UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 February 1916, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

~> CLASH IN DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES, EERXSTORFF MAY BE SENT HOME. ■y-v Washington, Feb. 20. It Is reported that there is a serious claah between Count Bernstorff and Mr. Lansing, as the result of the German Embassy circulating a statement that ' America's'policy with regard to the Lusit*nja had changed and that Mr. Lansing intended to resign. A high official declares that unless the bnfair propaganda ceases he is certain |M the Ambassador will be sent home. INCREASING. COUNT- BERNSTORFF WARNED, HIS iISJELUENCE * ;' ~ • . ' London, Feb. 21. «e Daily Washington ••rregpondent says that Count Bernprompted Germany to warn America tfcat armed" merrhantmen would be treated aB warships, thinking that this would catch America off her guard, : Hbm homing to precipitate a violent controversy wiavthe Entente. Instead, fteajdent Wifem seems, for the first tWfe inclined'to> force the submarine iiwiM to a finish, despite the possibility pf breaking free relations. Further submarining is an almost certa)a result. '"' 'Count Bemtdrfl is following in the footsteps of Count Dumba, and he has already been warned to either mend his wya or depart, ATTEST AGAINST ARMENIAN ATROCITIES ■''■.:■■ Washington, Feb. 20. Mr. i-nsing has cabled to Constantinople protesting againßt the Armenian atrocities aiid hoping the perpetrators would be punished. In the event of their he threatened drastic action. the American protest against the massacre of Armenians is not official. America cannot officially ' notice the treatment by a foreign Power of its own subjects,

A BRAGGART SPY. '= lIKCQIA t again arrested. New York, Feb. 20. Ignatius T. Lincoln has confessed to being a German Bpy. He escaped after facing arrested as a German spy, but was te-arrested in front of a Broadway Ketanrant. His capture was due to the proprietor of a* lodging-house learning his identity and attempting to extort 2.50 dollars in return for the surrender of hia baggage. (Lincoln was once a member of the British House of Commons, but went to the United States to escape -arrest as a •wlndlyj HIS UNDOING. Received Feb. 21, 9.50 p.® New York, Feb. 21. Lincoln lias b'oen recaptured. laqcoln's braggart ways led to his untieing. During the months since lie Walked out of the restaurant at Brooklyn be bad written many letters to newspapers boasting of his ability to elude the police. A lodger in the same boardtngAlease demanded £SO as the price of •Hence, but this was refused. When Lin- ' jeoln was waiting for an appointment (frith this friend at a corner in BroadQrajr tl» jegtjt captured him.