WAR NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1917, Page 5

WAR NOTES.

WHAT THE UNITED STATES ffiSß DONE.

'©tiring the seven weriks TOhich hture ; elapsed since the United States entered the war she has aocoraplighed the fait lowing," says the Press Bureau:—' "Compulsion Law passed Mjlddb wflJ ultimately give an army of SjOQfyOOQ men. '•The loan legislation passed; *£l6o,* MO,OOO already advanced to Allies. ' "Destroyer flotillas operating effective v !y in eubm&rhie zone. ■ "4n army division, a force !af nurinefli/ and nine regiments ofEngineem to France. "Ten thousand 1 dcatflKi SoA imay tvurse# ordered to England France; hundreds already antred. "With the Americana afaaaijy "aemng in the Allied armiea, these unite wiJJ shortly give a'total of 10Q,€K)Q Americana 1 'm Prance. "National Ciuwd bwna tc 409,000 man; jWrtW«fwea«Mj (1 to) nearly 180,01)0; personal of Navjr doubled* in 16 ameers' training «Hn£ armies. "Conference* with Angto-J&re»«fr Com. missions have arranged of co> operation. "Plans made ifor industrial mobilisation, including that of 262,000 milcss of railways, and for construction of 3)500 aeroplanes, and the training of fiOOO pilots thU year.''

AMERICAN RJBCffJVK' KB SHAKES?. '

President Wilaon, in a letter t<» Mr. J. Thomas Beflin,. member of the House of Representatives, saya:— "The list of very serious and tinued wrongs which the lusanajf German Government luia perpetrated the rights of commerce of the citizens of the United States is ovwjvheimbig. "Xo nation that rasppitad itself or the rights of humaiiity could tyave borne these wrongs any longer. ; > "We have entered the war for our own reasons and with our own objects clearly stated.. And we shall forgot the reasons nor the objects. "There is no hate in our lse&rta f w the German people, but there is the r«. bslvo that cannot.jwJtwi «WR.i!)r. mi*" representation to bvewwne t}«? prbten- 1 610116 of autocratic goyenjwipt which,, nets upon purposw tp which the German' people have never cpnseirte&'W&WJter,'. . CANAAN WAR WIVES.

The policy of sending book to Ganad*., 'the wives and children of Canadian oSi* ten and gieit goes steadily on, says a writer in an exchange. Jhrt, in the case of some of these wives, it is not strictly; correct to them as going back, , for they are girls whom Canadians Jjavft jpot f.n'd married in England sinoe the war, and thoy arc going out to husband's home and friends for the filjst time. Some of them have infants, and the arrival of so many yoiua women with infants in their arras at the offices where one must go to get official permission to Iwve the country caused, jomc amusement until tho circumstances were explained to jfh® rather embwraa-v '' Bed offtciaia.