PIRATES' SAVAGERY ESTRANGES NEUTRALS AMERICAN BATTLESHIPS ARE BUSY MOBILISING.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 50, 27 February 1915, Page 5

PIRATES' SAVAGERY ESTRANGES NEUTRALS

AMERICAN BATTLESHIPS ARE BUSY MOBILISING.

NORWEGIAN PEOPLE DEMAND AN ULTIMATUM. FISH SHIPPERS REFUSE TO FACE TORPEDO RISKS. (Times and Sjdney Sun Services.) (Received %:\ p.m.) COPENHAGEN, February 26. .Most ofytlic great Norwegian exporters of dried codfish have stopped making shipments to Germany owing to the attacks on Norwegian merchantmen. The torpedoing of llio Norwegian steamed Regin by a German submarine has inflamed Norwegian public opinion. The people assert that they will demand th.it their Government send Germany a communication, the meaning of which it will be impossible to mistake.

"BENEVOLENT MEDDLING' , LEADS TO A DEADLOCK. LONDON, February M. The New York "Sun" describes Mr. Wilson's attempt to c/i'ect ;i compromise as benevolent meddling, "(termany's attempt to sink a channel passenger steamer was an net of savagery worthy of Dynk pirates. Germany may see a warning in the fact that the first and second lines of battleships with their auxiliaries liavr boon mobilised at Tort (luantanamo, Cuba. Others are at Florida and tlie naval yards are working at the fullest pressure." Amsterdam reports state that the feeling in Berlin is that the licrman and American negotiations have reached a deadlock, both parties being obdurate. The gravest developments, involving a rupture of the relations, may happen at any moment, everything depending on the discretion of the German submarine commanders. L'neasincFS prevails among the Americans in Hcrlin. 1-resden. and Munich. Washington reports state that America is considering the raiding of a war risk premium consequent on the destruction of American vessels in the war zone. ' ?i;iic« .ii:d Sydney San Services.) LOKDOX, February 2C. A ISerlin wireless mc:-?.it,"c states that the captain of the American steamer Evelyn, which was .-unk liy a mine o? the Cermun coast, asserts that the disaster was due to the advice of a Ilritinli Naval lioard officer,.who instructed the course, which Urn Kvclvn took, instead of the more northerly course prescribed in the Cenusn instructions. Tlic s.s. Dmia. bound to Hamburg frem Now York with corn, is 400 miles west of Land's Kml.