UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1916, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

NO MORE DECEIT. COMPLEXi: AGREEMENT IVA.NTEH j Washington, Feb. 18. '. After an interview with Count Bern* sturfY Mr Lansing said that America. would accept nothing short of a full and complete agreement. Germany's announcement of a new submarine cam> paign was inconsistent with her previous assurances, lie added that assurances were wanted extending immunifc" to all merchantmen. THE GOVERNMENT'S ' ATTITUDE STRONGLY DENOUNCED. Beecived Feb. ]&, 5.5 p.m Washington, Feb. 18. Senator Lodge, speaking in the Senate, denounced President Wilson's attitude on the question of armed merchantfaen. He declared that the United States Was simply delivering itself into the- handa of Austria and Germany. American citi« zens were within their rights in travel' ling on any ships, and if the Govern* ment abandoned the right that had existed for two centuries it was untrue tfli its caste. I»™——— ©ALE OF BONDS. CINEMA AGENTS' SUGGESTION Beceived Feb. 20, 5.5 p.m, New York, Feb. lfc Mf. Pierpont Morgan announces th«? the British Treasury has sold to tin United States Steel Corporation 22,800, 000 dollars worth of its five per cent stock, London, Feb. 19. American picture film agents hate cabled to America urging manufacture!* to confirm the offer to invest the British proceeds of the sale of films in Ex« chequer bonds, with the undertaking that they will not be sold until ail months after the war. / A CHANCE OF FRONT \ , - ,r UNPALATABLE TO GERMANY, Received Feb. 20, 5.5 p.m. Washington, Feb. 19. The State Department hajs notified all American diplomats that merchantmen have a right to carry defensive armaments. The United States thus l«< verses the previous declaration of her policy.