RIOTS IN JOHANNESBURG

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2462, 15 May 1915, Page 5

RIOTS IN JOHANNESBURG

GERM PREMISES WRECKED

BUILDINGS SET ON FIRE

Johannesburg, May 13. There havo been serious ant-i-Germau nots hero.' f The premises of wholesale German 1 ana Austrian butchers, beer saloons/-, and merchant firms were wrecked ana rf , 01t S re ' T' le German Liederkrauz Ohib w;ei burned. Sir George AJbu's ■ offices wore raided, aud the furniture made into a bonfire. Gundelfinger's premises were also burned.

Tho total loss by riot and fires is A quarter of a million.

Fifty-one buildiiigs were wholly ofl partially wrecked. Hugh bonfires wer«| made of the wreckage. Picture? of tha Kaiser and German flags were burnt. A noteworthy feature was tha ab'< scuce of looting. [Sir _ Georgo Albu is chairman and managing director of the Genera] Mia* ing and Finance Corporation, Ltd.* in Johannesburg.]

THE CAPETOWN BIOTS m.

DAMAGE AT JOHANNESBURG, ' (Re'c. May 15, 0.45 a.m.) ( Capo Town, Maj; Enormous crowds, including ' manj; women, also coloured persons, after singing the National Anthem with bared l heads,- wrecked German establishments and commenced the wholesale firing oS buildings. The brigade was unable to cope with the situation, and the military; was called out. There was an entire absence of looting. The damage done at Johannesburg amounts to at least £750,000. It ig feared that the British insurance companies will suffer the most. A thousand' rolls of cotton and woollen stuffs were removed from a warehouse and .bow fired.

NATURALISED SUBJECTS ! «

COMPELLED TO 'AVOW LOYALTY*

tondon, May 13, There is an insistent movements, to compel naturalised British subjects of German extraction to avow loyalty. Many are responding, including Mr. Ernest Schuster, and Sir Felix Schuster, Sir Ernest Frederick Schiff, Sir Carl Meyer, and Sir Felix Simon.

[Ernest Schuster, barrister-at-law, is I a managing partner in the . firm of Schuster, Son, and Company,. of Cannon Street. ' He is lion, president of the German Athenaeum, chairman of tho German Benevolent Society, deputy, chairman of the Anglo-German section of the London Chamber of.Commerce, and hon. secretory of the King Edward VII British-German Foundation. Sip Felix Schuster is a member of the Council of India, Governor of tho Union of London and Smiths Bank, Ltd. Sir Ernest Schiff is a Knight of the Imperial Austrian 'Order of the Iron Crown, and Commander of tho Order o£ Francis Joseph With the Star. Sir Carl Meyer is Lieutenant of the City of London, director of the National Bank of Egypt, and chairman of the Londoix Committee of De Beers Company.] , . CAMPAIGN OF RETALIATION" j DISCUSSION IN FEDERAL' Melbourne, May 14..' In the Federal Senate, during th« discussion of the Lusitania outrage, several Senators urged a campaign of retaliation, including the seizuro of German property. It was stated that several Slelbourhe blocks wore owned by, German companies'. One in_ Collins Street belonged to a company in which'' the Kaiser is the chief shareholder. The Defence Minister (Senator Pearco)' stated that steps would bo taken to control meetings' of natives and descendants of natives of enemy countries