JAPANESE IN SAN FRANCISCO.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11126, 27 July 1907, Page 1 (Supplement)

JAPANESE IN SAN FRANCISCO.

RIOTS NOT DUE TO RACIAL ANTAGONISM. SAN FRANCISCO, June 6. Mr. Robert T. Devlin, the United State 8 District Attorney, forwarded to the State Department at Wasliington to-day ; his report upon the wrecking of a Japanese restaurant m Folsom-street. All the testimony he has collected bears out the contention that the incident resulted from a dispute between white labourers over the patronising of a non-union restaurant, and not from racial hatred. The working men fought with each other and the' furniture was wrecked "BOXER-LIKE" OUTRAGES. NEW YORK, June 6. -Count Okuma, the Japanese statesman, lias addressed! a. telegraphic appeal to the American nation to put a stop to the "BoxerJike outrages m California.", The ex-Foreign Minister and ex-Premier declares emphatically that tlie Japanese nation are dissatisfied with the, settlement of the school controversy, which, he says> resulted m unjust discrimination against, and actual expulsion of, Japanese immigrants.; '-'' - '"-■', ■ ". Some discontent prevails m. Tokio, Router telegraphs, at the tardiness of the ■authorities m. settling the dispute. The newspaper Nichi Niclii angrily demands that tlie Japanese-American treaty shall not be thrown into toe wasfepaper basket.