UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 May 1917, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

THE RUSSIAN POSITION. AMERICANS DOING EVERYTHING TO ASSIST A SETTLEMENT. Received May 10, 5.5 p.m Reuter Service. Washington, May 18.' Through diplomatic channels President and Mi\ rinsing are doing everything possible to assist the settlement of the Russian position. Congressman Gardner has resigned his seat to enlist in the army. Several others are entering the navy at the end of the session.

MISSION TO RUSSIA. TO AVOID MISUNDERSTANDING. Received May 18, 5.5 p.m. Washington, May 16. The United States lias notified the Russian Government that in order to remove possible misunderstandings the American mission going to Russia is interested in nothing but to afford -iu:h assistance to the Russian Government and people as may be most helpful. ROOSEVELT'S ARMY. HE WILL HEAD THEM ON BATTLE: . FIELD. Received May 16, 5.5 p.m. New York, May 16. Colonel Roosevelt intends to go to France whether Congress approves or not. He is presenting plans to raise in the New York States volanteers and will head' them on the battlefield.

A LOAN TO RUSSIA. Washington, May 16. The United States has lent twenty million sterling to Russia. Received May 16, 5.5 p.m. Washington, May 111. . The Russian loan is conditional on all being spent in the United States. LOAN TO BELGIUM. Received May 16, 5.5 p.m. Washington, May 16. The United States has pstended a credit of nine million sterling to Belgium, in monthly instalments. WAR VOTES. Washington, May 16. The Urgent Deficiency Bill has been reported from the Sepate Committee. It provides 80 millions sterling for the construction of merchantment and 40 millions for the army. EXPLOSION AT LAKE LOCKS. New York, May 16. Tour were killed and three fatally injured in an explosion at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, intended to destroy th* Soo locks and interrupt navigation. The explosion wrecked a pier, but the locks escaped. Pro-Germans are suspected. [The lock at. Sault Ste. Marie is on the ship canal, a mile long, with connects Lake Superior with Lake Huron. In 190S 58 million tons of freight, valued at £125,000,000, passed through the canal.]