AMERICA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 22 February 1916, Page 5

AMERICA.

UNITED STATES AND GERMANY

THE PRESIDENT'S ATTITUDE MORE RESOLUTE.

LINCOLN THE SPY

STORY OF HIS RECAPTURE

LONDON, Feb. 21

The Daily Telegraph's Washington correspondent .says that Count Bernstorffi prompted Germany to warn America that armed merchantmen w*ould be treated as warships, thinking that this would catch America off her guard, thus hoping to precipitate a violent controversy with the Entente. Instead, President Wilson seems, for the first time, inclined to force the submarine issue to a finish, despite the possibility of breaking free relations. Further subamrining is an almost cei'tain result. Count Bernstorff is following in the footsteps of Count Dumba, and Ije has already been warned to either mend his ways or depart. NEW YORK, Feb. 21. Lincoln has been recaptured. Lincoln's braggart ways led to his undoing. During the months since he walked out of the restaurant at Brooklyn he had written many letters to newspapers boasting of his ability to elude the police. A lodger in the same boarding-house demanded £50 as the price of silence, but this was refused. When Lincoln was waiting for an appointment with this friend at a corner in Broadway the secret police I captured him.