NEWS BY MAIL.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 January 1918, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

HUN WITHIN WORSE THAN HUN WITHOUT. New York, Nov. 2. The Americanism issue in New York's mayoralty campaign reached the point of hatred personalities to-day. It was stirred to the boiling point by a typically Roosevelt demonstration and a typically Jtoosevelt speech delivered by the loimer President at a mass-meeting in Madison Square Garden last night. Tile colonel is supporting Mitchcl. Roosevelt "loosed his verbal thunder at Morris Hillquit, Socialist aspirant, as "pandering to treasonable and cowardly Americans—to the pacifist, the pro-Ger-mans, the man who wishes Uncle pbaee." "Yellow calls to yellow," Roosevelt, yelled. "The Huns within are even worse than the Hun without, but. worst of all is the man who cringes before tile Hun within." A \vould--be heckler of the colonel was uproariously shouted down after' he' had demanded] to know of Roosevelt why the former President was not in France. "I did my level best,,'' declared Roosevelt. his teeth snapping with suppressed emotion. You—you creature over there —I have sent my four sans, for each of those four lives I care a thousand times more than I care for my own." The crowd went wiid at this point and turned the whole affair into a tumultuous demonstration.

WATER FRONT PLANTS MUST DISCHARGE ENEMY ALIENS. New York, Oct. 20. A letter warning that enemy aliens must be discharged before November 1 was sent by United States Marshal Power in Brooklyn to-day, fo hundreds of shipyards, dry docks, machine shops and manufacturing plants along the water fronts of Brooklyn, Long Island, and Staten Island. All German aliens, whether or not they hold Government passes to restricted zones, who are still employed after will be interned at the Ellis Island immigration station. . , Marshal Power said he waa convinced this measure was the only one which would put a stop to the'water front , fires, which have been numerous in [Brooklyn since America entered the war. There have been thirty-two of these, and the damage has amounted to millions of dollars, representing loss of munitions and food intended for the Entente Allies. None of these has been traced to Gorman origin, the Marshal said, but virtually all of them were of incendiary character, in the opinion of investigators. The Marshal added that elimination of all German aliens from the vicinity of marno. industrial, -and manufacturing districts would minimise the chances of important-naval and information reaching Germany through spies.

VICTORY DELAYED BY GERMAN PLOTS. Paris, Oct. 13. Loon Dnidot. editor of .L'Action Francaise, who liai taken a prominent, part In tli:" exposure of Gerinaq intrigue in France, writes under the heading "I am J'ninety' that everyone lias noticed since the war began that "there was something rotten somewhere which delayed the victory of the Allies." He continues: "This something was German money employed within the Allied countries. Titere was the 8010 Pallia fund for corruption of tlie Press; the Von Buelow fund for diplomatic intrigues; and the Ilohonlohe fund for promoting crimes and sedition. The last-named fund, in my opinion was by far the most important. It was employed to promote the plot, carefully prepared for months, wheh broke out in both the army zone and the rear formations in May and •Tune of this year. This plot nearly attained the results hoped for by the* Getman Government."

j IMPORTANT TO GET TROOPS OVER. ! London, Oct. 13. Major-General Frederick 1?. Maurice, chief director of military operations at the War Office, in -his weekly talk with the Associated Press, after an optimistic review of the last week's work on the ■ British front in Flanders, said: '•We have every right to be confident when we see what our men have done. But the fighting is hard, and we think that the present -eries of battles 'in Manders is not going to end the war. There is a great deal more hard tWitiri" before us. I would say that the import" ance of getting the American troops here as quickly as possible and in the Teatest possible numbers has not been diminishetl. The word 'steam Toller' which was so often used in the early days of the war in connection with the Russian army is exactly the right word to characterise the British advance in Flanders. It is an advance, not rapid, but insistent, irrosistiblo. I want to say a word about the work which has been done behind our lmc|i hi preparing for these battles. T don t wish to minimise the U boat threat.' but X can truthfully say tint- nothin" the Ij boats have done has delayed for a single hour our work in France- it has not delayed a. single round of amiminit.on or a ration for the soldiers. The' British army was never better fed or supplied than to-day."

NEW fIERMAN WAR DISEASE. Under the name Das Kriegsodem (war attention is being paid in Or- !', lan £ " , a 'Peculiar diseaso which, says the British Medical Journal, has become widespread throughout that country this year. The cause of the disease is considered to be underfeeding. One medical .nan states that the disease appeared in \ lenna with great suddenness. He T,uf3l* r* ' 4 is similar to beri-beri, and other diseases depending on failure of vitamines.