AMERICA AND BRITAIN.

Otago Witness, Issue 3201, 21 July 1915, Page 30

AMERICA AND BRITAIN.

LONDON, July IG. It is semiofficially announced at Washington that the meat-packers have persuaded the Government to actively push their case against the British Admiralty. The Germans are delighted at the reappearance at this juncture of American trade grievances. Realising that the last German Note is impassible of acceptance, they are trying through Count Berustorff to persuade the Americans that the only terms upon which Berlin will withdraw from her present stand are that President Wilson shall approach Great Britain and secure a compromise of the blockade. Nobody believes that the move will be successful. INFLUENCING AMERICAN OPINION. LONDON, July 16. The Press Bureau states that the Government is calling attention to an advertisement in the American Machinist of May 6 relating to a new shell, wherein two explosive acids are used to explode the shell. The combination causes a terrific explosion, and fragments of the coated acids cause death in terrible agony in four hours unless the wounds are immediately cauterised or the limbs amputated, as there is no antidote to counteract the poison. The Government states that the advertisement is not genuine, and is designed to create a false impression. No order was given for such an explosive in America or elsewhere, nor does the Government contemplate using such an invention. IN THE CAMEROON'S. ANOTHER ALLIES’ SUCCESS. LONDON, July 16. Official: The Allies have occupied Mgaundere, an important town in the Central Cameroons, at slight loss.