TO UNIFY ALLIES' WAR PLANS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 20, 18 October 1917, Page 5

TO UNIFY ALLIES' WAR PLANS

MILITARY CONFERENCE AT PARIS ;

QUESTION OF HELPING RUSSIA , 1 WINTER CAMPAIGNS TO BE ; DISCUSSED ] Washington, October 16. j Mr. Robert Lansing (Secretary of j State) qajs that America, is considering I the advisableness of lioingr represented ; at the Allied Military Conference in, Paris this week.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. j New York, October Iff. '] The' Washington correspondent of the : { New York "Times" 6ays that the Paris ; ■ Conference is designed to unify the war i aims of the Entente and of Russia, and i particularly to consider the Entente'a ! helping Russia to regain her fighting' j efficiency and financial stability. It is -I believed tho conference will discuss ■ • j plans for the winter campaign, including j British, French, and Italian drives, the .j Balkan situation, Greece's adhesion to ■ . the Entente and consequent strengthen- ■ : ing of the armies in Macedonia, and also '■, -i the shortage of tonnage. General Per- - shing and Admiral Sims may attend the conference on behalf of the United ! States.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn, . HUGE WAR EXPENDITURE AMERICA'S OUTLAY THE LARGEST i OF THE ALLIES. j Now York, October 16. j The New York "World's" Washington: correspondent says tho United States • i 6 now paying forty miHion dollars'. j (w£B,OOO,GDO) a day, or one-fourth of the total cost of tho war. America's eipen-' ; diture is the highest, Britain's next :'■ highest, and Germany's third. Au on-' thoritative statistics! estimate gives the '■ total cost of the war up to August, 191S, i as 155 thousand million dollars (over ; 31 thousand million sterling).—Aus.-N.Z. ; Cable Assn. j Washington, October 1(5. j President Wilson has appealed to tho i State banks to conform with the Federal j Reserve system, and thus to consolidate ] the gold reserves and more effectively aid in the vigorous prosecution of the war xto a successful termination.—Aus.- "; N.Z. Cable Assn. ' \ ' STATE SHIPPING CONTROL NOW EFFECTIVE. j Washington, October 16,. The requisitioning of all American vessels over 2500 tons became effective today. Two million tons, of shipping i 5,..,,--* involved.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.