AMERICA AND GERMANY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 430, 9 August 1915, Page 5

AMERICA AND GERMANY

MILITARY AND NAVAL PREPARATIONS.

GERMANS CELEBRATE FALL OF AVAR SAW.

New York. Aug. 8. In defiance of Dr. Wilson’s neutrality proclamation, tens of thousands of German-Americans demon; strated and marched in procession, joyously celebrating the fall of Warsaw.

Dr. Wilson is now consulting the heads of the Army and Navy, and is drawing up measures necessary for presentation to Congress. This will be a historical event. Dr. Wilson, like Great Britain, is opposed to militarism, but agrees with Mr. Roosevelt’s view of European events. If zAmerica was unprepared to back her policy by force when necessary she would be as powerless as China.

Some Aery interesting, and even diverting, particulars of the New York peace meeting addressed by Mr. Bryan after his resignation are to hand. The meeting was organised by German patriotic societies, and the majority of the 1.3.000 people who attended were of German descent. The “Daily Telegraph’’ correspondent describes Mr. Bry an as “beaming on the audience.” When one enenthusiast shouted. “Dree cheers for Bryan, der next President of der United States ’. Koch a German band, with true German tactlessness, began playing “The Watch on the Rhine.” but realised its mistake, and

broke into “The Star-spangled Banner.” Mr. Bryan’s speech was frequently punctuated by cries of “Ja wohk” and at the end, the chairman stood on the table and shouted: “War with Germany’ is an impossibility. We German Americans will not permit it.”