RACE FEUD AT BROOKE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17661, 23 December 1920, Page 7

RACE FEUD AT BROOKE.

JAPANESE AGGRESSION. TWO WHITE MEN WOUNDED. MORE TROUBLE FEARED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 1.30 a.m.) A. and N.Z. PERTH, Dec. 22. Reporting details of the riot yesterday, the police inspector at Broome states that the Japanese allege that Koepangers (natives of Timor) stoned the Japanese. They then collected a thousand strong and armed with clubs begati to search for ' the Koepangers. In the melee which ensued two Japanese were killed } and three Koepangers severely injured. This morning the Japanese started the search again, and wounded two Koepangers and two white men who protected the former, one being speared in the arm and the other beaten on the head with sticks. After the Riot Act was read all the white inhabitants mustered at i the police station and armed parties were sent to patrol the various parts of the town visited by Japanese mobs. Great forbearance was shown by the white men, for although practically all were armed no shot was fired by them. The report concludes:—" If this state of affairs continues I fear more bloodshed. The Malays are holding aloof, but threaten to attack the Japanese if white men are further molested. Racial feeling between the Japanese and the white inhabitants is running very high, the former claiming racial equality."