America

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 54, 9 February 1916, Page 3

America

VON PAPER’S LETTERS. London, February 8. A Wliite Paper lias been issued containing ;i selection oi' papers found on von Papon, also a facsimile of many cheques. A letter from the Disconton Gcsollschalt, Potsdam, to von Bapen, dated ■ Inly 2b, Dll, .stated: “Austria will probably declare Nvar.” There was a postscript adding: “We have never before seen such preparations for war as there are at present.” A letter from Berlin, dated .September 29, 191 I, and signed “Filipino,” requests von Pa pen to arrange for wide publicity for certain newspapers’ articles. The correspondent stated; “At first things went oil’ at a giant’s pace. The Austrians are lighting well, but their leadership is bad. They had to retreat to the Carpathians. The reaction consequent on the Balkans’ and Italy’s attitude is correspondingly bad, but our troops will pull the matter through all right. The war will probably drag over the winter.”

Several letters show that K. H. Fox was understood to he the general manager of Wild man’s Magazine and News Agency, and lie played an important part in the American press campaign from Herlin. Fox, writing to von Papen, expressed the conviction that the misunderstandings between the two countries were due to the poor advice and the warped viewpoint of the American Embassy. Price H. Sazelield. of Washington, in an ululated letter, told von Papen that his (Sazeiield’s) wile had written to say that Bulgaria would certainly join us after the harvest at the end of August, and that Uonmania would remain inactive. Count Dumba. writing to von Papen, on September I, PJlo, displays some anxiety about the Dardanelles holding out. He added: “Everything has ended happily at Washington. Ihe people already think they hear the hells of peace, but we haven’t got that length yet.”

THE LUSJTANf A CASE. PRACTICALLY SETTLED. London, February H. ’ Renter’s Mew York correspondent says that here choice words will not he permitted to interfere with the Lusitania negotiations. America will not insist on the use of the word illegal or disavowal, and it is believed the case is practically settled. AN Am 3 ASS A DOR'S VIEWS. Copenhagen, February 8. Mr Morgenthan, the American Ambassador at Constantinople, is proceeding to Washington on an important mission. He satd ho did not believe there was a possibility ul a Ger-man-American conflict. AERODROME FiRED. LOSS OF SEVERAL AEROPLANES. (Received 8.5 a.in.) .New York. February 8. A message received via Geneva states that the doannistlial Aerodrome was burned, and new aeroplanes, variously stated to number six to nine, were destroyed. The lire >s supposedly the work of a spy.