Wednesday, August 5

The feeling both among the educated and un-educated against Germany is growing stronger. People are indignant at her hypocrisy, her mean dealings, and her lies. She accuses every Power of being her aggressor ...

The well-to-do people in London have, in quantities, lost their heads. They are buying enormous stores of food, as if for siege provisions, despite the requests for days in the Press that they would not selfishly put up the prices. One woman rang up Barker's Stores, Kennington, at 4 a.m. on Saturday and ordered from the night-watchman £65 worth of provisions, groceries, coal, etc. Taxis today are laden with provisions people are taking home. Some of the big stores have run out of fish. Smaller shops refuse to quote prices for meat and will not undertake to deliver goods at regular customer's houses on account. They are selling provisions over the counter at fancy prices. Bacon is scarce and sugar, groceries and butter have risen in price. Our grocer would not undertake to deliver our ordinary small orders, but finally did so... Among the very poor there is indignation at rich people laying in siege stores, and they say burglars and people who may starve later are marking the houses where it is done in order to raid them later on. We are neither withdrawing money to hoard, or ordering any food more than our customary daily needs for a household of eight women.

Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener has been appointed Secretary of State for War, Asquith resigning that appointment to him. Universal satisfaction felt...

Russian mob destroyed contents of German Embassy in St. Petersburg after Poutales, the Ambassador, and staff had left, and damaged the building. German insulted Russian Ambassador, staff and their wives when they were leaving Berlin: stones, etc. thrown at them.

Lechnowsky, German Ambassador in London, leaves early tomorrow. No scenes here.