The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-12

a wave of anti German feeling 1surged
through the country as at present 1t
is due entirely to the sinking of the
Lusitania-
Workmen in the industrial district
are refusing to labor alongside men
of German birth, whether they are
naturalized or not. In many towns
the premises occupied by Germans
have been stormed and damaged or
destroyed and even the exchanges in
London and provincial towns which
hitherto had permitted persons with
German blood in their veins to retain
their memberships are taking the
drastic step of barring the doors to
them regardless of all considerations.
German Shops Wrecked.
Anti-German outbreaks of particu-
lar severity occurred today in the
neighborhood of the East India docks.
Sixty or seventy German shops were
wrecked.
Germans in the vicinity are uniting
for defense and police reinforcements
are being rushed to the scene.
No business is transacted with Ger
mans.
The protest of the German citizens
of Bradford against the course of the
German government in the torpedoing
of the Lusitania is the first united
publication by naturalized Teutons ex-
pressing horror and indignation at
the German outrages.''
Letters from individual Germans
are appearing in the newspapers, but
the prominent among the German res
idents have not as yet made their at
titude known.
The cabinet was in special confer
ence today to review the alien Sltud-
ton as altered by recent happenings,
and the country is eagerly expecting
drastic action
For Wholesale Segregation.
In consequence of the riots and of
the demand for the segregation of all
alien enemies, the government has I'M
der contemplation more comprehen-
sive measures for the internment of
such persons. Details of this plan will
be divulged tomorrow. Lord Charles
Beresford and William Joynson-Hicks
presented separate petitions in the
house of commons today asking that
the house decree the internment of all
male alien enemies of military age
and the removal of other alien enemies
to places thirty miles or more from
the coast. The petitions bore 100000
Premier Asquith stated in the house
of commons today that the cabinet
was quite alive to the fact that "the
progressive violation of the rules of
civilized warfare and humanity by the
enemy. eliminating in the sinking of
the Lusitania," and the feelings thus
had made it necessary to look
beyond merely military considerations.
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fully considering the practicability of
the segregation and internment of
alien enemies on a more comprehen-
sive scale. The premier added he
hoped to make more definite state
ment tom orrow.
Cabinet Grapples Problem.
London, May 12.-So serious has the
alien enemy problem become that a
special cabinet meeting was called to-
day to discuss it.
There is a growing feeling that the
time has arrived when all persons of
German, Turkish or Austrian birth,
naturalized or not. should be
informed until the end of the war. 1t
Is believed that the cabinet will
thorize such action if for no other
reason than as a peace measure.
The growing anti-German riots
throughout the country are putting
the police to the test and in many
the police have simply re-
fused to pretectaaHens because of the
bitter feeling resulting from the sink
ng of the LuSita nia.if,,%