AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 June 1918, Page 5

AMERICA.

AMERICA'S WAR EXPENDITUREi Received 9.5 a.m. WASHINGTON, June 8, Mr. MeAdoo estimates the expenditure for the year ending June will be; twenty-four billion dollars. Trfiereo? a third will be raised by direct taxation and the balance by loans. He urged higher taxes on war profits and luxuriai. f Mr. Baker has asked for the appropriation of twenty-eight millions for the establishment of twenty coast aeroplane stations, including three at Hawaii. INDICTED FOR HIGH TREASON. Received 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK, June S. Jeremiah O'Leary and six others have been indicted as alleged spies, and charged with high treason. GERMANY WANTS HER MASTER SPY, REPRISALS AGAINST AMEEICANS THREATENED. Received 8.50 a.m. WASHINGTON, June 7. Germany has threatened reprisals against Americans unless America releases Eintelen, the German spy serving a sentence in the United States. Answering this threat America states "Reprisals' will inevitably invite similar action upon great numbers of German subjects in the United States." (Of al It-he figures that the war has brought into the limelight none Jias had a more romantic career than Eintelen, the German master-spy. He was the moving spirit in the earlier stages of the war, on both sides of the Atlantic. While in America, he was one #f the shining lights in the social firmament of New York's most exclusive set, meanwhile, carrying. on and directing Germany's machinations in that country. He paid a visit to England, where he was arrested, secretly tried, and confined in the Tower waiting for his execution. Within a few hours of carrying out the sentence the United Stares Government applied for his extradition to that country, where he has for, the j past twelve months been under the : closest confinement. Eentelenj. has been indeed a man of mystery. It is . surmised that he is related to the high. ;.est: nobility in German}-, and' it has *

:.been" affirmed that he is a cousin of ; the ;Kaiser "\s_ Nothing is definitely known about him, but he is a man of : -'■ Outstanding personality, and the 'German Government has repeatedly offered to exchange any twelve of the highest prisoners in Germany for Rentele.n. But neither the British nor American Governments could be persuaded to part with their , prisoner, whose identity will probably not be known until after the war.) AMERICA SEARCHING FOR SPIES. NEW YORK, June S. The Secret Service is searching for spies, believed to be active along the Deleware coast communicating with the submarines. A seaman captured by submarines and released states that the boats had wireless communications -with some point. Arriving steamers report suspicious Jights between Sandy Hook and Virginia Cape. AMERICA'S SHIPBUILDING. Received 10.5 a.m. WASHINGTON, June 8. Seventy-one vessels, including 32 wooden, were launched during May the tonnage is 344,000. These induce the forty-four ships cabled on June sth.