NEUTRAL NATIONS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 241, 25 September 1914, Page 5

NEUTRAL NATIONS.

SWEDEN. GERMAN ENVOYS EXPELLED. Copenhagen, Sept. 23. German agents provocateurs traversing Sweden with a view 7 to provoking an insurrection in Finland, were arrested and expelled. They unsuccessfully attempted to charter Finnish boats at other Scandinavian ports. AMERICA. BERNSTORFF’S FABLES. Washington, Sept. 23. Count Bernstorff says that Germany has won the war, and it is for the Allies to propose terms of peace. The destruction of Reims could not be helped. If France and Great Britain are fortunate enough to invade Germany they will do likewise. PIOUS HUMBUG’S APPEAL. FOR AMERICAN SYMPATHY. (Received 25, 10 a.m.) New York, Sept. 21. The Kaiser’s appeal to America through Baron von Hollweg declares, “We nave complete confidence in the justice of the American people who will not permit themsleves to be hoodwinked by the campaign of lies our foes are waging. We shall win the war. Because it is a just cause it lias given a great moral momentum to our armies.” ITALY. GARIBALDIAN VOLUNTEERS, 5000 LEAVE FOR THE FRONT. Rome, Sept. 21. Giuseppe Garibaldi, with 5000 red shirters, is proceeding to an tin known destination. MR, CHURCHILL’S TRUST. IN ITALY'S NEUTRALITY. INTERESTS AKIN. (Received 25, 12.0 noon.) Rome, Sept. 21. Mr. Churchill, in an interview published by the “Giornale d’lt.alia,” said, “We always though! it impossible that Italy cculd fight on Austria's side against England, and for this season every order given at the Admiralty was issued in the certainty of Italy’s neutrality. The most important event of the war, so far. is apparently inseparable for friendly Italy. In the AngloFrench navy power, if Italy were our ally, her interests would be England’s interests and her views in the Mediterranean free. We have complete confidence in victory. Wc

are resolved to win if it costs us lhe last penny, and the last, man and the dav will come when Italy will be given her natural frontier in its entirety.