44,000,000 TONS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14608, 18 May 1918, Page 8

44,000,000 TONS.

I^. U.S. , SHIPBUILDING BATE,. NATIONS RIGHT TO SEND TROOPS AWAY. (Official American Wireless). GHICAGO, May 9. Surgeon-General Gorgas, inspecting the medical college and army training camps-, said a new health record was being made at the cantonments, adding : "Heretofore, wo thought Japan did remarkable m maintaining its men's health under war conditions, but we achieved a record 50 per cent better than the Japanese." . WASHINGTON, May S. The Shipping Board ahntfunces that ten steel ships, Jotalling 57,695 tons^ and six wooden ships totalling 21,500 tons, were launched during the past week by American yards. Twelve steel ships, totalling 80,180 tons, were delivered', which is., ut tlfe rate of more than 44,000,000 tons a. year. As the result of a successfid trial trip of the first concrete steamer Faith/- al San Francisco, the Shipping Board has decided to construct ten more such vessels of 7500 tons each on the Pacific coast. Experts declared that the tests proved their construction theory sound. Eighteen hundred, thousand dollars were offered for the Faith, which is three times her cost. The United States Supreme Court has upheld the nations constitutional right to send soldiers overseas. The total number of Liberty Loan Subscribers may rbach 20,000,000, as many firms subscribed m a lump for thousands of employees. The tabulation is*" still incomplete, but the- total is certainly above 3,500,000 dollars. The War Dejiarttiient has 1 ; ysked . Congress to appropriate 1,000,000,000 dollars additional for aviation; 640,000,000 had been , previously. giVen. Other items include 5,780,335,383 dollars for the Q.M. Department, and 3,378,302,801 for ordnance. A)l asked for the army this year is 15,060,000,000 dollars. The Senate and the House of Congress have agreed to a bill for the military service of youths who reach the age of 21 sinco last June, but placing them at the bottom^ of ; the card. Theological and medical students are exempted. « West front despatches . states that 15,000 German gas shells failed to disturb the Americans. on the Pjfardy front. ' General Pershing's men maintained 1 a haa.\assing artillery fire; also actively patrolled. They destroy od a German 'plane, and damaged .-mother.