AMERICAN TROOPS FOR THE FRONT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3079, 9 May 1917, Page 7

AMERICAN TROOPS FOR THE FRONT

MOBILISATION ORDER ISSUED NINE REGIMENTS OF ENGINEERS Washington, May 7. The War Department has ordered the raising of the first American contingent for service in Franco. Orders have been issued to mobilise nine regiments of engineers. They will sail shortly for service in France.—Aus.-N.Z. Cabin Assn.-Reuter.

' GERMAN SHIP SEIZURE BILL Washington, May 7. Mr. J. W. Alexander, speaking in the House of' Representatives on the German Ship Seizure Bill, disclosed that Denmark has secretly arranged with Germany that the United States shall not be allowed to seize German ships interned in the Danish West Indies (recently sold to the United States), but questioners in the House ivoib refuse"! information further than that the Scandinavian countries had an arrangenvmt with Germany.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. JOFFRE'S TRAIN-DERAILED NOBODY INJURED. (Rec. May 8, 10 p.m.) New York, May 7. General Joffre's train was derailed at St. Louis. Nobody was hurt. Tho derailment is believed to have been accidental. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BEWARE OF GERMAN PEACE PROPOSALS A WARNING TO.AMERICA. Vancouver, May 7. The United Press correspondent at Copenhagen has interviewed Mr. Maurice Egan (the United States Minister), who made an unprecedented comment on German conditions, of which he has made a special study. Mr. Egan warned Americans against any German peace proposal, as it would be an attempt by Germany to gain what she is unable to win on the battlefield. The relaxation of America's war efforts would merely increase the Germanic contempt for the United States. While the food conditions were undoubtedly bad in tho interior of Germany, the people were still sanguine of victory, and believed that tho American war plans were merely so much bluff. Peace talk in the United States would merely prolong the war. There was no trace of any desire in Germany to dethrone the Hohenzollerns. The populace firmly believes that victory is merely a question of time. Constitutional reforms will not bear in the slightest degree on the Kaiser's fate, or loosen his.seat on the throne. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable As'sn. BOLIVIA BREAKS WITH GERMANY London, May.-. 7. Bolivia, has broken-off relations with Germany.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.