UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1918, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

LIBERTY MOIOBS 'A

Received Angus* 25, &o pjn, : $X\ New York, August "SS.V .' Only 40M Liberty motors so far btfti 'been delivered to the Alli*e. The nfoftors are too heavy and powexful for tifjM* fighting planes, and are imperieetvSfl' some degroo still. Not a single Arned-.. can battle plana or heavy 4ismbing pWqj*'" is yet on the Amorican front. gust 1 only Dehivillands, umbering 606,*' have been sent to France. The expiwi*', diture of millionß of dollars has heen'Wi?? sultless. It is recorded that unfair guar} 1 ", ferenee has been given' to certewMßsnflu'i' facturers. ■'' .'■'.'

SIX MILLION 'JMEMOBBB-VWKNfIi" Received August 25. o\s pan, 'rj \ ' New York, Aligns*'B!s * Senator Reed, speaking on the JCS^f 4, Power Bill, said thai the United 6fca|tjisj ? required to send 6,{HKM)OO -men to Jtatne£v 'bef ore the war ended. Ho ecpeebeS tt-ldf'-i last two years more Hail a wißfopr, men ought to* be sent Russia.—Press Assoc. *v ',' i —. ■ " . 'i ' SIBERIAN pWML«3Ki& '■ ','; Received Augiw' - 25, 3.5 panv' ( H,' New York, Augosfc SSf. '• President Wilaon haa asked 'CoagrfM > to pass an Act admitting several thoujtt sand Silurian refnge>'es from EnasiJi %&i the United States President WJlspjtfA hoped that the action would ftareakgsiSF;,' effect in the Balkans. '. '"i

AGREEMENTS 'WITH SWEOE& , 'it Received August 25, 5« pjoi. • ; ■ v New York, Augn* SSj'jC^ Sweden has signed an agreement idpf *J the Allies whereby Sweden will I» plied with commodities in return JoP *•{ ceasing to supply Germany, except i«Sf& .'? moderate quantities of srcn ore.—iPxenftMi Assoc.' -V OUTPUT OP MERCHANT Q£M&lsS \j SHIPS. * v. ■' | Received August 25, ILfrpSij , V*, New York, Aiqgusfc Sit; i! '\ According ty> an announcement by litc&tf/j United States Shipping Board, more thajj. £ a million and a-half deadweight tona «?'■■': shippipng have been added, to the, Amft^'-u 5 ran merchant marine by various taaSMl'' '* since the nation's entry into the ';) to August 15—Press Assoc. ' '-ft CONTRACT FOR WHIPPET TSS&sIt ■/; Received August 25, 1-L5 p.m, '• Now* York, AuotsF«H '- The New York Times' Defcroft oom* "^ ppndent saya that Ford's have ".. given a Government contract to owi /; 1000 "whippet" tanks. —Press Asaoii" \'\lj