America

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 3, 5 January 1915, Page 5

America

MORE TALK OF PEACE. THIS TIME FROM A GERMAN SOURCE. (Received 8.40 a.m.) New York, January 4. There is a recrudescence of peace talk in financial circles, being based upon admissions in the correspondence of German financiers that the ruling powers of Germany knew it was impossible to conquer. THE DISASTER TO BELGIUM. MR ROOSEVELT AND THE HAGUE CONVENTION. (Reecived 8.40 a.m.) New York, January 4.

Mr Theodor© Roosevelt, writing in The Independent, denounces America’s cowardice in not enforcing the findings of the Hague Convention. If, he said, the Convention meant anything, it was the duty of the United States to take action when the violation had brought such appalling disaster to Belgium,

WHERE THE UNITED STATES STANDS, MR ROOSEVELT SPEAKS OUT. "A CULT OF COWARDICE.” (Received 1.0 p.m.) Washington, January 1. Mr Roosevelt’s article appearing in the Independent, is entitled ‘‘The Utopia of Hell,” and states: “While a breach of international agreement such as the invasion of Belgium is the gravest kind of wrongdoing, the Wilson Administration by its selfishness and indifference to a permanent and righteous peace, and by refusing the action necessary to clear America’s skirts from the guilt of acquiescence therein, committed a much worse crime. If he (Mr Roosevelt) knew the signing of the Hague Convention was merely a pious wish, not intended to be observed, he would never be a party to such mischief. The United States, owing to President Wilson’s action was maintaining an ignoble peace ami re- * •gardiug with indifference the frightful ravages against an unoffending country which it had sworn to preserve inviolate. Such a cult of cowardice was utterly contemptible.”

TURPENTINE, RESIN, COPPER. BRITAIN’S ATTITUDE. (Received 9.35 a.m.) London, January 4. Reuter’s Washington correspondent states that Brtain has informed America that turpentine and resin which was shipped before Britain declared them contraband will he paid for if seized that the copper shipped before metal was declared contraband has been paid for or released, and that no cargoes hound for Italy have been detained at Gibraltar since the 4th of, December. DISCUSSION ON THE NOTE. Unitrti Prvhs AhsootattOn. Washington, January 4. The Department of Commerce has notified shippers of the importance of accurate manifests, and emphasised the necessity for not mixing contraband with non.contraband. The Department draws attention to the British complaints against smuggling, a. single case of which would be enough

to embarrass America’s trade with neutrals. lima and Sydney Sr* Sbbvioh. London, January 4. The Times’ Washington correspondent says the publication of the text of the Note has given sensationalism a tenporary quietus. Everywhere the conviction is expressed that England will approach the sub. ject with a friendliness of poise, and that a compromise will be reached, CONTRABAND IN A CHRISTMAS TREE. Tf —i and Sydney Sun Shbviokb. London, January 4. An American cargo, supposed to consist of Christmas tree decorations, passing trough Copenagen, on route to Germany, was found to contain copper and brass, and was confiscated.