UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 February 1918, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

REPLY TO GERMAN PACIFISTS. AUTOCRACY MUST BE SMASHED. New York. Feb. -2~>. Mr. Gompers has received a messuge from the head of the German trade unions inviting American labor to discuss peace. Mr. Gompers replied that it was cant to talk now. "Either," he said, "you will smash yojir autocracy, or we will smash it for you" Washington, Feb. 25. American workers unanimously approve Mr. Gompers' refusal to discuss peace with the German workers. Die invitation was received through a Dutch Ijibor leader, who reported that similar invitations had been sent to the French and British Labor leaders. Mr. Gompers points out that the Germans would not allow the delegate to leave Germany unless 'lie was a tool of the autocracy. America would gladly attend an Allied Labor Conference for speeding up the war. SUPPLIES OF SINN FEINERS. lIOW THE DISCOVERY WAS MADE. GERMAN INTRIGUE WITH SPAIN. Received Bc-b. 20, a 5 p.m. Washington, Feb. 23. The authorities have issued a statement showing that the former editor of j the newspaper Gaelic, an American, directed the attempted shipment of German supplies to the Sinn Feiners. Prior to Sir Roger Casement's arre=t, the secret service agent seized a letter and advised the British, who were theroby able to capture the ship bound for Ireland. The authorities have also published a German letter, circulated through tho Spanish Army, urging closer relationship between the Spanish and German armies and endeavoring to prevent Spanish merchants from supplying the American forces in France. GERMAN MILLIONAIRE INTERNED. ATTEMPT TO CORNER WOOL. Renter Service. Received February 27, 12.40 a.m. New York, Feb. 25. Eugene Sehwerdt, a millionaire wool merchant, has been arrested on a charge of being a German agent. He will be interned. It is stated that he conspired to corner all the wool in America for Germany. He holds £600,000 worth jjf wool, stored in Washington RESULT OF EMBARGO OX FOOD. Washington, Feb. 25. The War Trade Board announces that, as the result of the American embargo on food, exports from the northern European neutrals to Germany have b?en cut 05 to 85 per cent, but the additional restrictions aro expected further to increase the acute food shortage.