JAPAN DENOUNCED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23354, 20 November 1937, Page 13

JAPAN DENOUNCED

VANCOUVER DEMONSTRATION BATON CHARGE BY POLICE VANCOUVER, Nov. 18. The police arrested 28 persons in an anti-Japanese demonstration on the arrival of the Empress of Canada from the Orient. Marching from a peace poster display under the auspices of the Canadian League of Peace and Democracy, 200 persons, mostly youths, bearing placards denouncing Japan, invaded the docks, brushing aside the steamship police. The leaders declared that the liner was bringing Japanese Christmas goods, and urged the crowd to prevent her being unloaded. Following a refusal to depart, 50 Vancouver police cleared the dock with a baton charge amidst a barrage of stones and sticks. Those arrested include four women. The leaders indicated that the aim of the demonstration was to lead the dock workers to refuse to unload Japanese cargo. The dockmen ignored the overtures. The police attribute the demonstration to radicals. The Canadian Pacific Company is planning to double the dock guards. ACCUSED REMANDED VANCOUVER, Nov. 18. (Received Nov. 19, at 9 p.m.) In the court the demonstrators’ counsel stated that the affair was an aftermath of the Brussels Conference.

The magistrate declared: “ I am getting tired of the attempts of these people to settle the affairs of the Empire. They cannot take the law into their own hands.” The accused were remanded for a week, bail being allowed.