HER LOST CHANCE
AMERICA AND THE WAR PELF OR.PATRIOTISM? « 3y Telecranli—Press Association-OopyrlsM London, January 9. An ex-Senator, writing to "Tlic Times" from Washington, says: "The neutrality delusion is fast being dispelled. On every hand' there are expressions of regret and disappointment that America has not entered the war. It is certain that another German outrage against our peace and dignity will be answered in a way to create a stir at Potsdam. The limit of endurance lias at last reached breaking point. President Wilson's challenge to the policy of blood and iron lias recalled the nation from pelf-gathering to patriotism. AVhy wait for the coming of tlie invader ■fen or twenty years hence, 'when Prussian autocracy lias recovered from the wasting consequences of war? Perhaps then England and France may not bother in regard to the fate of America. Thoy certainly will bo under no obligation if we do not participate in the piesent world contest of right against might." THE WILLIAM P. FRYE CASE ' A GERMAN PROMISE. Washington, January 9. The German Note referring to the William P. Frye case promises aboard Germany will not order persons aboard prize vessels to take to the boats unless the weather and sea conditions are favourable and the land 1 .near enough. [The William P. Frye was an American sailing ship, loaded with wheat. She was held up by the armed liner Prinz Eitel Friedrich, which adjudged the wheat cargo to be contraband, and sank the ship, first taking off the crew, which was afterwards fanded.]
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2666, 11 January 1916, Page 5
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254HER LOST CHANCE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2666, 11 January 1916, Page 5
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