UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 October 1918, Page 6

UNITED STATES.

ELECTIONS FOR CONGRESS.- , Washington, Oct. 23. President Wilson has appealed to the American people to return a Democratic Congress at the November elections if they approved his conduct of the peace negotiations. The return of a Republican majority would certainly be interpreted as a repudiation of his leadership. While the President was the people's servant he must be ready to accept the people's decision without cavil, nevertheless the President's power to administer the great trust assigned to him by the Constitution would be seriously impaired should the judgment be adverse. No political party was paramount in matters of patriotism and the sacrifices made by all citizens, but the difficulties and dangers of the present task were of a sort making it imperative that the nation should get undivided support under unified leadership. The Republican leaders might claim that they supported the administration, but on the other side of the water the only conclusion reached would be that the country had repudiated President Wilson's leadership. It was well known abroad and at home that the Republican leaders desired not so much to support the President as to control him. President Wilson was not asking support for his own sake, or for political purpose*, •but for the sake> of the nation itself, in order to show the' world its unity of purpose. The RepuWican ! Tc?nJ'ers> were-undoubt-edly pro-war, but at the same time they were against the administration at every turn. They sought to take the choice of policy and the conduct of the war out of the President's hands and place it under tho control of instrumentalities' of their own choosing.—Aus.-*f.Z Cable Assn

WILD STATEMENTS ABOUT LATE , CZARINA. : "" Hew Yorlc, Oct. 25. Henry" W.i Mapp, Commissioner of tbe Salvation Army in Russii, in a speed), declared that the Czarina had a private telegraph wire from the Winter Palace at Pctrograd to Potsdam and told the Kaiser all the Allied plans. When she learned of Lord Kitchener's eontemplat--2d visit to Russia she gave the German Government the fullest details, which resulted in the sinking of the vessel and death of Lord' Kitchener.—Aus.NZ' Cable Ascn; AMERICAN WAR SUMMARY. •JTew York, Oct. 23. The War Office announces that tlie French have launched an offensive afong the Serre and Sowihe Rivera. The Italians have begun ,an offensive" on the Brenta and Pjave front. The Serbians have decisively defeated tbe Aii9tro-Germans in the Morava Val-ley.—Aus.-N Z. Cable Assit.