America.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 69, 21 July 1915, Page 5

America.

THE ORDUNA INCIDENT.

REPLY SHARP AND TO THE POINT.

United Press Association New York, July 19

The expected reply to tire German Note to-morrow will lie sharp and to

the point. The Triune says that America will not tolerate any more German evasion, and the time for parleying is past. The New, York Times says that another attack will force America to seek redress finally.

The newspapers agree thfit the attempt mi the Orduna was a gross and premeditated violation of American rights, and there is no doubt that if it had been successful America would have been faced with the most menacing and critical situation in her history.

The New York Herald. commenting on the Orduna incident, says that civilisation cannot show a case of Mich brazen effrontery and such evil duplicity, and it is evident that Germany is trifling with the United States. CONFERENCE WITH BERNSTORFF • London, July 20. Mr Lansing (successor to Mr Bryan) and Count Bernstprff, conferred at New York. Count Bernstorff proposing that America ask Britain to end the blockade if Germany ceased her submarine campaign.

Tim Times' Washington correspondent verifies the interview. Count Bernstorff requested the conference in order to interpret the German Note. The Departmenet of Commerce figures show the effectiveness of the British blockade. The value of American exports to Germany in June was £BO. compared with £2,800,000 in 1914. The American Evening Mail states that .Mr Lansing informed Count Bernstorfl" that America was unable to place itself in a position for bargaining with Britain over an entirely German-Bri-tish quarrel. "CANNOT REMAIN IMPASSIVE." NOTE TO BRITAIN ON THE PRIZE COURT. New York, July 20. President Wilson and Mr. Lansing agree that the next communication to Germany, which will be sent on Saturday, must make it clear that the United States cannot remain impassive in the event of another attack on an unarmed and unresisting ship, with loss of American lives. The Note will point out more emphatically than heretofore the earnest intention of the United States not to surrender any of her rights. «. America has also despatched a Note to Britain, intimating her intention to insist on all her rights under international law in Prize Court proceeedirigsj. The Note is officially described as a "Caveat conserving the rights of American citizens whose cases are about to be heard in British Prize Courts."