UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 April 1917, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE. TO AMERICAN PEOPLE. GRAVE PROBLEMS IN NATIONAL LIFE. * Received April 16, 0.20 p.m. Washington,\April 15. President Wilson, in a. message to the American people, says: Our entrance into the grim and horrible war for democracy and human rights, creates *he gravest problems in our national life. We are rapidly .putting the navy on an effective war footing, and arc about to create and equip a great army. We must supply foodstuffs not only to ourselves but to the besides whom we* will be "fighting We must supply ships by the hundreds, coal, steel rails, locomotives, horses, everything that the AlUes cannot afford men to make There Bhall be no unwarranted manipulation of food supplies by the middleman, who , must expect to forego his usual .profits and expedite shipments The President urges concentrated effort to produce the greatest harvest, and suggests that the farmers of the South should plant foodstuffs in addition to cotton The Government will give every assistance in harvesting and transporting. Supplies must bo maintained, no matter how many ships are sent to the bottom. America must correct unpardonable waste and extravagance, and he urges personal as well as national economy and the conversion of the industrial forces into a great interj nal service army. Foodstuffs for the Allies is the supreme need; the world's reervea are low, but unless there is abundant food for the Allies and the peoples of the Allies, the whole great ' enterprise whereupon they have embarked would break down and fail. For the supreme test to come they must (peak, act, and serve together. r -i i ; 'i| MEXICANS MOBILISING. TROUBLE AHEAD FOR THE STATES. : Received April 10. 11,15 p.m. El Paso, April I's. According to-the United States army officials, a hundred thousand Mexican troops are mobilising on the border. It is believed Carranza is asking Congress for another hundred thousand.