UNITED STATES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 1 September 1919, Page 5

UNITED STATES

ENQUIRY: INTO WAR EXPENDI-

TURE.

FRANCE BUYING AMERICAN WAR

STORES

ANGLO-PERSIAN TREATY i opposed;

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT

, . WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. Pershing refused to testify beffre the Congressional sub-committee which is holding investigations in Paris on the subject of ; war expenditure. Mr Bland, a member of the sub-committee, chai-acterised the general's action as one of indifference and contempt characteristic of the War Department towards the people's representatives during the war.

- NEW YORK, Aug; 29^ The Times' Washington correspondent -states that it is announced that France will pay the United States four hundred million dollars for American army property in France. The correspondent says that the State Department has announced that the United States will recognise the de facto Government of Peru under President Leguia. Washington advices state that it is understood- that America is unfavorably disposed to the Anglo-Persian treaty recently submitted to the State Department by Britain.