AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, 24 June 1918, Page 5

AMERICA.

WAR AGAINST TURKEY. WASHINGTON, June 21. A joint resolution declaring war with Turkey and Bulgaria was introduced in the House and referred to the Foreign Affairs Committee. Representative Kelly,, who introduced the bill, asserted that both countries had already committed acts of war against the United States. Mr. Lansing agreed that the attack on Tabriz, if made by military forces, was a casus belli.

TRAIN COLLISION IN AMERICA. OVER 100 CIRCUS HANDS KILLED. Received 10.15 a.m. ~ WASHINGTON, June 23. Hagenbacli's circus train at Gary, Indiana, stopped on the track owing to a hot box. An incoming empty Pullman train collided with the stationary train and over one hundred circus hands were killed and many injured and burnt to death; half the train was telescoped.

AMERICA'S ARMY IN FRANCE. Received 10.15 a.m. WASHINGTON, June 22. Nine -'hundred thousand United States troops have been despatched to France, whereof sixty per cent, are fighters. AMERICA'S CHANGED VIEW. TIME TO SEND TROOPS. WASHINGOTN, June 21. During a debate in the Senate to-day Senator Fall urged that American troops be sent to Russia and also the. Italian, and Salonika fronts'. .Senator Lewis said that the United a J es ... "should provide . Russia with arms-and supplies to'repclHhe German invasion. America should invite Czecho-Slovaks, Poles, end other sections of Russians to fight for freedom, otherwise there was a danger of Siberia and' Central Russia -beinc- absorbed by' Germany, News of uprisings in Austria showed-that-the rime was opportune for intervention in Russia .and the encouragement of the Czechoslovaks