America

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 152, 3 December 1914, Page 5

America

JPI!ESI,DENT WILSON® WAITING GAME. -&PRAID TO AXKOY -GERMANY. AIiUCC K.D LWDER-MASSSIIvG OF THE SAVE. Washington, [December 1. ■Admiral Blue, in his ovidcnce before IfSte 'Xaval Officers Comit&ssion of the House of RepresMtetivufe, contended that 2SO officers and 5000 men were needc'fL 1° u "}' equip Ameiiiran warslips, Wiiich ®ere undermanned. The naval estimates -for the present J.usr .are £29,01)0,G©a Representative Gardiner untrodueeil a resolution asking for a mnvunvestigafcon into Military strength. ftiesidant Wilson states rtliat he 'believes inquiry useless, a« it is unlikely to 'uisfilose anything at preneut unknown. Representative Gardiner expressed a Strang .•objection to Germany's action in LBdlgium. President Wilson thinks that if tin-. United States now starts to .strengthen lier forces, 'Germany may talcu it as di-J re'eted against her. The United States,! according to the President, hopes to play the part of peacemaker <ifter the. war, and any action would he''injur-' ious. Tiie to Germany, find Aus-tria-Hungary §om America has been ixesnmed. Times and •Sydney Sun Services. (London, December 1. The president -of the Carnegie insti- | ti&ute at Pittsburg, replying to the niani- I fecto of the German professors, says "It gives one a feeling of pity to >nota the importunity With which people in Germany are seeking the good opinion of limerica. We can only execrate the conduct of your Emperor, who has driver,- his troops to daughter tfcair brethren and be slaughtered in this bloody and unspeakable conflict." New York, December 1. ■President Wilson announces that neutral ocean zones in Sout.ii American waters. as the Republics' request, is impossible without the assent of the European Powers. Washington, December 1. Sir C. Spring-Rice conferred, with Lansing, Trade the I prohaWc lifting of thf.wo'ol embargo, lit is understood that $ Britain has obtained enough wool for^te^romingll.