ANTI-GERMAN RIOT IN GISBORNE

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 103, 4 January 1915, Page 6

ANTI-GERMAN RIOT IN GISBORNE

-, FORK BUTCHERY WRECKED. *- . A t ....... A REGRETTABLE AFFAIR. GISBORNE, Jan. 1. About 0 p£u. mi Now Year’s Eva j» ir i...uyr of young nion made a dernrn* strrti»n outside the shop of F. Aohusicdlcr. a naturalised German who cotdo. ts a pork butchery. Well-aime! hto.ics smashed a big plate-glass wiadow. The crowd gradually increased in numbers and the stones became more frequent, until all the local police "-etc called o*t to keep the mob in order, Wcihnsiedler closed his premises and extinguished the lights. By mid aig.it there were 2000 people surging rut.. the,shop singing patriotic songs, and the police had an unenviable time, there being several ugly rushes. Stones and bottles were now being thrown in vol]evs at regular intervals, and as each pane of glasis went the crowd cheered lustily and by one o’clock in the morning the premises were completely wrecked. Every pane of glass in the building was smashed to splinters, while the interior of the premises were also badly knocked about. •‘ COUNT NOT THE LOSS.” The magnificent spirit animating our officers was illustrated in a letter written to a friend by the late Captain Norman Leslie. The following extract was read by the Primate of Ireland during a brief address he delivered at-a-me-morial service for the deceased officer held at Glasslough, Co. Monaghan. 11 Try and worry not tco much about the war units. Individuals cannot couth Remember we are writing a new page of history. Future generations cannot be allowed to read of the decline of the British Empire and attribute it to us. We live our little lives and die, and to some are given the choice of proving themselves men, and to others no chance comes. Whatever cur individual faults, virtues or qualities may be it matters not, but when we are up against big things let us forget individuals and let- us aat as one great British unit, united and fearless. Some will live and many will die, but count not the loss. If is better far to go out with honour than survive with shame.