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Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 July 1916, Page 3

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(Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) AXtERICAiX ITEMS OF .NEWS. New York, July 25. The New York Times prints a despatch from Copenhagen, stating that a treaty has been negotiated lor tlio pureliase by the Unitedi States ol the Danish West Indies, for live million pounds sterling, under a treaty which shortly will be submitted to tfre Danish and United States Parliaments. The United States is to hare pos.ses.sion of the island of St. Thomas, St. John and St. Cruz. Washington, July 25. The Government will protect (? the Deutscliland) denying the British right to put her on the black list, because this amounts to a world-wide boycott, which the officials say eannot be tolerated. San Francisco, July 25. Bombing is considered to be a part of a nation-wide plot against the Government investigation of the Chicago outrage. It is expected that thero will be some sensational disclosure. TSE KAISER'S SPEECHES. Berne, July 25. The Kaiser, in a speech at the Somme said:—"lt is your especial privilege to fight the English, who are sworn to destroy Germany and build up a combination of countries, which at a given signal, will fall on us, who arc the most-peaceful people in the world The English led us to believe they were our friends ; yet they were plotting our destruction. The English offensive intonds to carry the war on to German soil, to the peril and undoing oT our h-lplefw women and children. Your duty is to break the English offensive, and prove Germany invincible.'' Conservative circles in Berlin are angry that the Kaiser's so-called inspiring speeches were withheld from publication. They intend to demand from Prince von Bethmon-Holhveg, in the Reichstag, an explanation of why the speeches were withheld.