UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144857, 8 December 1915, Page 3

UNITED STATES.

A SNUB TO GERMANY. BY SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received Deo. 8, 10.45 a.m.) ■WASHINGTON, Doc. 7. Answering Germany’s unprecedented protest and request for information with regard to the dismissal of tho military attaches, Mr. Lansing stated they were entirely because of their military and naval activities. PRESIDENT’S SPEECH TO CONGRESS. PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENCE. (Received Dec. 8, 11.10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Doc. 7. President Wilson opened Congress. Ho emphasised the necessity of remaining neutral during tho European war and asked for groat increases in the naval and military forces, including the creation of a continental array. The latter proposal was received in silence. President Wilson referred at length to pan-Americanism and tho full partnership between the North and South American nations. Violators of American neutrality were scathingly denounced, and new laws to deal with them wore advocated. Referring to pan-Americanism, President Wilson insisted that tho United States bad made common cause with all tho partisans of liberty on this side of tho Atlantic and would have to set aside America as a whole for tho uses of independent nations and political freedom.

ME. FORD’S MESSAGE. IGNORED BY CONGRESS. (Received Doc. 8, 1.40 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Deo. 7, Mr. Ford sent a wireless message to Congress to support his peace plans to end the European war. Congress offered no reply. MORE GERMAN INTRIGUERS. DISCOVERED BY THE GOVERNMENT. ' TIMES AND SYDNEY BON SERVICES. (Received Dec. 8, 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 7. Many high Anstro-German officials have fallen into the government’s net and are likely to bo arrested on grave charges. The government has evidence apart from the disclosures at the trials and is preparing demands for tho recall of tho Austrian consuls in New York, I’ittsburg, and Cleveland, tho charge d’affaires at Washington, and probably the German fiscal agent and Consul-General. Captvm Doyed’s plots extended to Mexico.