UNITED STATES.
THE SUBMARINE TOLL. GREATER THAN NEW TONNAGE. XuIIVi'LGIAN-AMI'.h'ltJAX TRADE AGEEAIENT. Picceivcd May G, 12.5 a.m. New York, May ">. Air. Rainbridge Golly, a, member of the Shipping Board, in a speech at Baltimore, declared that more than ten million tons of shipping was submarined in 1(117, and that the sinkings last month were more than the combined tonnage built in Britain and the United States jduring the same period. The War Trade Board has announced a Norwegian-American trade agreement, under which the United States will ship surplus foodstuffs to Norway, and, in return, America will get the surplus Norwegian ores, nitrates, and fish products. Norway guarantees America that the supplies will not reach the Central Powers either directly or indirectly. The present total of shipping completed in the United States amounts to W7.371 tons.—Press Association.
ARMY ESTIMATES. NEARLY TWO MILLIONS ON ACTIVE SERVICE. Received May 5 5.5 p.m. Washington, May 4. Mr. Newton D. Baker (Secretary for War) will submit the War Department's estimate of fifteen billion dollars for the year ending 101!). Tiie Army will be (100,000 more than originally planned, there being 1,800,000 Americans now on active service.—Press Association. LOAN GOAL REACHED. AN ARMY OF 2,300,000 IN AUGUST. Received May 5. 5.5 p.m. Washington, May 4. The Libertv loan has reached its goal of three million dollars. Mr. Newton D. Baker (Secretary for War) states that a general intimated to the House Military Committee that the American Army in July will aggregate 2,3oo,ooo.—Press Association. A NOTED PUGLITST ENLISTS. Received May 0, 12.5 a.m. New York, May 5. Tommy Burns, the pugilist, has enlisted in the Canadian Army.—Press Association. GERMAN ALLEGATIONS. PROOF DEMANDED Received May 0, 12.5 a.m. New York, May 5. The State Department, through the Spanish Ambassador at Berlin, has asked Berlin to prove the allegations that American aviators have been travelling as passengers on hospital ships.—Press Association.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1918, Page 5
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