AMERICA AT WAR.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16218, 22 May 1918, Page 8

AMERICA AT WAR.

(By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.JCp. Cablo Association.)

(Reutcr's Telegrams.)

NEW YORK, May 20. President Wilson, speaking at the Red Cross demonstration, said: — "Wo are not to be diverted from our given purpose of winning the war b\ any insinccrc approaches upon the subject of peace. I can say with a clear conscience that 1 have tested those intimations, and found them insincere. Now I recognise them for what thej are—an opportunity to have a free hand, particularly in the Last, to carrA out the purpose of conquest and exploitation. Every proposal with regard to accommodation in the \\ est involves reservation with regard to the East., and therefore we intond to stand bv Russia as well as J'ranee. If Geimany thinks wo are going to sacrifice anyl)ody for our own sake, tell her now that she is mistaken, for thn glory of this war, so far as we are concerned, is that, perhaps for the first time in history, it is an unselfish war. If she wishes pence, let her como forward, through accredited representatives, and lay her terms-on the table. » o laid oiirs; she knows what they are. ' President Wilson eulogised the work of the great Red Cross organisation, which was re-ognised by international agreement and treaty. "One of the deepest stains on the reputation of the German Armv was that it had not respected the Red Cross. That went to the root of the matter. They had not resnoctcd the instrumentality of mercy and succour, which they participated in setting up as an expression of humanity.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK/May 20.

The Hon. Crawford Vaughan, exPremier of South Australia, interviewed at Vancouver, said the Allies would need 7,500,000 tons of new* shipping this year, to maintain their' ground and despatch an American army of 1,500,000 men to Franco. The United •States had been backward hitherto, hut now was making every effort to meet the demands. There had been no strike in any United States shipyards for months, owing to the Government propaganda explanatory of war aims.