THE AMERICAN NOTE

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 136, 15 February 1915, Page 5

THE AMERICAN NOTE

WHAT GERMANY EXPECTED. THE GERMAN DIE CAST. Press Association —Copyright. (Reed 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, Feb 14. Apropos of the spirit in which Germany is likely to receive the United States’ Note, the “Daily Mail” prints the latest utterance cf Count Reventiow, which is in contrast to those of numerous Germans, who maintain an inexplicable optimism about America. The Coimt said be always expected American protests. Outbursts must be expected of even a more vehement and threatening nature, but such outbursts the United States should clearly understand were indignities as well as threats and a waste of words. Bismarck once said an appeal to fear finds no echo in German hearts, least of all now, when military, political, and economic results and actions had been weighed and the die cast. The American press is apparently inquiring if Germany wants mpi’e enemies. He desired to call the-attention cf the American Press to the fact that this tone was entirely out of place in dealing with the German people. He could imagine this was not a threat, but it was part cf a measure the United ij States was capable of taking to intimL I date Germany and persuade her to I abandon, or to modify the war against British trade off the British and Irish 7 coasts.