Second Edition. Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 42, 20 February 1915, Page 6

Second Edition. Germany

INFURIATED WOMEN.

THOUSANDS ATTEND SALE OF

CHEAP POTATOES.

HUMBUGGED BY THE OFFICIALS.

United Press Association. (Received 10.30 a.m.) Amsterdam, February 19

telegrams from Berlin state that rioting occurred at Schonbcrg, where the authorities had organised a sale of cheap potatoes. Thousands of women formed a queue and waited for hours in the rain. Then the officials said that only those producing receipts for the payment of their last taxes would get the potatoes. The in undated women, stormed the buildings and threshed tlie officials. , MUTINY OF 5000 GERMAN SOLD’ • iERS. London, February IS. A mutiny in Ghent, which began in February, resulted in 5000 Germans and thirty officers being tied in couples and sent to Brussels for refusing to the Yser. front.'-Later, the mutineers were sept to Germany. THE GERMAN EXCUSE. • February 19. ■ The Daily- Chronicle says-: “The Gpraum- blockade finds not merely .British shipping, but most neutral countries, cool and unmoved. The threat is generally taken as an expression of German exasperation and excuse for deliberate atrocities on the sea, but mainly as an attempt to nsq the United States as a lever to release Britain’s grip'on the sea.