NEWS OF THE WEEK.
91HE anti-Asiatic agitation on the Pacific Coast has spread
to British Columbia, and a serious disturbance took place at Vancouver on Saturday night and Monday last. After a demonstration held by the Japanese and Korean Exclusion League, a crowd of labourers and rowdies invaded the quarters occupied by the Japanese and other Orientals. According to the official Japanese report, the defensive measures adopted by the Japanese and the efforts of the police prevented the rioters from carrying out all their hostile designs, but fifty-six shops were damaged, and two persons wounded. On Monday night there was a renewal of the disturbances, and the Japanese primary school was set on fire by the rioters, but the flames were soon extinguished, and the building saved by the Japanese. Since Monday there has been no further disturb- ance in Vancouver ; but the attitude of the local authorities gives rise to anxiety, as it indicates a failure to realise the need of fully maintaining the Treaty rights of Japanese residents. The Mayor has refused to guarantee a safe landing to nine hundred- . Hindu immigrants who have arrived in the ' Monteagle,' and has headed a list of subscribers to a fund for sending them to Ottawa, and further trouble is expected on the arrival of two other immigrant ships with immigrants from Asia.
