UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1918, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

AMERICANS OVERSEAS. NOW 1,600,00 C Received Sept. 6, 8.10 p.m. Washington, Sept. 4. General March has announced that,; including the Siberian expedition, the American troops now overseas number 1,600,000, Major-General Graves has been appointed to command the Americans in Siberia. During August 250,000 American troops landed in France. Tlie object of the present 'BritishCanadian drive is the capture of Cam-bra'i.—Aus.-N-Z. Cable Assoc TRADE IN THE ORIENT. Received Sept. 6, 5.5 p.m. New York, Sept. 4. Mr. William C- Lane (director of the Asia Banking Corporation) and Mr. Rilf Dawson (vice-president) are going from New York to China, for the purpose of laying the groundwork for the expansion of (United States' trade in the Orient.—Aus.-NiZ. Cable Assoc. THE CZECHOSLOVAKS. Washington, Sept. 3. In announcing the recognition of the, Czecho-Slovaks, Mr. Lansing sasy that' tlie United States Government is ready to enter into formal relations with the de facto Government of Bohemia with a view to tlie prosecution of the war against the common enemy.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. GERMANS AWAKENING TO TRUE POSITION. New York, Sept. 4. Mr. Cyril Brown, formerly a correspondent in Berlin, says the German people realise that the super-blow of the militarists for peace and victory has been struck in the west and has completely failed, probably marking Germany's lastserious attempt to win a decision on the west front. Tlie Germans are beginning to fear that a real war may break out again in Russia, and the spectre of two war fronts haunts them like a nightmare. Tlie people are beginning to realise that Germany has not a friend in ihe world, and they are also losin? faith in the nindcnburg-Ludendorff combination. The people now understand something cf the pace at which America is changing the balance of man-power against Germany. It is certain that the more democratic representatives in the Reichstag will not knuckle down to the dictatorship of militarism much longer. I anticipate that the most acute political crisis of the war will occur in Germany in the near future.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Association.