AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 7 June 1917, Page 5

AMERICA.

AN AMERICAN SQUADRON. IN BRAZILIAN WATERS. NEW YORK, June 5. An American squadron has arrived in Brazilian waters to relieve British and French cruisers. The police have ascertained that in January a chief official of Germany's wireless system came to America and arranged for a spying wireless service, and then proceeded to Mexico. NATIONAL REGISTRATION IN AMERICA. EIGHT TO TEN MILLIONS EXPECTED. WASHINGTON, June (5 Throughout the whole country registration was carried out without serious trouble. It is impossible f ~ ~- +! *nntr the figures. When the finals are re ccived it is expected to be from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000. Officials are elated. They say the selective draft has thoroughly vindicated the President's proclamation which was read in schools. . The opening of the booths in New York in the; moiming was marked by the sirens of hundreds of shins in the harbour and the ringing of bells. Owing to floods in Minnesota, thousands used boats to reach the registrars. Rioters at Butte, Montaut. were diss persed by troops. Several shots were fired. This was an isolated case. German agents in the Southern States failed to prevent, the registration of mountaineers.

The Negro return fr.om Uie West is incomplete, but it is believed »•« 7 •■ ■••-'- tisfactory. The numbers registered in many districts were so great that time had to be extended. Thousands ■■■<■ 21 attempted to register.

UNITED STATES LOAN TO BRITAIN. LONDON, June 5 Mr. Bonar Law stated that America . would advance Britain eighty million sterling. RECRIUTJNG IN CANADA. OTTAWA, June 5. There has been a boom in recruiting in eastern Canadian cities since the conscription proposals, enlistments having doubled. GERMANY'S INTERNAL TROUBLES. THE KAISER'S POLITICS. A POLITE HINT Received 9.40 a.m. 'AMSTERDAM, Juno (5. The Straatsburger Zeitung says the Kaiser has sent a private letter to three chiefs of the anti-Hollweg Coalition forbidding a continuance of the agitation against the Chancellor. The Kaiser considers the agitation is an at tempt to curtail the Crown's personal

prerogative and to form an opinion about the Chancellor's politics at a time when the Kaiser himself approves those politics. PARTITION OF BELGIUM. A SCHEME THAT MISCARRIED Received 9.50 a.m. AMSTERDAM, Juno G. German newspapers state that Count Hollweg visited Brussels and discussed with General Falkenhausen the question of the administrative partition of Belgium. Practically every Belgian official has declined to cooperate with Germany in the scheme to form Flem-ish-Walloon sections. Hollweg and Palkenhausen sought to find an tive, but it is expected the Belgians'' patriotism will force the postponement, of the partition.