UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1917, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

AN ANTI-TORPEDO DEVICE. EXPOSING GERMAN PROPAGANDISTS THE TRUTH EMPHASISED. Received Oct. 20, S.S p.m. _ Washington, Oct. 20. The emergency Fleet Corporation is planning to equip transports and cargo boats with a system of bulkheads defying a single torpedo, and, even if two or three torpedoes strike, the vessel will be kept afloat long enough to permit of the .soldiers and crew disembarking safely and carefully, the escorting destroyers rendering the U-boats'? operations most precarious after the first torpedo. Senator Saulsbery denounces the German propagandists who .are circulating baseless stories of huge Allied losses, thus attempting to discourage sending troops abroad. The casualty figures are deliberately falsified, whereas the truth is that the percentage of losses has never been smaller. The propagandists are attempting to prove that the German military organisation comprises masterful supermen, and that it is hopeless to carry on war against them. He urges the Government to suppress the publication, and says the very foundation of militaiism in Germany is rocking, and that effective resistance will soon be broken. Tt needs only a further awakening of the German people to cause a sollapse. The Treasury Department is specially appealing to the people to subscribe to the Ave billions Liberty Loan, which will greatly eclipse the past German, loan. The nearer the sale approaches five billions, the further will g-.i down the corners of the Kaiser's mouth. GERMAN SUPPLIES SEIZED. BULGARIA'S ATTITUDE, New York, Oct. 25. The United States is seizing huge supplies long held in the interest of Germany, valued at a hundred million. The cotton alone totals a million bales. The New York Sun's Washington correspondent states that the lukewarm attitude of the Bulgarians towards Germany is becoming pronounced, and there have been suggestions that Bulgaria may yet join the Entente. The Bulgarian Minister, If. Panaretoff. reiterated that the Bulgarians and Americans will not fight. ; Military authorities are expecting the hugest scale of aerial warfare in July. A thousand airmen will go out together, according to the United States programme to be completed early in summer, with an additional programme following. At Milwaukee, Senator Haskins, a staunch war supporter, was accidentally billed while hunting. THE RIVAL FORCES. ALLIES ALMOST 'THRICE AS STRONG, 'London, Oct. 25. The United States War Department's computations estimate that the men under arms for the Allies total 27,500,000, and for the Central Powers 10,500,000. The figures include the naval personnel.