AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 14 April 1917, Page 5

AMERICA.

AMERICAN FLEET’S CO-OPERA-TION. Received 9.5. LONDON, April 13. Rear-Admiral Sims, of the United States’ Navy has arrived to discuss with the British Admiralty the best means of the American Fleet’s co-oper-ation.

FEW RECRUITS OFFERING

FOR AMERICAN ARMY

Received 11.40

WASHINGTON, April 13

Official figures show that at the present rate of recruiting in the United States it will require six years to raise an army of a million men.

AMERICA TO BUILD SHIPS.

THREE SHIPS TO BE TURNED

OUT DAILY

WASHINGTON, April 12

Commenting on war preparations, Reuter’s correspondent says that President Wilson believes America can do the greatest service to the Allies by providing an Armada of merchantmen to invalidate the under-sea cam-

paign. The country’s entire shipbuilding facilities, including 100 new plants, will construct a fleet of wooden ships of 2000 tons and upwards. The first year’s production will average three ships daily. The vessels will be armed. Goethals, the builder of the Panama Canal, will be in charge of the scheme.

SOUTH AMERICAN PREPARATIONS.

RIO JANEIRO, April 12

The Government is equipping a strong contingent, which will be concentrated in the States of Rio Grange Do Sul, Parana and Santa Catherina, where Germans are numerous. , BUENOS AYRES, April 12. The Government is increasing the number of effectives in the army and navy. PARIS, April 12. A wireless says a rupture between Uruguay and Germany is expected. Uruguay is mobilising. CARRANZA ASSURES AMERICA WASHINGTON, April 12.

Carranza has transmitted positive assurances to Mr. Lansing that the oil supplies at Tampico and other Mexican sources will not be denied to the United States or Britain.

WHY AMERICA ENTERED THE WAR.

LONDON, April 12

Speaking at the American luncheon to Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Page said: We have set out to help • an enterprise having as its object the making of the earth as a place worth living in. W e -have come in answer to the high call of duty, not for any material reward or territory or indemnity or conquest or anything. We have only the high duty to succour democracy when it is desperately assailed. Mr. Lloyd George, in the course of his reply, said: When Americans were told they would not be allowed to cross or recross the Atlantic except at their peril, they could not think it possible that any sane people should behave in that manner. They tolerated it once, they tolerated it twice, until at last it became clear that the Germans really meant it. Then America acted, and acted promptly. Hindenburg’s line was drawn along the shores of America, and Americans were told they must not cross it. America said, “What’s this?” Germany said, “This is our line beyond which you must not go,” and America said: “The place for that line is not the Atlantic, but on the Rhine, and we must help you to roll it up.” And they have started on the road to victory. The absolute assurance of victory must be found in one word, “ships.” With characteristic keenness, the Americans fully realised that, and already have arranged to build a thousand 3000-tonners for the Atlantic trade. The British are a : slow, blundering people, but they get there. The Americans get there sooner. That is why I am glad to see them in. We have been three years in this business, and , having got through every blunder, we have got a good start. Now we are right out on our course. I suggest that America study Britain’s blunders and start where she now is—not where she started.