AMERICAN-GERMAN TENSION INCREASING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16892, 7 February 1917, Page 5

AMERICAN-GERMAN TENSION INCREASING

GERMAN SUBMARINE REPORTED TO HAVE KILLED U.S. SAILOR.

fiERMANS CRIPPLING INTERNED SHIPS.

SIX MILLIONS 1 WORTH OF MAGHINEmr DESTROYED tH NEW YORK ALONE.

EXPECTED BREAK WITH AUSTRIA.

WELL-KH9WH N.Z. STEAMER SUNK.

America and Germany are not yet. at War. If it be true that a German subuiai'i^Q fired on the'boats containing th e cre>v of ai sunken ship, and thereby siiie.d an American, seaman, America should by this time nave taken the deiisiyestep. Perhaps it was not an American who was ..killed. In any case, America is making extensive preparations for war. Germany evidently does not regard the position too hopefully, for orders were sent to the crews of chips .interned in American harbours to blow up tho machinery. This has been clone a vengeance, machinery to the value of six millions sterling haying been destroyed in ships lying in New York harbour alone. Ruthless submarining >is still being carried on, one of the latest .victims being the Port Adelaide, (better known as the Indrapura),.a well-known trader to New Zealand. She le|t London during ,the week-end. > Xf Of the land operations little is reported. The British are still successfully ,the German lines at various points, and everything points to a big offensive starting very soon. In Mesopotamia the .British have made substantial progress. \ ■ > The breaking :of diplomatic relations between America and Austria is re- ■-" garcled1 as a matter of hours. Bulgaria and Turkey are expected to be treated 1 ■ simila;rly> ■ ; V ' ■■'-■'.-.■

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TURKEY'S CONDITION.

f A GLOOMY PICTURfc

(Admiralty, per wireless.} •Received February 6, 10 p.m. v ' ' LONDON, February \>.

The1 German Government has re-

ceived news that the Grand Vizie^ has resigned owing to health reasons. ' Talaat is forming a Cabinet, in vhich Bnver will be Minister ot War, Djemal Pasha, Minister of Marine, and Nessim Bey, Minister of / Foreign Affairs.

! The "Daily Chronicle's" Amsterdam correspondent/ says: A weli-' ■ known commercial and financial mayDate in Constantinople has arrived. He ,paints a gloomy picture of tne condition of the people in Constantinople. -They are starving. Dozens perish daily from typhus, cholera and plaguei; At present a" terrifying '*$$&H of famine threatens European Turkey. The city is in a con-dition-of repulsive dirtiness WelitOHilo men, when passing through the streets are assailed by an insistent mob of beggars, many of whom are maimed soldiers, who whine of their v&rto^s' miseries. There are many suicides daily. Enver Pasha has swept into the military net all ablebodied men and forced many thoucnnds of women and.children to work iff factories. Good judges estimate that Turkey has already lost 1 % million men. Germans are filling all the" higher commands. The Turkish soldiery are only kept in order dv Vicious and constant corporal' punishment. Even during actual fighting, Turkish soldiers are hauled fro/n the; r.anks and severely chastised. The Germans make unceasing demands on the Turks for reiriforcomsniKXo fill gaps in the Balkan armies. The demands always create n- , sentment and anger in Turkish military circles, which strongly hold that Turkey-is primarily concerned in Asia. Work is unceasing at the Government munition factories under , or r emen from Krupps. Many new factories have been erected.,, The flu- ; ancial position is anarchic. . Bettor class Turks feel that Turkey will lose : whafcjyer happens. - She should have kept friendly with Britain, but th*-y point out that Enver, Talaat and Dj.>mal have received enormous sums of money. There is no p OSS v ||pof a rebellion, as the German Po^ce keep, order with iron despot-

'■:■ WASHINGTON, February 5 2000 Americans in Turkey and the Vjßtaps to make a demonstration to P||Vent a,massacre.