AMERICA AND GERMANY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13698, 31 May 1915, Page 3

AMERICA AND GERMANY.

TORPEDOING OF THE NEBRASKAN

,- WASHINGTON,^ May 30. President Wilson has allowed it to be made 'known that America has decided to make a condition of entering into negotiations with Germany relative to the Luiitania that Germany shall first suspend the submarine campaign. The Government has received from BerliU another warning of the perils of steamers in war time, and recommends neutral markings as plain a.s possible and illuminated at night. The warning points out that neutral ■vessels arc? repeatedly mistaken and sunk. In one case one was .believed in the darkness to be a British vessel. : , NEW YORK, May 30. The Tribune says that if the Nebraska)! was torpedoed by a German submarine, then the .;, United States Ambassador in Berlin should be recalled and Count Berhstorff should receive his passport, and diplomatic relations should cease; Such Wi outrage should be accepted by. the United States as r an answer to its Note. It is, a declaration of the Germans' purpose, which makes further discussion impossible. . v Mr Robert Bacon, Secretary for State vi Mr Roosevelt's Cabinet, has left Lopdon, bound homewards. " He declared that war between tho. United States and Germany was surely coming. GERMANY'S EVASIVE REPLY. (Received May 31, 9.&> a.m.) , WASpWTQN, May 30. Germany suggests a postponement of consideration of President Wilson's demands until the Government lias agreed whether the Lusitania was a cruiser or a merchantman. The American Ambassador in London reports that there is evidence pointing to the torpedoing of the yNebraskan.,