UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1918, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

AN ARMY OF 4,400,000. TO BE PLACED IX FRANCE NEXT YEAE. Received Sept. 19, 9.40 p.m. Washington, Sept. 18. General Marsh (Chief of Staff) explained to the House Committee that the United States proposed to place an army of 4,400,000 in the field in Hil'.t. Presently there would be 3,200,0(10 under arms. The remainder would be called up under the new draft registration. It is reported that the United States' army at the front received President Wilson's reply to Germany with grim approval.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter. , REPLY TO AUSTRIA. BRIEF AND TO THE POINT. Received Sept. 19, 10.20 p.m. Washington, Sept. IS. Mr. Lansing, in his official reply to Austria-Hungary, recapitulates briefly the essence of the enemy communication, and responds with a couple of sentences to the effect lit at President Wilson believes that only one reply is possible, namely that the terms upon which the United States consider peace terms are only those which have alieady, with entire candor, been stated publicly. Therefore the United States can and will consider no proposal for a conference upon a matter in which it has made its posii tion and purpose so plain.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. A ROUMANIAN APPEAL. | A WOEFUL TALE OF ROUMANIAN ' BETRAYAL. i • New York, Sept. 18. Lieut. Stoica, vice-president of the Roumanian National Council in Paris, is now in the United States to obtain the consent of Congress for 1 Roumanian legion to fight with the Americans. He said: "When the news came that America had tntered the war, Roumania went wild with delight. To-day every Roumanian beyond the power of Germany is determined to fight, until an enduring peace is won, under the • lead of the United States. When the Roumanian Kingdom can re-establish communications with the Allies it will again march against the common foe." Lieutenant Stoica told a woeful tale of the Russian betrayal of Roumania ' and the indescribable sufferings of Rou- '■ maniar.s under the present German op--0 pression.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' HUGE WAR BILL. 1 Washington, Sept. 18. The estimates for seven billion dollars [ have been submitted, covering the mili- | tary establishment for the financial | year, including 0,185,000,000 for armament. This appropriation is additional [ to 18,000.000,000 already provided.—AusNX Cabbie Assn.