Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-01-14 | Page 10 | Seeking Authority to Disarm Japanese

I SEEKING AUTHORITY TO DISARM JAPANESE VANCOUVER. 73. C, Jan, 3::. The City U Council today passed a resolution asking S the opinion of the city solicitor on the wM city's powers to disarm the Japanese. I" Alderman McMillan declared that an In tolerable condition now prevailed In Vancouver. Van-couver. He believed that there was a regularly organized, armed guard within Vancouver's Japtown. Citizens, he declared, de-clared, were being stopped on their private pri-vate premises, being searched by Japanese, Japan-ese, and in other cases peaceful citizens wore halted on the streets and searched. The changing of guards by tho Japanese from time to time, he declared, Indicated the perfection of the system. Such armed rings and cliques should . not be permitted, added the speaker, and simply induced the recurrence of riots.