UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 May 1917, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

ROOSEVELT'S VOLUNTEERS. PRESIDENT'S REASON FOR VETO. A DIVISION TO BE SENT TO FRANCE. Eeeeived May 20, 5.5 p.m. Washington, May 19. President Wilson, in signing 'the Bill refusing Coolnel Roosevelt permission to raise volunteers, said the volunteers would seriously interfere with the carrying out of the chief and most immediately important purposes contemplated by legislation, and would contribute practically nothing to the strength of the Allied armies. He would he glad to send the ex-President, who had rendered most conspicuous public services, but this was no time to pay compliments. The husiness in hand was not dramatic, but of practical scientific definitcness. The War Department has announced that one division will be despatched to France as oson as practicable, under the leadership of General Pershing. THE NIAGARA FACTORY FIRE. £200,000 DAMAGE CAUSED. Renter Service. Received May 20, 5.5 p.m. New York, May 19. '£200,000 is estimated as the amount of damage by the fire. at the National Electrolytic Company's explosives plant at Niagara. THE SUFFRAGE QUESTION. BLOCKED BY SUFFRAGE PICKETS. Received May 20, 5.5 p.m. Washington, May 19. Until the suffragettes remove their pickets from the White House, the •President refuses to appoint a committee to consider the suffrage question. HONDURAS BREAKS WITH GERMANY. AND JOINS UNITED STATES. Received May 19, 6.5 p.m. Washington, May 1-8. (Honduras has broken off relations with Germany and taken her place with the United States. (Honduras is a republic in the middle State, of Central America. Population, 660,000). (DAILY COST OF WAR. Washington, May IS. Both' Houses passed the Army Bill. Mr. M'Adoo estimates that the war will cost 'America 10,491,000 dollars daily the first year, including 2'/ 2 billion for military establishments in 1918. A doctor who has returned from Berlin states that crows are selling there for Is Sd, and sparrows for 4d. AMERICAN MEDICOS IN BRITAIN. London, May 18. The first contingent of United States medical men for the front has arrived in Great Britain.