America

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 11, 13 May 1915, Page 5

America

THE WORLD'S TRADE. TEN YEARS' START FOR AMERICA. (Received 9.15 a.m.) New York, May 11. I The bankers of Wall Street opine that (iVrmany is trying to force America to have ten years' start in the race for the world's trade, European nations being too exhausted to compete. THE STARS AND STRIPES. A LITTLE NAVY AND NO ARMY. (Received 9.15 a.m.) New York, May 12 German officers recently expressed the belief that the American Navy would make little difference and that America cannot equip an army. AN AMERICAN ON AMERICA. ROOSEVELT'S POWERFUL INDICTMENT. "MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS." United Peesb Association. (Received 1-35 p.m.) New York, May 12. Mr Roosevelt, in an article in a magazine entitled "Murder on the High Seas," says: "America is heing neutral as Pontius Pilate was neutral. President Wilson's absurd exaltation of peace over righteousness has brought the United States into contempt before the whole civilised world. The Germans are worse than barbarian pirates, and they ought to be suppressed as pirates by all nations. Their efforts at hideous wrong-doing in Belgium without an American protest exposed the United States to the deepest scorn and contempt." SPEECH BY THE PRESIDENT.

United Press Association. New York, .May 12. President Wilson, addressing 4000 naturalised Americans at Philadelphia, referred to the Lusitania. He said America must set an example by peace. The reason .she would not fight was because peace exerted a healing influence on the whole world. There was such a thing as a man being too proud to fight, and such a thing as being in the right and there being no need to convince others by farce. The President pleaded for welding the foreign blood that makes up the American nation, pointing out that the true goal of citizenship was loyalty to the country adopted. President Wilson's statement at Philadelphia has aroused a tumult of enthusiasm. Thousands of small American flags were waved. President Wilson afterwards stated that the Lusitania was not in his mind. He had not yet come to a decision, as he was still awaiting the facts. Washington, May 12. Cabinet is likely to intimate to Heir Dornburg that lie had better return to Germany, as his presence in the Uiuted States is distasteful to the Government, owing to his political activities and his attempts to justify the sinking of the Lusitania. It is understood that President Wilson will demand that Germany should observe ill future the recognised rules of warfare," and give a guarantee against a repetition of the Falaba and Lusitania outrages

MISCELLANEOUS. London, May 12. The Daily Chronicle's New York correspondent states that the general impression is that President Wilson .is determined to maintain neutrality, hoping to wear down the national indignation and demand revenge by a diplomatic delay until something else absorbs the attention. There is deep resentment at the children in German schools being given a half-holiday because of the Lusitania disaster. American opinion, which hitherto hesitated to believe the atrocities in Belgium and Prance, is now convinced oi their truth.