GERMAN ELEMENT URGE STRONG MEASURES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 101, 31 December 1914, Page 5

GERMAN ELEMENT URGE STRONG MEASURES.

WASHINGTON. Deo. 30. The Cabinet discussed the whos«» question of the -Note sent to Brittle'. It -promised South'American diplomats copie?. owing to 'the interest of the republics in the question. Unofficial quarters hotly discussed reprisal's against Britain. Some Congressmen suggested an embargo against the shipment to the Allies of products r:\nch the United States considered were legitimate articles of trad?, but which Britain and Fiance refused to allow to reach the enemy. Sir Gordon Spring-Rice refuse" to in ko any coi.--> monfc on the day's development.}. The press is vigorously discussing the eruption, the interest in which overshadows the war. Gorman sympathisers in the press urge the States to take the strongest possible action against Britain. BRITISH PRESS OPTIMISTIC RELY ON AMERICAN COMMON: SENSE* LONDON, Dee. 30;. While awaiting the text of President Wilson's Note and a'icepcing the: assurance of its friendly tone through." out, the newspapers rely on the fairness of .American opinion to ensure a commonsense adjustment of an admittedly thorny question in the spirit' 0." mutual goodwill. After remarking that American newspapers consistently grasped the fundamental fact that the ideals whevw* for we are fighting are theirs no less than ours, the Times confidently anticipates a modus vivendi, which, while in accordance with the principles of international law, will meet the truly unprecedented features of this war and enable us to exercise to the uttermost, all legitimate means of coercion on the enemy. WORLD'S FINANCIAL CENTRE. NEW YORK A COMPETITOR, (Rec. 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, Dec 30.

Renter's Washington correspondent states that .the Treafuxy invited various American nations to a oonforor.ee in the spring to discuss financial and commercial problems arising out of the war, and the question of closer commercial relations. Treasury officials opine the chief hope of South American States is financial independence of Europe, which lies in Pan-America movements. They suggest that New York is becoming a serious competitor with London as a world's finaneiareentre. Many European and' South American diplomatic representatives interviewed President Wilson, who is.'ap' patently to insist upon the rights asserted in the Note. Mr. Wilson declared America's theory was hardly debatable, as Britain had adhered to the same in a previous war. Official circles are confident that Britain will satisfy America. GERMAN VIRULENCE. AMERICA THE ARCH-HYPOCRITE. (Ree. 2.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Dee. 30. Mr. Vollmer said emphatically that Germany cannot be beaten. In this war Germans were united to fight to the last drop of blood. America was now selling her neutrality for British gold. Mr. Bartholdt asserted that alreafty £30,000,000 worth of supplies had been forwarded to the Allies. The United States was now the arch-hypocrite amongst nations, sending relief to Belgium and dum-dum bullets to Germany. A GERMAN ACCUSATION". AMERICA'S POLITE RiiPL*. VIOLENCE Ol' PRO-GERMANS. (Rec. Lit? a.m.) WASHINGTON, Dee. SO, The State Department, while officially investigating Bern staff-a allegation that the United States supplied dum-dum bullets for the Allies' use, discovered that the sample of dumdums submitted by Bern stoic would not fit any ride used by the Belgian, Russian, French or British armies. This was the polite xsy'-y leturned io BcrnBtcff's allegations. Representative Vollmer, addressing the Foreign Reliations Committep of

the House, said the United Stater, cculd easily end the war if she,would cut off supplies to al] belligerents. In conjunction with Mr Bavttioldt Vollmer endorsed a resolution to prohibit expert of supplies. Yellruer declared there was only one nation whose lines of national interest were hopelessly al variance with the United States, namely, Japan. He predicted that Japan would not merely hold Kio-chqu, but would also hold ail islands now occupied in the Pacific. '"Some day,'-' he said, "this issue must be tried put iii the Pacific and it may be to the interests of this- country to have a powerful friend at her side.*' Bartholdt and Vollmer are strongly pro-German.