GRIM EARNESTNESS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 4 January 1918, Page 5

GRIM EARNESTNESS.

BEST REPLY TO PEACE TALK

TRANSPORT OF TROOPS TO

FRANCE

SWIFT AND UNCHECKED

TRANSFER

Times Service

LONDON, Jan

The Times' Washington correspondent describes the grim earnestness with which America is rusning her efforts to terminate the war in 1918, this being regarded by America as the best reply to the Brest-Litovsk negotiations. United Service. LONDON, Jan. 2. ! Although the necessary vigilance obscures the details, it is known that on America ooming into the war there was a swift, quiet, unchecked swing of troops conveyed continuously across the Atlantic in varying numbers and in ships of every description, baffling the submarines, with which a ceaseless warfare was carried on, thousands of craft hunting the submarines, which, were ordered to accept extreme risks in attacking. It is reported that the German shipyards are building at the highest pressure more powerful submarines to attack troopships. The American training and aerial preparation in France is assuming a great scale. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. Official: General Bullard succeeds General Fibert in direct charge of General Pershing's expedition. .