SOUTH AMERICA AND GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1915, Page 7

SOUTH AMERICA AND GERMANY.

i \ FEF.UXI) STRONG A(! AIXST Till? I ; mm * 3! f -Ut American ooVmiieivial man, Mr. Louis 'M. I'otter. wlio lias bei'ii through South America recently, gave an interesting address to business men of Buffalo. "This -terrible JCuropean war," he slid, ''has hail its elVe.-t in drawing these people toward us. The feeling all through .South America is very keen against the Germans. 1 talked with hundreds of people down there relative to the war. and not in a single ease did 1 find a sympathiser with ( lennany, save those of German birth or blood. The people of South America are actually praying for the defeat of < lennany. Even in Chile, which of all the South American countries may be said to have had the greatest interest in <lennany and things (.lei'iuan. i, to-day a hostile camp against her. So strong is this feeling, that many Herman stores in Valparaiso and Santiago have been forced to close. '• The street car lines in both of those cities are owned by German capital. They were being boycotted by the people generally when I was there. Kvery possible conveyance was rigged n-p for carrying people to mid from their business, so as to avoid riding on the street, car.-. This feeling lias 'been engendered not only because tlicy believe that Germany is responsible for the war, which has 'brought to Smith America such hai'iUhips, but liceause of the fact that she violated and forcibly continued to ;\'iohit *• the neutrality of some of those ' count l ies, in coaliiiL,' and provisioning her war llec.t when it iva, hovering oil' the coast of South America. The propaganda of enlightenment on war matters 'which Germany lias nivried on down there, on such a tremendous si-ale, and which tlie Allied Powers have not felt it necessary to. do, has also worked against her." rr— : —TT I