The notable atrocity against the Yellow Peril was the three-day Torreón massacre ( 13 – 15 May 1911 ) in northern Mexico , wherein the military forces of Francisco I. Madero killed 308 Asian people ( 303 Chinese , 5 Japanese ) , because they were deemed a cultural threat to the Mexican way of life . The massacre of Chinese - and Japanese-Mexicans at the city of Torreón , Coahulia State , was not the only such atrocity perpetrated in the Revolution . Elsewhere , in 1913 , after the Constitutional Army captured the city of Tamasopo , San Luis Potosí state , the soldiers and the town-folk expelled the Yellow Peril from town by sacking and burning the Chinatown
Torreón massacre
Torreón massacre
Yellow Peril