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Japanese.
Following a series of baton charges the crowds
were dispersed and all was quiet by eleven p.m. In the
Western District there were minor disturbances at about
8 p.m. in Connaught Road West and also in Queen's Road West
between Eastern and Centre Streets and in Eastern Street
itself, when crowds tried to break into shops dealing in
Japanese piece goods. Police quickly dispersed the crowds and arrested eight persons. Elsewhere in the Colony in-
cluding Kowloon all was quiet.
3.
On Friday morning the 25th. September attacks on individual Japanese became more frequent in the Central and
Western districts of Victoria. There were also demonstra-
tions in front of the Tokyo Hotel and the Japanese Club in
the Central District. When crowds met isolated Japanese
they chased them but immediately ran on the approach of
the Police. The only affair which might have assumed
serious proportions occurred at the Wing Lok Wharf (Central
District) at about midday when a mob chased the Japanese
Captain of the steamer "On Lee" on to the wharf and then
proceeded to stone the ships at the wharf and to throw
empty fish boxes which were alleged to be Japanese into
the sea. Seeing that the mob was getting out of hand the
Captain of the s.s."Sui On" which was lying at the wharf
called out his European Officers and anti-piracy guards
fully armed and would undoubtedly have opened fire on the
crowd had not Police arrived on the scene in the nick of
time. One Ship's Officer and one Police Officer received
nasty cuts from stones, but a baton charge quickly dispersed Operations were apparently being directed from a
the mob.