LATE WAR NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12541, 12 May 1915, Page 6

LATE WAR NEWS.

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RIOTS IN ENGLAND

Received May 12, at 2.10 p.m. , London. May 11

A large crowd of city men attached the German shops m Oiillum .street, but policemen drove them oif. There were outbreaks also elsewhere, in London.

The directors of the Royal Exchange at London a'nd Manchester requested Germans and Austrian* not to attend. The salesmen at Smithlield boycotted Germans and an American butcher who expressed his intention of serving a German was placed head first in a barrel.

A mob. led by,a girl who was the fiancee of a Lu.s'it'ania victim., wrecked and looted a German butcher's shop at Liverpool. The furniture ov the shop was smashed or carried oft', and the "rioters then wrecked every German shop from Seaforth in the north to Gai:ston in the south of the city. They also raided the commercial centre of the eitv.

There have several anti-German outbreaks in Manchester and Sal ford, where several shops have been stormed and considerable damage done.

M.P. WOFNDE.I). London, May 11. Air Wedgwood, ALP., has been wounded at the Dardanelles. SHOOTING BRITISH PRISONERS. London, May 11.

Replying to a question. Lord Crewe said that the communication respecting Prince Ruprecht, of Bavaria, ordering the murder of British prisoners came from official sources. While the Government had no confirmation of the German soldiers' statements, they had no reason to doubt their authenticity. He replied that excesses would have to bo paid for to the uttermost farthing.

THE LOSSES AT SEA. London, May 11

Air NacNamara, in the House of Commons, said 201 merchantmen, yachts, trawlers, and drifters hud been sunk and 1556 passengers and crew drowned .since the beginning of the war. .

USE OF GAS. London, May ill. Air King, in the House of Commons, asked whether, before sanctioning the use of gas by the military, the House would be given an opportunity to discuss the matter.

Air Asquith said he regretted that he could not promise a day for such a diseussiou.

BELGIAN RELIEF. Sydeny, May 12.

Six :£uoo cheques were received by Mr Hugh J. Ward yesterday in aid of the Belgian Fund, making a total of 30. . GERMAN METHODS. Received' May 12;. at'3.2o p.m., London. May 11. Viscount Bryce, speaking at London, said that- the issues raised by the conduct of the German Army and the Nary would give new importance to the -war and international law. The latter was- the only thing which stood between us and primitive savagery. We Here in danger of being brought back to that stage by the Germans, whose only reason for excesses could be to terrify their opponents. So lar from terrifying Britain, every fresh viola'.io'i had made it more clearly our duty to persevere in the war, to viiidi;.-:it? treaties, restore international law. ;uid obtain satisfaction for outrage-; and ciiines on humanity.

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