THE WAR

Levin Daily Chronicle, 5 April 1917, Page 3

THE WAR

- (Australia-New Zealand Cable Service) fc li 1 (Received This Day 12.15 p.m.) 3 PRESIDENT WILSON'S SPEECH. Loudon, April 4. The tone of newspaper comment is ' that President Wilson's speech though 1 in itself welcomed as offering the prospect of an earlier peace, affords even ' profounder gratification in its proof that America officially and unreserved, ly recognises the justness of the Allies' quarrell. There have been so many disappointments and perplexities on this score that President Wilson's lofty denunciation of German policies now ' has fallen with cumulative effect, j ■ 1 , (Received This Day 11.45 a.m.) The Hague, April 4. It is understood that Austria has decided to break relations with the United States. UNITED STATES FOR WAR. Washington, April 4. Mr Hitchcock, in advocating that the Senate pass the "War Resolution, said the United States were not wanting anything for themselves save to vindicate tlieir honour and independence. Messrs Swanson and Lodge advocated aggressiveness from the start. Mr S'wanson said the war had been forced on the United States; they only had the alternative of a cowardly and abject submission. They long had suspected that Germany was ready to ignore the Monroe Doctrine and 6eek territorial spoilation in the Western Hemisphere. Messrs Stone and "Vardama contended that war would be a blunder. Germany has protested through the Swiss Minister against the United States allegation regarding the treaties of 1785. 1799 and 1826. Americans were free to leave Germany at any time, (Received This Day 8.30 a.m.) Pari«. April 4. The Petit Parisien's correspondent states that the army received Alexieff's appointment as Commander-in-Chief with enthusiasm. GERMAN HOSTILITY TO KAISER. Hostility to the Kaiser was evident in a marked degree during the Bismarck birthday (celebrations in Germany. Dr.- Baumer, a member of the Diet, in a speech at Cologne, attacked Germany's diplomacy. NORWEGIAN SHIPS SUNK. Copenhagen, April 4. Norwegian ships, of 243,000 tons aggregate, with sixty-inine lives lost, have been sunk this year. INHUMAN GERMANS. Germans have been discovered endeavoring to smuggle sugar containing anthrax bacilli—also to smuggle explosive pencils —into Russia. Received This Afternoon. FRENCH ADVANCE. [London, April 4. A French communiue sayis:— We continued our advance east and west of the Somme along the entire front attacked by us yesterday. Our reconnaisances pushed forward beyond Dallon Furs, a south-west suburb of St. Quentin, and reached the southern edge of Grugies, north-east of Castres. We entirely captured the village of Moy-on-Oise. , A balance-sheet of the Belgian Relief Concert is crowded out to-day. , (