THE VANCOUVER RIOTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8535, 13 September 1907, Page 5

THE VANCOUVER RIOTS.

LABOUR LEADERS BLAMED. LIMITING IMMIGRATION. Received September 12, 8 a.m. LONDON, September 11. The New York correspondent of The Times says that the Vancouver riot was carefully arranged in order to inmress the Ishii leaders. The demonstration was not by Canadians, but by Frank Cotterill (president of the Federation of Labour of tie State of Washington), Fowler (secretary of the Anti-Japanese Korean League in the same State,) and Listman (a Labour leader at Seattle.) The Times' Ottawa correspondent declares that in order to lessen the feeling among the white population, the British Government is likely to open negotiations with Japan with a view to limiting the immigration of Japanese to Canada. The Times, dwelling upon the Vancouver incident, and the symptoms of intolerance towards Asiatics prr iitent in Aus'rulia, New Zealand, Natal, and the Transvaal, argues that Labour leaders who are sible to the complexity of Empire recklessly harass and insult British Indians and sow the seeds of sedition 'and distrust in the minds of millions.' The whole question of colonists' relations to Asiatics demands exhaustive discussion between the statesmen of the colonies and the Motherland, but whatever th-j ultimate solution may be the rights of aU visiting British soil must unflinchingly be upheld by the whole authority of local governments and the Imperial Crown.

FEELING AGAINST JAPANESE INTENSE.

Received September 12, 8.40 a.m. OTTAWA, September 11. The Canadian Minister of the Interior, after visiting Vancouver, states that the feel : ng against the Japanese is intense; yet immigration is quiie legal under the recent treaty conceding substantial trade advantages to Canada. The Toronto Globe suggests that since the immigration of Japanese into Canada from Honolulu is not under official Japanese control, it should be subjected to Canadian authority.

THINGS QUIETER

Received September 12, 10.10 p.m. VANCOUVER, September 12. Things are quieter here, and the Asiatics are resuming work. It is stated here that there is no work for the nine hundred Hindus that the steamer Monteagle is shortly bringing, nor are there any means of sanitarily housing them. Jt is seriously proposed to raise subscription." to'enfcrain them to Ottawa. Two other steamers with many Orientals aboard are due.