GERMANY TRYING TO INFLUENCE US.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 127, 30 May 1916, Page 3

GERMANY TRYING TO INFLUENCE US.

! LONDON, May 27 Th e "Daily Mail's" Hague corres- ' pondcnt says the German censor is allowing many messages to pass emphasising Germany's willingness for peace, and denouncing the Allies for j being wickedly responsible for the ' continuance .of the war. The obvious . purpose of this is to influence the United States, hinting that if Presid- j ent Wilson is not prompt Spain or | Sweden will have the honour of stop- ■ ping hostilities. The "Cologne Gazette" comment-; ing on Sir E. Grey's speech, however, recognises that the war must costinue until military events have convinced Britain. '" " i PEACE TALK NEW GALLIPOLI DESPATCH I SIR TAN HAMILTON'S CORRECTIONS. The War Office issued a despatch from Sir Jan Hamilton supplementing and correcting his dispatch, of December I.*, in regard to the GalEpoli operations. The War Office also issued a list of 60 cor-

rections of mistakes of rank or name. which occurred amongst the names of the Australian officers and men mentioned in t*ip despatch. In his supplementary despatch Sir ion Hamilton explains tint he was nimble to set seriously to work upon his main desnnteh until after his return home in October, and that he was then hampered ip preparing it by his separation from his late general headquarters. He says: "My main difficulty lay in the lack of properly authenticated facts relating to the actions and identities ■?* some of the units which had borne the brunt of the fighting. In the Suvia Bay area especially so many senior commanders hud gone under in one way o*another that it seemed as if the storv must be left half-told. But now. sinemy despatch has been studied by many light ht;s bf'"ii thrown upon several hitherto obscure. T have sifted th" evidence, and have satisfied my•*elf that full justicp has. not been done to certain individuals and units." Among the numerous corrections is the following concerning the New Zealand troops:— "In the description of the fight for Lone Pine the praise given to the 2nd New Zealand Battery under Major Sykes should have been given to the Ist New Zealand Battery under Maior Mr-Gil p."