UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1916, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

MANIFESTO TO THE ALLIES. HOPING FOR VICTORY, DETESTATION OF TEUTON METHODS. Received April 17, G p.m. London, April 10. Five hundred of the most prominent citizens of the United States have forwarded to Britain a manifesto of sympathy, and hope for the Allies' victory. The signatories include "212 University professors, many politicians, lawyers, and writers, thirty-two bishops, and twenty-seven judges, who claim that they are expressing- the feelings of an overwhelming majority of Americans, They had refrained for earlier expressing, these, expecting that the Government would speak, and had refrained later for fear of embarrassing the Government in its difficult negotiations consequent on German officers, but they cannot remain longer silent withaut expressing their ardent sympathy witli the Allies and their horror and detestation of the Teuton methods. Some of the signatories are of German 'birth, but they realise that the welfare of civilisation, for wliiah Germany in the past had done murli, demands the defeat of Austro-Germany. A STRIKING MESSAGE. AMERICAN CONSCIENCE PRICKED. GERMAN OUTKAGES DENOUNCED. Received April 17, 9.15 p.m. London, April 17. The manifesto says: "To the last the invasion of Belgium is a crime .hat can never be justified, and it will remain a blot on the history of Europe. A peace which did not restore Belgium or did not provide for an indemnity to reconstruct her ruined cities, would be a disaster instead of a blessing. "The conscience of American people cries out in protest against the Aust.roGerman outrages upon civilisation, and her methods of warfare in breaking international laws and the moral laws .of humanity. \ ! ie final decision involves the sanctity of treaties with eight small nations, and the question as to whether militarism is to dominate civilisation. "We liopj for the Allies' success, believing that such will mean the restoration of Belgium and Serbia, and the suppression of militarism.'" AMERICAN RIGHTS. 65 VIOLATIONS CITED. Washington, April 18. [President Wilson, in a Note- to Germany, cites 65 instances of torpedoing in violation of American rights. ORDERS FOR MUNITIONS. WILL NOT BE CONTINUED. New York, April IS. A representative of ,«e Pierpont Morgan firm, a(ter a visit to Britain, declares that the immense orders for supplies of munitions early in the war *ill not be continued. England and France are now manufacturing on such a scale as to be independent of the United States. He adds that the European countries themselves will do the reconstruction work after the war, converting munition factories for that purpose. i