America.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 53, 19 October 1914, Page 3

America.

New York, "October 16,

Mr Gardner, a member of the House of Representatives, who lias just returned from the war zone, has moved the appointment of a Commission to investigate American readiness for war. He denounced Germany’s cause as an unholy menace to the democracy. The Press generally is of opinion that the Kaiser’s policy contemplates the absorption of Holland. % The New York American publishes an affidavit of the engineers aboard the Red Cross ship, formerly a HamburgAmerican steamship, which was chartered to bring refugees from the Continent. The affidavit states that prior to sailing the former German crew deliberately rendered the ship unseaworthy, and also liable to lie destroyed by fire, by destroying the pumps, stuffing blankets, into the bilge-pjpes, and similar methods.

The Navy Department has ordered the Marconi station at Honolulu to be closed for announcing the arrival of the German gunboat Geiri, on the ground of violation of neutrality.

INDIGNATION IN AMERICA WITH GERMANY. (Received 8.50 a.m 1 New York, October 18

Sir Valentine ,Chirol’s exposure in the Quarterly Review of the German efforts in 1901 to entrap Britain into an alliance, committing the British to support an attack on *he Monroe Doctrine, has aroused the fiercest indignation in America. - A New Yoik evening journal urges the necessity of a powerful American navy, aircraft, and army, with more adequate coast defence.