AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, 9 August 1918, Page 5

AMERICA.

the suppress meat combines GOVERNMENT CONTROL RAILWAYS. AND COOL STORAGE TRANSPORT. Received 10.25 a.m WASHINGTON, Aug 8. The Government Commission has re- • commended , Governmental controls throughout f jJie railway administration and rail stock yards. They will treat them as freight depots, ensuring open competition, also the monopolisation of all cold storage ears, and the branch house ®nd polling t stock nodded to transport the same. The object of the recommendation is to suppress the combines controlling tho meat trade. TO END THE WAR. WASHINGTON, August 7. General Marsh, Chief of Staff, 'announced that the United States has decided to raise an army of five millions in order to early end the war. This decision is tire outcome of the recent inter-Allied Paris conference. SHIPBUILDING .EXTRAORDINARY. AN AMERICAN RECORD. v WASHINGTON, August 7. The United States launched a hundred and twenty-three vessels of a deadweight of six hundred and thirty thousand tons, in July, and accepted delivery of forty-one vessels of two hundred and thirty thousand tons—an American record. BRITISH CONGRATULATIONS NEW YORK, August 7. Mr Hurley, chairman of the United States Shipping Board, has received congratulatory messages from. Lord Northcliffe and Sir J. Maclay. Lord Northcliffe cabled: ”Congratulations to American shipyards on the accomplishment of a magnificent piece of war-winning work.” Maclay cabled: ‘ ‘ Congratulate you heartily on your magnificent accomplishment, which is a further guarantee of the defeat of the submarine. We rejoice in the absolute assurance that the Amcrcan military effort, vast though it is, will be unhampered by lack of tonnage.”