America

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 81, 2 November 1916, Page 5

America

I AMERICAN INQUIRIES. CASE OF THE MORINA AND ROWA.nSORE. Press Association — Copyright, Australian and X.Z. Cable Association. V7a-.hington, November 1. .Mr Lansing, acting on President Wilson’s instructions, lias cabled to the Embassies at Berlin and London to make lull inquiries into the sinking .of the Marina and Rowanmore,. with ■•all possible haste. It is considered that tlie situation has grave possibilities, the main point being whether the vessels were warned.. The, President regards the Marina sinking with concern, and is enxious to bring the incident to an issue promptly. Local investigation wtli determine the Marina’s status. According to presept evidence she was not a military transport. The New York Herald states that present indications point to the sinking of the Marina being a deliberate violation of the laws of war, and of Germany’s pledges to America, and that if any Americans have been lost President Wilson’s action must be sharp, insistent, and unmistakable. A submarine named Deutschland has arrived at New London. TORPEDOED WITHOUT WARNING prjss Association—Copyright, Austra liaa and X T .Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.0 a.m.) / London, November 1 • The Marina was torpedoed in a gale without warning. REPORTS OF THE LOSSES. Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, London, November 1. Two submarines attacked Ibe Marina. The- latest figures show that nineteen were lost out of 1-10. The bulk of the crow of the Marina were saved. Seventeen arc missing. Donaldsons, the owners, state the British Government had not requisitioned the vessel, which carried no cargo or passengers. , GERMAN-AMERICAN MAILS. - PROPOSAL BY DERNSTORFF. (Received 9.20 a.m.) Washington, November 1. Count Bernstorff suggested that tlie German-American mails be carried in future by merchant submarines, The American Post Office is likely to assent. GERMAN PEACE-FEELER. WORLD-COURT OF ARBITRATION. GERMANY’S TRUE (?) ASPIRA- . TIONS. (Received 9.0 a.m.) New York, November 1. What is interpreted as another Gorman peace-feeler has been cabled to the New York World from Professor Delbrucck, tlie noted historian, who says that Germany is ready to accept a world-court of arbitration for the purpose of settling the disputes of Nations, and if Germany made such an announcement it might stop the Allies’ grim determination to continue the war, and would probably shorten the conflict. He condemns Germany for their failure to accept Mr Bryan’s arbitration treaties. “If,” he says, “we gave our opponents, particularly our Western foes, a more correct idea of our aspirations, no doubt immediately they would he much nearer peace, and it should remove the impression that Germany in the past has. shown a distaste ior arbitration.