WAR NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 May 1917, Page 8

WAR NOTES.

AMERICA'S TRIBUTE FROM EUROPE. While the United States is raising a loan of 01 or £'1,000000,000 for war purposes, the trade statistics tor 1010 reveal that, for the first time in the history of any country, the exports of the United States exceeded £1,000,000,000. To be exact, their value was £1 118,104,000. and the surplus over the value of imports was £1)30,104,000, which is also a world's record. Thus the silver bullets that went to America for munitions are earning back into the light per medium of United States loans to the Entente Allies. Of British Dominions, Canada has been the largest .profit-maker out of Entente munition demands, because Canada. is the most advanced Dominion in manufacture. Canada's exports just prior to the war were leas in value than Austrulia's, but in 1911! they tripled Australia's, and they showed an excess over imports of £102,030,100, whereas formerly the excess was on the other side. Of course,' Canada's location and better shipping position give her a great advantage "vev Australasia in the matter oi sttpp- :i;; British ami European markets, c-i-iiLvially in a time of submarine warfare. ifi IMG Canada's exports of manufacturers increased £sS,o(!fS]l)oo. The war has meant for the North American Continent sovereigns by the hundred million, probably with immigrants to follow by tho hundred thousand when peace once more opens the, ocean highways. * AMERICA AND THE WAR.

As a counterblast to the frequently expressed view that the United States can best help the Allies by rendering financial aid the New York Outlook says:—"We agree that tho most efficient aid which the United State; ean at present give to the Atlies in financial aid. But that is not, enough. We take this occasion to restate our betlief which has often been set forth in these pages. It is: That war is an unpleasant, awful means for correcting evil That while a country that can understand no argument but force is running amuck, war is the only means available. That it is the business o r our (Jiivernment to defend our citizens, the nation at large, and those principles of life and liberty which (ii-rmuny is trying to trample under foot. That if'it is our business to do this we should not seek reasons for avoiding the dirty part of the. busines because it is dirty—because it means that we should get muddied and bloody, I !iat it is neither Kclf-respcrtiing nor =afe for this country to depend upon ofhev countries to do tho muddy and the bloody work while wi stand oil' and nil'm- (hem cash. That to safeguard America, International law, and the right of mankind to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, it is necessary to destroy .!.c Prussian Vfi'r, -vbich is a survival of tTie days •vlicn there was ?io American freedom or common tvgai'd for i:iternav.onal law, or i-i-sj.e.'j lor ii.aiiera'.ile -i man rights. TVit in bringing about t'i- destruction! of the Prussian State we owe It to ourselves, to the nations \vh'> aro lighting it, and to the world at large that we Mur.ud L'O in with all ou> might—not only with our money, N.t with our heart and sou) and lives That if we are not going to do this wo or git t to keep out altogether,"