PRESIDENT WILSON APPEALS TO THE NATION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3056, 17 April 1917, Page 5

PRESIDENT WILSON APPEALS TO THE NATION

STIRRING CALL FOR CONCENTRATED EFFORT f'TflE SUPREME TEST HAS COME" , . (Rec. April 16, 9.20 p.m.) Washington, April 15. President'' , Wilson lias issued the following message to tho people of the United States: "Our entrance into this grim and horrible war for the democracy and human rights creates the gravest problems in our national life. We are rapidly putting the Navy upon an effective war footing, and are ahout to create and equip a great army. Wo must supply foodstuffs, not; only for ourselves, but for our 'Allies beside whom we will be fighting. We must supply ships by hundreds, coal, steel rails, locomotives, horses —everything that the Allies cannot now afford themenj, materials, and machinery to make. There shall be no unwarranted manipulation of food supplies by middlemen, who will be expected to forego airiusualprofits an dSxpedite shipments." The President urges a concentrated effort for tho greatest possible harvest, and suggests that the faftners in the south should plant foodstuffs, in addition to cotton. The Government would give every assistance in tho harYbsting, and the transporting.of supplies'must be maintained, no matter,lion* many ships aro sent to the bottom. "America must correct her unpardonable wasto and extravagance." He urges personal and national economy, and the conversion of the country's industrial forces into a_ great internal service for the army and the foodstuffs of the Allies, which are the supremo need. "Tho world's reserves are low, and unless there is abundant food for tho Allies, and tho peoples of the Allies, tho whole great enterprise upon which we have- embarked will break down and fail, for tho supreme test has' come—we must speak, act, and serve together."—Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . Washington, April 15. President Wilson is arranging'a commission to Russia to provide material aid. It is expected that commissions will also be sent to Britain, Trance, and Italy.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. , ' , THE MENACE ON THE MEXICAN BORDER CARRANZA MOBILISINQ LSRGE FORCES. (Rec. April 16, 11.15 p.m.) EI Paso, April 16. According to the United States army officials, ono hundred thousand Mexican troops are mobilising on the border. It is believed that President Carranza is asking the Mexican Congress for another hundred thousand.— Renter. GERMAN REPLY TO AMERICA THE USUAL OUTBURST OF OFFICIAL SPLEEN. Amsterdam, April 15.' The German Ministry of Finance is advertising a Joan as an answer to America, and accuses President Wilson-of seizing the submarining campaign as a protest for war, and of endeavouring to, croato opposition among tho German people and to tho Imperial Government. "President 'Wilson little knows the Germans," declares tho Ministry, "Never.in tho Empire's history has a decision been so eagerly awaitcd_ and so enthusiastically grooted as the freeing of tha submarines from all limitations against England, who was the damnable cause of: and jvaa criminally; prolonging jfcho jvar."—Aus,-N.Z., Cable Assn<