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Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1917, Page 5

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FRONTIER TOWIN BOMBED. The Hague, May 1. Bombs from aeroplanes, of unknown nationality, killed fivo people and destroyed a hundred houses at Zierikzee, a town on the Dutch frontier. The airjnarfs searchlights caused a panic.

GREAT WELCOME TO JOFFRE. VICTORY FOR DEMOCRACY FORETOLD. Washington, May 1. M. Viviani, General Joffre, and Admiral Cocheprat visited the Senate. They ,were cheered to the echo, and immense enthusiasm was shown. In responding, General Joffre shouted "Vive les Etata Unis!" Proceeding, ho prophesied a magnificent victory for democracy at the outcome of the war with the help of the glorious country now participating in the struggle. i The press points out that not even Lafayette more than 100 years ago was accorded such a welcome..

i GERMANS PLOTTING. ARRESTS MADE: New York, May I. The arrest of Wolfe Hirsch, an expetty officer in the German navy, has exposed a plot to destroy J. P. Morgan's [Wall Street office, to cut tho telegraph .wires and create a panic by the circulation of false accounts of U boat raids ■and the assassination of the President. A bomb was found in the possession of Hirsch, who confessed that he was implicated in the London and Petrosrad plots. Two Germans have arrested- >«•. carried a powerful bomb. They confessed that they intended to use it on the Stock Excxhange to create a panic. FRANCE WANTS AMERICAN TROOPS New York, May 1. The New York World's Washington porfespondent says that the French want 20,000 Americans sent monthly, beginning before August. France will supply .artillery. President Wilson is believed jto be favorable to tlie scheme. The Tribune's Washington correspondent says that the French implore haste, ,not making any secret that they are appealing on behalf of a natlbn almost spent. UTILISING GERMAN SHIPS. • . Washington. May 1. The Senate passed a resolution 'authorising the Government to use the German ships in American ports. It is stated that some are ready to sail, INCREASED FOOD PRODUCTION. ! Washington, May 1. ' The Agricultural Department is considering the extra closing of schools, in order to enable boys and girls to work on farms and so increase food production. ( LOANS FOR ITALY AND FRANCE. Received May 3, 1.30 a.m. Washington, May 2. President 1 Wilson has approved of a temporary war loan of a hundred milfion'each to Italy and France. A GERMAN'S PROPAGANDA. " ; v ?few York, May 2, . There* is much interest in tho trial of 'on Ginterlen, who is alleged to have spent 463,000 - dollars in propaganda in America during the post four months, endeavoring to stop the making of munitions and upset policies favorable to the Allies.