UNCLE SAM PREPARING FOE WAR
ALL-ROUND BREAK WITH ALLIES' ENEMIES SPAIN READY TO . FOLLOW AMERICAN SAILOR KILLED f ' ' GERMAN'S SHUFFLING FOR time " , :■■■./ • Thefe is yet no cbauge of dramatic importance in the GermanAinerican situation. An American sailor has been killed in a sub- • marine attack on a British steamer, but whether, this comes within President Wilson's definition of an "overt act" is not stated. Meanwhile war preparations are proceeding apace. There has been a Council of War, one result ef which has been the decision .to merchantmen amidships as well as bow and stern. Tlie German crews on tlio interned liners, alter doing, several millions' worth of : "inspired" 'damage to tho machinery of tho vessels, have been removed to Ellis Island, preparatory to being roturued'to Germany. Tho German high-power wireless plant at Tuckcrton has been soized by the United States Government, which will now control it. With regard to the other neutral nations: Spain'is sjiated to be prepared to follow America, even unto war, Elsewhore on tho hind fronts ; matters are fairly quiet.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2997, 7 February 1917, Page 5
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173UNCLE SAM PREPARING FOE WAR Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2997, 7 February 1917, Page 5
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