UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1916, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

ROOSEVELT ON WILSON'S a POLICY. b CULMINATION OF EUROPEAN CONTEMPT. Received Oct. 11, 11.55 p.m. „ New York, Oct. 11. . Mr. Roosevelt has issued a statement > on the U53 boat question. He declares that the day of ostrich tactics is ? over, and that the raids off the American e , coast are the direct result of Presi- v dent Wilson's policy. Sending the sub- a marines, is the culmination of European 8 contempt for America. ® d f MR. GERARD'S MISSION. ' f SILENCE MAINTAINED ' I New York, October 10. The World's special correspondent on board the ship on .which Mr. Gerard, American Ambassador in Berlin, is returning, has sent by wireless a long dispatch denying that Mr. Gerard carries a definite message from Germany to President Wilson requesting mediation. The correspondent admits that Mr. Gerard will represent the Kaiser's views f on the ending of the war, but say 3 the ] Ambassador's visit has more to do with , the possibility of America becoming in- , volved in the war than the establish- ] ment of peace through America's agency. The real purpose of the Ambassador's , journey is to present to the Adminis- ' tration the sure and rapid weakening in , Germany of the opposition to the re- , sumption of ruthless submarining, and , that deliberate preparations are being J made to resume extreme submarine war- i fare. ' * The correspondent asserts that Ger- . many is preparing to recede from the position assumed in the reply to the , Sussex note. A heavy black cloud is i hanging over German- American relations ' in the form of the submarine menace. After asserting that the defeat of President Wilson would be regarded in Germany as * gigantic German victory, the correspondent adds: "No opposition can strnd against the agitation of the TirpiU party for the resumption of sub- : marining. It is in preparation for the worst contingency that Mr. Gerard is visiting Washington to . report and receive instructions." Mr. Gerard has arrived. He refused to comment on the World's wireless message or otherwise to indicate the nature of his mission.