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HUNS' BLACK OUTLOOK

APPALLING ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ANZACS' NABJ GOING HALT IN BRITISH ADVANCE GERMAN NAVAL LANSING NEAR RIGA ,; By Cafcle.— Press Association.—Copyright

UNITED STATES.

JAPAN'S ATTITUDE TO GERMANY.

•At, «. London, Oct. 14. At the American luncheon to the Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Frank Powell chairman, said the Mexican dispatch in which Germany expressed the hope of jnTolTfag America and Japan in hostiliWtt wag captured in Count BernstorftVs mggagfe at Halifax. The American authonties refused to helieve such perfidy possible until Count Bernstorff's papers •upphed the proof. Mr Chinda, replying, said he was perionaujr aware that Germanv had long intrigued to cause trouble between America and, Japan. Mr. Chinda laughed to scorn the continental rumors 0 f a secret Japanese-German treaty. _ Washington, Oct. 14. Tne United Press Tokio correspondent tfdttts the military expert of the newspaper Nfchinichi as saying that the Allies, after the fall of Riga, asked Japan to send an expedition to Europe, but Japan explained that mobilisation was impracticable. SHIPPING COMMANDEERED. 4 Washington, Oct. 14. . The Slipping Board will requisition •11 American vessels over 2500 tons •iter the 16th. :. A GREAT FLEET. ,1000 NEW VESSELS. New York, Sept. 15. "In a few weeks there will begin to appear in the Seven Seas a new flag, symbolising the return of the United States in all its power to fellowship with the leading maritime nations on earth." So say* an official statement just issued by th»/Otaited States Shipping Board. The new standard is the recentlv-adopted official flag of the United States* Shipping Board, the body created by the Act of. Congress last September, and organised ] Jn January, 1917, to create a national merchant fleet. In laying the foundation pf the new American merchant marine, in keeping with the country's rank j among the nations of. the earth, the Shipping Board are doing things that I Americans in the future may recognise J as historic. They are building a fleet of 1,000 cargo-carrying ships. They are I taking over for national use—"commandeering" is tho term sometimes used—more than&OOO.OOO tons of shipping now on the stocks, in private yards. They are fitting out the 600,000 tons of German shipping that sought shelter in American ports when the great war began, among these ships being the great *4,000-ton Vaterland. 10,000 MEN TO BE TRAINED. The board have established free schools m navigation and engineering at Atlantic, Gulf, Pacific, and Great Lake ports, to train not less than 10,000 mariners lad engineers to 9erve as officers on this great, new national fleet, along with the seasoned officers of existing merchant marine, who will be their seniors. When this work, now in full swing, has been iccompllshed, and the official flag of the United States Shipping Board is flying jver all the ships under the board's control—that is, over all the nation's own Merchantmen—the flag's folds will flutter ibove the decks of the largest fleet or Merchant vessels ever commissioned unler one management. None of the great jrivately-owncd fleet* of England, claims :hc official statement, will number a* iia:>y vessels or tons as this national ieet of Uncle Sam's. The foremost of :he fleets of the German shipping comsanies, which was claimed (before the war sent German merchant ships to cover ill over the world) to be the largest in •xistence, would not equal, if restored to the =cas, the American national fleet, jvef which this new flag will fly.

SWEDEN.

HOLLAND

UKf) SHIPS TO FLY THE NEW FLAG Ea<& of the l.Offl) new vessels being suilt for the shipping Board will, fly this flag; so will nearly 3'K) vessels taken mr from private builders. Furthermore, the flag will be hoisted on all the )S German ships seize:! liy tlie United Stntei Government on its declaration of ;var against the Imperial German Gov•rnmeiit, with the exception of less than JO taken over by'the United states Navy Department for uso as transports. Ainowg shipping men the new banner oi ;ho i ijsted Slates Shipping Board will jc tormed a "hui;-o" i'.a;,. i: will be low;-., as were the Ihigi. ih tiie great roer:anti e lioutos that controlled Auidrnan dripping in the golden clays of the aiman:iggL'?c, at tho a.ain truck. These oldim\fi house ilags were striking in design Hid coloring, in order to be readily rejognised. usually bore some era)lcni, Aica a» a globe, a star, a cross, a ship, or an anchor. The. new symbol jf tile national merchant marine will arry: out this idea. On a white ground is shown the national shield in colors of red, white, and blue, supported by a bine anchor, and flanked on the left uv tie letters •'!_">.'' and on the right "S.B,"' The proportions of the flag, in the siM to be flown by a ship of S.OOO tons Se «ft. hofet to flft. length. The fl»e Vj» 8 d«*i»i«l by Charles Collens. a

DENMARK.

| Boston architect and designer. Mr. Collens made several sketches, showing different designs, and with them enlisted | the interest of Henry Howard, the Shipping Board's director of recruiting, whose headquarters are at the Boston Customshouse. Mr. Howard took the designs to Washington and placed them before the board, who adopted the one herein described.

MOTHEB COUNTRY.

BOYCOTTING THE GERMANS. /OR SUBMARINE CRIMES. Received Oct. 14, 8.40 p.m. Reuter Service. London, Oct, 14. Claude and Alice Askew were killed through enemy action at sea. A great meeting of sailors and firemen at Cardiff,, held to devise post-war punishments for Germans for the submarine crimes, passed a resolution asking employers to refuse to employ Germans on land or sea, requesting the public to refuse to buy German goods, and desiring master mariners to refuse the German flag, the boycott to continue for at least two years, an additional month to be added for every future crime.

FORMING A CABINET. Received, Oct. 14, 8.40 p.m. Stockholm, Oct. 14. M. Eden, Liberal leader, has been requested to form a Cabinet, owing to the failure of M. Widen to do so.

EMBARGO FULLY JUSTIFIED. London, Oct. 14, Holland agreed to stop the transit of German concrete material from August 15 till early in 1918, hut decided, without Britain's assent, to continue till November 15 and then stop till the middle- of March. The alteration was professedly made because of the prospects of frosts interfering with transit earlier in 1918. Amsterdam, Oct. 14. According to the newspaper Maasbode, in consequence of the Anglo-Dutch difference, all Dutch shipping to England is stopped. ■• CANADA MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS. Ottawa, Oct. 14. Additional Coalitionist Ministers are: —Finance, Sir Thomas White; Inland Revenue, M. Servigny; Post Office, Mr. Blor.din; Trade, Sir George Foster; Justice, Mr. Dougherty; without portfolio, Sir James Lotighhecd; SolicitorGeneral. Mr. Hugh Guthrie; Railways, Mr. J. Reid; Works, Mr. Carvell; Marine, Mr. Ballantyne. The Cabinet is equally divided by both parties, only the Labour Department remaining to be filled.

APPALLING (WINTER DIFFICULTIES.

Copenhagen, Oct. 14. Denmark is threatened with appalling difficulties in the coming winter. Fish oil is already used for lighting purposes owing to the shortage of petroleum. All working of motors has heen suspended for a month, throwing n large number of men idle in many branches of industry. Farmers are allowing cattle to remain out. of doors as long as possible owing to the shortage of fodder.

A man is known by the lawn he keeps. and anv one can have a good lawn with a NORTH BRITISH GARDEN HOSE. Ask to see the "L" or *'G" qualities—they stand for extra satisfaction. All

The use of "OZO" TOOTH POWDER twice a day will keep your teeth sound and free from decay, .and impart a pearly white ness to them. Od per tin everywhere

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Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1917, Page 5

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HUNS' BLACK OUTLOOK Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1917, Page 5

HUNS' BLACK OUTLOOK Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1917, Page 5

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