AMERICA’S PART.
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION*. —COPYRIGHT.] THEIR SUPREME DUTY. (Received. This Day at 8.50. a.in.) OTTAWA Map 14. Farmers throughout the Dominion arc making a monster protest against the conscription of farm labourers for the army. They have been infomed by Premier Borden that no matter what hardship it brings it is the duty of the country to maintain fheir reinforcements to Franco. ONE MILLION TONS COMPLETER (Received, This Day at 8.50. a.m.) WASHINGTON, May 12. The first million tons of shipping has been completed under tho direction of the United States Shipping Board and has now been launched. Sir Connon Guthrie has been appointed representative of the British Ministry of Shipping in the United States. ADDITIONAL CREDITS. WASHINGTON May 10. Additonal credits authorised for Britain amount- to two hundred million dollars; for France one hundred millions, and for Italy one hundred millions. Britain’s total indebtedness to America is 2,905,000,000; France’s 1,685,000 and Ttaly 6-50,000,00 dollars WIDE POWER-S GIVEN. (Received This Day at P. 15 a.m.) WASHINGTON, May 14. The House of Stepdesentatives passed Senator Overman’s Bill by 295 votes to two. The Bill gives wide powers to tli e President, authorising him to reorganise the Government Executive Department,
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1918, Page 2
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199AMERICA’S PART. Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1918, Page 2
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