America.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 316, 16 June 1915, Page 5

America.

GERMANY WILL PRESERVE PEACE. ROOSEVELT OX 'PEACEMAKERS. THE WAR AND SCIBXCB. rile Times, in a leader, forecasts tliat Germany will begin making sufficient concessions to the United States to prevent an abrupt breach of conversations and will (finally extend tliem enough to pre'se'rvfi friendly relations The correspondent of tiie Times at \\ ashington says that it seems Germans arc contemplating the' systematic use of poisoned shells. An extraordinary advertisement was published by an American munitions firm, "puffing'- a peculiar type of poison shells. The inference is that (.'ermany 'will allege that the Allies w6re using tliem preparatory to her own employment of them. Mr. Roosevelt, in a letter to the

National League Conference, said thai professional peaee-nt-any-price lnen who applauded the abject'failure of -the United States to live up to her Hague Convention oblations, are the raosl undesirable citizens the country contains. The advocates of pacificism were preaching poltroonery.' Such men were endeavoring to make America the Cllina of the Occident. New York, June 14. Edison, in an interview, expressed the view that the boundless possibilities of science, as applied to warfare, were far from exhausted, and that chemistry i"d electricity liatf hardly been touched. Ho would apply himself to the problem if his country were attacked, but could see no" necessity for the United States to enter the war. They should endeavor to keep it the only aright spot on earth. The idea that ;hcy were armed for conflict with Gornanv anil the possibility of diplomatic relations being severed had presented tself to him, but he could not conceive ;he United States sending untrained roops to the battlefields of Europe. "Surely," he said, "with submarines ind poisonous gases the war is strftcientlv horrible without my devising lew instruments."