AMERICAN MILITARY STORES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 288, 1 September 1919, Page 5

AMERICAN MILITARY STORES

BEING SOLD TO THE FRENCH. Paris, August 29. The Americans who. owing to 6topid red tape, liavo been obliged to burn some of the motor-cars and other military equipment which they were unable to take to America, are now delivering them ,to the French. Stocks valued' at a hundred millions sterling will be paid for in French 5 per cent, 'bonds, repayable in tea years. They include an enormous quantity of foodstuffs, among it a million pounds of frozen meat (Less than 500 tons), which is regarded as a windfall. The British are selling booty in France, inoluding wagons, engines, and hundreds of tons of steel and iron bars.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Rec. August 31, 5.5 p.m.) New York, August 29. The New York "Times" Washington correspondent states that it is announced that France will pity'the United Si,to 400,000,000 dollars (.180,000,000) for American Army property in France.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

UNITED STATES WAR EXPENDITURE GENERAL PERSHING REFUSES TO GIVE EVIDENCE. (Rec. August 31, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, August 30. General Pershing refused to testify before a Congressional sub-committee holding an investigation in Paris on the subject of war expenditure. Mr. O. E. Bland, a member of the sub-committee, characterised the General's action as one of indifference and contempt characteristic of the War Department towards tlio people's representatives during tlio war.—-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.