AMERICA'S PAST
PROPOSED WAR COUNCIL. CIVILIANS TO BE APPOINTED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON, January 20. A Bill creating a War Council of three civilians will be introduced in the Senate on- Monday. It empowers the Council to co-operate with President Wilson in the entire conduct of the ""war. LABOURERS NEEDED. IMPORTATION OF COLOURED MEN PROPOSED. WASHINGTON, January 20. Plans are being matured to transport I*lo,ooo labourers from Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands as railroad and agricultural workers. NEW GAS MASK. INVENTION BY CHEMISTS. WASHINGTON, January 20. It is announced that United States chemists have perfected a gas mask superior to that used bv the Allies, and it may be widely used by the European forces. WHAT BRAZIL WILL DO. TWO MILLION MEN PROMISED. AN EARLY INSTALMENT. Router's Telegrams. _ NEW YORK, Jantnary 20. (.Received Jan. 22, at 1 a_m.) A special article in the New York Tribune states that Brazil will put 2,000,000 men into the fsld, and several 'hundred thousand men will be on the west front in a few months.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17218, 22 January 1918, Page 5
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