UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1917, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

FOOD CONTROL Washington, July 22. A* Senate pitted the aviation Bill, viU One dUsenting rote. Tkl Senate pissed the re-drafted Food BUI, providing for three food ad minisMtMl, instead of empowering Mr Hoover to take control. It provides /of the control of food, fuel and feed, prohibits the manufacture of intoxicants, beer and wine, for the duration of tic war, direct* President Wilson to eoaumdeer the present stock of whisky, the maximum price of wheat at Mo dollars till July, in order to ittaolßto wheat production. ]UiK)RTS AS TO GERMANY'S POSITION.

New York, July 22. The Washington correspondent of the ifew York World says that a confidential report to the War Department «bowt that the Kaiser has summoned two million men to the colors in March, 1018 |he quota representing Germany's suKerne fighting force. It is believed the furpose of the call is to meet an expected driTe by the Allies when America ■ Reports to the State Department indicate that Germany is short COO,OOO bußh•ls of the wheat required before the harXttt. The crop prospects are reported to •c good in western Germany, but othor lections havo been hurt by the drj weather anil also by the froft. The Government is said to be requisitioning one of every two head of cattle. It is rumored that part of the pro/iston.s sent from the United States for Belgian relief work has been consiucai 0 a (!«»* hoapital at Antwerp.