UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1918, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

■ - ] ,;| —(Vjrjv NAVAL SUPREMACY. | PRESIDENT WILSON'S' THREAT. OUTRIVAL BRITAE*. ! Received Dec. 8, 5.5'-p.m. Neve York, Dec. «. United Press Washington correspondent states that he learns on good authority that if President Wilson does not succeed _in inducing Britain to abandon her idea of sea supremacy, the United States will proceed with" her programme, destined to make the United States equal, and perhaps superior, to England on the seas.

The President -will ask for a gradual disarmament, and the pooling of naval strength in an international navy. "Should this be adopted the United States will relax her naval plans.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. THE PRO-GERMAN INVESTIGATION., further evidence. AN ECONOMIC COMMISSION. TO ASSIST PEACE DELEGATES. Received Bee. 8, 5.5 p.m. Washington, Dec. 6. Bruce Bielaski, Government alien investigator, continuing his evidence (before the Senate Committee on proGerman activities, said that Count BernBtorff's message recommending Hale's selection, mentioned that Hearst did not know Hale as a paid German agent. Profesor David Starr Jordan, of Stanford University, protested against the inclusion of his name in Count liernstorfl's list of those favorable to Germany's cause. The only time he had ever communicated with Bernstorff was when he forwarded an Australian lady's protest against German atrocities. An organised body of business men throughout the United States have decided to send a commission to Paris to advise America's peace delegates at the peace conference on economic subjects, if called upon. ~ The United States is standing aloof on the question of the extradition of the ev-Kaiser from Holland. The State Department says the United States has not considered its attitude in the matter.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. ' BRITAIN'S DAY, DEMONSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT; AMERICA. •FREEDOM OF SEAS VINDICATED. Received Dec. S, 1140 pjn. . New York, Dec. 7.Britain's Day, throughout ■ the United States, was the occasion of marked demonstrations. New York and Washington were smothered in flags. Fetes, dinners, and open-air concerts were heid in many cities. Contingents of Canadian soldiers were invited to participate in many border towns. Addresses, eulogising Britain's effort, botli on: land and sea, were delivered in scores of centres. Frank H. Simmonds, commenting on the celebration of Britain's Day, says that when the German fleet entered the Firth of Forth, making the most stupendous surrender in the history of the seas, the world recognised in some part Britain's contribution to file German defeat. Since Carthage bowed to Rome, there has been nothing to compare with the spectacle. It was the freedom of the seas vindicated, when the German fleet, still in being, struck its flag-— 1 Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. GERMANY'S. STATUS. PRESIDENT ASKED TO MEET GERMANS.

AMERICAN ARMY OF OCCUPATION. Received Dec. 8, 11.40 p.m. New York, Dec. 7. The United Press' Berne correspondent says that President Wilson lias been invited by Cologne to meet the German delegation, in order to determine Germany's status. General March has announced that 20,000 men are en route to France, and that five additional divisions have been sent to General Pershing for the effective occupation of German. territory.—Aus.KZ. Cable Assoc. WHY PROPAGANDA FAILED. Received Dec. 8, 11.40 p.m. Washington, Dec. 7, During the Government's alien investioation Bielaski produced a message from Count Bernstorff to Berlin explaining that it was impossible to make the proGerman propaganda successful in the United States, because it was impossible to keep secret the facts that the newspapers had been bribed and because he iiusitania was sunEl—"Aus.-N.Z. Cable •Issoc.