AMERICA'S THOUSAND MILLION LOAN

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3056, 18 April 1917, Page 7

AMERICA'S THOUSAND MILLION LOAN

BILL IN THE SENATE MEXICO'S ATTITUDE DECLARED m, c • ... ',1 ■ ' Washington, April 16. the isonata Committee has reported favourably on the Bond Bill . [The ■Administration is a skin* for authority to raise £1.0(10,000000 of which amount £600,000,000 will be used for the purchase of Entente 3! per cent, war bonds.] , : _ The Military Committee of the House of Representatives rr-jccted the principle of a selective draft recommended by President Wilson for the raising of an army. '.....• . ' Mr. W, J. Bryan lias offered his services to President Wilson in any capacity—even as a-private-in'the firing-line. President Wilson has suggested that Mr. Bryan should engapo in a recruiting campaign throughout, the country, urging the citizens to do their duty.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BRITISH FOREIGN MINISTER IN WASHINGTON _ Washington, 'April 16. Mr. A. -J. Balfour (British Foreign Secretary), who is to consult with the United States authorities as to the joint conduct of the war, has arrived here. Boston', April 16. The committee to welcome Mr. A. J. Balfour, who arrived secretly, included Rear-Admiral Fletcher, Commander Sellars, Colonel Mit.ehie, Lieuten-ant-Colonel .Crosby, .Captain Queckni<yer, and Mi-. Long, third Assistant Secretary of State. —Aus.-N.Z. Cab'o Assn. IMPORTED CHINESE AND JAPANESE TO AID FOODPRODUCTION CAMPAIGN.. (Rec. April 17, 11.20 p.m.) Washington, April 17: Congress has a Bill ready for introduction to allow of .the entry of half a, million of CJiinese and Japanese farmers during the food-production campaign. A fight OTer the measure is certain.—Router 1