ANTI – ASIATIC FEELING

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6314, 14 September 1907, Page 7

ANTI - ASIATIC FEELING

AT SEATTLE FOREIGNERS ARMING. POLICE WILL PREVENT RIOTOUS COLLISIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received September 14, 0.38 a.m.) OTTAWA, September 13. Japanese and Chinese at Seattle are arming and congregating in the Oriental quarter. Many Japanese servants have quitted American households. Tho Chief of Police (Mr Wappenstoin), referring to a threat made by the Japanese and Korean Exclusion League to hold an international demonstration at Seattle, declares that ho will not allow any obstruction in the'streets or the provocation of riots. Meetings in tho streets will also be forbidden. Tho newspapers of Seattle show that the beat element of tho population deplore the agitation, and welcome Japanese immigfatiou. WHAT JAPAN WILL DEMAND. COMPENSATION FOR SUFFERERS. (Received September 13, 8.14 p.m.) OTTAWA, September 13. Mr Mishu, Japanese Director of Commercial Affairs, who is investigating tho question of immigration in America, and who was in Vancouver on Saturday night during the riot, has arrived here. In the course of an interview ho aaid Japan would not make an international Incident out of the Vancouver riots. His Government would merely demand payment of damages to individual Japanese sufferers. FORMAL COMMUNICATIONS. (Received September 13, 8.68 p.m.) TOK-10, September 13. The local newspaper “Jiji Shiupo,” in an article published to-day, states that, although the Government has received Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s expression of regret, and his assurances that measures would bo taken to prevent incidents similar to that at Vancouver occtirring in the future, it has. sent a formal message to the Dominion Government with reference to the matter.

BANEFUL INFLUENCE OF LABOUR AGITATORS. NEW YORK, September 12. The Chamber of Commerce attributes the deplorable situation on the .Pacific coast solely to professional agitators, who are actuated by a sordid desire to maintain the shortage of labour, thus enabling the. unions to enforce their standards of wages and hours. FOREIGNERS AND COLONIAL IDEALS. OTTAWA, September 13. Mr R. L. Borden, Leader of the Dominion Opposition, in a speech at Owen’s Sound, said:—“lmmigration to Canada should be of such a character that immigrants would readily understand that in respect to representative institutions they must assimilate with us, and there must not be in Canada two interests growing up. with divergent views, ideao, and aspirations.”