UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1917, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

TREMENDOUS ASSISTANCE. WANTED JKOir AMERICA TO WET THE WAR. T1 ~ »""■.- York. Jnlv ■_';■). ' "' correspon"•'!t -;- that .!„. ,„. w H ,„. ! „„ , 1 „ ot 1 7;-^ 1 |,, l „ 1 ii w ,.i„ s i„ 1|10(ll „ 1 n million men nlirt.a.l .within :l year, ','.'■■ " Ii "" ■ tjiii f• \. Two additional •■Iv.UN .„• ~,,,,, , vi]] lx , <,,„,.,, , »■>>■.• th, Jir.t oom inputs ar.. loaviJ. Hi.; e0riv.;,,,,,,;..,,, ;I . KN ;ll ni .; c Am.nran nllWr- ,vl,„ i„,p,et,<! the »•"■< front nav r.-luriu-.l and >*ubmitted •in <--nifi:' 1 r.-j.ort M;i, : ;i; tliat the Cer--7"' :,n ""'' N I ,r;l|, ti'-.i!lv imnr.-nalile, unI'.'s- treiiirii.:,,,! - i- received from tlu. Cited States They .aw no evidence that <!erniany's backbone ha.l been broken !i\- internal uissension or the food shortage. Mr. Howard Collin, chairnian of tinAircraft J'nxlii-lion ]!oard. savs America will fry to break all records in the cori-truction ~.' aeroplanes. Tliev will need 110,1)0(1 aviators. 'Washington, July '2,1 It U l..dieve,l that America will shortly ad.-anre another loan of live billion dollars (H'-im million sterling) to! the Alii,-.

Mr. "-mool. member i.< the Finance Committee. -;vakini: in tin- Senate, esii->»"l'-d that the aar cost would approach 20 billion- (-iooo millions sterling! in the lirst rear. Ai present 10 ■billion dollar- are appropriated. ....elusive of five billion a -ke.l lor war revenue.

LIMIT ON WAR PROFITS. THE PRESIDENT DETERMINED. New Vovk, Juiy 11. In his statement rc»ardiiijr the Government'- intention, to prevent "proJit-i'i"-iiiL'" I'ri'-iiiunt Wilson said: "I shall expert every man -.vile, i* not a slacker to In- at my ,-iile in thi-, grout enterprise. No man ran win honor who .hmks only of hiiu-elf. Prices must lie Hum. and .snilieient to pay (food wages am 1 provide for this reasonable expansion of luisine.-se-. Patriotism and pr.uits i-iiuuld not he mentioned toffethe'-. In these days oi supreme trial, when we are sending hundreds of thousands of our youiiff men across the seas, no man should witlinjfly take toll' of their heroism." Mr. Wilson issues a veiled threat that shipowners will be induced to reduce their freight.*, which are helpiiip the enemy.