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PRO-GERMAN SENATOR IN CONCRtSS. (Received 9.45 a.m.) Washington, December 10. Senator Hoke-Smith, in Congress, demanded that Britain should case to interfere with American shipping. He alluded to Britain’s increased lawlessness in trampling, on neutral rights, pointing out that the United States was not a dependency of Britain’s. He said: “Germany is quite as good a friend to the United States as Britain.” t WORK OF PRO-GERMANS, 25,000 PEOPLE HOMELESS. (Received 9.45 a.m.) New York, December 10. The destruction at Hopewell, \ irginia, rendered twenty-five thousand homeless. Infuriated people lynched a negro who was caught looting. Martial law was declared and suspected persons with German sympathies were arrested. [ The Allies’ munition shipments will suffer heavily.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 7, 11 December 1915, Page 5
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114America Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 7, 11 December 1915, Page 5
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