The Lusitania Crime.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 10, 12 May 1915, Page 6

The Lusitania Crime.

A NTI-CERMAN V RIOTS IN ENGLAND. United Press abrogation. (Received 2.10 p.m.) Loudon, May 11. A large crowd of city men attacked the German shops in Cullum Street, but policemen drove them off. There were outbreaks elsewhere in London. ; The directors of the Royal Exchange at London and Manchester have requested the Germans and Austrians not to attend. The salesmen at Smithfield have boycotted the Germans. An American butcher who expressed his intention of serving the Germans was placed headfirst in a barrel of pigs’ plucks. | A mob led by a girl fiancee of a victim of the Lusitania wrecked arid looted a German butcher’s, shop in Liverpool. The furniture was smashed or carried off, and the rioters then wrecked every German shop from Seaforth in the north to Garston in the south of the city. The mob also raided the commercial centre of the city. I There were several anti-German outbreaks in Manchester and Salford,' where several shops were .stormed and considerable damage was done, breaks in Manchester.