The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1915. THE AMERICAN SITUATION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 220, 4 June 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1915. THE AMERICAN SITUATION.

(With which ia incorporated The Taihape Post tina Waimarino News.)

It seems evident tbat American palienee has been strained to its breaking point by Germany’s unbounded arrogance, and outrageous disregard for all'that is decent, honourable and humane.-; nothing is now more certain than, unless Germany climbs down, that rupture in dipomatic relationships will follow. This is so generally taken for granted that Statesmen no longer pay much attention to that aspect of the question, but have passed on to calsulate and speculate upon the nature of America’s first physical acts of warfare and to as sens the value of their contribution towards the rapid termination of this, the greatest scourge in human decimation the world has yet experienced. Both America and Germany have reached an absolutely intolerable position; the former’s .honour, and everything a nation prides itself in, is abused and flouted by Germany, while the latter is so hard pressed *on every hand by the ever Increasing numbers of v hose arrayed against her as to render ari v hope she may have cherished of unfL' r - eseen circumstances turning' in her favour, that would give her a voice in final settlement of any appreciable value, eVtirely , abortive and withoot x foundation. ' T%th all the . great na-' tions arrayed against her In understood and effective ,combination Germany may yct.be sanO enough to she is rapidly along the road to military extinctioif,- at least, and that her ruin as a formes'? nation is over-

whelmhigly certain. Nothing suovt of preterhuman conditions can furuisli tlio faintest hope of any semblance of success, and she may now take the pretext that* offers for deciding that it is useless to further struggle against the inevitable.