AMERICA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 94, 16 September 1914, Page 8

AMERICA

GERMANY SUMMED UP. "OBSESSED WITII TIIE IDEA OP ' CONQUEST. 11ER MILITARISM MUST EE OBLITERATED. Now York, Sept. 11. A New Yorlc journal remark* : "Ge-r----trany for many years haa ibecn develops mg her industries, largely with 4>orrowuJ capital, while her own lesourccs have been devoted; to the construction of a monster military machine intended to over-ride the world. Under the Kaiser's inspiration itho German people have been taught to think war, read war, write Wjfir, dream wax, and prepare for war, until tho whole nation lias become obsessed with tt.e iia of congest. Every German Imperialist- has, derided, the Monroe Doctrine as a scrap of pq>?r that t'lie War Lord mujlit to destroy. The present decision must be written in blood and iron. Neither Europe nor Germany can be free until Genusn militarism is obliterated, otherw'?p (lie bloodshed will be in vain." The a!earner Red Cross, with hospitals for the benefit of all the armies, had tailed for Ft! mouth. MR RRYAN S INQUIRIES Waah'ngton, Sept. 14. In view of tlie German campaign blaming the Alliies for the continuance of war, Mr Bryan sounded the British. Freneli and German foreign oflk-ors. London and Faria replied fcluit they desired peace on securing sat-isfacton' terms, but Berlin did not reply. THE PRESS NOT UNFRIENDLY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Among the war cables published on September 4th was one from New York, stating that many United States papers disclose much pro-German feeling. A resident of Wellington, on seeing this, cabled to New York, and received the reply that the American Press as S. whole was distinctly favorable to Great Britain.