UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 December 1918, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

REPATRIATION OF ARMY.

CONVERTED BATTLESHIPS TO BE

Received Deo. 1, 6.5 p.m.

Washington, Nov. 30. General March, in a statement, announces ttaat the United States proposes returning home in December 150,000 men. Converted battleships will be used as transports in order to augment the ordinary ships. The army estimates have been reduced to a negligible point, owing to the cessation of hostilities.

The Presidential Committee, after an investigation into the prohibition of brewing throughout the United States, recommends a continuance of the order, so all brewing has' now ceased.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

AMERICAN LABOR AIMS,

ESTABLISHMENT OF INTERNA' TIONAL FEDERATION.

Received Dec. 1, 5.5 p.m.

Washington, Kov. 30. Mr Gompers (Labor leader)) is loading the Americans to tlhe Paris International Labor Confernce. He announces that he hopes to establish an international labor federation, with subsidiaries in every mercantile and manufacturing country in the world, uniting the workers everywhere in the same manner as those of Canada and tike United States.—Aus. Cable Association. i,

THE PEACE DELEGATION.

PERSONNEL CRITICISED.

Received Dec. 1, 5.5 p.m.

Washington, Nov. 29. It is officially announced that the American delegates to the Peace Conference will be President Wilson, Mr. Lansing, Colonel House, Mr, White, and General Bliss. 'Hie announcement lias caused no surprise, but there ia some disappointment that Mr. Taft, Mr. Root and Mr. Charles Hughes were not included.

It is believed that Mr Newton 0: Baker (Secretary for War) goes to the conference later and takes President Wilson's place when the latter returns home.

The newspapers contend that American opinion will not be adequately represented by President Wilson's' appointees, wtio will merely carry out the administration's policy.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

REPUBLICANS DISSATISFIED.

WITH REPRESENTATION.

Received Dec. 1, 11.5 p.m. Washington, Nov. 30. President Wilson's failure to include Republicans in the Peace Conference personnel lias been made the subject of a Republican movement in the Senate to despatch a senator independently to France to report proceedings for the Senate.—Atis. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

INTERNATIONAL wAVAL FORCE. PENANCE PERIOD FOR GERMANY. deceived Dec. 1, 5.3 p.m. New York, iN'ov. 30. The New York Times' Washington correspondent says that America will place before the conference proposals for a league of nations, which contemplate an international naval force to police the seas, and such a Heat may bo used to blockade the ports of countries which refuse to obey Dhe league's decrees.

Tho American Government will advocate an international tribunal to adjust disputes, and will enforce its decisions by sn international police fleet. It is intended to advocate that the German naval vessels shall be handed over to the league of nations, whos< force is to be augmented by warships furnsfied by other nations within the league.

Some European statesmen are opposed to admitting Germany to a league of nations until she has seryed a period a penance.

Every brewery in the United States closes to-day, and this is a step towards nation-wide prohibition. The United Press Washington correspondent states tJmt the .President ■will probably address Congress on December 2, and begin his official conference -with tin a Allies on December 14, United Press. t