America

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 100, 3 April 1916, Page 8

America

"GLOOMY FOREBODINGS." i THE SITUATION AGGRAVATED. PRESIDENT'S FtNAL. INDICTMENT [OKEXKU Pm** \M«ooiii.xt(Vfs ' London, April 1. The Times' correspondent at Washington states that the situation has been aggravated by the torped;>.'ng of the Eagle Point, with, it is bek-vid, an American aboard. It is stated that President Wilson had decided on sending a Note, framing a final indictment, to Germany, leaving her no course save to renounce utterly her ev 1 ways or to forfeit American friendship. But it is asked: What is the use of more words? Washington is full of gloomy forebodings, and it is feared that rlio Von Tirpitz extremists are in control. I Count Bernstorff persists in declaring I that the Sussex was mixed,but the evidence received by the Government although not.yet announced, is conclusive and seems to point to the vessel having been torpedoed. It is noted that the Manchester Engineer, Eng- \ lishman. Taubantia, Silius, and Eagle Point were unarmed, and the Germans are thus robbed of another opportunity for quibbling. Each of these outrages makes it more difficult for President AVilson to translate into terms of diplomacy his countrymen's feeling in the East, which is now fairly aroused and will soon be echoed in the West. Germany will perhaps he able to avoid a rupture, but if she attempts to surround Britain with a murder zone it is difficult to see how she can avoid forfeiting her friendship with Washington. It is significant that whereas the Sussex dispatches, edited by the Government, are sedatively consular dispatches, those about the Eagle Point were handed to the press apparently intact. The Times says that the Washington telegram as above, is most ominous, for Germany shows that the effect of her crimes is cumulative. Probably she thinks she can continue deluding the "Idiotic Yankees" so long as suits her, but she may have a sudden and i 1...„:.,,