UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 May 1917, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

AMERICANS DETAINED GERMANY. A STATEMENT DKMAMSEB, Received May 23, 6.5 p.m. Washington, 22. The State Department .lias dmandefl from Germany a statement of its %tfl- .< tude regarding the treatment of 4««ri< tans detained in Belgium and Germany, and whose departure has been delay nd. COXTBAOTS TOR SCBMAWNaS. Washington, May 22. Mr. M'Adoo, Secretary to ike Ureasnry, states that he expicta tile United States to spend in the first year of the war 2000 million sterling. Control fbr the construction of 38 new submarine 4 to be completed within twelve tqoathv have been let to private corporation!. THE DAXGJJR OP OLD SEELI6., New Yprk, May 38, ■ Die shells which caused ■Hie aeoiijenf on the Mongolia in iwhich two junea were killed proved to be rej/<M 01 the ■ SpanislnAmerican war. No otbtr jdjh • munition w»a available. • > i 10,000-TON CARGO SUBMAKISfIS. , New York, Mty SB. . A company, headed. by Mir. fljjmoa Lake, the inventor, with a of ten million dollars, contemplates building 10,000-ton cargo submarines. t _ NATIONAL GUARD AND WW MILITIA. Washington, - The War Department annouapiM toit it will be raising the National QumM ' to its full strength of 400,000 nj«n,.in , addition to 23,00 naval mijitia. THE MUSS, PEOBLEBt VIEWS OP IRISH PR MS. London, May te. The newspaper Irish Independent declares that tlie Government has aban? doned participation in a remedy, therefore it is pure waste time for tht Con* . vention to discuss it. Irehrid will nfib he content with anything short of full colonial home rule. The Irish Times states that for the Convention to have a chance of success it iniißt discuss partition. The Freeman's Journal applauds the ; convention.' SHIPPING SHORTAGE. , s . * * • •• THE WELLINGTON CONFERENCE. . (From Our Own Correspondent). Wellington, May 28. The conference that was opened toil ny to consider the shipping shortage ind the general question of production within the Dominion seems likely lb sit' for some days, and the preparation of its' reoommendations may require further sittings in months to come. The members of the National Efficiency Board, it is understood, have proposal* to place before the Board of Trade and the requisition Board. Some of these proposals have already been before the Government, and they are of a far-reach-Ing character. They touch the provision • of labor for essential industries as well as the guiding of productive effort into channels regarded as most useful from the national point of vUw under present , conditions. UK