UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 March 1918, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

A COLOSSAL PROGRAMME ' FOR SHIPS AND SHIPYARDS. WONDERFUL EFFECT OF STAND" ' ARDIS'M, Received Feb. 28, S.iO p.m. Washington, Feb. 27.-Ainerk-a will have ji (glossal ship« building programme. Witliiu a. few weeks a great number rff destroyers, merchantmen, and submarines willJbo building at the Philadelphia and Huston ship' yards. Since November the Government has converted a large barren island on tile Delaware river into tlio shipyard in tile world. It has also created a. town of 20,000- inhabitants on the island, this yard assembles the parts which sm> manufactured at H)00 factories. It is anticipated that tflis island yard wilt turn out iitty ships of 8000 toils (luring li>lß. After September it will ftnlsk '» ' merchantman every two days. JAPAN'S ATTITUDE DiSCUSSED. • SUGGESTED WHEAT TRANSPOSE STIPULATION. \ New York, Feb. 27. The New York Times London correspondent says there is a growing opinion that Japan should act in Siberia. t The New York Times urges that the Government, before it allows steel plates' , to be exported to Japan from America, ' should stipulate that Japan shall transport specified quantities of Australia* wheat to England. IMPOSSIBLE PEACE TERMS.. HERTLING'S EVASIVE TRICKEEXe THE ISSUE UNCHANGED. Washington, Feb. 27. Opinion all over the country unequivocally rejects the possibility of peace on :• the basis of Count liertling's speeeh. , Oflicials distrust Count Hertling, and do not think the speech brings peace nearer. Speculation is rife as to whether Presi- ( den t Wilson will reply to the speeoh. The New York Times declares that Count Hertling sank to the lowest depths' of evasion and ignoble trickery. Germany knows the Allies' terms. Wars are not won by talking, but by fighting. The Herald says "Count Hertling has fired the first gun of Germany's new , peace move, but his aim is bad." The Nefr York World remarks that the speech leaves the issue unchanged-