AMERICA AT WAR.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15873, 12 April 1917, Page 7

AMERICA AT WAR.

MORE GERMAN PLOTS

CONGRESS BUILDING

THREATENED

(By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) WASHINGTON, April 10. The number of guards at the Capitol has been increased in oonsequence of reports of a plot to blow up the Congressional Buildings. TO DISLOCATE COAL OUTPUT. WASHINGTON, April 10. A German plot to dislocate tho entire Western Pennsyivanian coalfields has been discovered at Pittsburg. i

A MARRIAGE BOOM. TO ESCAPE CONSCRIPTION. WASHINGTON, April 10. Thousands of men of military ago in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco arc besieging the registry offices for marriage licenses in order to escapo conscription. Chicago already records that 1100 licenses have been granted. THE WHEAT YIELD. PLAN TO AiSSIETT THE ALLIES. WASHINGTON, April 10. A conference of agricultural experts is being held at St. Louis under tho direction of the Secretary of Agriculture to devise means of increasing the 1 wheat yield to assist the Allies. It is suggested that a limit should be put on the amount of grain for breweries and distilleries, and that a greater }K-rcentage of flour should bo milled. LIMITING WAR PROFITS. WASHINGTON, April 10. President Wilson's advisers aro urging that the Government's intended prohibition of excessive war profits should apply not only to American contracts, but also to those with the AlJias. BRAZIL WILL FIGHT. RELATIONS WITH GERMANY BROKEN. LONDON, April 10. Brazil has broken off relations with Germany. FINANCIAL PROBLEMS. PIERPONT MORGAN OFFERS HIS SERVICES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received April 12th, 1.35 a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 10; Tho House of Representatives has agreed to issue 5,000,000,000 dollars in war bonds, and also 2,000,000,000 dollars in war certificates later, redeemable at the expiration of a ye/u*. Mr Pierpont Morgan offers his services in dealing with financial problems and equipping the army and navy. ARGENTINE'S SUPPORT. SOLIDARITY IN UNITED STATES. QUESTION OF EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received April 12tli, 1.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 10. Tho Argentine has issued a Note expressing solidarity with tho United States policy. The "New York Times" Washington correspondent says an Expeditionary Force will not bo sent to Europe until a million men are in training.

MUNITIONS EXPLOSION. ALL PHILADELPHIA SHAKEN. ' ' FIFTY LIVES LOST. WASHINGTON, April 10. A telegram from Philadelphia states that the Baldwin Locomotive Munitions Factory at Eddystone was destroyed by an explosion. The buildings were completely destroyed and tlie whole of Philadelphia was shaken. It is estimated that fifty lives were lost in tho exulosion, whilo 300 persons, mostlv women, were injured. THOUSANDS OF CANADIANS READY. (FROM A SPECIAL CORKESroVDEXT.) SAN FRANCISCO, March 13. Canada is making active preparations to take a prominent part in the great Allied offensive on the Western front this spring. Thousands of troops have arrived in Now Brunswick within the last few weeks for final training before embarking at Halifax, Nova Sootia, for England. The housing and feeding of theso troops has proved quite a problem, but it is being met successfully and has brought increased business "prosperity to the province. Major-General Lessard, InspectorGeneral for Eastern Canada, has been in St. John, New Brunswick, supervising the work of mobilisation. Ho recently was quoted as saying that 100,000 additional men would bo needed within the next few months to offset possible casualties in the spring offensive and to keep the Canadian divisions at their full strength. The presence of largo numbers of troops has stimulated recruiting. Since tho provincial election the work of enlistment has been taken up with increased vigour, and a close competition has developed among the different units. Churches have opened their doors to recruiting parties, and appeals from the pulpit and altar for Canadians "to do tlieir bit" is meeting with a ready response. Officers and raon alike express confidence that tho war is approaching its final stage, and all are eager for service at the front. Increased activity ou the part of German submarines in the Atlantic has caused little concern. Officials point out that not one life was lost in tho transportation overseas of more than 300,000 Canadian soldiers, and they confidently expect this record will be kept up. The transports are adequately armed and convoyed.

STRAIGHT TALK TO AMERICANS. (from a special correspondent.* SAN FRANCISCO, March 13. Out of tho -welter of America's discussion on her possible part in tho war occasionally there is something illuminating in the expressions of some of the public characters. Brigadier-General Joseph E. Kuhn, president of tho Army War College of America, who. until recently, was the American military attach© in Berlin, declared in an open address in NewYork at the annual dinner of the old students of West Point, that "the German people arc on the edge of starvation,'' and. "Germany is prepared to entertain terras of peace and to go ai long way to fiet them." "How long will tho war last?" exclaimed General Kuhn, who is not so German as his name might lead one to infer. "This question is frequently asked," he added. "I answer, Ido not know. It would seem as if tho strain must soon tell, and that somo ono of. the principal nations would break. And what does tho worn war mean to tho United States? One thing is certain, and that is, if wc manage to keep out wo will have all the money and Europo will have all the guns. The period of readjustment is ono fraught with grave responsibilities, in -which we may bocome involved only too early. The move for preparedness is bearing somo fruit, bnt alas! in one direction only. It is all directed toward mobilisation of our material resources. I havo scanned the horizon in vain to find any associations of the man with the musket who is prepared to grovel in tho miro and mud to dodge grenades and shells, to shiver and suffer in the cold and wet. Unless this greart American nation of free men wakes up and safeguards its priceless heritage of liberty and freo institutions it sooner or later will pay tho penalty of its self-assurance. There is but one solution of the problem—universal military training."

HUGE MOSQUITO FLEET PLANNED. A plan whereby cargo tonnage enrt bo created in tho United States "faster than Germany can sink it" has been devised by F r Huntington Clnrk, an American engineer, according to an announcement in New York, before «_ joint session of tho Automobile Club of America 1 , tho Aero Club of America, and the Motor-Boat Club of America. Tho new type of vossol, it was said, could bo built in great numbers quickly, at small cost, ana ibv men of littlo skill. Each vessel would bo mastloss, smokeless. and of diminutive size, and would have such low visibility as compared with tho great steel slups now afloat, (that it could bo scon by a submarine at barely more than a third of &he distanco at which tho 10,000 ton steamships now are detected. It was estimated that 1,000,000 'tons, or a thousand vessels of 1000 tons each, •with a speed of nine knots, could bus built at a cost of 100,000,000 dollars in a year. These boats would be 185 feet, over all with 36 feet >bean}. Tho same amount of tonnage, with a speed ol" 14 knots, it was said, oould bo built for 150,000,000 dollars. Clark's plan is to utilise all of tho coastal wooden shipyards.