AMERICA AND GERMANY

Otago Witness, Issue 3195, 9 June 1915, Page 31

AMERICA AND GERMANY

COUNT BERNSTORFF’S MISSION, LONDON, June 5.

President Wilson gave an audience to Count Bernstorff, whose mission is believed to be —first, to propose a compromise, Germany to abandon the submarine warfare and America to insist upon the right tp export foodstuffs to Germany; second, to learn what would be America’s utmost action in the event of a German refusal of her demands.

The Cabinet unanimously supports President Wilson in his determination not to permit a technical argument.

AMERICA’S REPLY,

WASHINGTON, June 4,

It is understood that America’s reply restates that the Lusitania was on a peaceful voyage, and unarmed. All the other points raised by Germany are irrelevant. Some newspapers indicate that President Wilson has informed Count Bernstoi’ff that henceforth the safety of life on the seas must be assured by Germany as a condition to further correspondence. LONDON, June 4.

A Rotterdam report indicates that ther< is a growing ill-feeling amongst the German soldiers towards the United States. On« corps commander invited press correspondents to dinner at headquarters, and declared that he was anxious to give them an American souvenir. He presented them, without comment, two splinters from an American shell.