UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 December 1918, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

ENEMY NOTES. MUST BE ADDRESSED TO THE ALLIES. Received Dec. 10, 10.15 p.m. : Washington, Dec. 8. The United States has formally notijfied Germany and Austria that she does [not desire to receive further notes. All I such in fnture must be addressed to the Allies. Mr. Beilski stated-in the Senate that* German propaganda sought to create a negro rising in the southern States, spreading stories that they were the rightful owners of the land instead of the white people. At Baltimore, Mr. Clarice, Speaker of Congress, gaid the United States at the end of the war would have a large mercantile marine. What was she going to do with it? Before the war Germany was the next best customer of the United States to Britain. If Germany were shut out of raw materials; the United States trade would suffer. However, he hoped to find new fields in South and CentTal America.

Mr. Clarke emphatically declared that President Wilson would insist oil the freedom of the seas at the Paris Conference. —Aus. X.Z. Cable Assoc. TO HELP THE DEVASTATED COUNTRIES. Received Washington, Dec. 9. Mr. McAdoo haTMTskod Congress tc graDt loans amounting to three millions sterling in aid of the devastated com; tries of Europoi & portion of the existing war issues wilt be available for the purpose.—Argus Service