Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 12, 14 May 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

OBJECTION TO GERMANS. i BITTER FEELING IN ENGLAND. MANY GERMANS SURRENDER. Times and Sydney Sun Service (Received 8.0, a.ra.i London, May 13. lif the House of Commons, Lord Beresford urged the Government to take stronger measures with the Germans in England. He was convinced that when a Zeppelin’s bomb was dropped on London the Germans would tire the city in thirty places. The people were angry, and no definite action was being taken. Austro-Gennan music has been deleted from the season’s concerts. The police closed a German’s restaurant in Fenchurch Street, where the Germans celebrated the destruction of the Lusitania. A number of Germans in Bradford waited as a deputation upon the Lord Mayor, recording their sorrow at the warfare against non-combatants. Six Germans were ordered to leave the Leeds Corn Exchange. Sir Felix Simon, Sir Carl Meyer, and Mr Leopold Hirsch .sent letters expressing their most extreme disapproval of the German war methods. Many Germans are voluntarily surrendering in Liverpool. German butchers were attempting to buy at Smithfield when the porters chased out the Germans and drove off the carts. Crowds chased and captured the occupants, who yelled in defiance: “To Hell with England!” The crowd then handled them roughly, tearing off their clothes and rolling them in the mud. One German kept off his pursuers with a revolver and escaped in a train.

AMAZING SCENES IN LONDON, MANY GERMANS AVOW LOYALTY (Received 9.10 a.m.) London, May 13. Amazing scenes of wreckage and pillage occurred in London, every German and Austrian shop between Hackney and Islington being smashed. Thex-e is an insistent movement to compel naturalised British subjects of German extraction to avow their loyalty, and many are responding, including Mr Ernest Schuster, Sir Felix Schuster (Bt.), Mr E. F. Schiff, Sir Carl Meyer (Bt)., and Mr Felix Simon. Some idea of the extent of tjie feeling shown is evidenced by the fact that such prominent men have come forward to avow themselves. Sir Felix Schuster is 60 years of age and a well-known City banker. He is a member of the Council of India, a Liberal Imperialist,, and Govex-nor of the Union of London and Smith’s Bank. He is an enthusiastic musician. He has been lion. sec. and vicepresident of the Alpine Club. Sir Carl Meyer, aged 63, is chairman of the London Committee of De Beers Co., a director of the National Bank of Egypt, and as a financier was once connected with the house of Rothschild, his interests since being chiefly in South Africa, Egypt and China. He is a generous supporter of the Shakespeare National Memorial Theatre. “TO HELL WITH ENGLAND!”

London, May 12. Many shops were wrecked and looted in the East End. A crowd was incensed at a German shouting, “To hell with England!” The Germans were severely treated. Their clothes were torn off, and a number were injured. Stones and other missiles were thrown. Several arrests were made. Germans in the East End are organising for selfdefence. , Disorders at Poplar spread alarmingly. There was a disgraceful orgie of shop-smashing. The occupants were kicked out, struck, and beaten by the crowd, which overwhelmed the police. Women and children carried off loaves and flour/* German women endeavouring to get their children to safety were struck down. The crowd smashed bakers’ carts. A number of police were injured, and there were many arrests. Six shops were wrecked at Camdentown. A force of territorials restored order. Several rioters were arrested. THE FEELING IN SYDNEY. Sydney, May 13. On the representations of the police that there was a possibility of their being attacked, the military authorities closed both the German clubs in Sydney. Since the Lusitania was sunk, feeling against enemy aliens has been i strong.

ALL ADULT MALES TO BE INTERNED. 40,000 STILL AT LARGE. (Received 9 a.in.) London, May 13. The Premier (Mr Asquith) said the Government proposed that all adult alien enemies’ males, for their own and Britain’s safety, should be safeguarded and interned. All over military age \vill be repatriated, and the women and children' in suitable eases will also be repatriated, and some might remain. An advisory board to consider exemptions would be established. 51 r Asquith added, already 19,000 were interned, while there were forty thousand who were not interned.

1 JOHANNESBURG GERMANS. 1 HEAVY DAMAGE BY RIOT AND FIRES. (Received 9.10 a.in. ) Johannesburg. .May 19. Serious anti-German riots occurred, and the premises ot' wholesale German and Austrian butchers, beer saloons, merchants, and other firms were wrecked and fired. The German Liederkrauz Club was burned. 1 Sir George Alba’s offices were raided and the furniture made a bonfire. I Gundelfinger’s premises were burned. The total loss by the' riot and fires is a quarter ot a million. COMMONWEALTH ACTION. (Received 11.5 am.) -Melbourne, May 14. In the Senate, during the discussion on the Lusitania outrage, several senators urged a campaign of retaliation, including the seizure of German property. It was stated that several Melbourne blocks were owned by German companies. One in Collins Street belonged to a company of which the Kaiser was the chief shareholder. I Mr. Pearce (Minister for Defence) stated that steps were being taken to control the meetings of natives and descendants of natives of enemy sountries. DAILY CASUALTY LIST. The High Commissioner reports from London under date 13th May, 1915 (8.30 p.m.L Army Casualties.—Officers killed 12, wounded 37 ; men killed 96, wounded 341 ; missing 4. Dardanelles.—Xaval officers, killed 2, wounded 2.

THE INVASION OF BELGIUM. Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8 a.m.) London, May 13! Lord Crewe, in the House of Lords, reiterated that those guilty of the invasion of Belgium and the accompanying atrocities must be forced to pay to the uttermost farthing, but it was premature to speak of the form of payment they should make. OFFICIAL NEWS. jHICH COMMISSIONER’S REPORT. The High Commissioner reports under date London, May 12th, 10.10 p.m.:— Army casualties.—Officers killed 27, wounded 57, missing 1. Men killed 61, wounded 203, missing 5. Dardanelles.—Naval officers killed 6, wounded 8, missing 1. Men killed 28, wounded 189.

MISCELLANEOUS. United Prebb Association. London, May 13. Mr Gerard, the American Ambassador at Berlin ( has reported to Sir Edward Grey that typhus has broken out in ten camps in Germany, where there, are British and Indian troops. The immature spirits and spirits restriction Bill prohibits spirits consumption unless they are warehoused for three years, and expect to be used for specified industrial manufactures. A meeting of business men at Nottingham decided to ask the Government to issue a compulsory notice to unmarried men of military age to report themselves at recruiting offices within ten davs.