UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1918, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

.. ARSON CAMPAIGN. EXTENSIVE DAMAGE CAUSED. ANONYMOUS WARNING GIVEN. New York, Jan. 27. German sympathisers have apparently launched a fire offensive. Extensive damage has been done in many cities, aggregating a .million sterling. Two Baltimore plantH Working on munitions have been burned. Six persons weri? killed and man}' injured by an explosion in torpedo works. Two steamers at Atlantic ports are on fire. The President recently received an anonymous warning of a' national plot to destroy docks and war plants. Seven army department warehouses and several municipal docks have been destroyed bv fires of mysterious origin at an Atlantic port. A storehouse which was empty and a shipbuilding plant we saved., PATRIOTIC ABSTINENCE. TO HELP THE ALLIES Washington, Jan. 27. . President Wilson has issued a proclamation asking Americans to reduce their wheat consumption by SO per eent.j to observe Mondays and Wednesdays as wheatless, Tuesdays as meatless, and Saturdays as porkles* days; and to have onfc wheatless meal daily. 'President Wilson declared that the Sacrifice is liecessarv to meet the Americans' great responsibility, as Europe's subsistence rests very largely on their shoulders. Mr. Hoover has announced that bakers in future must make "victory" bread, which must not contain more than 80 per cent, of wheat. He, har also announced that the Government will purchase 30 per cent, of the, nation's flour output, totalling tihree million bushels monthly, for .exportation to the Allies.