AMERICA AND BRITAIN.

Otago Witness, Issue 3215, 27 October 1915, Page 20

AMERICA AND BRITAIN.

WASHINGTON, October 22. President Wilson has approved a lengthy Note to Great Britain complaining of interference with American trade. October 23. The United States Government has sanctioned the formation of an Overseas Trust Company to handle American products abroad, with assurances that these will not reach anv of the belligerents belonging to the Teutonic combination. The company is exactly on the lines of the Netherlands Overseas Trust Company. The formation of the company is regarded as a notable success of British diplomacy, and it will tend to obviate existing causes of friction regarding trade with Britain and the United States. DISCOVERY IN CHINA. SHANGHAI, October 22. The police seized 13 revolvers and 20,000 cartridges packed in tins and hidden in furniture. Three Chinamen, who have been arrested, state that a German agent engaged them to take the goods to India, explaining that the tins contained medicine. PEKING, October 23. The Allies have discovered 24 cotton plantations in the interior of China, which the Germans have bought up, sneaking the product through the blockade. THE INDIAN NATIONALISTS. SYDNEY, October 24. The Premier’s attention has been drawn to further evidence of a secret propaganda by the distribution of a circular, apparently emanating from German sources in America, alleging British atrocities after the Indian Mutiny and British and Russian atrocities* in Persia. The circular adds that India is now at war wdth Britain, and the Nationalists, by waging a guerrilla warfare, may emancipate themselves from the hated British yoke. The circular is illustrated by obviously faked photographs.