UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1915, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

THE HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINE. FURTHER SENSATIONAL REVELATIONS. New York, Dec. 1. Sensational disclosures were made by Dr. Karl Buenz, managing director of the Hamburg-Amerika Company, who was examined in the American Government's ease of alleged conspiracy against the United States by fitting out steamers at American ports to assist German warships in the Atlantic and Pacific. Dr. Buenz admitted that full instructions had been issued from Berlin a year before the war broke out, telling him how to secure neutral vessels to supply German warships If the British navy held the sea communications.

The Hamburg-Amerika line had a private agreement with the German Government in this regard. It had received a million dollars since the war began, direct from Berlin, to enable it to carry out the agreement. Captain Boyed, naval attache, acted as intermediary with the German Embassy at Washington, which was fully cognisant of every detail of the conspiracy. All documents were handed to it for transmission to Germany.

Although Britain hacl severed the cables in the Atlantic after the war began, the Ilamburg-Amerika line was able to maintain constant cable communication with Germany. THE CRANKS* PEACE CRUISE. APPEALS TO YANKEE IMAGINATION. Washington, Dec. 1. Mr. Ford has induced hundreds of leading pacificists in the United States, including State Governors, to go to Europe on his peace crusade. Official support is lacking, but the idea has taken a great hold on the American imagination, Mr. Ford says he will go into the trenches and call on all the fighting men to go. home. The press ridicules the whole thing as insanity, but leading educationalists, university heads, manufacturers and women's advocates are all joining the party, which" sails on Saturday in a specially engaged steamer. GERMAN CREDIT DROPS. New York, Dec. 1. , There has been a remarkable drop in the German exchange rato during the past two days, The value of the four mark piece is quoted at 78 3-8 cents. The rate was 84 cents before the Serbian campaign.