AMERICA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 26 August 1914, Page 5

AMERICA

THE UNITED STATES AND NEUTRALITY. BRITISH EMBASSY AND STATE SECRETARY CONFER. WHAT DOES IT PORTEND? Received 25, 11.30 p.m. Washington, August 25. •Sir (Wil Spring-Rice, British Ambassador, is conferring with Mr Bryan on tlje question of the United States continuing its attitude with regard to neutrality. EXAGGERATED NEWS FROM GERMANY. HIGH-POWER WIRELESS SERVICE. GERMAN STEAMER TAKES RISKS IN MID-ATLANTIC. Received 25, 10.45 p.m. New Y'ork, August 24. War news from Berlin received through high-power wireless stations at Sayvillc states that the steamer Kronprinz Wilhclm, which recently left New York with six months' provisions and 6000 tons of coal, is acting as a midAtlantic relay station. She carries several guns. News of (ierman victories is constantly arriving, but later accounts from P.ritish sources indicate that these are greatly exaggerated. THE MA/AT LAN'S COAL CARGO. Washington, August 24. The United States Government has allowed the steamer Mazatlan to clear for Guargmas. The State Department declares that any ship which leaves an American port with coal supplies for a belligerent steamer'will be regarded as a man-of-war. and such passenger or cargo steamers will not be allowed to call at any American port again within thi ce mouths.