America.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 113, 6 October 1914, Page 5

America.

THE LESSON' FROM INDIA. EUROPE IS UNLIKELY TO FORGET. Received 5, 11.53 p.m. New York, October 5. Th» New York World, commenting on the celebration of Peace Sunday, Bays: "It is good to pray for peace, but it is bttter to pray for justice and liberty, the triumph of right, and the victory of human justice." Commenting on the landing of the Indian troops, the paper says: 'The contingent belongs mainly to a civilisatiom that was already old when Germany was a forest, and their appearance in Europe in support of their British Emperor forms a precedent that is unlikely to be forgotten in Europe." YELLOW PRESS FICTION. AUTHORITATIVE DENIAL FROM BRITAIN. ■ London, October 4. The Times, in a leader, says: "We arc U a position to state on the highest authority that there is not a vestige of foundation for a story, in tie shape of an interview, in the New Y'ork American, with a highly-placed official of the British Government representing Britain putting out feelers for peace through the medium of the United States. No such statement was made by any representative of the British Government Mr Hearst palmed off upon readers of ■is papers, incautiously if innocently, a mischievous fiction calculated to create distrust and, had blood between the Allies. NO PBACE CONFERENCE. Washington, October 4. The State Department announces that all plans for holding the international peace conference at The Hague have been abandoned.