UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1915, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

THE ARABIC CASE. GERMANY'S SLIM FOOLING. THE SITUATION PRECARIOUS. Loudon, fiSpt. 14. Router's New York correspondent says that Mr. Lansing lias furnished ,Count Bernstorff with the unanimous evidence of the Arabic's officers and .survivors that the Araibic was proceeding peacefully on her course. Mr. Lansing informed Count Bernstorff that the ,United States desired a disavowal and reparation for the loss of American lives. . Count Bernstorff undertook to send the evidence to Berlin. America's inquiry into the circumstances is complete, but action may be delayed to give Count Bernstorff time tp. communicate .with Berlin. ■ The United States does not consent to any principle of arbitration on a (question involving American lives, but is willing to arbitrate as to the indemnity if Germany assures her that peaceful liners will' not be torpedoed without warning. She might also arbitrate as to whether the submarine commander was justified in believing the Arabic was about to attack. ■ v Officials consider the position remains delicate and will only be cleared up if Germany foregoeß attacks on merchantmen. ~ New York,. Sept. 14. President Wilson has refused to discuss the Arabic case with Germany on the basis of arbitration. The press suggests that Germany diplomacy is engaged in its usual practice of fooling the Wilson Administration with promises it does not intend to keep. THE ALLIES' LOAN. . MORE GERMAN SCURRILITY, New York, Sept. 14. Already the GeTman banking agents >aud sympathisers have started a formidable agitation against an American loan being granted to the Allies. Scurrilous attacks have been sent to New York bankers, attacking the personal character of the financial envoys. A jboycott js being organised (in mjany| States against any banks which subscribe.

James J. Hill, the Railroad King, joints out that the loan is more important to America than to the Allies. America cannot do otherwise than market its crop. DISTRUST INCREASING. AMBASSADOR WANTS LEAVE OF ABSENCE. Received Sept. 15, 10.50 p.m. London, Sept. 16, The Daily Chronicle's Now York correspondent says there is growing distrust of everything Teutonic, duo to the discovery that a fire bomb, believed to be of German origin, aboard the Santa Anna, which was afire in the Atlantic. Also it is due to the German conspiracy in the Philippines, and the using of the protection of the American flag to undermine British rule in the East Indies.

A large and influential section of German-American banks is participating in the Allies' loan.

Washington, Sept. 15. M. Dumba is asking for leave of absence to enable him to make Ms report personally. ~