America

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 147, 16 November 1914, Page 5

America

LODY'S LAST DAYS. FROM HIS PRISON IN THE TOWER. •1 HAVE SERVED MY COUNTRY." Received 15, 5.5 p.m. Washington, November 14.

Lody, the German spy, writing to a friend in Omaha from the Tower of London, stated that lie. was prepared to make a clean breast of the. whole business, but be must protect his friends in the Fatherland, and avoid the humiliation of those near and dear to him. In the course of the letter he said: "You may have the opportunity to say a word to some of those in whom I still feci an interest, and ask tliem to judge me not harshly. When you hear of me again doubtless my body will have been placed in the concrete beneath this old Tower, or my bones made a pyre; but 1 shall have served my country. Maybe some historian will record me amongst some of the despised class of war victims." After referring to the visit of his spiritual' adviser, be adds: "Doubtless my demise will be heralded as that of a spy, but I have the spiritual consolation that others have suffered, and I must accept the award of Fate." Air. Bryan is investigating the statement of Charles Inglis, of Chicago, regarding how bis passport came into Lody's possession. The passport was submitted to the German Foreign Office for endorsement, and disappeared, and the Foreign Office, declared that it was unable to trace it. Inglis was obliged to secure another. Tt is believed that the original was handed to Tody.

THE FIXAXCIAL OUTLOOK. EUROPEAN OBLIGATIONS WILL BE MET. Received 15, 5.5 p.m. Washington, Xovember 14.

American bankers assured the British J representative now here in connection with the financial crisis affecting the. United States that all American obligations with Europe until the Xew Year had been satisfactorily arranged. It was considered likely that when the London Stock Exchange opened there would be a large dumping of American securities. They suggested an arrangement for a credit fund of twenty millions through the Bank of England to meet this. Such a fund would have a reassuring effect in London, and prove a strong support to the American market.

AUSTRIA THINKS OF PEACE. ■ PROPOSES TO DESERT Til 10 KAISER. ON WHAT TERMS? Received 15, 5.5 p.m. New York, November 14. In financial circles it is believed that Austria has asked the United States to approach the Allies unofficially, asking what terms would be allowed Austria if she abandoned Germany and sued for peace independently.