UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1915, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

PRESIDENT'S TRIUMPH. COUNT BERNSTORFF'S NOTE. Received September 2, 9.2 p.m. Washington, September 2. Delighted at the German decision, President Wilson feels that his patient and firm attitude has been fully vindicated. Ministerial circles regard it as a triumph for international! law and the rights of humanity. President Wilson's election is now believed to be assured. Count Bcrnstorff wrote to Mr. Lansing as follows: "Although I am aware that you do not wish to discuss the Lusitania question until the Arabic incident is definitely and satisfactorily settled, I desire to inform you of Germany's acceptance of the principle, because this policy had been decided upon by my Government before the Arabic sinking "occurred." The fact that Count Bernstorff's letter was due to Mr. Lansing's request for a written statement is regarded as proof of President Wilson's insistence for final and definite assurances concerning Germany's future submarine policy. IRONICAL PRESS COMMENT. KAISER NOT BESTOWING FAVORS. Received September 2, 9.20 p.m. New York, September 2. The newspapers express satisfaction, but much of the comment is ironical, declaring that it must not be construed that the Kaiser favors. The Tribune says that Germany is not 'making any concession or sacrifices, but merely foregoing illegal and inhuman 'practices, and abandoning her policy of assassination. The Evening Post says the Germans are abandoning anarchy, believing it more profitable to do so, not because they like us. THE EXCHANGE MARKET. ANXIOUS' DAYS PROBABLE. . Received Sept. 2, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 1. There hae been further movements in American exchange, with a substantial decline to four dollars 48 cents, recover'ing to four dollars 53 cents. There are probably more anxious days ahead, but the remedy is not far distant, DYNAMITE OUTRAGES. ORGANISING A REIGN OF TERROR. New York, September I. An extraordinary series of dynamiting outrages is breaking out in ammunition and powder plants in the United States. It is unquestionable that German secret agents are organising a reign of terrorism and engineering strikes in America. The secret service is investigating the matter. ENEMY DRILLING. TO REPEL CANADIAN INVASION. Washington, September 1. Reports confirm the statement that Germans and Austrians are quietly drilling in their Turnverein Halls, professedly to repel a Canadian invasion. The Department of Justice is dealing with the subject. , A German student at Pennsylvania University is suspected of espionage. He was drawing the Deleware River fortifications. AUSTRIAN WORKMEN WARNED. Amsterdam September 1. The Austro-Hungarian Government announces that all subjects working in neutral countries, particularly in America, employed in factories producing war material for the Allies are liable to ten years' penal servitudde or capital punishment, SELF-CONFESSED SPY. New York, September 1. Ignatius Lincoln, the self-confessed German spy, who was formerly a member of the British Parliament," has been arrested on a charge of forgery and his extradition demanded. Lincoln declares that the British secret service wishes to get him to England simply to shoot him as a spy. LOAN TO ALLIES SUGGESTED. London, September 1. American bankers fear a further decline on the exchange and a consequent loss of British orders. There is a renewal of the suggestions of a big allied loan. New York does not want more gold,