UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144860, 11 December 1915, Page 3

UNITED STATES.

PR 0-e; ER MAX SEX ATOR. OX BRITISH LAWLESSNESS, (Received Deo. 11, 0.15 a.m.) WASHIXCTOX. Deo. JO, Senator Hoke Smith, in Congress, demanded that Britain cease to interfere with Ainorioan shipping. He alluded to Britain’s' inoreased lawlessness and her trampling on neutral rights, pointing out that the United States was not a dependency of Britain. He said that Germany was quite as good a friend to the United Slates as Britain was. THE POAVDER FACTOR V EXPLOSION'. 25,01)0 PEOPLE HOMELESS. (Received Dee. It, tUo a.m.) XEW YORK, Dee. 10, The. destruction at Hopewell, Virginia, due to the explosion at the Dupont Powder Works, has rendered 25,01)0, people homeless. The infuriated people lynched a negro who was caught looting. Martial law has been declared, and sespeoted persons with Gorman sympathies have been arrested. Munition shipments to the Allies will suffer heavily.