GENERALLY CONDEMNED

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2960, 26 December 1916, Page 5

GENERALLY CONDEMNED

GERMANS CALL IT A PUT-UP 1 JOB . .. LANSING REPUDIATED AMERICA'S SECRETARY OF STATE RESIGNING ■ ;; inpiw ' EL ARISH REOCCUPIED I H) is reported that Mr. Lansing, the American Seoreiary , of . Sfato » leaguing owing, to President Wilson repudiating his statement about America, being; on tie verge of war. According to a Washington report Mr. Lansing regrets the British interpretation of the Nota, and explains did.nofc mean that President Wilson believed belligerents' objects were the same, but that belligerent statesmen'say the same thing. The New York "Times" says that Germany, must now decide whether to'propose terms acceptable to the Allies er continue to fight, sub ject to tlie probability that at a not! distant future the United States will enter the war against her. , British troops hare occupied the port of El Arish, on the Mediterranean coast, 90 miles cast of the Suez Canal. In Rumania the position shows little change west of the Danube, but the Allies have now retreated to the north-western corner of'the Dobrudja. '