UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1916, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

GERMAN BOMB FACTORY^ ON INTERNED STEAMER, London, April 21, Sir Edward Grey annouces that the Friedrich der Grosse, while interned it New York, was a factory for bombs, which were sent thence to other American pprts to be placed on Allied ships. The, German Embassy is implicated, THE NATION'S HONOUR.. - UPHELD BY LEGISLATURE. New York, April 21. The State Legislature, which is controlled by the Republicans, before adjourning passed a resolution giving uri* qualified support to President Wilson and offering to reconvene in order to vote the State's full resources to maintain the nation's honour

!: ■ BERNSTORFF'S BLUNDERS. REPORTED HE WILL GET HIS? ' PASSPORTS; Received April 23, 5.5 p.m. Washington, April 22. Reports are being circulated that Count Bernstorfl' will l)e given Ms - passports, oven if the submarine crisis is settled, but it is impossible to verify the rumors. In New York it is understood that the Government I|as refused to restore von Igol's papers to Count Bernstorfl, though same accounts say that the papers will be restored if Count .Bernstorff admits the accuracy of one paper. SOUTH AMERICAN SENTIMENT. Received April 23, 5.5 p.». Buenos Ayres, April £2. , The Nation says that all American republics share the United States' sediments, and welcome with deep sympathy President Wilson's policy of tak-' ing up the defence of all neutrals.