PRO-GERMAN TRAITORS IN AMERICA
A SENSATIONAL SPEECH
"SHOULD BE SHOT AT
SUNRISE "
New York, August IG. An enormous sensation has been cans- ' ed by a speech by .Mr. Elihu Boot, condemning the leniency shown to pro- • Germans in ihe United States. "Pro- ; Gorman traitors, in and out of Con- i gress," he said, "are endeavonripg .to. : make America's preparations-ea ineffecr j live that our manhood will meet defeat s in the firing line. They are covering ; themselves with a cloak of pretended ; Americanism. If we are competent and ; fit for our liberty, we will find them out ' and get at them. There are men in ; New York who ought, to' be shot to- | morrow at sunrise for treason. There are- also in New York tditors deserving * election for treason. Sooner or later j they will get it."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. j ■ DEALINGS IN WHEAT AND RYE ; PRESIDENT AUTHORISES • I LICENCES. ■ ; Washington, August 16.. .; President Wils.in has issued a pro. ; clamatiou licensing dealings in wheat j and rye, which begin on September .1. \ A corporation, with a capital .of ! J610.000.000, has been organised to pur- ; chase grain for the United States and I the Allies.—Aus;-N.Z. Cable Assn. . j
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3167, 18 August 1917, Page 7
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196PRO-GERMAN TRAITORS IN AMERICA Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3167, 18 August 1917, Page 7
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