America.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 384, 2 June 1915, Page 5

America.

L THE REPLY FROM GERMANY, DISAPPOINTMENT IN AMERICA. Received June 1, 4.30 'p.m. Washington, May 31. Deep disappointment is expressed at the German reply regarding the Lusitania and a prompt rejoinder is being prepared pointing out that the Germans d are wrong in their facts, while ignoring r the American demands. The Press vige orously condemns the reply, demanding, in view of the seriousness of the siuian tion, that there be no delay, h Router's Washington correspondent '■ says there is profound disappointment ■ at Germany a reply, and the situation it • considered grave. New York newspapers say that Gcrc niany's reply is temporising and iusin- ' cere. The New York Herald >ays that Ocrmany proposes delay, while reserving the right to ''Black Hand" us. The United. States holds a lirilef for its civilisation and is not to be diverted from its duty by quibbling. ® The Philadelphia Public Ledger says | tlio reply is a confession of avoidance. Germany' must be brought to her senses. The United States cannot argue when ' tlie question involves Americans being brutally sacrificed by a Government repudiating law and humanity. £ The Chicago Herald says the reply does not relieve, but increases tiie teus 'sion. The Providence (Rhode Island) Journal says fiat unless Germany accepts ~ our demands nothing is left except to wver diplomatic, relations. A GERMAN VIEW.., e Received June 1, 8.50 p.m. Amsterdam, June 1. ' ihe Yossiche Zeitung says if America • aliev.-s ;u citizens to- risk England's ■ i'• Me-siicss and then blames Germany ' [ sic is no longer neutral. GERMANY WILL NOT ATTACK NEUTRALS. Washington, June 1. The text of the German Note has been published. It confirms tiiie cabled summary* and avers that Germany does not .intend to attack neutral ships in the war zone not guilty of hostile acts. German otiicors June been repeatedly instructed to avoid such attacks, and if neutrals suffered it was due. to mistaken ' identification, and hi some cases was ; attributable to Britain's abuse of the flug, together with suspicious or culpable behaviour by the masters of the sllips. ! BLAME PUT OM BRITAIN. ! CAMPAIGN TO STARVE. GERMANY. 5 IIERR VON JAGOW ANNOYED. Received June 1, 0 p.m. Washington, Mayj 31. licrr von Jagow, interviewed by an American correspondent in Berlin, sain J that from the outset Germany was willj ing to abandon t-"if submarine war on merchantmen if England raided the ernt barg'o on foodstuffs and raw material, on the conditional contraband list. Jt | was England's fault and not Germany's that America's well-meant proposals failed. y The question of foodstuffs and raw , materials was not a question of necessity for Germany, but of principle. Germany had shown she could not he starved out. She might be short of some particular foodstuff, .but had enough to live on and continue the struggle. Similarly it was true of raw materials; she was able to get along even if imports were cut off. But Germany objected to Britain's cool assumption that when she was unable to defeat the German armies legitimately on the battle-field she was entitled to force the nation to its knees by economic pressure, disregarding ali the'accepted precepts and regulation.-. •There was no precedent for a siege of the civilian population of a whole nation in its own land, with no possibility of escape, Germany would fight such ail unjustified method of war with all the ' means at her disposal, Herr von Jagow was unable to tell how the German Note would be received, as lie had no means of communicating with the Ambassador at Washington. They had no cables and their wireless was read or interfered with hy the British, and Germany was therefore cut off from America and working in the dark. SMUGGLING RUBBER. London, May 31. The Times' correspondent at New York says the British Consulate subjected bales of cotton to the X-rays, which indicated that five Austro-Germau merchants were conspiring to smuggle rubber to Austria and Germany. The German authorities furnished them with large credits, and rubber was packed in barrels of resin. This was declared contraband, and they then hid it in cotton and sought to export it in British ships to Genoa. They were charged with defrauding the American 'Government by false declarations. SINKING OF THK GULF LIGHT. Received June I, 5.50 p.m. Washington, June 1. Air, Gerard (American Ambassador at Berlin) has cabled that tlie Gulf Light was torpedoed by mistake.