BRITAIN AND UNITED STATES

New Zealand Times, Volume XLI, Issue 9257, 26 January 1916, Page 5

BRITAIN AND UNITED STATES

/ CRISIS IN THEIR RELATIONS AT HAND

LEADERS OF THOUGHT CONDEMN OFFICIAL VACILLATION AND PROCRASTINATION.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. •‘Time* ■ and Sydney -Sun’' Ser vices. LONDON, January 24,

“The Times” correspondent at Washington says that a crisis m the AngloAmerican relations is approaching* The pro-German propagandists hare lately been making progress throughout the country, partly owing to the indifference of the masses regarding the ethics of the war, and partly owing to the admitted illegality of the procedure under the semi-blockade. At the same time, leaders of thought are growing more and more dissatisfied with the easy official acceptance of German crime. Legal meticuiousness ia not increasing the dignity of the United States. Great Britain can not bo too grateful for the sympathy of educated circles. It would bo unwise to increase her unpopularity by high-handed methods at would be better to make the position strictly legal by declaring a full blockade. In a sensational speech in tho Senate, Senator Williams, a cotton planter, and representative of the most important cotton interests, passionately upheld the Allies’ cause. Ho urged a full blockade, and declared that the South had not suffered by cotton being declared contraband. He pointed out that an Arbitration Treaty existed! for the settlement or Anglo-American disputes, TRADING wIthTnEMY ACT AROUSES PROTEST FROM UNITED STATES. WASHINGTON. January 24. The United States has notified Great Britain that it objects to the pro. visions of tho Trading With the Enemy Act as affecting American trade.

COMPULSION BILL THIRD READING CARRIED IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. By I>l«grapb—Press AjssoclatJon—CJopyrighl (Received January 25, 10 p.m.) LONDON, January 24. The Military Service-Bill has been passed by the House of Commons. The voting on the third reading was; For .the Bill 383 Against tha Bill 36 Majority for 347 RAID ONJDOVER GERMAN SEAPLANE DRIVEN OFF The High Commissioner reports; LONDON, January 24th, 11.30 p.m. A German eesplane passed over Dover to-day. It was engaged by all our anti-aircraft guns and pursued by two, British machines. GERMANS UTSTAMBOUL TERRORISING THE TURKS. liy T*l«*rapb—Press Association—OoßyrljfU) LONDON, January 24. r “The Times’s” correspondent at Salonika says that 50,090 German troops have arrived at Constantinople. They are primarily intended to rivet the yoke under which Turkey is grounding. , Enver Pasha governs by. terror. There are secret executions daily. One night twenty-one Turkish officers were dropped with stones around their necks into the Bosphorus. Ten Turkish and five German officers were recently killed in a single orawl.

FIGHTING IN WEST MORE BOMBARDMENTS ENEMY’S TRENCHES CONSIDERABLY DAMAGED. The High Commissioner reports: LONDON, January 24. North-east of Roy© and east of Soyecourt, to the south of the Somme, an enemy convoy Ijas been bombarded. Six projectiles were thrown into Nancy this morning. In the course of the night, French aviators bombed the' Anizy-Laon railway, and establishments at Nugent and La Bassee. This morning one of our air squadrons, composed, of seven machines, threw twenty shells on the enemy cantonments at Houthulst and Middelkerke.

LONDON, January 24, 11.30 p.m. In France last night we exploded a mine near Saint Eloi, damaging the enemy’s trenches considerably. We carried out a successful bombardment of enemy trenches north-east of Armentieres. The damage was considerable. NIEUPORT BOMBARDED GERMAN MOVEMENT DECISIVELY CHECKED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Coer rich! (Received January 25, 10.5 p.m.) PARIS, January 24. A communique states: “The enemy maintained' an extremely violent bombardment of Nieuport, into which he threw twenty thousand shells. His infantry then tried to debouch, but our curtain of fire stopped the movement. Only parties were able to leave the trenches;* and they Were immediately dispersed. Small parties which attempted to cross the canal at Hasas were thrown, back.” NANCY BOMBARDMENT GERMAN REPORT ON THE ATTACK ON METZ. .y Telegraph—Pros* AsaooSatlon—Copyright (Received January 25, 8.30 p.m.) ' LONDON, January 24. The “ Evening News” points out that the projectiles thrown into Nancy must have been hurled nearly twenty miles. It is believed the fu/is used was mounted on a concrete foundation south of Metz. A Gwman wireless report states: “An enemy squadron bombed Metz. One bomb fell on the residence of the bishop, and one into tho courtyard of a hospital, two civilians being killed and eight injured. On© French aeroplane was shot down. Our aviators bombed the railway and some military works behind the French front.”

“WHIPPING GERMANS"

FANTASTIC STORIES OF “HORRORS” AT RABAUL.

"Time*' - and Sydney "Son" Service*.

(Received January 26, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 24,

Stories of the public whipping of Germans at Rabaul have deeply excited people in Germany, where the punishment is regarded as one of the greatest horrors of the war. 1 The Wolff News Bureau officially announces that the Australian Government disapproved of the Administrator’s action, and ordered that whipping should not occur under any. circumstances, while the British Government termed the action incorrect. It states_ that the Administrator has received an official warning, and that meanwhile-'the German Government is demanding complete satisfaction and adequate punishment of the officers responsible. Negotiations are said to be proceeding, but Australia’s great distance is retarding progress. Count Reventlow violently protests against allowing the subject to drop, stating that the official whipping of Germans is no more an “incident’' than the Baralong “murders.” It is the action, he declares, of the English system under which everything German and all Germans must be murdered, dishonoured, degraded, and robbed.

SENUSSI GAMP BURNED GENERAL WALLACE’S COLUMN AT WORK. The Government has received the following.. from the High Commissioner : LONDON, January 24, 11.30 p.m. In Egypt on Sunday General Wallace’s column' attacked a Senussi camp, dispersing the enemy and burning the 'camp. No further details are available yet. ENEM HEAVILY. (Received January 25, 10.5 p.m.) CAIRO, January 24. General Wallace’s column included all arms. It successfully engaged a considerable enemy force, accompanied by an aeroplane, thirty-five miles west of Mersamatruh. Tho enemy lost heavily. COSSACK FIGHTERS" LIKENED TO THE DASHING ANZACS. "Times" and Sydney "Sun” Service*. (Received January 25, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 24. "The Times” correspondent with the Russian southern headquarters compares the Kuban stalkers to the Anzacs, and speaks of them ;as "superfighters—descendants of the hardy Cossack pioneers now come to fight the Empire's foes.” They are called “stalk.* ers” because of their ability to crawl up close, surprise, and defeat superior forces. They are wonderfully resourceful in overcoming barbed wire entanglements. Not a single stalker has surrendered, and they have taken tens of thousands of prisoners.

These outbursts are specially amusing, in view of the fact that General Holmes has been promoted to be temporary commander of tho Second Australian Division.

THE NATION'S' TASK

A PLEA FOR YOUNGER MILITARY COMMANDERS.

** Times” and Sydney "Sun” Service*. (Received January 25, 5.6 p.m.) " _ LONDON, January (24. Mr Sidney Low, the well-known author and journalist, in an article in the “Daily Mail/’ points out that the country is at length awakening to the magnitude of her .task, and tackling the war in earnest; yot an essential change required is the retirement of elderly commanders who have failed to rise to an emergency and brought disaster, with temple loss, to valient troops. A number of younger officers still in the prime of life, were tested at Mona and Le Cateau, in the exacting service imposed by the new conditions of warfare. They ought to he given a chance before their powers diminish and while they are still at the top of their form. The winnowing process is conspicuous in the Russian and French armies.