UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 March 1918, Page 8

UNITED STATES.

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS SCHEME. Washington, March 22Senator Owen introduced a resolution in the Senate authorising the President to call a League of Allied Nations. He urged that the United States. England, France, .Japan, Italy and China should draft a treaty stipulating the prinicples of international law. The league should require Germany to make peace in thirty days or be isolated commercially ipr five years, or an increased penalty be miposed if Germany long delayed pcaee.

Senator Owen suggested it might to necessary to cut out German exports, imports, cables, telegraphs, anil mails. Senator Owen's speech, following that of Lord Parmoor i n the House of Lorik, is interpreted as the beginning of an informal feeler of w;orld opinion on the proposal that a League of Nations should enforce a' post-war peace. 4 Congress passed a Bill establishing a War Finance Corporation, with a capital of five hundred million dollars. The corporation is intended to give assistance to war iiulnslrie«. The State Department announces that the attitude of the United States towards Russia is unchanged. America still regards Russia as a co-telligerent and ally. BATTLEPLANE PROGRAMME. Washington, March 21. Aviation officials state that by September next tlie United States will have completed more than double the number of battleplanes now used by the Germans and Allies on the West front.