AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 August 1918, Page 5

AMERICA.

NAVAL CO-OPERATION. .. WASHINGTON, August 14. The King, through Earl Reading (Ambasador to the (United States), congratulated President Wilson on 1 the happy relations between the United States and British Navies. Presi- • dent Wilson replied that American co- ■ operation was rendered with the 1 heartiest spirit. UNITED STATES CALLED ON FOR MORE MEN. 4,000.000 REQUIRED. WAR TO BE DECIDED AT A NEW * POINT. Received 9.15 a.m. WASHINGTON, August 15. The Military Committee of the ’ Senate has learned from General [ Marsh, Chief of Staff, that the United States ought to send 4,000,000 men to France. The new war programme contemplates eighty United States' divisions next June on the West r | front, where it is hoped the war would be decided at a point when the Ital--1 ian offensive opened, and where there ’ I has practically been no fighting since the beginning of the war. AMERICANS COURAGEOUS, 1 BORROW AUSTRALIAN UNIFORMS L Received 9.15 a.m. NEW YORK, 15. The Times’ ’’Washington correspondent states that Mr Baker, in illul strating the eagerness of the American ■ corps to enter the conflict, told the correspondent that the troopers of the Chicago regiment with the Australians, when forbidden to take part in the Australians’ attack against Hamel on April 7 because their training was insufficient. borrowed Australian nni- : forms and took part in the capture of ■ Hamel side by side with the Austra- . Hans. It is presumed they were the [ samp American soldiers, who according . to press despatches, were decorated bj r ' King George for aiding in the capture 1 of Hamel.