AMERICA.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 285, 17 November 1916, Page 5

AMERICA.

WIRELESS LINK WITH JAPAN. WILSON’S PEACE MESSAGE. [AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN.] (Received 17, 8.55 a.m.) New York, Nov. 16. A wireless service has been inaugurated by the United States to Japan with a relay at Honolulu. Dr Wilson sent a message to the Emperor of Japan, saying, “May the day soon come when the voice of peace will go into all the world.” I NEED FOR PREPAREDNESS. HOSTILE NATION ACROSS I PACIFIC. [AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN.] (Received 17, 9.35 a.m.) New York, Nov. 16. U ‘vging compulsory military training, Senator Chamberlain asserted that the United States had too long been n joke for the rest of the world ; In dealing with weak nations the United States was strong, but in dealing with strong nations she was weak. Across the Pacific there was an unfriendly Power. Americans were letting the Mikado dictate to them. The only protection, he said, vas to be ready to fight if they had to. THE BLACK LIST NOTES. AN ALLEGED AFFRONT. [AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN.] (Received 17, 8.55 a.m.) New York, Nov. 16. The “New York World” says Vitrcount Grey’s charge of non-suppres-sion of breaches of neutrality so glaringly conflicts with facts that it amounts to a deliberate affront. [Replying to the American note protesting against the black list as an arbitrary interference with neutral trade, Viscount Grey said that it was notorious that many firms in neutral countries had been active agents for German espionage and spreading German propaganda. They had supplied German cruisers and organised and paid miscreant# to destroy the ships and factories, which have been supplying the Allies.]