AMERICAN NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17098, 22 February 1916, Page 8

AMERICAN NEWS.

A SERIOUS CLASH. TROUBLE BETWEEN OFFICIALS. MR LANSING AND COUNT BERNSTORFF. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. AVASHINGTON, February. 20. It is reported that there has been a serious clash between Count Bernstorff and Mr Lansing. Secretary of State, as the. result of the German Embassy circulating " a statement that America's policy in regard to the Lusitania had changed, and that Mr Lansing intended to resign. A high official declares that unless unfair propaganda ceases, a certain Ambassador will be sent home.

BERNSTORFF'S FAILURE. PRESIDENT'S FIRMNESS NOT EXPECTED. WARNED TO.MEND HIS. WAYS. (Received February 21, 9.40 p.m.) LONDON, February 20. The Washington correspondent of tlie " Dailv Telegraph " says, that Count Bernstorff s pernicious influence has commenced to decline. It is believed that Count Bernstorff prompted Germanv to warn America that armed merchantmen would be treated as warships, thinking he had caught America off her guard and hoping to precipitate a violent controversy with the Entente. Instead, President Wilson seems for the first time to have been inclined to force the submarino issue to a finish, despite, the possibility of breaking friendly relations. Further submarining is almost certain to result in Count Bernstorff following Dr Dumba. He has already been warned either to mend his ways or depart.

ARMENIAN MASSACRES.

UNITER STATES PROTEST. ACTION IS " UNOFFICIAL." WASHINGTON. February 20. Mr Lansing, Secretary of State, has cabled to Constantinople protesting against the Armenian atrocities, and expressing the hope that the perpetrators will be punished, and in the event of a repetition threatened with drastic action. • Mr Lansing explained that the protest from Amorir-a regarding the Armenians was unofficial. America cannot officially notice foreign Powers' treatment of their own subjects.

A GERMAN SPY.

IGNATIUS LINCOLN AGAIN ARRESTED. NEW YORK, February 20. Ignatius T. Lincoln, the naturalised foreigner who became a British M.P., and who recently confessed that he was an escaped German spy, was rearrested in front of a Broadway restaurant. The capture was clue to a proprietor of a lodging house learning the man's identity and attempting to extort 200 dollars in return for the surrender of "his haggage.

(Received February 21. 9.40 p.m.) NEW YORK, February 20.

Lincoln's braggart ways led to his undoing. During the months since he walked out of. a restaurant in Brooklyn he had written many letters' to the newspapers boasting of his ability to elude the police. A lodger in the same board-ing-house demanded £SO as the price of silence, but he refused. When Lincoln was waiting for an appointment with this friend on a coiner in Broadway the secret police captured him.