AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, 21 May 1918, Page 5

AMERICA.

INSINCERITY OF GERMAN PEACE TERMS. AMERICA WILL STAND BY RUSSIA SCATHING INDICTMENT OF GERMAN METHODS. Received 8.45 a.m. NEW YORK, May 20. President Wilson, speaking at the Red Cross demonstration, said: "We arc not to be diverted from our avowed purpose of winning the Avar by any insincere aproaches upon the subject of peace, and I can say with a clear conscience that I have tested those intentions and found them insincere. I now recognise them for what they are: An opportunity to have a free hand in the East, to carry out the purpose of conquest and exploitation. Every proposal i with regard to accommodation in the West involves a reservation in regard to the East. Therefore we intend to stand by Russia as well as France. If the enemy thinks we are going to sacrifice anybody for our own sake I can tell them now they areTmistaken. For the glory of this war, as far as we know, perhaps for the first time in history, it is am unselfish war. If they wish peace. let them'gome forward through accredited representatives ' and lay their terms pn r the table, as we laid ours v The enemy_knpws what our terms are." President Wilson eulogised the- work of :the.-.great Red Cross organisation,, which was recognised by an international agreement aftdi-treaty. One of the greatest Stains on the reputation of the German army was that it had not respected th® Red Cross. That goes to the the matter. They had not respected the instrumentality of mercy and succour which they participated in setting up as an expression of humanity. 1 AMERICAN SHIPBUILDING MAKING UP" LEEWAY. Received 11:20 a.m. NEW YORK, May 20. Mr Crawford Vaughan, interviewed at Vancouver, said the Allies need seven and a-half million tons of new : shipping this year to maintain their ground and despatch an American army of a million and a-half men to France. The United States had been backward hitherto, but now was making every effort to meet the demands. There had been no strike in any United States shipyard for months, owing to Government propaganda explanatory of their war aims. WHAT AMERICA IS DOING NEW YOEK,' May 19. Mr Hoover announced that the German meat ration has been reduced from 225 grammes to 150 grammes for each person weekly. The wheat ration in Saxony and Whittenburg has been reduced from 250 to 150 grammes per day. This is the result of the American embargo against neutrals The meat rations in England and France are being kept up to from twenty-four to thirty ounces. This is due to supplies being sent from America. Mr. Daniel named fourteen new destroyers which will be hurried to European waters_ Mr Bainbridge Colby, a member of the United States Shipping Board, in a speech said that fifty larger sized ships would be completed in June, and a larger number in July and August.