AMERICA AT WAR

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16257, 6 July 1918, Page 9

AMERICA AT WAR

NAVAL AID FOH THE ALLIES

CEMjutet'e Telegrfina.l (Received July sth, il.iO p.m.) LONDON, July 4

Admiral SimSj speaking at an Angloi Saxon meeting, emphasised the naval friendship between America and Britain. America, he said, had at present in European waters 250 vessels, 3000 officers, and 40,000 men, serving from the White Sea to thd Adriatic. During the coming year over three times the present number of destroyers would be fighting for the while over 150 submarine chasers would soon be doing duty in tbd war one-half of which were already there.-

RECORD SHIPPING OUTPUT. (By Cable.—Pr«sa Association.—Copjrig&tJ tAuatrdliiktl and N.Z. Cable Association.) WASHINGTON, July 3. Tho United States shipping production for June was 280,4u0 deadweight tons, which is noW b record. The total production for the past six months was 1,084,670 tons; WASHINGTON, July 2.

President Wilson announces that the American soldiers at home and abroad will in January number four millions. More than a million American troops aro now iri France, of whom 276,000 wefe sent in June.. NEW YORK, July 3. Tho New York Council of Foreign Relations will entertain Mr W. M. Hughes on his return from England, arid will invite him to explain in detail the Monroe doctrine in the Pacific.

LONDON, July 4. *

NEW YORK, July 3