UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 April 1916, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

ULTIMATUM TO GERMANY. INDISCRIMINATE SUBMARINING MUST CEASE* April 19. The President, addressing Congress, told them that a virtual ultimatum had been sent to Germany. He did not I ask for action by Congress, but was ' simply informing them of the accuniu- ' lation of evidence showing that Ger- ( many's assurances to the United States 1 had been violated and tlm submarine campaign had been renewed with vigor. 1 He reiterated the opinion, expressed : after the sinking of the Lusitania, that 1 it was impossible to conduct indiscriminate submarine warfare like in accordance with the laws of nations i and the laws of humanity. President Wilson told Congress that he had given Germany irrevocable notice that unless the submarine campaign ceases America will break off diplomatic relations. President Wilson has nQt asked Congress to take any action, preferring to wait until-Germany's fin£l answer is received. The stock markets are much agitated. - IMMEDIATE ANSWER DEMANDED. President Wilson has despatched another Note to Germany, warning her that unless attacks on merchantmen carrying Americans cease, diplomatic relations will be severed. A Router message adds that an immediate answer is demanded, THE LAST WORD. AMERICAN NOTE DISPATCHED. Received April 20, 5.5 p.m. Washington, April 19. The Government lias despatched its Note to Germany. The situation is grave, and President Wilson has cancelled all engagements', being closeted with the Foreign Affairs Committee. MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. i ■ NOT APPROVED OP. • " BUT IDEA OF WAR NOT WELCOMED Receved April 20, 5.5 p.m. Washington, April 19. President Wilson, in a message to Congress, recited how. the United States had continually protested against Ger-, man-outrages', how patiently each fresh outrage was received, how all- rules of humanity had been violated; how Americans had been murdered indiscriminately, and how no disavowals on the part of the German Government were of any use. Proceeding, President Wilson said: "I have deemed it my duty to say to the Imperial German Government that if it is still its purpose to prosecute a relentless and indiscriminate war, the I government of the United States is ■ forced to the conclusion that there is | but one course it can pursue, and that unless the Imperial German Government should now immediately declare and effect the abandonment of itsi present methods of warfare against passenger and freight-carrying vessels, this Government will have no choice but to sever diplomatic relations altogether." The press generally approves of the tone of the Note, but the idea of war, however, is not welcomed. NO APPLAUSE. ■I. CONGRESS NOT ENTHUSIASTIC, Received April 20, 5.5 p.m. Washington, April 19. Intense interest has been aroused by President Wilson's declaration. Congress received the message silent./, without a sign of applause, and it ii believed that considerable opposition will develop against the President's attitude. Members cheered when President Wilson ended with the words that lie hoped "Germany would so act as to prevent a break with America." . President Wilson's address was referred to the Foreign Affairs Committee

AMERICA'S TRADITIONS. ... FOR HUMANITY'S SAKE. Washington, April ID. Addressing a meeting of the directors of the American Revolution, Mr. Wilson declared that the only excuse that would lead the United States ever to fight would be in the cause of humanity. He added: "America will have forgotten her traditions if she fight merely for herself. She must not fight under conditions that show we have forgotten her traditions if she fights merewas formed for the purposo of serving the rest of mankind as much as itself and to afford an asylum to all men. The birth of this nation was significant, because no other nation was ever born into the world with the purpose of aerving mankind. "If we forget the traditions of our fathers we at once change our characters and become unconscious of those principles in which the life of the nation is rooted. What a splendid thing it is to have so singular a tradition of unselfishness. When the United States ceases to be unselfish she will cease to be America. When sho forgets the tradition of devotion to human rights in general she will have lost the title deeds of her own nationality." r AN ANTI-NEUTRAI Washington, April 10. Count Bernstorff has demanded tlie release of von Igel, also the restoration of the incriminating papers. The State Department has refused, contending that von Ingel was not a German Embassy official when he committed the lanti.neu.tnil ftttsV I

ENGLAND'S FRIEND. •' THE PRESS SUPPORT THE NOW.' OPPOSITON IN CONGRESS . PROBABLE. Received April 21, ,55 p.*. New York, April 20, Newspapers o! all shades solidly sup. port President Wilson's Note. There to a consensus of opinion that the President has suffered long under unprecedented provocations, but the issue U now squarely in his hands. The Washington State Department dees not expect an early reply from Germany owing to the Easter holidays tai tervcning. Mr. Lansing is ready to wait (or a week if necessary. German-American opinion ' has been aroused, resulting in the denouncing of President Wilson as "England's friend." Much opposition is likely to develop |in Congress. The Bryanites are already I denouncing the idea of war. NOT TAKING ANY RISKS. TROOPS GUARDING WIRELESS STATIONS. Received April 21, 10.58 p.m. Washington, April 80. Troops have been to guar^ the wireless stations, GERMAN EMBASSY IMPLICATED. IN CANADIAN PLOTS. , Received April 20, 5.5 p.m. Washington, April 20. The Von Igel documents disclose tha connection of the German Embassy with the crimnial plots against Canada, to* eluding the blowing up of WiUand Cm nal. ' Count Bernstorif has demanded their return, but the State Department ret fuses to give them, unless Coiint Berpstorff swears that they are Embassy, papers. This he cannot do, as he woula thereby implicate himself. FURTHER DISCLOSURES. PROOFS OP BOIPP'S GUILT. Received April 21, 5.5 p.m. San Francisoo, April 90. The investigations here have not, so far, disclosed any connection between the German Consul and Bopp With reference to the 'plot to incite a rebellion .in India, as revealed .by. t'au arroit ot Germans, Hindus, Turks and others. The American steamship Chin®; and two American vessels, the Mavrick and Annie Larsen, laden with guns andparts of submarines, cleared here for aa Indian destination, with the object of stirring up a rebellion, out one was interned at BataVla, the other being seized by American officials before it quitted American Waters. Proofs of Bopp's connection with theaq activities are now in America bands. Two Hindus, revolutionists, who wet* taken off the Mavrick, were Sentenced by the British authorities to fifteen years imprisonment at sihaagh&i for in- < citing a revolution.