America.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 90, 17 August 1915, Page 5

America.

ECHO OF THE BOER WAR. MUNITIONS FROM GERMANY. i [United Press [Association.] (Received 9.10 a.m.) Washington, August 16. The Note to Austria stresses the fact that Germany and Austria supplied Britain with munitions during the Boer War, despite the Boer’s commercial isolation. WHOLESALE INTRIGUE.

New York, August 16

The World declares that it has' obtained correspondence proving that leading German officials and GermanAmerican financiers are implicated in the attempt against the United States laws, and that Count Bethmann-Hotl-weg participated. It is estimated that Germany spent two million dollars weekly for the propaganda. A Providence journal states that the Government possesses overwhelming evidence against the German embassy officials, and it includes a bag of documents belonging to a German secret service agent. The intrigues include passport frauds, Canadian dynamitings, munition strikes, plots against British warships, attempts to poison horses and mules, and plots to involve the United States with Mexico. REPLY TO AUSTRIA. ..... Washington. August 16. A striking sentence in Mr Lansing’s reply to the Austrian Government is that the United States deems it unnecessary to extend further, at the present time, consideration to the Austro-Hungary Government’s statement regarding the principles of international law and practice of nations. The national safety of the United States, and other nations without great military and naval establishments ; the prevention of increased armies and navies; the adoption of peaceful methods for adjustment of international differences, and, finally, neutrality itself, are opposed to prohibition by a neutral nation of the exportation of arms and ammunition and other munitions of war to belligerents during a war. The United States has always desired peace, and lias therefore

avoided the maintenance of menacing military and naval establishments. This policy might, fatally embarrass her against well-equipped and powerful invaders if she were unable to purchase arms and ammunition from neutrals, and she cannot therefore deny the *aiu(« rights to athoi’s-.