WAR NEWS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5348, 3 February 1916, Page 6

WAR NEWS.

TEDDY ROOSEVELT TALKS

GERMANY DENOUNCED.

Electric Telegraph—Press Association.

CoDvritrht.

New York, Last Night.

Mr Roosevelt, in an •address «t Brooklyn Institute, declared that a year ago the German Government had been notified that it would be held to strict accountability if German submarines sank passenger ships and murdered non-combatants, but in contemptuous defiance of the warning Germany had repeatedly been the aggressor. The victims of the submarines numbered a thousand Whether the acts were perpetrated by German, Austrian or Turkish submarines it all represented the contemptuous desire of Germany to give, the United States a chance of crawlingly recanting with fine words. Now it was announced that America was going to accept money and kiss the bloody hands of the murderers, and play their game against the nations. America would have behaved more valiantly and righteously by trying to free Belgium. Mr Roosevelt denounced the suggestion to boycott the export of war materials a sail attempt to serve a despotism against democracy, a tyranny against a freedom and a wrong against a right.

WILSON ON THE BLOCK ADI

AGAINST BRITISH METHODS

London, Last Night

The “Morning Post” correspondent at Washington says it is natural for the English press to assume tliat President Wilson sees a German menace to American peace, but this is encouraging the British to wander in a fool’s pardise. Though Germany bulks larger in President Wilson's mind, the present relations between the United States and England arecausing anxiety. The language of his speech at Pittsburg was not obscure to those who knew liow serious the President regards what lie holds to be Great Britain's illegal methods at sea. President Wilson will not recognise military necessity as a justification for England carrying out « blockade which does not strictly comply with international law. The United States will not challenge England and Germany simultaneously, hut if Germany i» brought to terms England will have to face the blockade question.