UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 August 1915, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

MONITIONS FROM AMERICA. AUSTRIA LED BY THE NOSE. New York, August IT. The World publishes a, further instalment of the secret German correspondence, showing that while Austria, acting as Germany's ea-tspaw, was protesting to Washington against the export of arms and ammunition to (lie Allies, a German official was spending gigantic sums to secure an endless supply of high explosives from America. A coiltract with the Bridgeport Projectile Company, approved of by Germany's chief financial agent, provided for tlie construction of numerous factory building and the cornering of hydraulic presses for shell manufacture. The documents explain how the munitions wei\i to be delivered to Germany. "SIMPLY COMICAL" GERMAN PAPER'S UTTERANCES. Received August IS, 10.10 p.m. Amsterdam, August IS. The Frankfurter Zeitung, replying tr> the New York World's disclosures, says: "The German Government must find means to counteract their enemies' activities. Wo should be fools were we to go to ruin through modesty. That we strive to purchase abroad munitions which would otherwise bo destined to fall into the hands of our enemies is such a matter of course that the revelation of the fact is simply comical." WILLIAM F. FRYE CASE. Washington, August 17. America, replying to Germany on the William Frve case, will accept arbitration at The Hague, hut demands that Germany meanwhile shall stale whether she intends to conduct marine operations in accordance with the terms of the Prussian-American Treaty or those aa interpreted by the United States.