GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 85, 9 December 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

AMERICAN DEFENCE QUESTION. Press Association —Copyright. (Rec. 9.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 8. Leading Americans have inaugurated a non-party Security League to impress upon the President and Congress the immediate necessity of investigating the country's defences. President Wilhcn anounces that he opposed the idea of Congress investigating national defences as it would create an unfavourable impression.

AMERICAN CONGEESS.

MILITARY QUESTION DISCUSSED

(Rec. 1 p.m.)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8

President Wilson opened Ccngress to-day. He asserted that the United States would never in time of peace be ready to put in the field against any nation an army of trained men.

Mr. Wilson objected entirely to com. pulsory military service, declaring it to be unnecessary.

The Democrats cheered the state raent.

Proceeding, Mr. Wilson referred to hew the United States was stunted and hindered in the growth of her mercantile marine.

Government shipping services in Central South America were imperative. The administration of the programme regarding legislation of business, is virtually completed and the road is now clear before every honest business man.

Mr. Wilson declared m conclusion that when half the world was afire the United States must be careful to make moral insurance against the spread of the conflagration. He defined certain conditions as adequate, although some Americans were nervous and excited. There was need to turn the country into a military camp.

THE PARIS BOURSE. (Eeceived 9.40 a.m.) PARIS, December 8. Brisk business was done and the Bourse closed with generally good tone. A STEAMER ASHORE. MANY LIVES LOST. (Received 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, December 8. The oil steamer Vedra is grounded at Barrow. An explosion ignited the cargo. Two people were saved and 34 were lost. TWO UNITED STATES. LONDON December S. The pastor of the Brooklyn church, in a sermon, said that when England and the colonies have helped the Motherland to light this war to a successful issue, the world will waken mj> and discover two United States —one in America and the other in England, the links binding the scattered colonies and States together will be links which Germany forged on the red-hot anvils of war.