AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, 28 August 1918, Page 5

AMERICA.

THE LUSITANIA CRIME. U.S. COURT SAYS GERMANY MUST PAY. NEW YORK, August 26. A judge of the United States Corn'd refused to compel the Cunard line to pay damages in suits aggregating be-, tween eight and ten million dollars in, connection with the sinking of the Lusitania. The Court decided that Germany must pay the damages, England and America to enforce payment at a future time. The decision affects more than forty suits. Captain Turner is exonerated from all blame. The judge declared that evidence that there, werei no explosives aboard. j DUPED BY BERLIN. NEW YORK, August 26. The New York Deputy State At-torney-General Hssued a statement that American correspondents at Berlin before the United States entered the war wore duped by the German Foreign Office into sending out articles favourable to the Central Empires. THE NEED OF THE MOMENT. NEW YORK, Aug. 26. Speaking iat Springfield, Mr. Roosevelt said the need of the moment was to speed up the war; to establish thorough-going Americanism throughout America and to prepare for afterwar tasks. As soon as peace negotiations were being made, it would he necessary to beware of pacificists, proGermans, and internationalists. Pacificists were the enenffos of Americanism. The idea that .a Lcauge of Peace will definitely abolish war was either sheer nonsense or rank hypocrisy. He hoped that April next would see four million United States troops at the front, exclusive of reservists.

GERMAN PAPERS TROUBLED LONDON, August 26. Reuter’s correspondent at American headquarters states: The German papers arc troubled at the knowledge that sooner or later, somewhere or other, they must face half a million, of the best troops in the world in the virile American .. army. Ludendorffl knows that though retreating, he has not yet had to meet the main blow, . which his adversary is still ■ waiting to deliver when the iappropriate moment and the vulnerable spot has ' been reached