Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Spies suspected to have started fire, City Under Martial Law

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3Abfvc7ZCCdcGlCQlhXaXYwWjg

"City Is Under Martial Law; Many Nabbed Federal Agents Quiz Fifteen Persons; Two Are Directly." Plain Dealer 2 Jan. 1918, |: 1. NewsBank. Web. 18 May 2016.

This article details how a large fire broke out in Cleveland, and many suspected that slavic spies had started it, and as a result riots broke out in the city. Due to the riots, the city was under martial law for a period of time while suspects were being interrogated. This led to anti-German and anti-Slavic attitudes.

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