LUSITANIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9043, 14 May 1915, Page 5

LUSITANIA

WILD SCENES IN ENGLAND GERMANS SEVERELY TREATED. By Association— •Copyng’ht LONDON, May 12. As a result of the Lusitania outrage, many shops wore wrecked and. looted in the Fast End, where the crowd, became incensed at a German shouting: “To hell.with England!” . . Germans were’ severely treated, their clothes being torn off. A. : number were injured by stones and other missiles. ■' - ■ ■■■■■ '

There were several arrests.. Germans in the East End are or. ganising for’ self-defence. - The disorders at Poplar spread alarmingly. There was a disgraceful orgie of shop-smashing. The occupants- were kicked Cut and ■ struck and beaten, . The crowd overwhelmed the police. Women and children carried off- loaVes and flour. . A German woman, , endeavouring to get her children to safety, was struck down. A neighbouring tradesman evenr tually sheltered the children; • . ; / Tlie mob at Kentish Town smashed the bakers’ carts. A punjber of police vverq-injured, and there were many arrests. ■ ■ ■ - , Six shops were wrecked at Camg.cn Tojvn. ■ A ©free of territorials restored order. Several rioters were arrested- j ANTI-GERMAN DEMONSTRATIONS SPREADING THROUGHOUT ENG-; ■ ■ , - LAND;- “ ; By Telegraph—Press Association-—Copyright LONDON; May 12. There have been wild anti-German demonstrations at Aldgate, Limehonse, Stepney, Bethnal Green, and Poplar, where shops were wrecked; i ■ Gormans were mobbed on reappearing at Smithfield Market. There were also disturbances .at Leeds, Sheffield,-Bradford, Birkenhead; and Cardiff, and in many ether towns.,