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C. P. R. POLICE TO GUARD THE WHARF
------------------Hindus Arriving by Empress of China and Tartar Will
Be Landed Without Any Civic Interference.

------------------Twelve special C. P. R. police will to-night take charge of the Canadian
Pacific wharf and approaches, and the Hindus arriving on the steamship
Empress of China, which is expected in port about 8 o’clock, will be landed
without interference from the civic authorities. No common or garden variety
of city policemen will this time have any say in what shall be done with the
men from Hindustani. Everybody, save railway officials and Government
officers is to be prevented from going on the wharves, which will be cleared
shortly before the arrival of the white liner.
If the city police desire to watch the latest batch of Hindus debark they
will have to do their looking from afar off. On the last occasion of the arrival of
a steamer bringing Hindus Chief of Police Chisholm, under instructions from
Mayor Buscombe, was on the wharf to prevent the Hindus from going uptown.
He was, however, outwitted by the Hindus, who took train to Hastings and
walked back to the city from that point without meeting any obstruction.
The Empress of China and the steamer ship Tartar were both expected
to reach port this morning from Hongkong. It was not till afternoon, however,
that word was telegraphed from Victoria that the Empress had passed Otter
Point at 11:03 a.m. Up to 3 o’clock this afternoon nothing had been heard of
the Tartar, the Empress will likely reach port about 8 o’clock to-night, and the
Tartar should arrive to-morrow morning at the latest.
Immediately on the arrival of the Empress of China her English mails
and overland passengers will be transferred to the Overseas Limited express,
which will be in waiting to pull out for Quebec. If Overseas Mail does not get
away till 9 o’clock, she will be eight hours late in departing, as she was
scheduled to leave at 1 o’clock this afternoon. This train has never left

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Vancouver more than six hours late, and at that she made up her time before
reaching Montreal.
The Empress of China, which sailed from Yokohama on November 1, has
about a hundred and fifty Hindus on board, according to all reports. The
largest crowd, however, is on the Tartar, which sailed from Yokohama on
October 29. It is reported that she has nearly eight hundred Hindus on board.