UNITED STATES.
SHIPPING CONSTRUCTION. i ONE AND THREE-QUARTER MILLION! ( TROOPS SENT TO FRANCE. Received Sept. 22, 5.5 p.m. Washington, Sept. 21. , The manager of the Piez Fleet Corporation has informed the Senate Com- , merce Committee that the Government . shipyards at Hog Island are unable to ; produce am thing like the number of ships anticipated. The tonnage already delivered to the corporation this year totalled 18,110,000 tons. Geieral March has announced that , 1,750,000 American troops have been sent , to France. The House passed the Eight Billion Dollar Revenue' Bill.—Aus-NZ. Cable Assoc "LIBERTY DAY." TO BE FITTINGLY CELEBRATED. Received Sept. 23, 1.15 a.m. Washington, Sept. 21. President Wilson has issued a proclamation calling upon citizens to celebrate on October 12 the 425 th anniversary of the discovery of America, as "Liberty Day." Continuing, President Wilson said we should make it a day of ardent dedication to the ideal, upon which the United States Government was founded, and by which our present heroic tasks : are inspired. Every day the great principle for which we are fighting takes a ' fresh hold upon our thoughts, and makes clearer what the end must be.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. CONTROL OF MINERALS. CONDEMNATION OF BOLSHEVIK OUTRAGES. Received Sept. 23, 12.1." a.m. Washington, Sept. 21. The Senate and House, in conference, agreed to a Bill according the Government control of the production and distribution of the minerals needed for war. The President has authorised the requisition of undeveloped deposits, mines and smelters' plants. The Government has decided to approach the Entente Tlnd neutral Governments, in order to take steps, apart from the conduct of the war, to indicate the world's disapproval of the Bolshevik outrages. The State Department understands that peaceable citizens in Russia are suffering extreme terrorism, and are being shot and imprisoned without trial. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. DUTCH SHIPPING. Received Sept. 22. 5.5 p.m. Washington, Sept. 20. The State Oepartment announces that as long as Holland allows herself to be intimidated by. (ierraan threats to destroy Dutch shipping, the United States will not be able to forward foodstuffs in the same manner as Spain, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland are supplied. It is pointed out that there are 300,000 tons of Dutch shipping idle in European ports. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. CONTROL OF COTTON, Received Sept. 22, 5.5 p.m. Washington, Sept. 20. President Wilson has decided to fix cotton prices and arrange %>r Government control of cotton distribution.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc.
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