FEELING IN AMERICA.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 144, 18 June 1915, Page 5

FEELING IN AMERICA.

AS GAUGED BY A SPY. NO BELLICOSE SENTIMENT. GUARDS AT ARMS FACTORIES STRENGTHENED. (Received 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, .lime 1,. The guard- at the ammunition arms factories in America have been strongly reinforced in consequence of secret service officials reporting that in the event of ii rupture with Germany a concerted attempt would be made to blow up the premises. A "Cologne Gazette" representative at Christiania interviewed Dr. Alfred Meyer, bead of the German Army Ammunition Purchasing Department, who acted as a spy in America -while posing as an emissary of the flerman Red ( To— .•-oeiety. Meyer states that there is uo bellicose sentiment in the dated States. The conllii-t between Mr Wilson and Mr Bryan '.'as an old one. and had its origin in causes other than the sinkiug of the. Lusitania. The bleach between the two men was rendered inevitable through Mr Wilson's drafting of the last Note according to his own ideas, without reference to the Cabinet or Mr Brv-ait. Meyer adds that the conllicting views over the Lusitania and tho rest of the misunderstandings are capable of peaceful settlement. He accuses the Reuters News Agency of "poisoning wells'' on a grand scale by circulating mendacious reports among neutral countries."