America

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 19, 21 August 1916, Page 5

America

' VAST GERMAN DYE TRUST. FAR-REACHING TENTACLES, Press Association Copyright, Austra, lian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.20 a.ru.) New York, August 20. Tlio Dye-makers Periodical publishes details of a now organisation in Berlin, a vast trust with one hundred million dollars of capital, for the purpose of stamping out the, newly-start-ed dye industry in the United States, which the Government is fostering. The trust is already in operation and earning large dividends, despite the war. NEW PLOTS FORMING. INTERESTING DISCOVERY OF CODE. (Received 9.20 a.m.) New York, August 20. The Times published the text o! four jumbled letters by a prominent German agent sent from Berlin. | When pieced together, the letters showed there was a request for a 'fund,of one hundred to five hundred thousand dollars for the purpose of financing new plots here. The letters comprise a new code, the first words of the four letters forming a complete sense, then the second words, and so on. The writer said that other plots were badly bungled, and calls Count von Bcrnstorff a pliant diplomat of no value.

AN OFFICIAL CONTRADICTION. /’’•j>ss Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.5 a.in.) j Washington, August 20. 1 Mr Lansing (Secretary oj State) announced that as the results of official enquiries, he contradicted the European reports that Germany was violating her pledges regarding submarine attacks. THE WHEAT MARKETS EXCITED Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.20 a.m.) Washington, August 20. The Chicago wheat corners pocketed I.V millions sterling. Winnipeg, August 20. j The exchange on cash wheat is 155 ] cents—a new record. A crop shortage is prophesied, owing to tremendous damage by hail and black rusts in Dakota and parts of Western Canada. PLACING THE BLAME. Press Association—Copyright, Austra- 1 lian and N.Z. Cable Association, (lleceved &35. a.m.) New York, August 20. The American beef trust and wheat speculators are blamed, but British wheat gamblers and German merchants helped to inflame prices. COST OF LIVING IN BRITAIN. ALLEGED MASS MEETINGS. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, (Received 9.35 a.m.) New York, August 20. The World’s London correspondent says that mass meetings in the. largo cities in England on Sunday demand Government measures to reduce the price the foodstuffs. The cost of living is G 5 per cent, higher than before i the war.