THE AMERICANS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2576, 6 March 1915, Page 2

THE AMERICANS.

UNFAVOURABLE TO THE ALLIES. BUT PLEASE THE GERMANS. 1/ondon Times--Sydney Sun Services. (Received March G, S a.m.) London j March 5. The. Washington, correspondent ol : tlio Times says the comment by the United States press on'the British boycott of German trade is almost without exception unfavourable to the Allies. The papers hitherto friendly now declare that the Allies have followed the example of Germany, making necessity their only law. It is recognised-that Britain desires the humane executing of the' now policy, but that does not alter the osesntial fact that both the Allies and Germany have finally got round to the same point, and retaliations arc now the supreme law in Europe;. Tlie correspondent thinks that this outburst on the part of the press, though disheartening, is not to be taken too seriously: much of it is due to the form in which the British declaration was east.

The German press is delighted with the American answer to the German Note, but declares, however, that whilst England arms merchantmen Germany cannot delay to examine ships. Dutch traders and shippers, are very sombre, fearing stagnation or a severe curia iliuenfr of trade.