AMERICA SPURNS GERMANY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16892, 5 February 1917, Page 5

AMERICA SPURNS GERMANY.

4ERNSTORFF DISMISSED AND MR. GERARD RECALLED.

:m ready to strike.

WAITING FOR GERMANY TO INJURE AN AMERICAN SUBJECT.

BRITISH NAVY READY FOR SUBMARINES,

i "*• ■.-..... • ■ ■ SUPER-FRIGHTFULNESS BEGINS, BUT DOES NOT FKIGHTiiN BRITAIN.

has given Count Bernstortf (German ' Ambassador at Washington) Jhis passports, and orderd Me Gerard (American Ambassador at Beriin) to ietturn home. Diplomatic relations have been severed, and, if Germany carries tout her threat to fiink American ships, America will declare war on Germany. flhere is a report that an America ship has already been sunk. If that report •proves tihie, irfc shall have interesting news to-morrow. The American people apparently enthusiastically endorse the President's action.

' Oia' ihe other side of the Atlantic, it Jlv.w said Germany has begun superjFrightfulness, but she do.es not seem to have greatly frightened Britain yet. iTh« Admiralty isr eported to have made preparations to meet Germany's new (Campaign, and the country i 9 told that there is nothing to worry about. The Fo'tsdtim Pirate has failed to frighten British sailors and firemen, who have issued1 a statement whic shows that they are made of the right stuff. Another fine tribute to the Navy^is the fact that the underwriters have decided not to increase their rates of insurance.

!' German troops and guns are being concentrated on the frontiers of benmark "and Holland. ' t '•■ The British Food Controller has made a last appeal to the people of Britain to cut down their tood consumption. If the quantites he names are er ceded.'lie will introduce rationing, the machinery for which is ready.

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BRITISH FOOD RESTRIC* * TIONS.

ANNOtINCEMENT feY FOOD

RATIONING THREATENED

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PEOPLE GIVEN CHANCE TO v ECOpVHSE.

A CALL TO HONOUR AND PATRIOTISM.

■ fsus r p : =N.Z,;'' Cable As&n. & Reuter. •) -ißeceived February 4, 5.30 p.m. . S ™;\'C: "LONDON, February 3. Slie.-Piieiss.Bureau says: The Food Controller issues a notice as to the urgent necessity to curtail consumpfioTi,S:fii& Controller states it is only possible to maintain an adequate margin to meet the actual situation an&»contingencies by adopting a sy?*tem^bf' average apportionment. He is unwilling to adopt ■'- compulsory rationrag unless necessary and: relies dn^thV'people's honour and sense of patriotism to preserve voluntarily th© following average weekly con*umption per heatf—four pounds of thread;' 3 % pounds of meat; threequarters pt a pound of sugar. > He points out that if everybody reduced consuinptidii by one pound of bread and. Half a pound of meat weekly, thp^e .lyould be: a saving of dyer a miiiion tons of food yearly. Meani while machinery for rationing is 'being "organised in,case of necessity.