AMERICA AT WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 11 April 1917, Page 5

AMERICA AT WAR.

A RUSH FOB MARRIAGE LICENCES TO 'AVOID CONSCRIPTION. A GERMAN PLOT DISCOVERED, v Received 9.15. WASHINGTON, April 10. Thousands of men of military age at New York, Chicago, and San Francisco are beseiging the Registry Offices for marriage licenses in order to escape conscription. Chicago already records eleven hundred. It is estimated there are fifty dead as v. result of the Eddystone explosion, and three hundred injured, mostly women. A German plot to dislocate the entire Western Pennsylvanian coalfields has been discovered at Pittsburg. A conference of agricultural experts is being held at St. Louis under the direction of th e Secretary of Agriculture to devise means of increasing the wheat yield to assist the allies. A limit is suggested for grain for breweries and distilleries and mills, and a greater percentage of flour. President" Wilson's advisers are advising that "the Government's intended prohibition of excessive war profits : 6JMpuld apply riot only to American con- * 'tracts, but also to the allies. WASHINGTON, April 10. The American freighter Sward was torpedoed in the Mediterranean without warning. There were no casualties.

ELABORATE DEFENSIVE PLANS

WASHINGTON, April 10. Elaborate plans have been made for the protection of the American coast. There is a great fleet of destroyers, submarine chasers, converted yachts, trawlers and motor boats patrolling.

The British and French Ambassadors held a conference with Mr. Lansing regarding plans for joint action. A Munitions Board has been established.

A five billion bond bill has been introduced. On Thursday, Senator "Weeks will propose a War Committee of twelve Congressmen. Munition-makers are likely to reduce their prices to the Allies. MR. GERARD REMINISCENT. WASHINGTON, April 10. Mr. Gerard, in a speech, said: The German townspeople were punished for giving water to a trainload of famished Canadian prisoners. I have seen German boys shoot arrows tipped with nails at prisoners. Sheep dogs trained to bite prisoners, were taken through the camps. French and British prisoners wer e housed with ty-phoid-infected Russians. AMERICAN LINER MINED. MUNITIONS FACTORY BLOWN UP. PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES

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WASHINGTON, April 10

The liner New York struck a mine in the Irish Sea. There were no casualties, and she is being docked.

A Philadelphia telegram states that the Baldwin locomotive and munitions factory at Eddystone was destroyed by an explosion. ,"siany killed and one hundred injured, and the buildings were destroyed. Philadelphia was shaken.

Guards at th e Capitol have been increased in consequence of reports of ,j?jpts to blow up the Congressional buildings-