AMERICA'S WAR ELECTION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2908, 21 October 1916, Page 10

AMERICA'S WAR ELECTION

REMARKABLE CHANGE IN PUBLIC

OPINION

HUGHES LOSING GROUND Auetralian-New Zealand Cable Aroociation. Now York, October 19. Even money' is now offered regarding the election, as against the early odds of two to one against President "Wilson. This almost unprecedented change in public sentiment is attributed chiefly to Mr. Hughes's reluctance to discuss the German-American issues. TRANS-ATLANTIC SUBMARINES LOSS OF THE BREMEN OFFICIALLY ADMITTED. Außtralian-Neir Zealand Cable Association. Washington, October ID. The Gorman Embassy admits that the submarine Bremen has been lost. ' The Bremen is now a* month overdue. CUNARD LINER MINED AND SUNK PASSENGERS LANDED SAFELY. New Yorfo, October 19. The Cunard line "announce that the liner Alaunia (13,405 tons), from New York to Falmouth with 200 passengers, struck a. mine in.the English Channel after landing her passengers at Falmouth, and sank. Tho captain and the majority of the crew were saved. PIRATES ACTIVE IN THE NORTH SEA ATTACKS ON NORWEGIANSHIPPING. " London, October 19. The Copenhagen correspondent of the "Times" states that German submarines are active in tho North Sea. Fiv.e of the largest size, at tho entrance to the Skagerack, torpedoed the Norwegian steamer Sten and the Swedish barque Gretha. fißeuter's Teleirram.) . ' London, October 19. The Norwegian steamer Rosenvold, 758 tons, has been sunk. The crew wa6 landed.