AMERICA'S EFFORT.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1918, Page 3

AMERICA'S EFFORT.

THE DYNAMIC FORCE. ' Mr. Chas. M. Terry, indent merchant, who lias just returned to Sydney from America, where he spent several months, says it is difficult to describe the vastno?? and scope of America's war effort. People out here," he remarked, "simply have no idea of the earnestness and the dynamic force with which she is approaching her war task. America is in the war for good. Pacifists are a dead titer there, Particularly pronounced b (lie war tycling around New York. And it is nof mere t n U"~ are ex pressing their feeling in deeds. Tt Germans in America were told, in efl'ec-, to keep their mouths shut, and that if they did so they would be left alone, but since then the authorities have started to intern them. They have also fixed around about the wharfs a zone within which no aliens are allowed to live, and it was at short natice that they were cleared out from those quarters." It is in this same decisive spirit in every direction that America is pushing ahead S and that she will be a vital force in the war when fully equipped, is beyond question. Make no mistake about it, America is going to make a name for herself in tins historic struggle. "America," says Mr. Terry, "is commandeering everything that may he useful in connection w-ith the war. She even secured the first right to the purchase of a certain class of typewriters. 1 looked about .for one of these machines., and actually had to be content with a second-hand one. One of America's most drastic step, I think, has been the commandeering of the railway east of Chicago, including the Pennsylvania, the New York Central, and other noted railways, a? well as the irunK lines from Chicago to New York Speaking of conscription, Mr. Terry says that America generally has taken it as a matter of course. Just before he left the United States exemptions had been withdrawn and men had to be reexamined. As showing the hostility to the ymy Mr. Terry nays that even the leading German paper in America has now eome out m opposition to Germanv