AMERICA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 90, 11 September 1914, Page 8

AMERICA

PRAYERS FOR rEACE. BUT NOT TILL OCTOBER. Xew York, September 0, President M ilson, in a proclamation, calls on the people of the United States to pray peace in Europe. He has fixed October 4 as the day for.prayer. •SHOULD AMERICA FIGIIT? TO PUXISII GERMAXY. Xew \ ork, September !), TVofosso? Hale, a leading education a list of America, advocates the United States declaring war on Germany for the hitter's violation of The Hague Convention, particularly with regard to lloating mines and the destruction of Louvain. The United States should guarantee the commerce of neutrals aiid of the allied nations, leaving the British licet to do its separate work. TOO MANY GERMAN'S. Washington. September 9. The American Red Cross Society's ship Red Cross, iormerly tile Hamburg Amcrika liner Hamburg, carrying a hospital unit, was about to sail when it was unexpectedly held up. It appears that Sir C. Spring-Rice, the British Ambassador in the United States, objected to ner departure because the majority of her crew were Germans. Later the Red Cross was allowed to sail ivith a crew made up of neutrals.