AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 4 October 1917, Page 5

AMERICA.

BRITISH WAR FOOD COMMISSION ARRIVES. NEW YORK, October 3. ; The British War Food Commission, headed by Mr O. Smith, Secretary of Munitions, has arrived in New York. It will co-operate with Lord Northcliffe. AN INTERNATIONAL DINNER. SOME REMINISCENCES. Received 9.10. NEW YORK., October 3. The first International dinner was held at the Canadian Club. Captain Bishop, the Canadian aviator described how in five months he had brought down 47 German aeroplanes, including nine in one day. Mr T. P. O'Connor, M.P., said no Irishman could hesitate wholeheartedly to assist the. Allies. Australia and Canada had demonstrated their rights to the fullest consultation in shaping the Allies' policy, Mr. Kniyett, an Australian officer, said the Germans, on one occasion, cut off the hands of, {the wounded, t , and placed them on the top of the trenches Mr. Hogle, a Sydneyite, was present. LIGHTNING THE EMBARGO ON NEUTRALS. ■'■' CONCERTED ACTION TO BE : TAKEN . Received 9.10. WASHINGTON, October 3. It is expected I the British embargo on the northern European neutrals will be followed by concerted action by the Allies, absolutely preventing goods entering the countries under embargo. It is stated that Holland "in one year sent Germany enough food for one million soldiers. A BIG REVENUE BILL. Received 9.10. WASHINGTON, October 3. The Senate has adopted'the Revenue Bill, yielding two and a half millions. HORRIBLE TREATMENT OF BELGIANS. SOME DRIVEN MAD. Received 8.45. NEW YORK, October 3 The Belgian Government has given the New York Times an official report on the sufferings of Belgian deporteds. It is an exaggeration to say that they are being starved, yet despite utter weakness they are driven like slaves to the heaviest., work. The guards use clubs on the sick and exhausted. One who complained was beaten to death with a rifle butt. The treatment has rendered many hopeless Hungry men were taunted and maddened by the sight of food which they were not allowed to eat. FRENCH TRAITOR. BRIBE OP £400,000. - PARIS, October 2. M. Humbert (director of th§ newspaper "Le Journal") announces that he is repaying the £220,000 sterling w-hich 8010, arrested on Saturday for espionage, paid for the purchase of an interest in the paper. 8010 attended a conference at Zurich in 1915 and there acepted the offer of Herr von Jagow's (German Foreign Minister) of ten million marks 000), in monthly instalments of a million, for the purchase of French newspapers. M. Humbert declares that Bolo's investment has not affected the "Journal's" policy, which consistently favoured a vigorous war.