AMERICA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 3 August 1918, Page 5

AMERICA.

HEAVY CASUALTIES IN MARNE

FIGHTING

A KAISERIAN BOAST ANSWERED

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1

The forecasts of American casualties indicate that they are extremely heavy. Two hundred thousand were engaged in the Marne. battle, whereof the losses exceed 12 per cent.

The War Department is enlarging the incidence of the draft, and it is expected the draft age will be greatly increased.

Answering the Kaiser's boasts regarding the destructiveness of the. TJ-boat warfare, Mr Daniels announced that not a single United States or British transport conveying troops to Europe had been sunk. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Association.