GERMANY AND AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3001, 12 February 1917, Page 5

GERMANY AND AMERICA

MR. GERARD LEAVES BERLIN

UNDER WATER PIRACY

ADMIRALTY CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS

CAPTURE OF GRANDCOURT

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All sorts oC speculative reports are current about the attitude of the United States towards Germany's later submarine crimes. One message asserts that the crisis is petering out, but the majority tell a distinctly different story. According to the "Providence Journal," Count Bernstorff sent three hundred German officers and a quantity of war material into Mexico, with the idea of stirring up trouble in that country and embarrassing' the United States. Active raiding and local attacks are reported on the West front. An unconfirmed report states that the Germans have ovaciiated Braila. and Focsani, on the Rumanian front. A British destroyer was mined in the Channel on Thursday night, ; with the loss of all save five of her complement. In a speech, Captain Pretyman, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, declared that Germany's present submarine- campaign, would be defeated like those which preceded it. There are reports that tlie German raider which was lately reported to bo operating in the Sou4h Atlantio has •been sunk by a British squadron.