AMERICA'S PART

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17325, 27 May 1918, Page 5

AMERICA'S PART

SPEEDING UP TRAINING. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON, May 24. Mr Baker, Secretary of War, has recommended to the House Committee that the President be authorised to call up as many of the 10 million registered men as can be trained, equipped, and used advantageously. The committee approved the recommendation. The Senate Military Affairs Committee adopted a resolution authorising the President to draft the maximum number of men trainable and equipable each year until the successful termination of the war. An influential group of Russians, after a conference with M. Bakometieff, proposes to raise a force of 200,000 Russians in America for service in Siberia. COSTA RICA DECLARES WAR, NEW YORK, May 25. (Received May 26, at 5.5 p.m.) Costa Rica has declared war against tlie Central Powers. [Costa Rica has a population of tinder half a million, and has neither army nor navy.] AMERICAN TROOPS AS FIGHTERS. DUKE OF CONNAUGHT'S TRIBUTE. NEW YORK, May 25. (Received May 26, at 5.5 p.m.) The Duke of Connaught, accompanied by Lieutenant-general Sir William Pulteney, tlie Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, and party, have left for Washington to visit President Wilson. The Duke of Connaught, interviewed, said the American troops were taking a magnificent part in the great battle on the western front.