The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-25
MANY GERMANS KILLED
DURING R|0T|NC IN PARIS
Citizen Of Cincinnati Says Crimes
Would Shame the Civilized
World.
UNSAFE FOR ANY FOREIGNER
Mobs Read Bulletins i'm Front of
Newspaper Offices Until ii Begins
to Get Dark; Then They Start on
Search for KniScr's Subjects.
| Special 10 Tho Times-Dispach.

NEW YORK. August 2i.-"It Will
never he known how many Germans
were killed in Paris during the three
days riot of July 80 and 81 and Au-
gust l. The crimes OF that period.
could they but become known. would
shame the civilized world"
This statement was made to-day by
Henry NJ. Zicgler. Cincinnati million =
airc. who has made his home in Paris
for the last five years, but fed with the
American refugees and returned on the
steamship La France. Describing the
scenes in Paris during the three days
of rioting before martial law was de-
clared, Mr.. ZicElcr said:
1T was unsafe for any foreigner.
particularly one who could not speak
French. 10 go on the streets. For a
German it was little short of suicidal.
Il saw one German driving down a
boulevard with woman In a cab.
How the mob learned he was Il t;erna II
do not know, but they upset the cab.
The woman tainted and was tramplc,l
on. but some one finally dragged her
away.
The man made a gallant fight for
his life. With his back to the over
turned cab he fought desperately for
several minutes and he was big
fellow. too. He struck out with his
fists. right and left. and bowled his as
sailants over as fast as they got within
reach. Hut he was finally ove.powered
and tramplcd and stabbed to death by
the mob.
incidents Of this kind we're a fire.
quent occurrence. The mobs would
gather in front of the newspaper offices
to read the bulletins. and as IL was get :
ting dark they started out hunting
Germans
Every shop over which there an
pearcd a German name was wrecked
\ al 81.
were shops with the windows broken.
and the interior looking as though a
bomb had been exploded there Ir
other quarters of the city even build =
inEs were torn down.
II know n family that had a German
COOK. woman who had been with them
many years. The sons went off to war
with the first army but that was no
guarantee of protection for the wom-
an Some one told the mob. and my
friends had TO hide the old woman in
the cellar under a pile of boxes TO save
her life.
II was on the streets one cveninS
with a friend. We saw tho mob chas-
ing n German. He almost got away.
but was caught in an alley. My friend
recognized one OF his employees in the
mob. The next day he told me that his
employee had boosted that they no,
only got tho German we saw them
after but three others All we're
stabbed TO death, after being beaten
INTO insens bility.
one Of the most noticeable things
In Paris arc the electric signs of Macgi
the big milk distributor. He has up
wards oi 100 milk dcpots in raris
ard is worth between 100000 and So.
100000. He is a German, but har lived
in Paris for twenty years a more
The mob wrecked his electric signs
and milk depots, and then some one
started the report that he had poisoned
the milk and was going TO kin all his
customers. The mob went hunting for
him. but he escaped"