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Taranaki Daily News, 29 August 1918, Page 2

UNITED STATES.

WE LUSITANIA CLAIMS. GERMANY' 10 BE COMPELLED TO PAY.. Sfcw York, Aug;, 26.. I The United States court refused to leoinpel the Cunard line to pay damages in suits aggregating between eight and ■tea million dollars in connection with the sinking of the Lusitania. The court decided that Germany must pay the damages, England and America to enforce payment at some future time. The (decision affects more than forty suits. jCaptain Turner is exonerated from all jfolame. The judge declared that the showed there were no explosives lalxiard.—Press. Assoc. GERMANS CRUCIFY AN AMERICAN. 4cMERICAN. CORRESPONDENTS DUPED. New. York, Aug. 26. Trouble is threatening by the workers at munition plants. Dr. P., H. Howard, a Salvation Army worker from the West front, declared that Sergeant A. B. Cole, of the American army, was crucified by the Germans. He was found by his brother dead, and fastened to the wall of an outbuilding by bayonets through his feet and hands. The New York Deputy State AttorneyGeneral has issued a statement that American correspondents at Berlin, before the United States entered the war, were duped by the German Foreign Office into sending out articles favorable to the Central Empires.—Press Assoc.

THE NEED OF THE MOMENT. j ROOSEVELT ON THE SITUATION. New York, August 26. Speaking at Springfield, Mr. Roosevelt said the need of the moment was to speed up the war, establish thoroughgoing Americanism throughout America, and prepare for after-war tasks as soon as peace negotiations begin. It was necessary to beware of pacifists and proGermans. Internationalist pacifists were the enemies of Americanism. The idea that a league of peace will definitely abolish war was either sheer nonsense or rank hypocrisy. He hoped by April next to see four million United States troops at the front, exclusive of reservists.— Press Association. PRESIDENT FAVORS PROHIBITION.. Washington, August 2u\ Received August 28, 12.50 a.m. President Wilson favors national prohibition during war-time, but urges the postponement of its effective operation f:ll the middle of 1910.—0?ress Assoc COLUMBIA APPROACHING A RUPTURE WITH GERMANY. New York, Aug. 26, The correspondent of the\ New York World at Cristobel states that Columbia is approaching a rupture with Germany. President Suarez 'lias appointed Dr. Holquin Secretary for Foreign Relations, and Dr. Holquin is strongly anti-German. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. GRAIN IN "ENEMY COUNTRIES. New York, Aug. 25. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times interviewed Mr. Hoover, who said: "The Germans have less grain in 1918 than in 1917. The extreme drought in Roumania, which extended to Bulgaria and the Ukraine, has j affected the grain yield, and Roumania now needs grain, and Bulgaria will not have any grain to export in 1918."—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

CRUELTY TO PRISONERS New York, Aug. 25. The New York World's Washington correspondent states that Allied diplomats have made a statement regarding cruelties inflicted on Allied prisoners in Germany. In one instance a British soldier wounded in the foot remonstrated with the guard for being forced to do fatigue duty. He was shot dead when he pushed the guard's rifle away as the guard was about to strike him with the weapon. A Scottish soldier was shot down, because he walked slowly owng to a wounded foot.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.