BERNSTORFF IN BAD ODOUR

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2701, 22 February 1916, Page 5

BERNSTORFF IN BAD ODOUR

SERIOUS CLASH WITH MR. LANSING REPORTED AMBASSADOR MAY EtE SENT • HOME By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Washington, Fsbruary 20. It is reported that there has been a serious clash between Count Bernstorff (the German Ambassador) and Mr. Lansing (U.S. Secretary of State), as a rc- , suit of the German Embassy circulating 1 a statement that America's policy ro- ' garding tho Lusitania- had changed, and 1 that Mr. Lansing intended! to resign. ' A high official declares that unless the 1 unfair propaganda ceases a certain Am- ' bassador will be sent home. : i MEND HIS WAYS, OR DEPART. j (Rec.' February 21, 9.50 p.m.) j London, February 31. The "Daily Telegraph's" Washington 1 correspondent states that Count Bern- ] storlf's pernicious influence has com- : menoed to decline. It is believed, ho ■ 6ays, that Count Bernstorff prompted 1 Germany to warn America that armed merchantmen would be treated as warships, thinking that he had caught America off her guard', and hoping to precipitate a violent controversy with the Entente Powers. Instead, President Wilson seems for the first time to be inclined to force the submarine issue to a finish, despite the possibility of breaking off friendly relations. Further submarining is clmost certain, and the result will bo that Count Bernstorff will be following M. Dumba (the Austrian Ambassador, who was recently sent home on account of his complicity in the plots for stirring up trouole in the munition factories). Ho has already been warned that he must either mend his ways or depart. THE MYSTERIOUS "MOEWE." AN ERSTWHILE BANANA TRADER. London, February 20. It is stated in Liverpool that the Germans built the Ponga and sister ships for the banana trade in the Cameroons; that the Ponga was renamed the Moowe, and that eli9 captured the Appam. LEGAL FIGHT FOR THE APPAM. Washington; February 20. The Appam's owners have_ brought proceedings to regain possession of tho vessel under Tho Hague Convention. ARMENIAN ATROCITIES UNOFFICIAL PROTEST FROM AMERICA By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Washington, February .20. Mr. Lansing (United States Secretary of State) has cabled! to Constantinople, protesting against the Armenian atroci-' ties, and expressing a hope that the , perpetrators will bo punished. In tho [ event of n repetition of the atrocities . he has threatened drastic action, Mr. Lansing explains that the American against the atrocities is unofficial. America cannot officially notice the treatment by foreign Powers of their own subjects. SHIPPING COMPANIES' WAR PROFITS A 30 PER CENT DIVIDEND* FOR CLAN LINE. ' By Telesraph—Press Association—Oopyrteht j London, February 20. i The Clan Steamship Lino Ims declared : a dividend and bonus equivalent to-30 3 per cent., compared with 10 per cent, in 1* 1918. - i The More Line has declared a divij flend of 25 per cent., compared with 12£ in 1915. The profits (£374,248) exceeded the paid-up capital. The "Statist" estimates that the net gains of shipowners last year were 575 _. per cent, higher than in 1913, and that [ after paying half the surplus to the . Treasury. I GLOOMY SECLUSION OF N.D.L. 5 FLAG. Amsterdam, 20. tti the interests of German shipping 5 land of public order, the NorddeutscherLloyd Company has obtained permission [ not to hold its meeting and not to publish a balance-sheet. ' THE MURDER OF NURSE CAVELL - • FATE OF HER BETRAYER, B (By Telesranh—Press Assn.—Copyright.) t ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) 5 London, February 20. The newspaper "Cologne Volkszeitung" says that a 6ecret'society proved that a journalist named Keels was guilty i of betraying Nurse Carell. 'A waiter 5 named Louis Brill, with a youth, aged •nineteen, named Maurice Leclerc, followed Keels for three hours in Brussels, and picked a quarrel with him in a side street. Brill used! a revolver twice on Keels, killing'him instantaneously. - Brill then visited a Belgian ex-officer 1 named Betrancourt and 1 described the > assassination. 5 Tho Germans alleged that Betrancourt - is a smuggler and the head of the Bel--3 gian Society, but they were unable to " incriminate him. Brill was court--2 martialled and shot on the lltli. Leclcrc > was sent to gaol for ten years and > Leclerc's father for five years.