EFFECTS OF THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA
OUTBURSTS AGAINST GERMANS SHOPS WRECKED IN VARIOUS PARTS OF ENGLAND. (Pbks> Association. —Copibiqhi.; (Roc. Mav 12, 2.10 p.m.) "LONDON, May 11. A large crowd of city men attacked Germans shops in Cullum-street. Policemen di'ove off the shopbreakers elsewhere in London. The directors of the Royal Exchange in London and Manchester requested Germans and Austrians not to attend. ; - Salesmen at Smithfiedd boycotted Ger-' mans. " An American butcher ' who expressed - his intention of serving a German was placed head, first in a barrel ofpigs' plucks. A -mob/ led by a girl whose fiancee, was a Lusitania victim, wrecked and looted a German butcher's shop in; Liverpool. The furniturd was smashed) •or carried off;- ; . . ; , Rioters then wrecked every German' 1 shop from Seaforth in the north to Garston in the south, of the city. They; also raided the commercial centre of: the city. Several anti-German outbreaks oc-; cuired in (Manchester and 'Salford, where several shops were stormed, and considerable damage done.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 12 May 1915, Page 2
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