UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1915, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

FULL SATISFACTION PROMISED. SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN MAY BE MODIFIED, Washington, August 27. Count Bernstorff has informed Mr. Lansing that submarine commanders have been ordered not to attack merchantmen without warning. Rcuter'a correspondent understands that Germany will suspend the warfare agadnst passenger ships.

Count Bernstorff has notified Mr •Lansing that Germany will accord full satisfaction to the United States for tho sinking of the Arabic if it is found that the Arabic was sunk without warning. United States officials interpret this to mean that Germany will modify the submarine campaign in order to safeguard American lives in future. Berlin has instructed Count Berasitorff to intimate that Germany will give full satisfaction with respect to the Arabic, and if warning was not given will make more than a mere disavowal.

GERMANY CRINGING. WILL ASK AMERICA TO USE PERSUASION. Received August 29, 3.30 p.m. New York, August 2S. It is believed that Germany hopes that the United States, in return for German assurances, will endeavor to induce Britain to modify the blockade. President Wilson is willing to transmit any German proposal that may be submitted to him, but refuses to make the blockade question part of the bargain with Germany. Now that the Arabic crisis is past, it is understood that President Wilson will insist on a disavowal, and an answer to the Lusitania Note. It is believed that the reasons for a solution is the growing desire on the part of Germany to be magnanimous towards her enemies, and the realisation that the submarine blockade is proving ineffective. Berlin is silent, but an authoritative statement is expected. Germany will probably argue that one good turn deserves another, and Beek to move Washington to approach Englanu with a view to securing the freedom of the seas for all people. Washington has already clearly stated that distinct controversies will eaeh be settled in turn, without reference to third parties. HONEYED WORDS. THE CHANGE IN GERMAN ATTITUDE. Received August 29, 2.10 p.m. Washington, August 28. The general opinion of the change in the German attitude towards submarines is closely allied to the British Admiralty's avowal of important German losses, and Lord Selbome's declaration that the Navy has the submarine menace well in hand. Also, there is possibly fear of the moral effect of a rupture with America, and the delicate Balkan situation. The German-American press has only honeyed words for the United Statees. WHAT AMERICA WANTS. SUBMARINE CONTROVERSY CLEARED UP. Received August 29, 2.10 p.m. London, August 28. Reuter's correspondent at Washington says that the United States ia pressing for a clearing up of the entire submarine controversy, before considering the Arabic and Lusitania incidents closed. ANTI-AMERICANISM IN BERLIN. ROWDIES mss THE CONSULATE.

Received August 29, 0 pjn. Amsterdam, August 28. Newspapers that are in close touch with the German Admiralty are alarmed at the Government's possible intention of disavowing the sinking of the Arabic, which will thus cause Germany's submarine warfare to be ridiculed throughout the world. Anti-American feeling is rising in Berlin. The police dispersed hissing rowdies before the American Consulate. AN UNACCOMPLISHED PLOT. TO CONTROL THE PACIFIC COAST. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received August 28, 7.45 p.m. London, August 28. The Times' correspondent at Toronto says that German plans to seize Vancouver and other Pacific Coast cities have been revealed to the authorities. A Gorman broker named Alvensleben, who was in Berlin when the war started, telegraphed to a friend in Vancouvver urging him to inaugurate an agitation to invite Admiral von Spec's squadron, which was then on tiie China coast, to visit Vancouver. A committee was formed, and meetings held, and ii the arrangement had succeeded the Gneisenau and Scharnliorat would have attempted to take possession of Vancouver, Victoria, and Prince Rupert. From Vancouver the Germans planned to control the Pacific caible, and also the route to Vladivostock.