AMERICA'S PART
i MOBILISING THE FIRST DRAFT. E T Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON, August 9. One-third of the 687,000 men drafted will be mobilised on September 1. AMERICA AN IMMENSE FACTOR.. TRANSPORT AND FEEDING I SCHEME. NEW YORK, August 9. The Staats Zeitung, the local Gcrmar organ, says that the Germans are no-n realising that if the war continues ink 1918 America will be an immense factor and the problems of transporting troops . to Europe and feeding them will be solved ° The Germans are no longer using a torn of superiority towards America's wai efforts. There is no reason why the Allio: should be dissatisfied with America's slov r but sure preparations. s i, TENNIS CHAMPION ENLISTS. 3 WASHINGTON, August 9. Mr Maurice M'Laughlin, one of the fore most tennis players of the world, 'has en [; listed for naval coastal defence. [Tho cable news in this issue accreditei to The Times has appeared in tha journal, but only where expressly statei is such news the editorral opinion of Th . Times.]
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17080, 11 August 1917, Page 7
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