Evening star., 1915-05-12
R|0T|NG IN LONDON
A|MEDAT GERMANS
Mobs in Other Cities Also At
tack Teutons and Destroy
Their Property.
GOVERNMENT BEING URGED
TO TAKE DRASTIC ACTION
Lord Charles Beresford Predicts
"Very Serious Doings" Unless
the Cabinet Acts.

tue C6DlueC ACCS.
LONDON. May 12. 1928 pm.-Anti-
German riots in the East End of Lon
don were renewed this morning with
even greater violence than yesterday.
Wherever a German showed himself he
was attacked.
The police force has been so thinned
by drafts sent to the army that it had
difficulty in dealing with the angry
crowds. Special constables had to be
called out.
A number OF German establishments
were raided and sacked and their con-
tents scattered over the streets. The
Germans themselves were forced to 20
into hiding.
Police Defed by Crowds.
The police in some cases were defied
by the angry crowds. and some officers
were injured during their endeavors to
protect the Teutons. The furniture
and fittings of German houses and
stores were hurled through windows
to the streets. When the proprietors
were caught they were severely mauled.
In some cases their clothes were torn
from their backs.
One German was thrown into a horse
trough with the reminder that his COM
patriots had been spending their time
drowning women and children. He was
only saved from similar fate by the
Intervention Of the police.
Run Down and Mauled.
There were several instances of Ger
man butchers trying to escape in their
carts. They went racing down the
streets at a mad gallop. but in most
cases they ultimately were run down
and their vehicles smashed
A number of Russian Jewesses were
fockins this morning to the police sta
tions in the East End and pleading for
being mistaken for Germans.
Outbreaks of particular severity oc-
cur Cured ed :. today in the neighborhood OF
German shops were wrecked. Germans
in the vicinity are uniting for self-de-
tense and police reinforcements are
being rushed to the scene.
Troops Held in Readiness.
Reports are reaching the police that
private houses belonging to wealthy
Germans in the fashionable West End
are liable to be burned Troops are
in readiness to assist the police II
necessary.
Large placards in the windows of al
most all business houses and markets
bear the words: mo business transact
ed with Germans"
The protest Of the German citizens of
Bradford against the course of the Ger
man government In the torpedoing of
the Lusitania is the first united public
denunciation by naturalized Teutons
expressing horror and Indignation of
the German outrages."
Letters from individual Germans are
appearing in the newspapers. but the
prominent among the German residents
have not as yet made any move.
The cabinet was in special conference
today to review the alien situation as
altered by recent happenings. and the
country is eagerly expecting drastic
action.
Discussed in Parliament.
Before the adjournment of the house
of commons last evening Sir Henry j.
Dalziel urged the government to intern
all alien enemies, while Lord Charles
Beresford expressed the view that un-
less some definite policy were adopted
there would be very serious doings in
the country.
Andrew Bonar Law. leader of the op-
position in the house. also spoke of
the seriousness of the situation H. !.
Tenant. under secretary for war said
the matter would be considered by the
ca binet today and a statement made to
the house of commons Thursday
There have been riots in IiverpooI
Manchester, Stafford and Birkenhead In
Liverpool the Germans have been in
termed. and those who are naturalized
subjects Of Great Britain have been ad-
vsed to go to interior towns or seek in
ternment- Many OF them have decided
upon the latter course.
South African Feeling High.
A Reuter- dispatch from johannesburg
says:
"Anti-German feeling Is running high
as the result OF the Lusitania tragedy
Extraordinary scenes are being enacted in
front OF the town hall. where crowds OF
citizens wait patiently for an opportun-
ity to sign petitions to the mayor re-
auesting him 10 call h mass meeting to
voice protests against Germany's action
"A large German flag is spread on the
ground where the petitioners stand while
writing their names. Another German
flag was publicly burned in front of the
town hall.
'Placards have been displayed urging a
boycott on Germans and a stock ex-
change committee has adopted a resolu-
ton asking members of Teutonic birth
to avoid the exchange during the war
THE mayor has consented to comply
with the request that he call a mass
meeting"