STIRRING MESSAGE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3048, 9 April 1917, Page 5

STIRRING MESSAGE

AMERICA CONGRATULATED UNITED STATES WAR MEASURES TROOPS FOR FRANCE BRAZIL MAY DECLARE WAR ''.■■ ON GERMANY . ' ■DTJITIQTI GTTiTT'FGG T\T Till? WCCJrF \. The United States, as rt belligerent, is exhibiting the energy and ' alertness characteristic of the nation, All the German ships in American waters have been seized, the; Nary is being mobilised, and this affects 361 vessels; the Army Bill provides for a million men in the second year, and the President contemplates sending an expeditionary force of 5000. men to the Western front. Heavy taxation is to be imposed to meet the- war expenditure) and the Labour Federation Has promised the Government all the skilled workmen that may be requested. America's entry into the war has been welcomed in Britain, and Mr. Lloyd George's message will be read with interest, as also that of Mr. Asquith. Of the Western front we have : rery little news. .The British' have captured a village to the north of St.; Quentin, while the French have kept their artillery very ',' busy. The fighting on the Stochod appears to have been a -eery stubborn affair, and the Russians suffered severely. ' The best news from Russia is that the first body of troops to leave'for the front since the revolution received a splendid send-off in Moscow. The do- . ings of our own men are told in a message from the New Zealand official war correspondent, and in a' message in connection with' the capture of Gaza in Palestine, ; ' ' ■'.-■■,