AMERICA AND GERMANY

Timaru Herald, Volume CIII, Issue 15743, 30 August 1915, Page 7

AMERICA AND GERMANY

ARABIC CRISIS ENDED. OBJECT OF GERMAN CONCESSIONS. Received 3.30 p.m., Aug. 29th. NEW YORK, Aug. 28.

It is believed that Germany hopes that the United States, in return for German assurances, will endeavour f induce Great Britain to modify the blockade of Germany. President Wilson is willing to transmit any German proposal on this subject, but refuses to make the blockade question part of a bargain with Germany. The Arabic crisis is past. It is understood that President Wilson will insist upon a disavowal and an answer to the Lusitania note. It is believed that the reasons for the solution are a growing desire on the part of Germany to be magnanimous towards her enemies, and the realisation that the submarine blockade ; s proving ineffective. Berlin is silent, but an authoritative statement is expected, which will probably argue that one good turn deserves another, and that Germany will seek to move Washington to approach England with a view to securing freedom of the seas fo rail people. AVashington has al< ready clearly stated that distinct controversies should each be settled in turn, without reference to third par. ties.

AMERICA'S REQUIREMENTS

MAY NOT SUIT GERMANY.

LONDON, Aug. 28

Reutev's Washington correspondent states that the United States is pressing for the clearing up of the entire submarine controversy before considering the Arabic and Lusitania incidents closed.

GERMAN SUBMARINE WAR

NOT WORTH THE CANDLE

AVASHINGTON, Aug. 23

The general opinion is that the change in the German attitude to submarining is closely allied with the British Admiralty's avowal of important German losses, and Lord Selborne's declaration that the Navy lias the submarine menace well in hand. Tho Germans also possibly fear the moral effect of a rupture with America 011 the delicate Balkan situation. The German-American Press has only honeyed words for the United States.

AMOUR. PROPRE A FACTOR. ANTI-AMERICAN DEMONSTRATION. AMSTERDAM, Aug. 28. Newspapers in close touch with the German Admiralty are alarmed -it '.bp Government's possible intention cf disavowing the Arabic outrage, which would cause Germany's submarine warfare to. be ridiculed throughout the world.

Anti-American feeling is rising : n Berlin. The police dispersed hissing rowdies before the American Consulate.