AMERICA.

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

AMERICA.

TETANUS GERMS IN COURT PLASTER.

Received 8.45. WASHINGTON, July 19. Thfee Germans were arrested in Kansas City charged with conspiracy to scatter broadcast infectious and deadly germs under the medium of court-plaster containing tetanus germs. NAVAL REARRANGEMENTS. I EVERY BATTLESHIP IN COMMISSION. Received 8.4. L WASHINGTON, July 19. Mr. Daniels announces the re-organ-isation of the Atlantic Fleet. RearAdmiral Grant has been promoted to a vice-admiralty and command of one division of the fleet, and Admiral Mayo General in Command. Mr. Daniels stated the arrangement doubles the number, of battleships now in commission, and every battleship is fully commissioned. The purpose is to place the navy in the highest efficiency and readiness for action.

SUFFRAGETTES PARDONED. Received 11.30 a.m. WASHINGTON, July 19. President Wilson has pardoned the suffragettes (cabled on the ISth.) SWEDISH TRADE WITH GERMANY Received 9.10. WASHINGTON, July 19. The New York World’s London correspondent has authoritative information that Germany has contracted to purchase one million and a half tons of hematite from Sweden for the coming year. The ore is to be used in the manufacture of machinery tools, and carried across the Baltic, the vessels are to bo convoyed by Swedish warships* America may be asked to force Sweden to stop this trade or she will not receive American food supplies. SELECTING THE MEN FOR THE FORCES. Received 11.10. WASHINGTON, July 19. The method of selecting men to be drafted is announced. It consists of drawing key numbers, which determine the first to bo selected from each dis-< trict. The draft will probably be dranw on Friday; it will select not the only first force; but show the okder in which all registered men are to be called up.