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Show Ii BRITISH COLUMBIA FIREMEN i BATTLE WITH ENRAGED JAPS i Mob of Drown Men Attack Men In 1 Uniform Because of Unfortunate ; Accident on New Year Day. Vancouver, 11. C. Allan Anderson, flroman, Is dying, and two othor foung men, also members of tho city lro department, aro badly wounded . and In tlio hospital as tho result of a fight on Now Year day In tho Jnpnn-dso Jnpnn-dso quarters, with an overwhelming number of tho subjects of tho mikado. Tho fight was tho worst In J Iho city slnco tho Soptombor riots, whon so many Japnncso woro Injured. ' Anderson, accompanied by J. Frost I ind T. McDonald, wcro passing n Jap- neso store, when Frost stumbled and I !ell hard agalnBt tho pinto glass win. I dow front. Tho glass wns smashed i nd tho fragments wcro still rolling pn tho sldowulk whon a scoro of Jap-anoso Jap-anoso nppenred from tho Inside and rushed nt tho trio of whites. Tho flro-men flro-men woro In uniform, with brass buttons but-tons and official caps, but tho Japan-cso Japan-cso knifed thorn furiously. Within throo minutes thcro wcro dozens of Japancso In tho fight, all trying to got nt tho whlto men. Tho lattor woro borno to the ground and cut and slashed 'until tho sidewalk and front of tho storo wcro covered with blood. It was fully fifteen minutes bo-foro bo-foro tho pollco arrived, and thon only four arrests woro mado, as tho Japancso Jap-ancso had scattered. |