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Show DRIVING HINDOS 1 OUT OF COUNTRY Citizens Could No Longer Stand lr. solcncc of Invaders and Attempt to Rid the Town of Them. A "Drive of the Hindus" at Belling ham, Wash., Result In About Seven Sev-en Hundred Heading for Canada Cana-da and Four Hundred Seek Protection at Jail, nclllngham. Wash Hlx badly beat en Hindus are In thr hospital, (no frlRhtraed and half naked Sikh air In Ihe Jail and corridors of the city hall, guarded by policemen, and somrwhrre between llellliighnm "lid the llrlllsh Columbia line are Toft natives of India, In-dia, beaten, hungry, nnkeil and half clothed, making Ihelr way along tho (lreat Northern railway, bound for Canadian Ca-nadian territory and thr protection nf the llrlllsh flag Thn long expected ha occurred and "drive out the Hindus" Hin-dus" was heard throughout the city and along the walrr front Wednesday night and early Thursday morning The police were helpless All an thorlly was paralysed and for five hours a mob of half n thousand while men raided Ihe mills wheie the blinks working, battered down door of lodg-" Ing bonne sheltering Ho foreigners, and dragging Ihe Invaders from their bills ami with n beating started them for the city limit wllh enter tu keep on going All that the police could do was here and there sato n native from tho vlolencr or Ihr mob Several wrre pulled from thn water, where the) had hern chased, others were found naked, cowering lHnenlli the dock on the tide Mats others bruised and bleejlng and wen- picked up and sent to the hospital Thr city I quiet now, but there I a strong underi urrent nf opinion which apparently approves th- mob' action, and It may lie found lmrlblo to prosecute pro-secute the lender llsrlal feeling haa Intel but a small part In the affair Ktt-r) day whiles are being repine-, I In Ihn mill by blacks The luvni'ora have lir-come lir-come bold nnd Insolent many Instances In-stances of women being pushed Into the gutter, Insulted on street oar, elc Mug reported, and general uneasiness un-easiness being given as reason for tho outbreak Jnb have been offend Ihe Hindu again by dm mill uurr nmr protecllon guaranteed, but Ihr Hindus havn been so thoroughly frightened that they ara drawing Ihelr pay under pollen protection protec-tion nnd nrn disponed to leave for Van-couter |