America

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 12, 17 April 1916, Page 3

America

ATROCSTIES. AMERICAN NOTE TO GERMANY. . . .« £U nlxuk -Pbjs»« i Association.) Washington, April 14. President Wilson and the State Departmeut have agreed to dispatch the evidence of submarine at; ocitJes to Berlin ! with what is described as -a final request for satisfaction, ■Wd"'. "THE 'LAST WORO!” . London, April 15. The Daily Chronicle's Mew York'correspondent says that Cabinet has approved of I s 'resident Wilson’s submarine policy Note that is to be sent to Germany, reiterating the demands lor humane and legal conduct of submarine warfare, and intimating that a further offensive against American lives will be followed by the severance of diplomatic relations. The correspondent adds: "This is America’s last word." - r : X'i ■ — d !i-/ r A HUGE CONSPIRACY. • lyi" : “HfUD-ii; A London, April 15. The arrest of the plotters in America who were concerned in the manufacture of bombs to blow .up* munition ships was due to the arrest in Loudon of a man giving the name ot Bridgeman Taj ior, .who arrived in England early in the war. The seizure of yon Papon’s papers proved that Taylor was in German employ. Taylor came to England tc offer aim self for work under the British Government . His real name is You Jen Goitz, and it is understood that ic claims relationship with the German .field-marshal of that name. Taylor us believed to have • been...concerSfed

'in the .conspiracy to destroy munition works and bridges in the' United iStates and Canada, and that he also helped to foment the troubles in llexico,;while he was one of the chief Gei'-* man terrorists in America. When confronted with tin? evidence that was )( ih the hands of the British authorities' Von der Goltz sought to make terms by giving a full history of. the conspiracies. v. After consultation! with the United States authorities Britain decided to return him to the!'-United • States", to ' give evidence against his fellow plotters there. Yon der Gojtss's arrival at New York- was promptly followed by the.arrbst of seven other plotters-. THE PRESIDENT'S NOTE. 65 INSTANCES OF TORPEDOING. (Received 8,50 a.m.) Washington, April 1-0. President Wilson, in a Note to'-Ger-many, cites sixty-five instances of torpedoing in violation of American rights. * )