BLACK CLOUD HANGING OVER GERMANAMERICAN RELATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 243, 11 October 1916, Page 5

BLACK CLOUD HANGING OVER GERMANAMERICAN RELATIONS.

PREPARATIONS BEING MADE TO RESUME SINK AT SIGHT

CAMPAIGN.

VO-OFPOfcXTIOX CAN STAHB AGAINST TXRPXTZITE AGITATION

GEBAKD SAID TO BE PREPARING TOR THE WORST.

(Received 9.25 a.m.)

XEW YORK, October 10.

Tb- e "3Jew York World's" special correspondent aboard the ship on which Mr. Gerard crossed the Atlantic wirelessed a long dispatch. denying that Mr. Gerard carries a definite message from Germany to President Wilson requesting mediations. The correspondent admits that Mr. Gerard will represent the Kaiser's views on the subject of ending the war, but says that his visit has more to do with the possibility of America becoming involved in the war than with peace through. America's agency.

The real purpose of the Ambassador's journey is to present to the Administration a sure and rapid weakening in Germany to the opposition to the resumption of ruthless submarining and that deliberate preparations are being made to resume extreme submarine warfare. The correspondent asserts that Germany is preparing to recede from the position assumed in reply to the Sussex Note. A heary black cloud is hanging over German-American relations in the form of the submarine menace.

After asserting that the defeat of President Wilson would be regarded in Germany as a gigantic German victory, the correspondent adds that no opposition can etand against the agitation of the Tirpitzites for the resumption of submarining. It is in preparation for the worst contingency that Mr. Gerard is visiting Washington to report and to receive instructions.

"Mr. Gerard, who has arrived, refused to comment on the '"World's" wireless message or otherwise to indicate the nature of his "mission.