SECOND EDITION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 160, 4 July 1918, Page 1

SECOND EDITION

SIBERIA.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. Julv 4, 2.10 p.m.) IvOiNiDON', July 3. The .Daily Express's Stockholm correspondent stalus Inert* are two Siberian Go\enmients, the Eastern with the capital at Harbin, and the Western with the capita] at Oin.sk. They have been united with Tomsk as the new capital. The main military force consists of Czechoslovaks, besides several corps of volunteers. The whole movement is directed i by Kerensky from outside. TRADE AFTER THE WAR. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. July 4, 2.10 p.m.) •1*0X1)ON, July 3. The International Parliamentary Conj t'erence resolved urging the Entente Go- | vernments to adopt the earliest adequate j measures to defeat, the German conspiracy to dominate the trade of the ! world, including dumping, 'espionage,' and other practices, and recommending the eslablishmentof an inter-Allied "Entente of commerce thereanent. AMERICA'S WAR EFFORT. • (Rec. Julv 4, 2.10 p.m.) WASHINGTON. July 3 ...•' The Secretary of War, in a letter to President Wilson, detailing 'America's war efforts showing that over a million troops have sailed for France. Starting with 1918 men in !Ma.y, 1917, the numbers sent monthly steadily increased to 276,382 sent in June. 1918. Besides \sol-, diers, 14,644 marines have been sent. The total is 1,019,115, while the total number of returned from abi'oad, lost »*• t nea and casualties up to that date was ' - 8165. Owing to the biiperbly efficient protection afforded by navy transporting,, only 291 had been lost at s'ca. The letter -states that supplies and equipment for all the troops sent are nil* quate. and the output, of war industries of America is displaying -marked im proveinont in practically all the Hues of necessarv equipment and supplies. President Wilson, in 'acknowli'duing tlie letter, says: "It is a record which must dive, universal satisfaction, bccnußß the heart of the country is unqu'estionaoly in the war.'* •