AMERICA AT WAR.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16151, 4 March 1918, Page 8

AMERICA AT WAR.

tl CONTROL OF RAILWAYS. w of (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) k< (Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association.) ot "WASHINGTON. March 1. " The Railroad Bill, which has been !V passed hy the House, empowers 'the Government to control tho railways till ~ two vears after the war. ni LUSITANIA NOT FORGOTTEN. OTTAWA. March 1. Returned soldiers at Toronto shouted tl down Mr "William Jennings Tjry.in (for- eI merly United States Sfcretary of State) ; a when he essayed to address a prohibition q meeting. . . oi He was interrupted hy cries of ,: Lusi- j 0 tania!" and "J>irtr German 1" jl The singing of "Rule, Britannia'' "was g, continuous. c; The Lusitania was sunk ou May 7th, cc 1915. Following this and other outrages b: against American merchantmen, the w United States Government, on May zc

14th. published a Note to Germany, in which it was stated: "Manifestly submarines cannot be used against merchantmen, as the List few weeks have shown, without an inevitable violation of many sacred ( principles of justice and humanity." The Note called upon Germany to disavow v.ich acts, make reparation, and prevent a recurrnifc. The German Government treated this Note with scant respect, and did not answer it unt.l May 31st. The reply alleged that the Lusitania carried troops and ammunition. To this Note the United States replied on June 10th w;th a Note which led to the resignation of Mr \\ illiam Jennings Brvan, then Secretary of State, because he considered the document too warlike, though it was in actual fact les* vigorous than the Note of May 14th.