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The
"Chinese question" has broken out in Australia. The seamen
on board the steamers of the Australian Steam Navigation Company
first "struck" because Chinamen were employed on the
company’s ships. Meetings have been held in Adelaide, Queensland,
Victoria, New South Wales—indeed, all over the colonies—in which
the exclusion of the Chinese has been demanded. The expected arrival
of a ship at Sydney with 300 Chinamen it was feared would occasion a
riot. But for the Christian sentiment of the United States and the
British colonies, the Chinese immigrants would fare badly. |
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