UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 April 1916, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

I'.. * RUPTURE INEVITABLE. ' WILL B£ DRAMATICALLY SUDDEN. Times and Sydney Sun Service*. ' . London, April 3. The Daily Mail correspondent in New York says It is realised in Washington that the German intention is to continue the submarine campaign without twtndnt. The resignation of Admiral Tirpita is regarded as evidence that Germany doe g not desire to break with America. Whatever is the truth, the Govenuqent believes that the submarin- . lag of merchantmen will be prosecuted ruthlessly and indiscriminately without • regard for the assurances given. The. Administration recognises that a rupture is inevitable. It will come suddenly and dramatically in the form of President Wilton's intimation of Count BernatorffV dismissal. President Wilson will show shortly a new characteristic of'.peremptory decisiveness. Only the German abandonment of the submarining of merchantmen can avert the breach. < There is no truth in the report that Washingt^fy'might be satisfied with the -fxecutibn' '6f offending submarine commanders.

The German press is arrogantly asserting that President! Wilson is responsible if Americans were lost on the Sussex. Germany is carrying out her declared official policy, and America should warn her. citittns not to travel in belligerent