BRITAIN WILL AVENGE

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9042, 13 May 1915, Page 5

BRITAIN WILL AVENGE

THE ONLY WAY TO RESTORE PEACE. "Times” and Sydney "Sun" Services. LONDON, May 11. “ Tlie Times,” in a leader, says: “ The full horror of the Lusitania crime has now been revealed, and has stirred the people more deeply than any of the other murderous acts of the Germans. Never since the world began has it before seen the spectacle of a whole race of many millions scientifically organised for wholesale murder, lust, and devastation. American intervention in the war would not * materially affect the situation, but we can legitimately ask whether a nation whose citizens have been wantonly destroyed can continue friendly official relations with a Power sunk in moral degradation. The latest massacre has stiffened a thousandfold the resolute determination of Britain to avenge these crimes. The only way to restore the peace of the world is to carry the war throughout the length and breadth of Germany. Unless Berlin is entered blood will have been shed vainly. However long the strife, such is the only permissible end.” WILLIAM MURDERER “LEND A HAND TO BRING HIM TO JUSTICE.” By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, May 11. The sinking of the Lusitania and the air raid on Southend have stimulated recruiting jn London. There has been a brisk response to tho Navy poster with the words: “William the Murderer. Lend a hand to bring him to justice.” AUGKLANDJ’ASSENGERS Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 12. Jack Macky, son of Mr J. C. Macky, cables that he is safe m London. He arrived a week in advance of the Lusitania, on which his father and mother were passengers, ALIEN ENEMIES IN BRITAIN AGITATION FOR THEIR INTERNMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, May 11. There is a growing agitation in favour of the internment of alien enemies, whether naturalised or not. The police are interning all non-na-turalised Germans in Liverpool, and have warned certain naturalised Germans to leave the district. The committee of the London Stock Exchange on Saturday last advised German members not to attend.

CABINET CONSIDERATION • CUNARD SAILINGS CANCELLED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received May 12, 8.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 12. In the House of .Commons, Air Hi J. Tennant, Under-Secretary for War, promised that the Cabinet would reconsider the alien problem and report to the House on Thursday. A crowd attacked a number of German pork-butchers at, Walthamstow and did considerable damage. The Ounard Company has cancelled Saturday’s sailings for New York, and the sailing of the Mauretania on May 29th. ANTI-GERMAN RIOTS SHOPS WRECKED AND LOOTED IN ENGLAND. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, May 11. A large crowd of city men attacked German shops in Cullum street, but policemen drove them off. There ■ wore outbreaks elsewhere in London. The directors of the Royal Exchange, London and Manchester, have requested Gormans and Austrians not to attend. The salesmen in Smithfield markets boycotted German buyers. An American butcher, who expressed his intention of serving a German, was placed head first in a barrel of pigs’ plucks. A mob led by a girl, whose fiance was a Lusitania vicitim, wrecked and looted a German butcher’s shop in Liverpool. The furniture was smashed or carried off. The rioters then wrecked every German shop from Seaforth in the north to Garston in the south of the city. They also raided the commercial centre of the city. ' There were several anti-German outbreaks in Manchester and Salford. Several shops were stormed, and ccnsideratTlo damage done. PRIMITIVE_SAVAGERY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, May 12. Viscount Bryce, speaking in London, stated:—“The issues raised by the conduct of the German army and navy give a new importance to the war and to international law. The latter is the only thing which has stood between us and primitive savagery. We are in danger of being brought back to that stage. The Germans’ only reason could bo to terrify their opponents. So far from terrifying Britain, every fresh violation has made more clear our duty to persevere in the war in order to vindicate our treaties, restore international law, and obtain satisfaction for outrages and crimes on humanity.” RESOLUTION IN FEDERAL HOUSE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigh t (Received May 12, 10 p.m.) MELBOURNE, May 12. In the House of Representatives, the members, standing and in silence, adopted a resolution of sympathy with the relatives of those who, by the sinking of the Lusitania, were wantonly murdered in the name of war. The Prime Minister, Mr .A. Fisher, in moving the resolution, said that the only way to prevent such dreadful violations of the laws of war would he a court which would make the perpetrators suffer for their crimes. Mr Fisher read, amidst enthusiasm. Sir lan Hamilton’s appreciation of the Australians and New Zealanders in the Dardanelles, similar to that sent to the Dominion.