PACIFIC COAST RIOTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6313, 13 September 1907, Page 5

PACIFIC COAST RIOTS

THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM NEGOTIATIONS FOR RESTRICTION. COLONIAL INTOLERANCE CREATES DIFFICULTY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, September 11. Tho New York correspondent of “Tho Times” says that tho Vancouver riot on Saturday night was carefully arranged in order to impress the Ishii leaders. The demonstration was made not hy Canadians, but by Frank Cotterill (president of the Federation of Labour of the State of Washington), Fowler (secretary of the Anti-Japan-ese and Korean League in tho same State), and Listman (a Labour leadei at Seattle). “The Times” Ottawa correspondent declares that in order to lesson the feeling among the white population, the British Government is likely to open negotiations with Japan with (i view to limiting the immigration of Japanese to Canada. In an article dwelling upon the Vancouver incident, and the symptoms of intolerance towards Asiatics persistent in Australia, Now Zealand, Natal, and the Transvaal, “The Times” argueq that Labour leaders who are insensible to the complexity of Empire recklessly harass and insult British Indians and sow the seeds of sedition and distrust in the minds of millions, Tho whole question of colonists’ relations to Asiatics demands exhaustive discussion between tho statesmen of the colonies and the Motherland, but whatever the ultimate solution may be the rights of all visiting British soil must unflinchingly be upheld by the whole authority of local governments and the Imperial Crown.

MINISTER VISITS VANCOUVER. FINDS INTENSE PEELING AGAINST JAPANESE. OTTAWA, September 11. The Canadian Miniter of tho Interisor (Hon. Frank Oliver), after visiting Vancouver, states that the feeling against the Japanese is intense; yet immigration is quite 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 bo subjected to Canadian authority. VANCOUVER QUIET. ARRIVING ASIATICS CAUSE SERIOUS APPREHENSION. (Received September 12,10.12 p.m.) VANCOUVER, September 12. Things are quieter hero, and Asiatics are resuming work. It is stated in Vancouver that there is no work for nine hundred Hindus arriving shortly by tho steamer Monteagle, nor are there any means of sanitarily housing them. It is seriously proposed to raise a subscription to entrain them to Ot--tawa. Two other steamers, with many Orientals. on board, are due here.