AMERICAN PREPARATIONS.
NO LIMIT TO NUMBER OF MEN TO BE SENT. 7 (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, May 18. President Wilson lias arrived at New York, where he will address a Red Cross meeting to-day. The United Press correspondent says President Wilson will point out that the United States must prepare for further sacrifices in order, to frustrate Germany's aggressive plans. The United States is preparing a mighty stroke before 1919, and the War Department ihas askted the Shipping Board to increase its 1919 plans by 6^ per eent. Advance contracts have been let in anticipation of the enormous force of American-* which is expected to b6 sent to the West front. e The President will emphasise that a just peace is possible only by crushing German militarism. NEW YURK, May 18. , . Ex-President Taft. in a speech at tho Philadelphia win-the-war convention, said the United States would have an army of *3,200,000 by the end of the year and 5,400.000 by the end of 1919. PrWdent Wilson, speaking at the, Red Cross meetinc, said tliere was no limit to the number of msjii. America would send to Franco! The United States intender' to. stand 1 by Russia as well as .France.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14609, 20 May 1918, Page 3
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203AMERICAN PREPARATIONS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14609, 20 May 1918, Page 3
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