CARGO SUBMARINE CONSTRUCTION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 23 May 1917, Page 8

CARGO SUBMARINE CONSTRUCTION.

UNITED STATES NATIONAL GU_*RD BEING RAISED TO FULL STRENGTH. BY CABLE—PSESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received May 23, 10.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 22. A company, headed by Simon LaEe, the inventor, with a capital of ten million dollars, is contemplated for building ten thousand-ton cargo submarines. WASHINGTON, May 22. The War Department announces the raising of the National Guard to its full strength of 400,000, and an additional ,23,000 naval militia.