AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 20 June 1917, Page 5

AMERICA.

LORD NORTHCLIFFE GETTING

BUSY.

ADVICE TO U. S. GOVERNMENT,

Received 9.5

NEW YORK, June 18

Lord Northeliffe has returned to New York and started to work in earnest. The day is filled by conferences and the staff is working at high pressure. Lord Northeliffe is urging- the Government to control the production of various articles in order to facilitate his task. He points out that within a few days of the outbreak of war the German Government had taken charge of factories, railroads, and supplies. The American Government must take definite i action in order to prevent soaring prices in cotton and grain, and prevent manipulation of steel and other markets and activities, otherwise it ■will.'be most difficult to accomplish results. ..- , . , , .-- _ . I AMERICA'S SOLEMN DECLARATION. TO RESTORE THE BELGIAN NATION. Received 8.50. WASHINGTON, June 19. President Wilson, in welcoming the Belgian Commission, said: "Americans glory in the unflinching heroism of the Belgian people and their sovereign. I welcome the opportunity of expressing our solemn determination on the inevitable day of victory that Belgium shall be restored tc a place so richly won among the self-respect-ing nations of- the earth." ANOTHER ENEMY FOR THE HUNS Received 8.50. WASHINGTON, June 19. It is announced that Hayti -has severed relations with Germany. AMERICAN LOANS TO THE ALLIES BEING SPENT IN AMERICA. AT RATE FTFTY MILLIONS A DAY" Received 5.45 a.m. NEW YORK, June 19. Lord Northcliffe, interviewed, said: "I am conscious of the gigantic task of organisation wherein I am engaged. Much has been said regarding American loans to Britain. We are spending all the money here at a rate of more tljftn fifty million dollars weekly. One day last week we placed a single contract of forty millions." BRITISH FOOD PROBLEM THE PRICE OF N.Z. MEAT. LONDON, June 19. Mr. Roberts, interrogated in the House of Commons, said that New Zealand lamb landed in Britain at 8d per lb, was sold to the retailer at lOld. The Pood Ministry was considering retail meat prices. IN CANADA CANADIAN CONSCRIPTION. 600,000 MEN AVAILABLE. Received 8.45 a.m. OTTAWA, June 19. On the Second Reading of the Conscription Bill, Sir R L. Borden said one million and a half men were available for military servicje, jof Twhom seven hundred and sixty thousand were single men between the ages of twenty and thirty-four, and men available would be six hundred thousand. No anew principle was involved, as the Canadian Militia Act covered the precise ground, except that involved in "balloting. The present method was the fairest to economic welfare.