America.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 17, 25 April 1916, Page 5

America.

PRECAUTIONS TO SAFEGUARD

AMERICANS.

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April 24

Air Gerard has been Warned to safe vuard Americans in Germany and al ied countries in the event of war.

GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION.

London, April 24

In an intercepted wireless message in the New York World, Herr Wie3;rand states that gravity pervades the vtfnosphere of the Foreign Office in Berlin. Strong influence is working for a .peaceful solution. Some officials do not see a hope, while others are quite hopeful.

ALLEGED CONCESSIONS BY GERMANY.

AMICABLE SETTLEMENT HOPEiI V , -FOR.

(Received 8.45 a.m.) Washington, April 24

It is understood that Germany is willing to make concessions to the United States. v ’'Officials of the State Department? are hopeful that these <’oncossions will lead to an amicable settlement.

CONSPIRACY DISCLOSURES.

| SERNSTORFF IN THE SWIM. / —— , TA’RftED WltH THe SAME BRUSH. - > •/' /•It > V :*d; sUs; c*. I ,j;„. ; (■Received 8.45 a.Tn.) ■VV ?iHV ?' J J *Lsmlsi, Il p rtf , 24. » The Daily Telegraph’s New! York cor-! stages .that Vonigels documents include a code'book, which has enabled *6he police to identify many sensational' papers which liad btjeii .previously' seized. The book shows that' Count Bprnstorff.is in the same category as Captain Von Papen and Count Dumba, Bernstorff’s claim for the return of the documents was met by Mr Lansing’s, claim to discriminate between official and unofficial correspondI ; ■ ,* if , ..4 y i

GERMAN PRESS OPINION: ‘ • i 1 .. IN SUPPORT OF THE SUBMARINE. j t!3THf OH>V ul3 V$ 3H w j (Received 10.35 a.mj.) * : ■ v -Js T ewy (April 24. Messages, fi'o&"Berlin state that the majority of papers comment at length on the American Note. Some consider there is a probability of Germany attempting to meet President Wilson’s demands. The Gamittag Zeitnng declares that the Note “did not electrify Germany as reported that it would, but it electrified America. Germany had been willing to go to thg utmost limits to meet the United States ever since the American Government sought to restrict and even make ineffective ,our weapon of necessity.' We, as has been proved a thousand times to every . thinking man, have so far .guarded the interests of Neutrals that no clash of opinion has arisen among us. To the last man the German people are, united, and will uo.t let the submarine be wrenched from our hand. It is the weapon 1 we need, because it has shown itself j effective. We will use it according to principles to justify humanity always invoked in the American Notes, and will use it in future, because it is our right, and because the humane considers ;tion of our existence as a State and the future of our wives and children compel its use : therefore, we await with calmness and determination what President Wilson again has to say.”

London, April 23 Commenting upon President Wilson’s Note, the Kreuz Zeitung anticipates a rupture, and hopes the development will secure for Germany unrestricted freedom in its submarine warfare.