AMERICA AT WAR.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15983, 18 August 1917, Page 10

AMERICA AT WAR.

THE FOOD PROBLEM. (Br Cable—Press Association.—Copyright.) ; (Australian and X.Z. ■ Cable Association.} WASHINGTON. August 16. President Wilson has issued a proclamation licensing sales of wheat and rye. the new system to begin on September Ist. A corporation with a capital of 50,000,000 dollars (£10.000,000) lias been organised to purchase grain on behalf of the X'niied States and the Allies. PR 0-GER MANS DENO UNCED. NEW YORK. August 16. Senator Elihu Root created an enormous sensation in a speech condemning the leniency shown to pro-Ger-mans in the "United States. "Pro-German traitors," he said, "in and out of Congress are endeavouring to make America's preparations so effective that our manhood will meet

defeat in firing line. They arc covering themselves with a cloak of pretended Americanism. If we art; competent and fit for our liberty we will find them out and_ get at them. There are men in New Yoik who ought to be shot to-morrow at sunrise tor treason. There are also some Xew York editors deserving execution for treason, and sooner or later they will get it.'' SWISS MISSION ARRIVES. XEff YORK. August 1-3. Kans Sulzer. the Swiss Minister, • nd a Swiss mission have arrived here.