AMERICA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 114, 18 May 1918, Page 5

AMERICA

STATE CONTROL OF RAILROADS

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

WASHINGTON, May 16.

The railroad returns for the first three months of Government operation show that the receipts amounted to 71 millions, compared with 170 millions last y&ar.

CONSTRUCTION OF SHIPS.

(Router's Telegrams.)

(Rec. May 18, 9.10 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 17.

Mr O. M. Schwab (Director of United States Shipping Construction) says he expects the production of three _or four ten-thousand ton ships daily. "This month," he says, "we will place one ten-thousand tonner every day; by October two; by the middle of next year three or four." Government concrete shipbuilding yards, at a cost of £2,000.000, will be erected at Oakland, California, employing 4,000 men. It is expected the output will be 400,000 tons, and an average launching of one ship a week.

■CONDUCT O<F THE WAR.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

WASHINGTON, May 16. Mr Calhoun, commenting on Senator Chamberlain's resolution for an inq'uiinto the conduct of the war, says h" ■wall regard the resolution, if passed. a s a. direct vote, of want of confidence in his administration.