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100 years later... plight of the Chinese in history..  

bitchkitty2017 71F
2245 posts
2/18/2019 4:13 pm
100 years later... plight of the Chinese in history..

Feb 18th - 19th 2019 marks the 100 year anti-Chinese riots in Halifax Nova Scotia. Only months after the conclusion of the First world War , an unruly and xenophobic mob made their way through the streets of Halifax damaging Chinese owned businesses on the city's most popular streets .
In the days after , headlines of the city's major papers blared " Rioters wrecked six Chinese owned restaurants and over 100 people were hospitalized ..This is a little known piece of Halifax history. This week marks the 100th year Anniversary of the aptly named Chinese riot of 1919, an event that seen " several thousand " soldiers and civilians destroy Chinese owned businesses along still what is now , Gottingen, Buckingham and Barrington streets., this riot caused tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage and put over 100 people in hospital.
This incident began at the Crown Café on Gottingen Street ...and according to the report Thomas Andrews , a soldier, who had returned from the war entered the Café at 11 pm on Feb 18th and already partially drunk ordered a big meal When asked to pay he refused and started shouting abuses to the owner of the place. The owner asked Andrews to leave and even if he didn't pay but asked the owner for a pack of smokes .Pack's of smokes were at that time 15 cents but Andrews handed him only 10 cents .and refused to pay any more .Andrews quickly ran and turned off the lights grabbed the cash register and stole 75.00 from it and threw the register thru the window.
The Police was called and Andrews was questioned Police told Andrews and several of his friends to leave the restaurant , they did but later returned with the allegation that a Chinese man had brutally assaulted a soldier ...which was obviously a false allegation. .The angry mob totally trashed the place before sending the Chinese owner to the hospital with several family members. .then the mob turned down the street and destroyed five additional Chinese owned Restaurants ...everything that they could destroy was trashed. .item of value stolen then was smokes, typewriters , cash registers, and cigars .
Police came and arrested Andrews and most who didn't flee were taken to jail , but the next night mobs went on another rampage which now numbered several thousand " soldiers and civilians " they took to the streets , with the Crown Café on the first of the list , windows were put in place by the owner but they were smashed out again ..eventually the crown was quelled by the Police who now had to use brute force on the mob .
By the end of the 19th the city was in total ruins where the Anti Chinese people worked and lived ..the rioting was finally stopped by 110 military police who patrolled the streets for weeks after ..The military also made the mobsters ( soldiers ) clean up the businesses and help put them back in business


bitchkitty2017 71F

2/18/2019 4:15 pm

All for a pack of smokes and a meal ...!


mufdiver69er2 63M  
1953 posts
2/18/2019 4:38 pm

and this was just one year after the 1918 great flu pandemic..wow..

woop woop


clittywhisperer1 59M
1415 posts
2/18/2019 4:42 pm

alkyhol does not go well with stupid and hungry .


bitchkitty2017 71F

2/18/2019 4:44 pm

    Quoting mufdiver69er2:
    and this was just one year after the 1918 great flu pandemic..wow..
yes I actually just read that as well sadly so many people got hurt here...soldiers should be ashamed ..thanks


bitchkitty2017 71F

2/18/2019 4:45 pm

that is just so true but it didn't have to get that out of control..Chinese people are so easy going so the owner wasn't even resisting ...thanks


bitchkitty2017 71F

2/18/2019 6:23 pm

    Quoting  :

yeah you are right its hard to believe some places come together for a cause and other place go just the opposite..Smarter people seem to think they are the dummer stuff they dream up or act on...I watch a lot of British programs and it truly shows the idiotic actions of people caught on bbc camers ..appaling


bitchkitty2017 71F

2/18/2019 6:25 pm

    Quoting  :

I think you are right I hear rumblings from the news in different places you know its a shame people don't realize it could always be worse as we always know ..I appreciate the comment..


bitchkitty2017 71F

2/18/2019 6:27 pm

    Quoting  :

I did make a point of reading a lot of dated articles about race riots down through the years and nothing seems to change ..smarter we seem to think we are dummer acts of violence happens ..thanks


Apollorising58 63M

2/19/2019 8:52 am

I did not know, thanks sexy!

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Paulxx001 66M
22642 posts
2/19/2019 3:23 pm

Interesting stuff.. 🤔


bitchkitty2017 71F

2/19/2019 3:34 pm

you are welcome sweets , still like the stripes that called candy cane? sure looks like a lickable candy cane ...thanx


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