AMERICA'S MIGHTY EFFORT.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13929, 11 July 1917, Page 6

AMERICA'S MIGHTY EFFORT.

MOBILISING STRONG. MILITARY FORCES FOR FRANCE. DESTRUCTION OF IMPORTANT NAVAL YARDS. WASHINGTON, July 8. The first draft, of enlistments will bring tlie National Guard to Avar strength, and will provide 500,000 men for the new army in France. > The War Department lias announced the first, draft of 68,700 men- ' Australian and New Zealand Oalilo Association.) ' V SAN. FRANCISCO, July 9. All explosion followed by a'fire, destroyed the Mare Island navy yard. A dozen people wore injured. Windows were broken in all the San Francisco Bay towns. (Australian and New Zealand Calile Association,) SAN FRANCISCO, July 9. ; - Six men were killed and thirty-one injured by itlie explosion at the Mare Island navy yard. . DIRE EFFECTS OF AMERICAN FOOD-EMBARGO, HOLLAND AND ARGENTINE FACE DESPERATE SITUATION. (Amtralian and New Zealand C(vbls Association.) WASHINGTON, July 9. Ilcrr van Rappard. • Dutch Minister to the United States, ' "expresses grave apprehension of flic effect of the embargo on tlio ■ export of wheat. The Minister declares;. . "We arc starving. The Dutch people are-rationed, and are forced to depend on Germany for coal and on America for grain. ..Holland is at America's mercy. (Australian and New Zealand Calile Association.) ' WASHINGTON, July 9. Advices from Argentine state that "great alarm lias been caused bv President Wilson's action in placing an'embargo on exports, owing to the Argentine's industries being dependent on Nort j America for cpal an(l other fuel, •