UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 June 1917, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

BELLIGERENTS' WAR AIMS. •, TBE PRESIDENT'S NOTl* ' EXPLAINED. Washington, June 25. *Vbe Committee of Public Information lias issued a pamphlet explaining President Wilson's note, issued last December, askintr for belligerents' war aims, simultaneously with the statement by Mr Lansing that the country was on the of war, *ni pamphlet says that the Governjiu>nt was informed that Germany did Ijot. intend' keeping her pledge, given during the Susses controversy, that she woiilf not sink merchantmen without Warning. The German peace note plainty indicated that Germany would insist OH such terms as would leave Central Europe under German domination, thus building ail Empire menacing the world i and enabling Germany to crush her adTersaiftes. The United Sates learned that German}' intended to carry on more intent* and ruthles* submarining and WOpW not respect the rights of neutrals ■Unl««» neutrals' n<ed tKeir influence for 7* :jsjaW favorable to Germany. ' TbV refusal of Cermany to state her ternti was' an evasion of President Wilson's' request to state her war aims, #WU the Entente answered frankly. GERMAN INTRIGUES. fSJfOSIp BY ENTERPRISING NEWSPAPER. Received June 27, 1 ajn. New York, June .23. . John Rathom, editor of the Providence Journal, which exposed many German intrigues, in a speech, revealed that the newspaper employees had their own secret service. Members of the newspaper staff held positions as secretary to Count Bernstorff, and as messenger to Boy-Ed, and as lady stenographer to the Austrian. Consul-General. When the Germans Opened a, fraudulent passport office in ' Broadway, the Journal opened bogus offices on either side. A member of the liojf, attached to Boyed, totSk rooms in * New Yotlc hotel for a meeting between Boyed and Huerta from Mexico. Alliflie conversations were recorded on dictaphones and sent to Washington imm*d3»tely. Evidence obtained by the newspaper's private wireless, after laborious decoding, was also handed to 1 SXPORtfS CONTROL BOARD. Washington, June 25. •Tie Wsthington correspondent of the Sew York Times states that President Wilson has ordered the Secretary of fctate' to create an Exports Control Board, including representatives from the State, War, and Navy Departments. and the Food Administrator, for the puttose of regulating the exports of certain, commodities necessary to the welf»«k of the United States and her Al-' He*; -Grain, coal and steel are probably ' the most important, and all; shipments i will be licensed. It is.staged'that the ; acttiin will not .complete the cutting '•; off of any kind of exports to neutrals,lint empowers the Government to dim-' inish'exports to any country" obtaining more than required for its own con•Bßptiqn. _