Document Record

Title

Chinese Times : [1918-03-27]
大漢公報 : [一九一八年三月二十七日]

Published

Vancouver, British Columbia : Tai Hon Kong Bo Ltd., 1918

Identifier

sfu.00001_19180327
00001_19180327

Subject

Chinese Canadians--Newspapers
Chinese--Newspapers
Chinese Canadians--British Columbia--Vancouver--Newspapers
Chinese--British Columbia--Vancouver--Newspapers
British Columbia--Newspapers
Vancouver (B.C.)--Newspapers
華裔加拿大人--不列顛哥倫比亞--溫哥華--歷史--報紙
華人--不列顛哥倫比亞--溫哥華--歷史--報紙
中國--歷史--二十世紀--報紙
加拿大--歷史--二十世紀--報紙
不列顛哥倫比亞--歷史--二十世紀--報紙
溫哥華 (不列顛哥倫比亞)-- 歷史--二十世紀--報紙

Document source

University of British Columbia Library

Collection

Newspapers
Serials: Periodicals, Annuals and Newspapers

Language

Chinese

Description

March 27 P.3 1) News from Ontario: the city council in London Ontario had set up a law to have all curtains and little rooms in Chinese restaurants taken out. The Chinese restauranters then appealed to Ambassador Yeung who went to London to negotiate. The aldermen then intended to retain the little rooms, but insited on pulling down all curtains because there might be couples drinking behind curtains. In addition, there was a law in Kingston prohibiting burning charcoal or coal in stores, companies or restaurants dueing the winter. The restauranters became desperate and appealed to Ambassador Yueng who would go to Kingston after he P.3 1) finished the case in London Ontario. 2) News from in Ontario: was south of Toronto near the Niagara falls. There ware quite a lot of Chinese workers working for the local factories. This had already aroused jealousy among the labour union. There was eventually a fight on March 17, when there were 3 teams of white men trying to molest the Chinese pedestrians. There were 15-16 Chinese being beaten; one was heavily wounded and sent to the hospital. The police however were unable to settle the riot. On Mrch 18, the Chinese community requested help from Ambassador Yeung. Since he was in London, the Vice Ambassador (Chiu) immediately called the sheriff and city council of to give full protection to the Chinese community. In the meantime, the mob was suppressed and the organiz^er was arrested. He was eventually put into prison for 6 months. (The origin of the mob behaviour was that a Chinese had followed a female white into a bus station which aroused discontent among some white onlookers who thought it was immoral and impolite. They thus started to beat the Chinese and evenutally the riot spread.

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