America

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 65, 13 October 1916, Page 5

America

CRAVE WORLD-COMPLICATIONS FEARED. TESTING WILSON’S TEMPER. Press Association—Copyright Reuter’s Telegrams (Received 9.50 a.m.) Washington, October 12. After a two days’ conference, President Wilson and Mr Lansing (Secretary for the Navy) agree that Germany lias kept her pledges, though the announcement of the final decision will he withheld until all the facts arc in the President’s hands. Hi?, advisers, however, are fearful of the immediate future, being convinced that making the American coast a War zone must bring grave world complications. Germany, in the opinion of the President’s personal advisers and experts of the State Department, is now testing President Wilson’s temper. THE SUBMARINE MENACE. THE AMERICAN MEMORANDUM. EMPTY BOATS AT SEA. Press Association —Copyright, Austinlian and N.Z. Cable Association. New York, October 11. It is expected that the keynote of the American memorandum on submarines will he insistence on protection of American lives and trade. Mr Gerard had a brief interview with Count Bernstorff. Newport reports that five empty boats have been picked up in the submarine zone. Garbled wireless messages leave the identity of the boats in doubt. It is possible they are the Kingston’s, and that the crow have been picked uo by east-bound vessels.