THE VANCOUVER RIOTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8535, 16 September 1907, Page 5

THE VANCOUVER RIOTS.

RESTRICTION OF IMMIGRATION. LONDON, September 13. According to the Daily Telegraph's Victoria correspondent, the Mounteagle landed Orientals at Vancouver without disturbance. The Morning Post's Toronto correspondent foreshadows an agreement with Japan restricting immigrants to Canada to 500 annually; apart from those- exempted, like professional men and students. ALIENS WARNED. OTTAWA, September 13. Japanese and Chinese have been peremptorily warned to leave Bellingham. Japanese working in the canneries are armed, and have threatened to resist attempts to expel them. Mr Bethune (Mayor of Vancouver) has asked Sir Wilfrid Laurier (Canadian Premier) for permission to use temporarily the armouries for the purpose of housing Hindoos sanitarily. THE DIFFERENCE. Received September 15, 3.20 p.m. TOKIO, September 14. Count Okuma, Leader of the Progressive Party in Japan, writing to the newspaper Hochi Shimbun, declares that the San Francisco authorities directly and indirectly countenanced the riots against the Japanese. President Roosevelt's attitude at first was fair and admirable, but after a conference with the San Fancisco delegates a change came which was sadly disappointing. The Count adds that things in Vancouver were quite different. The rioters consisted of labourers, who were not supported from other quarters, while the authorities did their utmost to suppress the riots even permitting the Japanese to take steps in selfdefence.

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