC cures most obstinate cases of Indigestion. If not yet obtainable in your town, ask your etor»to get it from burgOM, Fraser The clerk will find that Gamp Coffee^ —in thfi-mniri"- ™" i^^^^-^J——l—