GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 215, 19 February 1915, Page 5

GERMANY

GERMAN SUBMARINE WAR. ZEPPELINS TO ASSIST. ITALY'S UNMISTAKABLE PROTEST. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, February 17. The Vossische Zeitung has announced that Zeppelins will participate in tlw blockade. The. Italian Ambassador i n Berlin, in the friendliest spirit, directed Germany's attention to the rules of interntional law governing the rights of neutrals and asked for a clear declaration of Germany's attitude. He. declared that no act of war against a ship was justifiable upon the mere presumption that a neutral flag was covering an enemy vessel.

AMERICA AS AN ENEMY. WOULD IT SUIT GERMANY? London, February 17. Mr Sidney Lowe, writing in the Daily Chronicle, asks whether Germany wants war with the United States. He argues that it Would suit German diplomatists wlio do not wish to be left alone in the day of humiliation. The United States would make a convenient shock absorber, or at least might obtain easier terms for the vanquished. We mav conjecture that Germany might not object to giving America a locus standi, in futur" negotiations. From the Potsdam and Berlin standpoint it may be desirable that tile United States should come in as an enemv rather than not at all. The Bernstorff-Dcrnberg crusade to gain American friendship has failed, but something might be done through American amity. Even if America is incited to war with Germany the military and naval position cannot be worse than it is, end Germany may be able to save her face by saying that, liavinf waged ft victorious war against the Allies, she, onlv gave wav when tho tremendous weight of the great republic was thrown into tiie scale. Fio'theriiiorr. it will be in the interests of Gvnia.nv to have tile United States as a plenipotentiary whe n peace is discussed. From the/ Allies she knows that she will have no hope of iiidulgenc', but America, not haviw a. motive for hardening her heart, will come to the conference in a detached frame of mind. A PARSEVAL TN TROUBLE. CAR DISAPPEARS. Rcce ; "ed 18. 5.5 n.m. A'ps'crdam, February 18. A" airsliin of the Parseval type crossed +he Zuyder 7ec in a vertical position, the crew b«ip" unable to ri"ht her. Later, she passed Boom apparently with at her car. ANOTHER ZEPPELIN DESTROYED. CREW INTERNED. Received 18, 8.50 p.m. Amsterdam. February 18. An explosion destroyed a Zeppelin at Faroe Island. The crew of sixteen were interned.

THE ZEPPELIN EXPLOSION. STORY OF THE OFFICERS. ACTIVITY OF ZEPPELIN FLEET. Received 18, 11.30 p.m. Copenhagen, February 18. Officers of the Zeppelin explain that they were on outpost duty at the North Sea, and after the explosion decided to cross to Denmark instead of drifting over the North Sea. When landing they ignited the airship to prevent it becoming Danish property, as it was impossible to repair it in twenty-four hours. There is much Zeppelin activity in Jutland and the Baltic. Two were observed at Hysted exchanging si'g(nals with a German warship. A Zeppelin also followed a Dutch steamer to Rotterdam.