THE WAR CLOUD IN AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3033, 21 March 1917, Page 5

THE WAR CLOUD IN AMERICA

PRESIDENT SAID TO HAVE MADE

DP HIS MINI)

THE SINKING OF THE

MEMPHIS

Washington, March 19. The United States'is planning thd early manufacture and" mobilisation, of a, . fleet of small armed submarine chasers. ■■'■:, The President is also .contemplating'': the, question of compelling mosinfacturers to relinquish-contracts'for the Allies in order to undertake contracts; for the JJnited States. The -immedi- . ate expenditure of £20,000,000 recently voted by the Senate bis been authorised. It is now believed that President 'Wilson's mind is made up for actual hostilities against Germany:.. The feeling is, becoming widespread that a' declaration of. war is imperative..' The : Navy Department is 'considering : tba general mobilisation of the Atlantic - fleet.—Aus.-NJZ. Cable Assn. SURVIVORS OF THE MEMPHIS MYSTERY ABOUT • THE CAPTAIN'S: BOAT. '. • • New York, March 19. The American; Consul at' Queenstown • has notified the State Department that the captain's boat of the City of Mem- . phis has been found deserted. . There was evidence ,of hasty abandonment. It is presumed that the captain- and'nine of the crew who were in the.boat were either • rescued by a passing steamer or are imprisoned on the sub-marine.—Aus.-N.Z., Cable Assn. .;'. • COLD-BLOODED TREATMENT. ; (Rec. March 20, 10.45 p.m.) ' London, March.l 9. Fifteen of the_ Yigilancia's crew ~ were drowned. Sixteen s of the'crew of the City of Memphis were landed. : Two submarines, on.Saturday evening,' ordered the abandonment of the_ entire crew of fifty-seven in. boats within five'minutes. .The Germans refused to ' tow them, and the boats were adrift' for fourteen hours.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. .

RIFLED MAES INCIDENT ON THE SAXONIiC. . London, March 19. The Saxonia has arrived at New York from Liverpool. Twenty-six sacks of mail for tie American Government and the British Embassy. . at. Washington, were rifled en route. Deteotives searched the passengers and crew, who, later, were allowed ashore* —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . I >'• HOW THE HUN BLOCKADE HAS HIT AMERICA. Washington, March 19. i_ f American export.trade has dropped', fifty million sterling sines, tha subma- ; rine blockade began.—Reutar. FEBRMRFS SHIPPING LOSSES ACCORDING TO GERMANY. (Rec. March 20, 8.15 p!m.) .:••• Vancouver, March 19. .1 Advices from Berlin assert that 781,500 tons of merchant shipping wero destroyed during tho month of February. '