AMERICA MAKING PREPARATIONS IN CASE OF WAR.
I. PLANS FOR TEE MANUFACTURE OF MUNITIONS. AUTHORITY TO TAKE OVER RAILWAYS AND SHIPS Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, Feb. 6. The United States Steel Company, the Bethlehem and other leading'companies, have been instructed by the Government to be ready instantly to cease work on private contracts in order to make munitions exclusively. Bills have been introduced in Congress authorising the Government if necessary to take over the railways, telegraphs, telephones, private yachts, and all ships laid up in American ports. The Secretary for War has ordered the immediate purchase of army supplies to the limit of the Department's available funds. There is an unprecedented rush of Germans to become naturalised Americans. The first censorship has been established at San Francisco on news between the United States, Hawaii, and the Philippines. An Appropriation Bill of £30,000,000 has been introduced in Congress to facilitate the quick delivery of warships under construction, also of naval supplies.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16459, 8 February 1917, Page 7
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