AMERICAN OFFICIAL NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 July 1918, Page 3

AMERICAN OFFICIAL NEWS.

MELBOURNE, July 12. The following wireless message is made available by the United States Consul: —Washington advices state that the Czecho-Slovak forces are fighting in Siberia, with the sole idea of battling as one of the Allied forces against Germany. Their movements will be governed by orders transmitted to them through Professor T. G. Masaryk, their leader, who iR now in tho United States, and their forces number more than 100,000 trained and disciplined men, under skilful military leaders.

The Shipping Board has announced that tho production for the first weekin July averaged a rate of three million tons for the remainder of the year. If the pace is maintained, by rapidly expanding tho shipyards, the year’s out put will bo nearly 5,000,000 tons dead weight. A report from Atlantic City (New Jersey) states that the Grand Lodge of the Benevolent Order of Elks ~one of the largest fraternal organisations in the United States, has ordered the prohibition of the use of enemy alien languages in any club house. The State Department has announce! the safe arrival at Teheran, Persia, of Mr. Gordon Paddock. United States Consul %t Tabriz, who left Tabriz more than a month ago, when the Turks threatened the town. They afterwards seized the consulate, and sacked an American hospital.

A Press cable from Franco states that Quentin Roosevelt, youngest son of Jhe ex-Prcsident, downed his first German aeroplane north of Chateau Thierry