ANTI-GERMAN RIOTS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1915, Page 7

ANTI-GERMAN RIOTS

GREAT DAMAGE IN MOSCOW. LONDON, 22nd June. PetTograd reports that the anti-Ger-man riots in Moscow resulted in four million pounds' worth of damage. Nearly five hundred stores 'and factories, and two hundred private buildings, were wrecked. The rioters recklessly pillaged houses, which were then destroyed by fire. LThe following message appeared in the Sydney Sun, dated Vancouver, 15th June : " A Petrograd message states that a courier from Moscow reports that for two daya last week there , were serious anti-German demonstrations there. The ■outbreak followed upon illness in a factory, which the workers believed was the result of drinking water that 'had been poisoned by German sympathisers. The refusal of the employers to dismiss German workmen was followed by a meeting in the city square. The assemblage was swelled by hoodlums, and German shops were selected in the beginning. Later the mob's operations extended to almost every shop other than those bearing a Russian name. The fury increased during the night, -when the effects 1 of the spirits taken from the liquor stores were keenest. Fires were burning in various parts. On the second night the demonstrations subsided by the exhaustion of the rioters. On the following morning there was an attempt to renew the disorders, but troops arrived and intimidated the crowd by firing over theii- heads."]