AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 21 August 1917, Page 5

AMERICA.

TO COMBAT U BOATS.

DRASTIC REGULATIONS.

Received 10.35

WASHINGTON, August 20

The Government has prescribed most drastic regulations, to come into effect on September Ist, on TransAtlantic merchant ships, in order to combat U boats. These ships must a prescribed armament, be painted in order to ensure the greatest possible invisibility, and designed to carry a minimum of a dozen smoke boxes, designed to create smoke screens when U boats are sighted.

ROUNDING UP THE I.W.W.

LEADER AND OTHERS ARRESTED

Received 10.35

NEW YORK, August 20.

Troops at Spokane, Washington, raided the I.W.W. headquarters, and arrested James Eowan, the leader and 26 others, on the eve of threatened outrages against agrionhi ;ral and construction workers in four States.

AMERICA TROOPS FOR CUBA.

WASHINGTON, 'Aug, 19

The Government has accepted the Cuban offer to send American troops to Cuba for training. The troops will be available in the event of pro-Ger-man efforts to use Cuba as a submarine or wireless base THE WHEAT SUPPLY. AN ENORMOUS SHORTAGE. WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. Mr. Hoover has issued a warning that a reduction of 25 per cent. in wheat is necessary to conserve wheat for home and Allied use. It is stated that the wheat deficit in the United States and Canada for 1917 is 400,000,000 bushels, compared with normal pre-war requirements. The approximate surplus of other cereals is 900,000,000 bushels The- South American wheat crop is largely a failure, and the next harvest will not be available there until the spring of 1918.

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GREAT FIRE AT SALONIKA. . Received 9.35. NEW YORK, Aug. 20. Advices received here state a great fire has broken out in Salonika, by which half the city was destroyed IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS FOUND WHY TINO REMAINED NEUTRAL Received 11.50. ‘ATHENS, August 20. Among the diplomatic documents found is a dispatch from Constantino dated July 25th, 1915, (old style) replying to the Kaiser’s letter dated three days earlier, wherein the Kaiser proposd that Greece should range herself on the side of the Central Powers. Constantine replied: “The Emperor well knows my personal sympathies as well as my political opinions attract me to him, but it is impossiblc to understand how I can ho useful when the ’Mediterranean is at the mercy of the Anglo-French navies, which could prevent the concentration of our troops. We would be Wiped off the map. Therefore the necessity ig imposed on us.” Von Jagow told the Greek Minister the Kaiser would understand the necessity of Greece’s neutrality.