America.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 309, 8 June 1915, Page 5

America.

GERMAN PEACE TALK. INSPIRED BY SUCCESSES. COUNT BERNSTORFF'S DEMANDS. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Received June 7, (i p.m. London, June 0. Washington says that Count Bernttorff's peace talk synchronises with the successful German drive on the east front, and with what Americans rega.'d as temporary discomfiture to the Allies in other directions. It is recalled that the September peace talk .synchronised with the nearest German approach to Paris. Count Bernstorff demands the freedom of the seas,, giving belligerent* the right to continue trade as if no fleets existed. He seelcs German colonial extension and the rceonstitution of Poland under German suzerainty. Germany would then ibe prepared to give up France and Belgium. Apparently) the intervention of Italy provides a gloomy outlook and suggests the. advisability D f Germany promptly capitalizing the wave of successes. The Cologne Gazette, referring to the tirade against Germany, says: New England's schoolmasters and newspapers poured hatred and contempt on militarism and organisation hceau.se they were Prussian inventions. Now militarism mid organisation have become twin anchors fur salvation and the only means of fastening together Old England, which is breaking up. The German fleet would welcome witli the utmost satisfaction the British fleet's offensive activity. The paper taunts Mr. Churchill with his boast of smoking out the German fleet like rats, while he himself was smoked out of the Admiralty by the Unanimous pressure of his countrymen.

GERMAN NEWS PAPER'S COMMENT.

Amsterdam, dune li.

The Kreuz Zoilung says Britain's starvation war lias failed, and now the I'liited States make a strange demand for the stoppage of submarine warfare. If the reports of the reception of tin; German N'ote are to be relied upon, if appears that America does not want an understanding, but prefers to break olf relations, and give at least moral support to Britain. However comforting to us the retention of relations with Messrs. AVilson and llenninan may be, their utility for us is somewhat imaginary.

London, .lune 11.

'|'|... I.mUhl Air/.eiger says that Germany will never admit she did wrong in torpedoing the Lusitanin. If Mr. Wilson really thinks consideration for human life j„ nut left in Germany, further discission is Miperlliiou*.

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