ENEMY ALIENS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1915, Page 12 (Supplement)

ENEMY ALIENS.

IKXiII.AM) KIIUSKI) AT I,AST. Villi,KXT AXTI i.KUMAX OlTlll/UST

Ldiklc.ii. May 11. \ Tin' Ln",li*h a* a nation are very slow tn ami it Ims taken the Hermans a very linifj time to rouse them tn such a pitch of indignation thai Hi" aliens within onv frato* have cause to ",. abroad in fear an<l trembline;. They are doiii". so to-day. for the sinking of the Lusitania, cominj; upon the lop of the poison jzas atrocities, and the revelations concerning Hie cold-blooded murder of scores of British soldiers and the brutal ill-treatment of thousands of our men in the enemy's hands, lias heated the nation's wrath to boilin-- ■ over point. There is no lon»er a intolerance for (icrmans or Austrians, naturalised or otherwise. From all over the country reports are comiii", to hand of local exhibition* of exasperation against (he alien enemy in the shape of window breaking, shop-looti'.i.,' ami even incendiarism. These tilings ■ are for the most part the work of what we illicit ri-hlly call Ihe "lower order*." but not in everv case. In some in- ' -lances the ringleaders ~f the mob haw , been men and women of fair social pn-.i- - linn people who pride themselves on their eminent respectability, ami who if. a couple of months aj,'o. you hail . ventured to surest that they would , ever be jjuiliv of inciting their follows , to riot, would have cut you oil' their \i.*ilin» list, fortliwith. So serious is j ||„. outlook for the Hermans and Aus- . trians in the IHd Counter (hat many of them who have been eoiicratulaline, llioie*ohes oil having escaped intern- ' iiienl are now devoutlv hopine. Hint the ' 'in\ eminent will put them behind ' imbed wire ere e\il befall Uiem. Liverpool and Manchester have 1 u the. chief anti-( iornian storm centres, the reason no doubt Ijeinf! thai lnanv ~f the drowned members of the Liisilania's crew haileil from lliose. eitie.-. Hut we ha\c had antialien riots in . Loudon, in which slant householders Vue not hesitated to take part, and e\en in the heart of the city itself hire h'-e Peon ominous exhibitions of [ ui : "iis aiili.-tierinan I'eeliii}; amount ! liii-iness men of undoubted slandin;;. The Stock L.xchaiifie, the Koval Kx ■•liaise, the Haiti.-, the ('„,•„ Market. ■ml the Melal Market have expelled the lierinaiis. and Sinilhlield, the cen'i- of London's meat supplv. has: tak-n steps to make it impossible For tierman retailers to carrv on business. Jn Sniithfield Market ' yesterday laroe lar»e white cards inscribed "Xo' busin.'-.s transacted with Hermans" linnc outside .-)()(| of the (iUO stall*.

dF.ILMAX BITCIIKIiS BOVCOTTLD There arc still a large number .-!' lleriuan butchers in Loudon, and about 10 per cent, of the pork trade has been until now in their liands. A certain amount of Dutch pork is still reaching the market, but, owing to the i:i■reased prices, many (lerman firms who .nice dealt practically only in pork now -ell mutton and beef, the movement, lo slop trade with dermans was star! d by Mr Charley, the manager of the New Zealand Meal C pany, and (he porters at once fell iu with his ideas ind refused to move meat, for dcrnian linns. Several scenes have occurred iu the market. An American butcher who i;<id he would serve a dernian was thrown into a barrel of pigs' remains, mil Iron Crosses were presented to I he,- butchers who served dermans. -everal Herman butcher; who began I . irgue the matter when their requests 'or meal were refused were told toi|inl, Ihe market iu such fashion that they 4ood not upon the order of their going. CITY SCF.XKS. there, have, been some lively sccn-s n the city proper, many of them bring 'nought alt bv iudescret ions of qieech by aliens. Our (ierman owned ■cstauraut in Fenchurch Street had lo 'ie closed ill order to prevent its being 'cleaned out" by a mob of clerks, .vliosc anger was aroused to riot pitch by some callous reference to the Lu-b lauia tragedy made by a customer .vhosc speech betrayed' his' Teutonic nigin and sympathies. Klsewhe.v ierman tradesmen's shops wi-rr only ■ave.l fr,,„i dcstro.-1i,,,, bv the police Just outside the Cov„l exchange on Tuesday there wa- a very exciting .erne. A group of Hermans, evidently ■onueeted with or about to visit a dornan bank, made extremely olfeusive remarks in F.nglish regarding the l.usi'ania outrage. The challenge wa- im •nrdiatclv taken up bv s e city men. mil the Hermans were so roughly handled that they lied down alleys. Ithrr dermans were '•.spotted" and ■based, and one partinilarly olVensive nan. who was crv ing " dod puni-li !-higbiiid," was pursued for half a mile, ■ o hi' found siinctiiiirv on a swift-moving uotor 'bus. minus hi- hat.

ol'TKI! LONDON b'loTS. Iu the suburbs auli drriuaii feeling has I d outlet iu riot and destruction in manv areas. One ~f the most violent was iu Ouccifs Crescent, Kent i.a I'own. where a rerruit ing cling waheld about eight o'clock, and as soon as he meeting broke up I lie crowd, numbering sonic ."illlill. made for one of tinder owned shops. Stones and brickbat- were thrown, and the window- completely demolished. A force of between sixty and sevent,' policemen .-trove to maintain order. The crowd, howivcr. moved further along the street, and another shop was the object of attack, (he windows of which 'were also smashed with missies. In addition to the police, a squad of iboiit tiflv Territorials were brought on the scene' lo disperse (he crowd, and mounted police arrived later, but no lore il wa- dispersed four oilier shops. like the other.-, all occupied bv bilkeis, had the windows .-mashed. '.\! Waithanislow a large number of dernian pork butchers' shops were attacked. The windows of several of the prenii-es were shattered, ami considerable damigr was d„nr. Several dernian bakers nid pork biilcher-' shops in Stepney, i'oplae. Bow. Bethnal dreen and Itrom- '•",- were besieged. I InallV windows were broken, and. iu fact', there is -rarccly a district within the metropolitan area where the anli-dorimiM leeling has not. prodo I damage ti properly. HFIiMAX 111 XTIXH. ( 'there have been a large number of ■lit breaks of disorder in Liverpool. Manchester and Salford. led by men ind women whose indignation had mas'ered llielll. 1111,1 who sought lo H I'e 1 k avupiul bv Hermans were stormed and ii oilers the demonstration, look less violent foim Yvoikincn refused !•> 'onlli I" work alongside Hermans, laud a tarlorv empho ing a considerable

number of Hermans was furred to close on the prrempforv orders of an angry body of dockers.

Liverpool presented a scene of turmoil late on .Monday night, when crowds of men and women, many of them well dressed, systematically wrecked shops and houses in the occupation of Hermans, destroying any furniture or valuables they could find. I'rrmises were looted by hordes of men, women and children. In one instance a piano was dragged info the street and was used to accompany topical son".-, which the crowd sane; lustily. lia'cls t.onk place at points wide apart, and the efforts of the police to deal with them were unavailing, and looting continued under their very eyes. Several places were set on tire, and the lire brigade was busily engaged in extinguishing outbreaks. Thousands of pounds' worth of damage was done, and many British .property-owners were among the victims. There have been renewal- of the rioting in these centres since, and scenes similar to those in Louden have occurred in nearly every town in the Kingdom during the present week.