Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1907 — ATTACK ON ORIENTALS. [ARTICLE]

ATTACK ON ORIENTALS.

Vancouver Mob Wreaks Quarters eC Japanese and Chinese. A special from Vanneouver, B. CL, says: Following a riot Saturday evening in Vancouver, Tn which Chinatown and the Japanese quarters were raided and damage done approximating $15,000, a further demonstration occurred later in which Klchl Yiro Ishii, chief of the bureau of foreign commerce and head of the Japanese consular service and Consul Saburo Hlsamidzu of Seattle were the central figures and in which riot a number of people were bruised and injured by broken bottles and flying brickbats in the hands of a frenzied mob. Baron Ishii and Consul Hisamidzu finally made their escape through the mob and the affair was immediately cabled to Toklo. Coincident with the riot was the arrival of a steamship having on board at least 500 Japanese. With a common Impulse the mob surged to the water front, and, as soon as the Japanese came down the gang plonk, they were met by the rioters. Seven or eight of the Japanese were unceremoniously picked up and thrown into the Burrard Inlet. Still further rioting occurred when a crowd of about 4,000 laborers started on the warpath, but were finally quelled by the police after about twenty arrests bad been made. Chinatown was roped off and the quarters of the orientals guardedly the police. Baron Ishii gave out an Interview, In which he stated that he had cabled to Ambassador Kaneko at London, apprising -him of the stirring events. Indemnity from the city to the amount of $25,000 willbe claimed. Mayor Bethune declared the Indemnity will not be paid, and the affair will be taken up with the dominion government; Saturday night’s rioting was the worst in the history of Western Canada. International complications are looked for.