AMERICA AND GERMANY.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 21 March 1917, Page 5

AMERICA AND GERMANY.

A CAUTIOUS POLICY. FOR STRATEGICAL REASONS. Received 9.20. NEW YORK, March 20. Naval authorities are advising that it might be strategically unsound for America to declare war on Germany until adequate measures have been taken to protect American coastal shipping, which is now exposed if Germany sends submarines to America, as is considered most probable in the event of war. There might also be serious Cisatlantic destruction of Entente merchantmen unless America iias sufficiennt submarine chasers. Shipbuilders cannot begin to deliver chasers until sixty days, thereafter one every three days. CONSTRUCTING SUBMARINE CHASERS. STATE OP WAR PRACTICALLY EXISTS. Received 11.15. WASHINGTON, March 20, ■ After a conference with President Wilson, Mr. Daniels decided on the immediate construction of sixty submarine chasers by naval yards, also two hundred are to be constructeo privately. The Government is hastening the graduation classes in the Naval Academy, raising the personnel or the Navy from six thousand to eighty thousand. The general official view is that a state of war now exists between the United States and Germany. There is a widespread movement amongst congressmen urging Presl-. dent Wilson to call Congress together immediately, meanwhile every preparation is' proceeding at top speed. WILSON'S NOTE TO MEXICO. AMERICA WILL NOT DECLARE WAR FOR SINKING FREIGHTERS. A SUBTLE DISTINCTION. Received 10.35. WASHINGTON, March 20. President Wilson has rejected Carranza's suggestion to place an embargo on war shipments to the Allies, but reinterated his suggestion for the co- ' operation of neutrals as a means of ending the war. Wilson called attention to the German-Mexican-Japanese plot as a factor in America's breaking off relations with eGrmany. Officials believe this is clone to give Carranza an opportunity to express his want of symj pathy with the plot, which hitherto he I has not done.

President Wilson will not declare war on Germany as the result of the sinking of three American freighters, but only if a liner is sunk.