UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1917, Page 6

UNITED STATES.

THE WAR LOAN. . _ ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY. * i '■ Eeceived April 16, 1 a.m j ■ New York!, April M. I The House of Representatives adopted the War Loan Bill unanimously. BOLIVIA. BREAKS WITH GERMANY. Received April 15, 5.35 p.m Washington, ApVil 15. Bolivia has broken off relations with Germany. BLOW RECRUITING. ' Washington, April 13. Official figures show that at the present rate of recruiting the United States will require six years to raise an army of a million men. AMERICAN ADMIRAL ARRIVES J.\ ENGLAND. London, April 13. Rear-Admiral Sims has arrived to discuss with the British Admiralty the best means for the co-operation of the American fleet. EXPLOSIONS IN THE STATES. REMARKABLE LIST SINCE THE WAR « A large number of ■ivplosions and <t still greater number of fires have occurred since the war began in the United States. The majority of them are believed to have been the work of German agents. Following is a list of the chief explosions:— mm.—2Bth January: Five sheds and 180,0001b of rifle powder, Wilmington, Delaware. Bth February: Destruction of Roebling steel works at Trenton, New Jersey. 30th August: Two powder milis at Wilmington, two men killed. Shrapnel factory near Baltimore crippled. 10th November: Great fire and explosion at Bethlehem steel works; many guns destroyed; no loss of life. Ist December: Thirty-one men killed and many wounded at Dupont works, Wilmington, by explosion which shattered windows within radius of four miles. 1010.—9 th January: Fifteen men killed and thirty wounded at Dupont powder, plant at Carney's Point, near Philadelphia. 11th January: Five explosions in two days at Dupont works, Wilmington; no lives lost. lath May: Four further explosions at Dupont factory at Gibmstown, New Jersey. 14 killed, 4! injured. 30th July: Thirty explosions, which caused great alarm in New York and towns within a radius of 30 miles. 32th December; Three men killed at Aetna Chemical Company's works at Fort Pitt. The explosions of 30th July last in New Jersey destroyed property ■worth over £5,000,000. Some I:fty people only were wounded and three or four killed.