SMASHING SHOP WINDOWS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2466, 20 May 1915, Page 3

SMASHING SHOP WINDOWS

LOSS FALLS ON INSURANCE COMPANIES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.! . Auohland, May 19. Those people who have, as a> result of happenings in the war, developed a violent antipathy against all things German, are appealed to by Police Superintendent Kiely to thiiik before thev strike.

All is not German that bears a German name" is the argument used by the superintendent, and he particularly refers to shop windows in this respcct. The name on a window may be German, he points out, but the trouble is that when a person getß the anti-German fever so violently that he goes out and smashes with a stone or- a stick a German name on a glass window he incidentally does very little damage to the German name but very serious damage to the British glass window. The situation is that these plateglass windows are all insured, and insurance companies are British, and they hare to make good the damage done by anti-German hooliganism. The insurance people have naturally applied to the Police Department to prevent such loss to them as would be caused by wanton window-breaking, and consequently the police are oil the alert in Auckland to deal promptly with any sucli riotous behaviour as disgraced "Wanganui. Mr. Kiely also points out that any person found inciting an outbreak of riotous behaviour will be promptly apprehended.