America.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 63, 14 July 1915, Page 6

America.

; CRAVE CRISIS APPROACH IRC.

United Press Association. I London, July 12. The Times’ Washington correspondent says that the American press finds the German proposals intolerable. insulting, cynical, lawless, and altogether disappointing, yet there i are scant signs of opinion in favor ■ of taking the bit between their teeth, tj much less of >a rupture of diplomatic |! relations, than formerly. He sunaisVi ed that the President will not resort •I to exercise this unless Germany re- »; peats the Lusitania incident, or an : equally outrageous act. I The Times, in a . Leading article-, comments that the time is clearly coming when diplomacy will have to ■ . give way to some more positive form [I (of asserting American rights. The f|; paper says Unit a-..grave and unprece•7 dented crisis in American history is y; api roaehing.

I Washington July 13. V. The opinion in official quarters 1 • that the Amei ic.\n rep y will demand a definite statement of Germany’s attitude such as will determine whether : diplomatic relations can continue.