"STAND-TO" CALL TO AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 214, 29 May 1918, Page 5

"STAND-TO" CALL TO AMERICA

PRESIDENT WILSON'S APPEAL TO CONGRESS Washington, May 27. President Wilson, addressing Congress, said lliat both Houses must lay polities aside und remain in session until they had enacted the new war (ax laws to finance the growing cost of tho war and prepare tlio country for its coming great burden. The need for suppressing profiteering was now urgent, and Congress must act without fenr of political consequences. Tile plans which involved a working agreement by both parties had fallen through, and therefore Congress must step into tho breach. It was impossible to wait another year to determine the new taxation, which was now required. In closing his address, President Wilson broke precedent by addressing the House extempore, and announcing that the German drive had begun on tho Western front, and that it added point lo the solemnity of the duty flow devolving upon Congress. "We are not only in the midst of war." said ■ tho President, "lint at tho very peak of tho crisis of the war. Hundreds of thousands of American troops are'in the field, and ships are carrying more lo France. Our home efforts must accordingly. be augmented."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. AMERICAN WAR 'PLANES ARRIVING New York, May 27. The New York "Times" correspondent on the American front reports that the'first American aeroplanes equipped with Liberty motors have arrived on the West front—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.