Title: "Interned Japs Mob One Of Own Members," Seattle Times, 8/8/1942, (ddr-densho-56-831)
Densho ID: ddr-densho-56-831

Interned Japs Mob One of Own Members

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 8. -- (AP) -- Two hundred military police were called inside the Japanese assembly center at Santa Anita last Tuesday to quell a disturbance, the Wartime Civilian Control Administration disclosed today.

One of the evacuees, suspected of being an informer, was set upon and badly beaten by a huge crowd of Japanese. He was rescued by the soldiers and taken to a hospital.

The W.C.C.A. statement follows:

"After being stationed within the Japanese assembly center at Santa Anita for three days, the result of a disturbance, accented by an assault upon an evacuee of Japanese and Korean ancestry. Tuesday afternoon, the military police were withdrawn Friday evening.

"The assault upon the evacuee occurred during the routine inspection by the interior police. Suspected of being an informer, the evacuee was set upon by several hundred other evacuees.

"A milling crowd of about 2,000 Japanese gathered almost at once. The military police stationed outside the center were summoned. Some 200 were ordered in. The beaten evacuee, badly but not seriously hurt, was rescued by the soldiers and removed to a hospital.

"The Santa Anita center contains a total population of almost 19,000 evacuees, evacuated from Military Area No. 1, of the Pacific coast."