UNITED STATES.
SAWED-OFF SHOTGUNS. 40,000 PRISONERS TAKEN IN THREE DAYS. RECORD YEAR'S SHIPBUILDING. Received Sept. 30, 11,56 p.m. New York, Sept. 20. Reports from France state that the French, British, Americans, and Belgians have yaptured over 40,000 prisoners during the past three days. The New York Times' Washington (Correspondent states that Germany has sent an ultimatum to the United States objecting to the American soldiers' use of sawed'off sliotguns.
The United States' officials say that The Hague Convention does not forbid their use, and if Germany starts reprisals two can play at that game. Germany threatens to shoot any American soldiers captured with sawed-off shotguns or ammunition, if a satisfactory reply is not received by October 1, American shipyards have constructed 1.856,466 gross tons of shipping in the 12 months ending September 26, nearly beating the previous world's Tecord made in England during the calendar year 1914, when 1,932,156 gross tons were con-structed,—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 October 1918, Page 5
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