AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 16 August 1917, Page 5

AMERICA.

AMERICAN LOAN TO THE ALLIES WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. Congress is to be asked to authorise another loan of three billion dollars to the Allies. AMERICAN AEROPLANES EXPORTS TO NEUTRALS PRO: HIBITED WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. The Government is prohibiting the export of American made aeroplanes to neutrals. SUBMARINES .AT .THE .AZORES. U.S. SHIPS REPEL AN ATTACK. BALTIMORE, Aug. 14. Armed American ships at Santa Marie, in the Azolies, recently repelled an attack by a large submarine, which appeared outside the breakwater and shelled the city and and later sank seven fishing boats a hundred miles off the coast. SPANISH AFFAIRS. CRISIS IN SPAIN. MADRID STREETS THRONGED WITH STRIKERS. i MADRID, August 14. The streets are thronged with strikers and there have been conflicts with soldiers in the principal thoroughfares of Madrid. Calm has been restored in Barce-

lonia. There has been much trouble and numerous arrests in Saragossa. THE BOMB .PLOT. NORWAY PROSECUTING GERMAN AGENTS. CHRISTIANIA, Aug. 14 The “ Tidenstegen ” says that as a result of investigations into the bomb plots, the Government is prosecuting seven Finns and two Germans. All were in the pay of the German espionage headquarters at Stockholm. They are accused of espionage, also with transporting many trunks of explosives from Germany to Norway. ITALY’S KING HONOURED. BY THE FRENCH NATION. Received 11.15 a.m. PARIS, August 15. M. Poincire, accompanied by Soselli and Sonnino visited the Italian front whcr e he presented the King with ed the King with the, .......... the Froneli Military Medal, and 'Voix de Qucrre.