AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, 15 August 1918, Page 5

AMERICA.

UNION OF AMERICA AND , BRITAIN. » Received 9.30 a.m. LONDON, August 14. The Evening News says Lord Reading has returned from America in order to suggest an 'Anglo-American defensive and offensive alliance. A DENIAL. Received 11.10 a.m. WASHINGTON, August 14. It is officially denied that Lord Reading's visit to London is in connection with any Anglo-American alliance. CHANGING THE TUNE. "GOTT STRAFE THE AMERICANS" ~..,-;■.. ;, Received 8.50 a.m. .; ," : NEW YORK, August 14. : The New York Herald's special correspondent on the West front inter-i viewed two British escaped prisoners. They said that four thousand British prisoners and one thousand Russian prisoners were forced* by the Germans to build a railway system south of the Aisne, below Vesle. The Germans had changed the signs from "Gott strafe England" to "Gott strafe America!" The men told the correspondent the Germans are using paper bandages in hospitals. English and French -bdfiSers created a panic and caused the greatest havoc in the Rhine country. American wounded prisoners are Inhumanly treated. The prisoners' daily ratioi;s were: Breakfast, a pint or coffee, made of hawthorne berries; luncheon, vegetable soup of dried vegetables; supper, a pint of coffee and three-quarters of a pound, of blacic bread, on which, diet they were forcea to work from daylight to dark.