AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, 29 October 1917, Page 5

AMERICA.

POLISH ARMY OFFERED. TO FIGHT IN FRANCE. i . i Received 5.35. WASHINGTON, October 28. Paderewski, after a tour of the United States offers the Government to raise an army of 150,000 Poles for service in France. The United States will provide Italy with 100,000 tons of shipping immediately, mostly taken from coastal traffic AMERICAN LIBERTY LOAN. AN OVERWHELMING SUCCESS. INDESCRIBABLE ENTHUSIASM. Received 8.35. NEW YORK, October 28. There was indescribable enthusiasm. over the loan. Banks utilised all their employees as bond sellers/! Others sold in the rain that swept ■ the streets to waiting and cheering crowds. Throughout the night thousands telegraphed their subscriptions. The New York, districts total is more than half-a-billion, of which, twenty banks took more than fifteen millions each. The Guaranty Trust subscribed 105. millions. Thirteen million buttons were distributed to Bond buyers. Mr. MeAdoo says the loan is an overwhelming success.

WORLD'S WHEAT CROP. 20 PER CENT. BELOW NORMAL. Received 8.35. WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. It is announced that the world's wheat crop, excluding Russia, is 1,775,000,000 bushels, about eight-five per cent, of the amount, in normal times. ENEMY PROPERTY TO BE SEIZED WASHINGTON, Oct 27. Over-subscription has carried the Liberty Loan towards the five billion maximum. The Government is to seize the property of Bulgarians, Austrians and Turks residing in America. Edison and a large staff of assistants have returned to New York after spending ten weeks on the high seas experimenting with anti-submarine devices. The endeavoured to duplicate the U-boat methods in every detail. Edison refuses to make a statement regarding the results.