ANTI-ASIATIC RIOTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8534, 12 September 1907, Page 5

ANTI-ASIATIC RIOTS.

CHINESE ON STRIKE. Received September 11, 7.22 a.m. VANCOUVER. September 10. All Chinese domestics and mill hands in Vancouver have struck as a protest against their treatment. They purchased hundreds of pistols before the sale of firearms was prohibited. THE RIOTS CONDEMNED. Received September 11, 7.22 a.m. OTTAWA, September 10. Canadian newspapers unanimously condemn the riots. IRISH LABOUR LEADERS BLAMED. Received September 11, 7.22 a.m. LONDON, September 10. The New York correspondent of the Times says the whole trouble on the Pacific Coast is traceable to Irish Labour leaders.

CANADIAN POLITICIANS. ACCUSED. Received September 11, 7.22 a.m. LONDON, September 10. The Times' Ottawa correspondent says it is unfortunate that the agitation on the Pacific Coast should have been fomented by one or two members of the Dominion House for political purposes. Some thirty Bellingham men organised Saturday's demonstration at Vancouver. An effigy of the Hon. James Dunsmuir, Lieutenant-Governor of British Culumbia, was burnt.

NEWSPAPER COMMENT. GRAVITY OF THE OUTBREAK. Received September 11, 8 a.m. LONDON, September .10. Newpapers in London recognise the gravity of the outbreak, and the necessity for grappling with the problem before immigration assumes larger dimensions. They acknowledge that Canada is in a better position than Washington to act firmly, as the Dominion provinces do not possess extreme State laws, which in California's case hamper the central Government.

EARL GREY'S MESSAGE,

Received September 11, 8 a.m. OTTAWA, September 10. Sir Wilfrid Laurier has telegraphed to Mr Bethune to the effect that Earl Grey, Governor-General of Canada, has learned with the deepest regret of the indignities and cruelties whereof certain subjects of the Emperor of Japan (the King's friend and ally) have been the victims, and hopes that peace will be promptly restored and ali offenders punished. Received September 12, 12.5 a.m. LONDON, September 11. The- Japanese official version states that 3,000 labourers and vagrants participated in the JapaneseKorean Exclusion League's demonstration preceding the Vancouver riots. The official descriptoin of the riot is similar to that sent by Renter's coirespondent. Seven hundred rioters approached the Japanese quarters on Monday night, but the mounted police dispersed them. Then the Japanese school was set on fire, but the Japanese extinguished it.. Over twenty rioters have been arrested since Saturday. A Reuter's message from Tokio reports that ths officials _in the Foreign Office there are quite confident that everything will be done to pratect the Japanese.