MIGHTY STROKE BY AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 206, 20 May 1918, Page 5

MIGHTY STROKE BY AMERICA

HINT OF NEW WAR EFFORT

IN PRESIDENT'S SPEECH

TO-DAY

(Kcc. May 19, 5.5 p.m.) Now York, May 18. President Wilson lins arrival in New lork, where, ho will address n Ked Cross mooting to-day. Tho Oniti-d Press correspondent says that President Wilson will point out that tho United States must prepare for further sacrifices in order to frustrate Germany's aggressive I Plans, lho United Stntes is preparing ! ;} mighty stroke before the close of 1910 : J. he H ar Department has asked the Ship- '■ ping Board to increase its 1919 plans by , 6!) per cent. Advance contracts havo i Been let in anticipation of an enormous : iorce of Americans which is expected to i be. sent to the West front. President j jwison will emphasise that a just peace is possible only by crushing German militansm.-Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. NO LIMIT TO THeTuMBER OF MEN PRESIDENT'S DECLARATION. (Rec. May in, n.io p.m.) „ ~ New York, May is. President \V llson, speaking at t'hoUrd Gross meeting, sai<l that there was no limit to .tho number of men America would (send to France. Tho United States intended, to si and by Hiissia as well as Franco. Ex-President Tar';:, in n speech at tho Philadelphia Wiii-the-Wa.v Convention, said that the United States would hitvo an army of 320,000 (? 3.200,fiQ0) by tho end of this year. ;.ml 5.4(10,01)0 by tlic end of inia.-Aus.-N.Z. Cabio Asbii. '