NO AMERICAN SHIPS ON THE SEAS.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14336, 12 February 1917, Page 5

NO AMERICAN SHIPS ON THE SEAS.

WASHINGTON HOPING AGAINST

HOPE

PEACE AT ANY PRICE

(Australian and N.Z. Gable Association)

Washington, Feb. 9.

The United States will not fight unless an American ship is proved to liave been deliberately torpedoed under circumstances admitting of no extenuation. There are no American sb-ps now on the high seas and the crisis is

petering out.

Officials are expressing a. forlorn hope that if war is averted till Count Bernstorff reaches Berlin he may assuage the Kaiser.

Mr Henry Ford announces that if there is war he will lend 100,000,000 dollars to the Government without interest. . ' '

Only the main doors of the. Capitol will hereafter be open. ~: -V .„ 'Fifty-extra police are guarding/ the jiuilding. .•';.:/:..■:::..• ;:<t; : >}'