AMERICA'S PRESIDENT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 112, 13 May 1915, Page 7

AMERICA'S PRESIDENT

HAS NOT YET COME TO A DECISION. A DIPLOMATIC DELAY 1 . NEWARK, 12th May. President Wilson, addresJng 4000 na< turalised Americans at Philadelphia, re* ferred to the Lusitania, and said that America must set an example of peace. The reason she would not tight was because peace exerted a healing influence on the whole world. There was such a thing as a man being too proud to fight, such a thing as being in the right, and there being no need to convince others by force. The President pleaded for the welding of the foreign blcod that makes up the American nation, pointing out that the true goal of citizenship was loyalty to the country adopted. The President's statement aroused a tumult of enthusiasm. Thousands of small American flags were waved. President Wilson afterwards stated that the Lusitania was not in his mind. He had not yet come to a decision, and was still awaiting the facts. The Daily Chronicle's New York correspondent states that the general impression is that President Wilson is determined to maintain neutrality, hoping to wear down the national indignation and the demand for revenge by a diplomatic delay until something else absorbs attention. There is deep resentment at the child* ren Tn German schools being given a half-holiday because of the Lusitania's outrage. / American opinion hitherto hesitated to believe the atrocities in Belgium and France, but is now convinced of their truth. AUSTRALIA'S SYMPATHY. MELBOURNE, 12th May. 11l the House of Representatives, the members, standing and in silence, adopted a resolution of sympathy with the relatives of those who, by tho sinking of the Lusitania, were wantonly murdered in the name of war. The Prime Minister, Mr. A. Fisher, in moving the resolution, said that the only way to prevent such dreadful violations of the laws of war would be a court which would make the perpetrators suffer for their crimes.