THE TASK AHEAD

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3070, 4 May 1917, Page 5

THE TASK AHEAD

WHAT AMERICA MUST FACE A-LONG'STRUGGLE PREDICTED Washington, May 2. Addressing representatives of the) State Councils of Defence, Mr. F. K. Lane (Secretary of the Interior) warned tlie Governors that the war was likely to last lone and might finally be fought across the Atlantic unless the United States was adequately' and <v>ly preplan J'iao« were necessary for a- struggle lasting more than/one year. According to the report of.-Mr. Hoover (American Commissioner for the Relief of Belgians) Germany had still two years' supplies, plenty, of coal and iron, and eighteen million cattle with which to feed hor soldiers. Tho United States would bo humiliated if she tried to fight only by the medium of loans to the Allies.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. .

LOANS TO ITALY AND FRANCE Washington, May 2. President Wilson has approved of a temporary war loan.-, of -.£100,000,000 each for Italy and France.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ITALIAN. MISSION TO AMERICA , Rome, May 2. An Italian mission is going to the United States, headed by Prince Ferdinand of Udine.—Reuter. CENSORSHIP AUTHORISED '(Roc. May 3, 8.5 p.m.). Washington, May 3. President AVilson has authorised a' censorship.on all cables from the United States, and on> the telegraph and telephone lines to Mexico, with the object of preventing tho transmission of information to the enemy.—Center.