Neutral Nations.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 267, 21 April 1915, Page 5

Neutral Nations.

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. AN IMPORTANT SPEECH. •Madrid, April 19. Count Romanes, Liberal ex*Prcmier, in an important speech urged adherence to the Entente. He recommended Spain and Portugal to form an alliance true to France and Britain. Isolation was no longer possible.

AMERICA. ; ANTI-GERMAN VIEWS. KAISER'S POLICY A MYSTERY. Received April 20, 0.20 p.m. New York, April 20. A Berlin telegram denies the Ballin interview. Reuter adds that it is not clear whether the denial is a clumsy attempt to obscure the issue raised. The Times sees in Herr Dernberg'H letter a confession that Germany's war plans have failed, that she has passed her maximum strength, and has good reason to believe that disaster threatens. 1 The Herald asks whether Germany is trying to drag America and Holland into , the war so as to excuse her fore-doomed failure by crying: "The world is against us.' Count Bernstorff's memorandum hardly admits any other explanation.

AMERICAN NOTE TO CHINA. New York, April I®. , China has received a Note from the United States pointing out that the latter has certain treaties with China from which it does not intend to recede. It is supposed the Note relates to the Chino-Japaneae negotiations.