GERMANY AND UNITED STATES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2489, 16 June 1915, Page 7

GERMANY AND UNITED STATES

CONCESSIONS TO AMERICA PREDICTED " PREACHING POLTROONERY" London, June 14. Tho "Times" in a leader forecasts that Germany will begin making sufficient concessions to tho United States to prevent abrupt convocations, and ' finally oxtend tlioiu enough to preserve friendly relations. —("Tiiaes" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) "PEAGE-AT-ANY-PRICE-MEN." MR. ROOSEVELT SPEAKS OUT. New York, June 14. Mr, Roosevelt, in a letter to the National Security League Conference, says; "The professional peace-at-any-price men, who_ applauded the abject failure of the United States to live up to the obligations of the Hague Convention, are tho most undesirable citizens the country contains. Advocates of pacificism are preaching poltroonery. Such men are endeavouring to make America the "China of the Occident." THE SUBMARINE PIRATE WAR FRENCH SCHOONER SUNK London, June 14. A submarine sank the French schooner Diamant off Pentieen. The crew were saved. The captain states that the submarine appeared from behind a steamer, which watched the operation. The submarine afterwards returned to the shelter of the steamer. STEAMER'S CREW SHELLED. CAPTAIN AND THREE MEN WOUNDED. London, June 14. A submarine sank the steamer Hopemount of Newcastle. The captain and three of the crow were wounded by shell fire, and the rest landed at Barry. NARROW ESCAPE OF AMUNDSEN. ON BOARD A STEAMER ATTACKED BY A PIRATE. Copenhagen, June 14, Captain Roald Amundsen, the explorer, with many women and children, was aboard the Norwegian steamer Iris, bound from Newcastle to Bergen, when a submarine fired two torpedoes without warning. The vessel escaped. PIRATE COMMANDER DECORATED Amsterdam, June 14. Commander Horsing, of U2l, has been awarded the Ordor of Merit. FULL COMPENSATION TO SWEDEN. (Rcc. June 15, 11.40 p.m.) Stookholm, June 15. Tho Prize Court at Berlin, over-ruling the Kiel Court, has doeided to pay full compensation for tho seizure of tho Swedish steamer Ellida, sunk whilo hound, for Hull. Tho judgment is likely to form a precedent on which many neutrals' claims will bo based. the loss OF the princess IRENE. ACCIDENTAL EXPLOSION. London, Juno M. The verdict at the inquest on the Princess Trone victims was that death was due to an explosion, tho cause of which is not explained. The oxplosion is believed to have been accidental.