| Show I 1 I RIOTS IN v Victoria T n C Nov 0 24 steamer I arrived last night from Crom Liver Liverpool pool pont and an the orient and reports report that while at ut there vero er serious o Hots going on and many shops ami till were looted by byan b buu an organized of rioters tors as a 11 result of the tho of tho Chinese be he because cause of the Uw efforts of the tho government to put down the boycott ho against Japan Japans Japanese ese s on th part palt of or the L le Chinese lo of ot tile the colony olony Armed d police pollee were called out outto to 0 tho mobs und and 12 JJ Chinese were 10 arrested The opening of the tho rioting was at the two of lite Chinese c firm on Kilo Kao street tr The dealt exclusively in Japanese goods particularly 1 III Ill 11 dried fish Two hundred rioters broke open the tho doors and threw goods to If tho value of oC thu street where they 10 de destroyed or 1 carried away LII At t 7 odo on the night of or Nov O 1 I the tho rIoting grew g I 11 in violence and or 01 organized Chinese o godowns go own and shops hollS containing Japanese goods had been marked out und and a eL plan of or cam campaign seemed se med to bo he followed The po polI lI l dispersed l thu mob but they re smashing doors leav leaving lea ing the Ihl premises a Il shell The European and Sikh police were armed Im ell with revolvers and ball cartridges All night the streets wt re crowded with rioters rioter who broke smashed hel and looted paying pa special attention to lu tho fish hop which hud Japanese In III In Inmany many ef rioters showed fight when tho police came und and tho police pollee assisted a d by h some Fonte sailors armed with palings paling replied to 10 showers r of stones from flom tho 1 mob moh with charges es In which th were some slime vigorous hitting and anda a 11 good many sore ore heads head At one ne stage th police fixed bayonets hll to prevent at attempts tempts lem at the r of prisoners The cause cau ot or the Hots was an effort by h the Chinese o merchants ncr Inter Interested ested in imported goods to to end the thC boycott ho cott and ono one of the tho pro motors of this movement will waK waylaid wll and one of his hiI ears cut off |
