UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1917, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

THE LEAKAGE INQUIRY. SECRETARY McADOO INVOLVED., Received Jan. 10, 1(1.30 p.m. Washington, Jan, 15 it the Senate's investigation into the leakage of information, T. \V Lawson named Secretary W. G. MeAdoo, son-in-law to President Wilson, as the Cabi net oflicer who was concerned in the leak. Tie declared that the f'hairman of the Senate's Rules Committee told him that Count Bernstorlf made a profit of 2,001),000 dollars tfiercbv, but lie did not believe 1 lint statement. Mr. MeAdoo declares that the rumor connecting him with the leakage is a shameless and wanton lie. WHY GERMANY WANTS PEACE. New York. Jan. 15. A dispatch from Dr. W. B. Hale, from ! Berlin, has been printed in the New • York American. Dr. Hale reports an intimate conversation with a leader of the highest political position, who stated: "What is it that the iva.r-weary world wants? Peace j without recrimination now or a possible peace many years later with Germany crushed. The League of Ten Powers {the Entente) may be .momentarily'triumphant, but Europe's whole political | map will be a chessboard of complicated i Ambitions and sanguinary struggles dur- j ing a hundred years to conic." The fact that the censor passed the report, is an admission of the crushing! of Germany, and an open indication of the despair of the Kaiser's statement and that Germany is on the threshold of defeat and must have a quick peace to )irevont a debute. (The League of Ten Powers as a name for th" Entente will cause momentary surprise, but consideration shows that the Powers are: Britain, France. Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Russia. Roumania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Japan.) GERMAN ,FOOD TROUBLES. Jffew York, Jan. Hi. The New York Times says that couplrd with the admission of the practical failure of the German potato crop, coin': reports of gross mismanagement of the Food Bureau, grafting and extortion. indicating thsft, despite the spoils from Roumania, the Empire is facing flic most acute food problem. THE POWDER FACTORY EXPLOSION New York, Jan. 1.1. Three arrests have been made in connection with the Hoskill explosion.