UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 August 1918, Page 6

UNITED STATES.

NEW VESSELS LAUNCHED. AT RATE OF 6,000,000 TONS PER ANNUM. Washington, August 9. It is officially announced that the July, launchings in American yards arc 07 steel ships, of 435,244 deadweight tons; 53 wooden ships, 187,000 deadweight tons; three composite vessels of 11,000 deadweight tons. In the same period 41 vessels, of 235,052 deadweight tons, have been completed, of which 36 are steel, of 217,052 deadweight tons, and 5 wooden, of 18,000 deadweight tons. The launchings in July exceed the whole annual pre-war output—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BRITISH AMBASSADOR PRAISED. New York, August 9. The New York Times, in an editorial, emphasises the splendid work done in tlie United States by Lord Reading and hopes that his visit to England will be but a brief interruption in his extraordinarily useful and valuable labors. Lord Reading has shown a remarkable genius for the solution of business problems and has been larg.ly instrumental in the splendid success of the coordination of British and American war efforts.—Aug.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SLAV LEGION FORMED IN AMERICA. Washington, August 9. The War Department announces the completion of the plans for the organisation of a Slavic Legion for the battle front It comprises Ozecho-Slovaks, Jugoslavs, RutheniaM and other Slavs living in America.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc.