UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 June 1918, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

THREE MILLIONS IN UNlFORftt ... jj BY AUGUST FIBST. Received Juno 17, 5j5 p.m. ■■■<. ■Washington, June It. The United States expects tp fcsvj three million men in uniform toy ik* ; first of Auguat.-y-iPress .Assoc. AMERICAN AIRMEN SUCCESS* FUL BRmSH-AMEEICAN imJTABY ' txiimaanm. <, LIABILITY - ' ' Eeeeived Juae " ' • Washingtta, June- Id - j Particulars of the ftrat American sir Mid behind the GetriW; lines indicate that the Anwrirana d&li highly, successful The railway sta&ttSh at Doinmery and S&ratitibort wete-ddBIMi aged, ' , * General Mqxsh, Chief of fitafi, £Biy& the extension Of the .Alßfififl ftbnt/ the result of the German drjvav i®# j exceeds sixty, Silks. -* Irishmen and Americans are*eajsnptJil ! [ under the provisions of the Bmjjdh- "i American military convention, wisfe fa.;; awaiting the Senate's jScfciflatiKfa. All "\ Americans in Britain and dsnftsfc be- . twees 21 and $1 years of tab Halto,; to conscription in the British' Britons in the United States of tfe 4&me < age are liable to he drafted United States' army. - • | ' " f .1 5' r, EXEMPTION OF NEKHMfi® •{ ALTERATION EST , _ . ; Received June 17 y G& Jtte Washington, sxntg lfl. ' An amendment to the cttaft Jawfl, upeciftcally exempting citizens (if Mutral ' countries, hits been foufld necisMtyV TSw -j Senate leaders announced th«t & ■Sttioussituation had arisen over the WiSr" Department construing the draft laffr to ; | mean that unless a neutral clsirifs exr, >! emption 'when he registers he cainfot to.', exempted afterwards. Many neutrals, had Seen drafted and some ldHed. In *5 some cases they protested after Hieing i called for Service, and some of these pro-'' tests found their way to their home gov- . eraments, resulting in a conteAtiofa. he-1 tween the United States and certain neu- ! f.rais, particularly Sweden. Arrange- J ments are being made for thes necessary i amendment of the law. :■ -