AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 4 June 1917, Page 5

AMERICA.

TkS.A. CONSCRIPTION. i i MEETING OF FOREIGNERS RAIDED. \:; NEW YORK, June 1. Soldiers invaded a meeting of 13,000 foreigners in Madison Square Garden and arrested eight distrubutors of an-ti-conscription literature. The "New York Herald" says this amounted practically to martial law. Anti-con-scriptionists have been arrested in Kansas City and Tojeka. WASHINGTON, June 1.

Officials attribute the anti-conscrip-tionist movement to Socialists, I.W.W. and pro-Germans. An official states that hundreds of German women are under surveillance. Many women are known to be in the pay of Germany". Anti-militarist documents have been seized. It is stated that a collegian antimilitarism, league, with branches in most of tie leading universities, exlists in'the east and middle west. Armed" . police attend all Socialist and I.W.W. meetings, and the authorities are determined to suppress any attempt to hinder enlistment. An order has been issued prohibiting eligibles from leaving - the United States. ' Y . _. .. AMERICAN" FORCE FOR FRANCE IN OCTOBER. BRAZIL SEIZING GERMAN SHIPS.

Beceived 9.10 a.m. ss&>. WASHINGTON, June 2. The General Staff purposes sending 125,000 men to France by October* - One hundred alleged anti-conscription plotters have been arrested. The .State Department has notified the President of Venezuela that Germany is endeavouring to purchase the Island of Margarita for the purpose of a submarine base. I The Attorney-General notifies conscientious objectors they cannot avoid military service by evading registration. KIO DE JANIEEO, June 3. The President has signed a decree for '"the utilisation of German ships interned in Brazil. There are 46 vessels, with, a tonnage of q quarter of a million. .ANTHRAX IN HONOLULU. GERMANS SUSPECTED. Eeccived 9-10 a.m.

.■*( HONOLULU, June 3. Investigation is proceeding as to whether a German plot Js responsible for the introduction of anthrax anion" cattle, many of which have died. . VIOLATIONS AND CONSPIRACY . ARBESTS IN CHICAGO. Beceived 9.10 a.m. CHICAGO, June 3. Twenty-five members of the Butter and Eggs Board have been indicted for violation of the anti-trust laws. Herr von Beisoitz, ex-eGrman Consul at Chicago, and Gustavo Christiansen have been indicted fori conspiring to foment a revolution in India. IN CHINA CHINESE SECESSION. THE MOVEIBteT SPREADING. t J£— PEKING, June 1. Shantung, Anhwei, Fukien, Manchurian, Hupeh Honana, and Cheing provinces have joined in the secession 4j§ovement. All threaten to fight unless their demands are granted in toto.