THE COMING OF AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 86, 4 January 1918, Page 5

THE COMING OF AMERICA

WITH SWIFT, UNCHECKED SWING TROOPS BEING RUSHED TO EUROPE FIGHTING THE SUBMARINES (Rec. January 3, 7.50 p.m.) London, January 2. Although a necessary vigilance obscures the details, it is known tiiajt America is coming into the war with a swift, quiet, and unchccketl swing. Troops are being convoyed continuously across the Atlantic in varying n ambers of ships of overy desuription, baffling tile submarines, with which there is ceaseless warfare. Thousands of craft aro hunting the submarines, which have been ordered to accept extreme risks in attacking. It is reported that German shipyards are building; at the highest pressure more powerful submarines to attack tho troopships. American training and aerial preparations in France aro nssuming a great scale. —United Service.

EFFORTS TO END THE WAR IN 1918 AMERICA'S BEST REPLY TO BREST LITOVSK NEGOTIATIONS. (Rec. January 3, 7.50 p.m.) London, January 2. "The Timos" Washington correspondent describes the grim earnestnebs with n'hich America is rushing her efforts to terminate the war m 1918. Those efforts aro regarded by America as the best reply to tho Brest Litovsk negotiations.—"The Times." STRENGTH OF THE ARMY REACHES A MILLION AND' A HALF. Washington, January 2. The personnel of tho United States Army before the war was. 265,000. It is now 1,500,000, and by the end of 1918 will reach two millions.—Aus.rI.Z. Cable ABsn. A CHANGE OF COMMANDS. (Rec. January 3, 7.50 p.m.) Washington, January 2. An official report states that General Bullard will succeed General Fibert in direct charge of General Pershing's expeditionary force.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.