AMERICA’S PART.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1918, Page 3

AMERICA’S PART.

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AMERICAN AIRMEN

(Received This Day at 11.15 a.in.) WASHINGTON, June 21. A number of American airmen hatfo arrived in Italy. One bombed Piaffe bridges.

SIIIPB GILDING PROGRA'MME,

WASHINGTON Juno 21

United' States shipbuilding programme is proceeding without labour troubles. According to . tho Chairman Mr Hurley, there are half a million workers employed.

TO FLY THE ATLANTIC.

I (Received This Day at 11.15 a.m.) i WASHINGTON, June 21. j Major-General Ilrackner of the British j Air Ministry, states American airplanes. • ought to he able to fly the Atlantic next ; summer. Braekener is here co-operat- i ing for the American air output. Brackener further states that the British Air Council has definitely decided to attempt trans-Atlantic flights in order to find n j route for the movement of American j aircraft to the front. An initial flight . will probably be made in the .Autumn by British machines touching at Azores and Portugal. The estimated time is forty hours. ’(•

I CANADIAN LADS. (Received This Day at 11.15 a.m.) OTTAWA, June 21. Fifty thoußsand Canadians, aged nineteen registered for service under conscription. TO JOIN THE ARMY. (Received Tin’s Day at 11.15 a.m.) WASHINGTON, June 21. The authorities have approved of legislation permitting Jugo-Slavs Cznchoglovaks, and Poles, in United States to take up some arms again Austria by becoming units of the American Army. This will add 200,000 to 500,000 troops to the American Army and widen the rift between those races and Austria.