AMERICA’S PART.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17527, 10 July 1917, Page 6

AMERICA’S PART.

CANADA’S MEN. THE CONSCRIPTION BILL. Reuter's Telegrams.

OTTAWA, July 8.

The Conscription Bill has been amended in committee to provide that young married men shall bp called oilt before unmarried men over thirty-five years of age. / Tlie Government states that men of from eighteen to thirty-five years of ago have been found to perform the best military service.

EXPORT EMBARGO.

NO SUPPLIES FOR NEUTRALS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, July 8. President Wilson has issued a proclamation placing an immediate embargo upon the export of wheat for neutrals. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. ‘ WASHINGTON, July S. . The embargo proclamation will be effective from July 15. It is designed to conserve the foodstuffs of the United States and to prevent food and other supplies -reaching Germany through neutrals. The proclamation prohibits the exportation to any part of the world, including Allied countries, except by license of the. Department of Commerce. The articles affected include coal, petrol, and other oils and fuels, wheat and other grains, flour, meals, fodder and other feeds, meats, fats, steel, iron, fertiliser, arms and ammunition. The law provides drastio penalties for violations, including the forfeiture of vessels carrying forbidden exports without a license.

JAPAN’S OFFER

SHIPPING FOR TRANSPORTS.

Reuter’s Telegrams.

VANCOUVER, July 9.

It is stated in adim miration circles in Washington that Japan is prepared to furnish the United States with 500,000 tons of shipping for transports. Tho plan is opposed in somo quarters in Japan, fearing that it means the abandonment of Japanese shipping in the Pacific.