The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-13
Sinking of the Lusitania
 Arouses to Violent Climax Smoldering Hatred and
 Suspicion for Germans
BITTER FEELING NOT CONFINED TO
 LOWER GLASSES
Government May Place All
 Germans in England in Detention Camps-Police Injured by Furious Mobs

London, May 12.-Q0:30 p. m) | The sinking of the steamer Lusitania has aroused to violent climax the hatred and suspicion of Germans living in England. This animosity has found expression dur ing the last "A hours in attacks on Germans and their shops in London and Liverpool, while there have been minor disturbances in Manchester, Birkenhead, Glasgow and few other places.
 Many German shops were smashed and some shops were pillaged. The proprie- tors of the shops generally were driven away by angry crowds. None of the per sons attacked are reported to have been seriously injured. One or two shops have been set on fire by the rioters.
 A spontaneous movement has developed in the London market to boycott subjects of enemy countries, and small dealers who appeared for supplies today were re- fused them and number of them were driven away by crowds. The police off cers of both London and Liverpool have been depleted by enlistments in the army and special constables have been called outsto help.the regulars These constables, however, usually are without experience and the mobs often have got the better of them. Police have been injured in the | riotings.
 Many Arrested Many of the dsturbers were brought before the police courts today and re- ceived sentences ranging from four months imprisonment. imposed on ono Liverpool woman, to a four shillngs fin }. l In several instances English Swiss and 1 Russian shops bearing Teutonic names 1 have been mistaken for German estab- 1 lishments.
 l There was a rumor tonight that organ l ized riots would be started at midnight
 and large forces of police and constables were on duty.
 The anti-German feeling Is in no wise confined to the lower classes. There has been a general demand by the newspapers for internment of all subjects of enemy countries and agitation by several mem | bers of Parliament induced the premier
 
 l day to consider the matter. After the meeting Premier Asquith made a state ment in the House of Commons fore shadowing that the government will carry out the popular demand for the i placing of these aliens in concentration camps Petitioners feel that 1t is unfair to the British people that so many alieH enemies should remain at large in theil
 midst.
 ! To Put Resolution
 At meeting to be held al Tower
 Hill procession, headed by the stock
 brokers, will form in front of the royal
 exchange and proceed to Tower Hill
 where the following resolution will be
 put.
 sThousands of citizens of London gath
 cred together at mass meeting unani-
 mously protesting against any lsith and
 kin of German mutilators. poisoners and murderers of men, women and children | being any longer allowed to be at largt in the British islands. and fearing riots fire, the spread of disease germs and pois oned water hereby unanimously demand that the government take steps to inter- , or deport all alien enemies. male or fe
 male whatever their nationality, natural
 Ized or otherwise
 deegation will take the petition {, ; the prime minister, Mir. Asquith
 If is estimated that there are 6D,0o0 per.
 sons of German or Austrian birth outsid, lthe internment camps in England, o
 whom 10000 are in London. The maJorit, are engaged in humble occupations, q. small shop keepers, barpers, Waiters an' | worl<ingmen.
 II Some newspapers have been assertinl l that in the event of Zeppelins ,raidinI London and starting fires as was don at Southend these aliens would assis l the raid by helping to light fires through out the city. Some of the papers ais
 | have called attention to the wealth. 8 financiers of German birth as the mos
 ! dangerous potential enemies because o F l their facilities for furnishing information : | to the enemy.
 There also has been a demand that tn ; German Emperor the German crow n prince, the Emperor of Austria and Princ Y Henry of Prussia be in some way deprive f 1 of their honors as Knights of the Garter
 land that the banners of the German Elm
 peror and crown prince, which hang 1 0 the knights stalls in St. Georges chaps Q at Windsor be removed. This is a mat D ter over which the King alone has juris f diction.
 7 advocate of the policy of nonretaliation tt d wards the Germans, says tonight that e sees no reason why the banners shoul e remain there.
 Horatio Bottomley. former member (
 Parliament who has considerable fo
 flowing. announced last night that unle' a the banners are removed within wee -- he will personally lead a body of men ,f tear them down. He repeats the stat : ment today in his paper, John Bull. ar F challenges the government to take ste against him.
 e The sinking of the Lusitania Is not alol
 responsible for the present outbreak i. They are the climax of the feeliI z lkindled by the sinking of merchant shil and many fishing trawlers with loss IS ufe. the suffering of soldiers poisoned n German gases and the Zeppelin excu h eions. all of which the newspapers ha'
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