ANTI-JAPANESE RIOT.
TROUBLE IN SAN FRANCISCO. SEVERAL JAPANESE INJURED. POLICE USE THEIR BATONS FREELY. Received October 16, 9.55 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO, October 16. An anti-Japanese riot occurred here. It arose through a drunken white man breaking a window in a Japanese laundry. The owner seized and detained him, and summoned the police. The drunkard's friends collected a mob and destroyed the laundry. Two Japanese were sent to the hospital severely injured. Ten others were badly hurt. In dispersing ' the mob the police used their batons freely, and twenty whites were rather severely clubbed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8558, 17 October 1907, Page 5
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93ANTI-JAPANESE RIOT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8558, 17 October 1907, Page 5
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