The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-05-12
w1IER EVER GERMAN SHOWS SELF
HE IS ATTACKED By THE BRITONS
Police Department is Having
Difficulty in Dealing with
the Angry Crowds.
SOME Severely MAULEb
Even Russian Jewesses Are
Mistaken for Germans and
Plead for Protection.

LONDON, May 12-Anti-German
riots in the east end of London were
renewed this morning with even
greater violence than YESTERDAY.
Wherever a German showed himsela
he was attacked. The police iorce
has been so -thinned by drafts INTO
che army that 1t had difficulty IN
dealing with the angry crowd 9pe-
cial constabies had 10 be called oul.
A number OF German establishments
were raided and sacked and tnelr
contents scattered over the streets.
The German themselves We're iofee0
to go into hiding.
The police In same cases were ce-
ned by the angry crowds and some
officers were injured during their en-
deavors to protect the Teutons. the
furniture and fittings OF German
houses and stores We're hurried
through windows into the street.
When the proprietors were caugnl
they were severely mauled and IN
some cases their clothes were torn
from their bodies. One german was
thrown into a horse trough with the
reminder that this compatrfots nao
been spending their time drowning
women and children. He was only
saved from a similar fate by the
Intervention OF the police.
There were several instances OF
German butchers trying to escape IN
their carts. They went racing down
the street at mad gal1op but IN
most cases they were ultimately run
down and their vehicles smashed. A
number of Russian Jewesses were
docking this morning TO the police
station in the east end and pleading
for protection saying they were being
mistaken for Germans.
Reports are reaching the police
that private houses OF wealthy Ger
mans in the fashionable west end are
liable 20 be burned. Troops are IN
readiness to assist the police II nee
essary.
Large placards IN the windows OF
almost ali business houses and mar
kefs bear the words: NO business
transacted with Germans" The pro-
test of the German citizens OF Brad
ford against the course OF the Ger
man government in the torpedoing
of the Lusitania is the first uniteo
public denuncfation by naturalized
Teutons expressing horror and lndl-
rnation at the German outrages.
Letters from individual Germans
are appearing IN the newspapers but
those prominent among the German
residents have not as yet made any
move. The cabinet was in spectai
session today to review the alien sit
uation as altered by recent happen
ings and the country is eagerly e1-
pecttng drastic action.
Anti-German outbreaks of particu-
lar severity occurred today in the
neigh borhood of the East India docks.
sixty of the 20 German shops were
wrecked. Germans in the vicinity are
,anitinp for self defense and police
9aRaforcements are being rushed to
The scene.
Lord oSarles Beresford and Viii
liam JoNnson-Hicks presented separ-
ate petitions in the House OF Com
mons today asking that the House de
cree the internment of all male alien
enemies OF military age and the re-
rnoyaI of other alien enemies TO places
thirty miles or more from the coast.
The petitions bore about 100000 sig
natures.
Premier Asquith stated in the
House of Commons today that the
cabinet was quite alive 20 the fact
rules of civilized warfare and human
that the progressive violation OF the
tty by the enemy eliminating in the
sinking of the Lusitania" and the
feeling aroused have made it nee
essary to look beyond merely military
consid erations. The government
therefore, was carefully considering
the practicability of the segregation
and internment of alien enemies on
more comprehensive scale The pre-
n,ter added he hoped to make more
denite statement tomorrow