REAL PURPOSE OF AMBASSADOR'S JOURNEY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 11 October 1916, Page 5

REAL PURPOSE OF AMBASSADOR'S JOURNEY.

NOT TO PRESENT PEACE

PROPOSALS

BUT FOR INSTRUCTIONS IN EVENT OF CONTINGENCIES.

GERMAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS

MENACED

RESUMPTION OF SUBMARINING CONSIDERED ..*.\ii , "TABLE.

(Received Get. il, '0,25 a.m.)

JSJ-w; YORK, Oct. 10. The World's special correspondent on board the jship upon which Mr Gerard is returning has wirelessed a long despatch denying that Mr Gerard caiv ries a definite message from Germany to President Wilson requesting mediation.

The correspondent admits that MiGerard will represent the Kaiser's views, on the subject of ending the war, but says that his visit has moreto do with the possibility of America becoming involved in the war than with peace through America's agency. The real purpose of a the Ambassador's journey v: to represent to the administration the sure and rapid weakening in Germany of opposition to the resumption of ruthless submarining, and that deliberate preparations are being made to resume extreme submarine warfare.

The correspondent asserts that Germany is preparing to recede'from the Sosition assumed in reply to the Sussex i'ote, and that a heavy black cloud is hanging over German-American relations in the form of the submarine menace. . ■ '

After asserting that the defeat, of President Wilson would be regarded in Germany as a gigantic German victory, the correspondent adds: "No opposition can stand against the agination of the Tirpitzites for resumption of submarining, and it is in preparation for the worst contingency that Mr Gerard is visiting Washington to report and receive instructions."