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WHITE HOODLUMS
(To the Editor.) Sir, — For some months' past the Chinese residents of the town nave bean subjected to a* great deal of annoyance, persecution and insult by what is apparently an organised gang of hoodlums. Chinese cooks who are employed by local business people have ben repeatedly mobbed when returning to their homes at night, and about ten days' ago one of them was scric.usly assaulted in broad daylight alongside the public street. Last night shortly after eleven o - clock a number of young larrikins entered : the-*Chinesc cookshops alongside Mr Young Saye's store, and after cutting open the cupboard, forcibly took possession of. its contents, includ' ing roast ducks, etc. On being remonstrated with by the owner and his friends, etc.," the g=ng instantly smashed the furniture, including a lar#G amount of crockery to pieces and after engaging in a fight with the Chinese came out in the public street, when they armed themselves with stones, which they usea for the purpose of breaking the doors and windows of the cookshop. The cookshop this morning, reminded one of a "building that had 'undergone' ;i siege, the furniture having been broken to pieces, the windows shattered and the floor strewn with boulders, some of them at least three pounds in weight . Mr Young Save, who asked the gang to desist and who endeavoured to prevent them from running riot through his garden, also had one of his large windows deliberately broken by a stone which was thrown with such force that after breaking the glass it travelled a distance^ at tourteen feet and dented a partition wall- Thi" pandemonium took place in Mackav' street eleven and twelve' o'clock last night within a short distance of the police station, bat the noise not disturbing or bringing to the rescue any "man in blue the Chinese sent a messenger on three different. occasions to the station, only to find that no one was at horne — they were probably absent on hotel duty. Fortunately no serious injury was inflicted on any of the Chinese last nnght but that was^iot tihe fault ol the hoodlums who- hurled stones with a total 'disregard of consequences, and it is therefore absolutely necessary that the police should take vigorous steps to put doyn this state of affairs which if continued will prohably end in loss of Jife. Apologising, for trespassing on your valuable space,— l am, c^ STIC]r 2iid May, 1909.
(To the Editor.) Sir, — For some months' past the Chinese residents of the town nave bean subjected to a* great deal of annoyance, persecution and insult by what is apparently an organised gang of hoodlums. Chinese cooks who are employed by local business people have ben repeatedly mobbed when returning to their homes at night, and about ten days' ago one of them was scric.usly assaulted in broad daylight alongside the public street. Last night shortly after eleven o - clock a number of young larrikins entered : the-*Chinesc cookshops alongside Mr Young Saye's store, and after cutting open the cupboard, forcibly took possession of. its contents, includ' ing roast ducks, etc. On being remonstrated with by the owner and his friends, etc.," the g=ng instantly smashed the furniture, including a lar#G amount of crockery to pieces and after engaging in a fight with the Chinese came out in the public street, when they armed themselves with stones, which they usea for the purpose of breaking the doors and windows of the cookshop. The cookshop this morning, reminded one of a "building that had 'undergone' ;i siege, the furniture having been broken to pieces, the windows shattered and the floor strewn with boulders, some of them at least three pounds in weight . Mr Young Save, who asked the gang to desist and who endeavoured to prevent them from running riot through his garden, also had one of his large windows deliberately broken by a stone which was thrown with such force that after breaking the glass it travelled a distance^ at tourteen feet and dented a partition wall- Thi" pandemonium took place in Mackav' street eleven and twelve' o'clock last night within a short distance of the police station, bat the noise not disturbing or bringing to the rescue any "man in blue the Chinese sent a messenger on three different. occasions to the station, only to find that no one was at horne — they were probably absent on hotel duty. Fortunately no serious injury was inflicted on any of the Chinese last nnght but that was^iot tihe fault ol the hoodlums who- hurled stones with a total 'disregard of consequences, and it is therefore absolutely necessary that the police should take vigorous steps to put doyn this state of affairs which if continued will prohably end in loss of Jife. Apologising, for trespassing on your valuable space,— l am, c^ STIC]r 2iid May, 1909.