CULMINATING CRISIS OF THE WAR

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 116, 2 February 1918, Page 9

CULMINATING CRISIS OF THE WAR

PRESIDENT WILSON ON THE OUTLOOK "ALLIES MUST AND SHALL • x WIN!" ' Washington, January 31. President Wilson, in a statement . asking the nation's farmers to pledge . 1 their lives and fortunes to,.the securing of victory of the forces fighting for the world's freedom, said: "The Allied armies depend for sustenance in an extraordinary and unexpected degree on us. It will be our glory after the war that we made-a supreme sacrifice ' by supplying them with abundant materials. We mil fight for the United States libovtv and self-government tlio •same as . during the revolution. Our future lies in the balance. Failure to secure victory means that our whole economic development will como under the sinister influences of foreign control. -The Allies must'and-shall wm. The'' cooperation of" the "tarmers will materially hasten the triumphant conclusion of this great and last war. The culminating crisis of the war.- has arrived. This year's achievements must determine the issue."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable 'Assn. FIFTY-THREE MILLION LOAN TO GREAT BRITAIN. (Rec. February 1, 5.5 p.m.) . , Washington, January 31. The United: States Government has granted a loan to Great Britain of 265,000,000 dollars (£53,000,000).— Cable Assn.