THE UNITED STATES.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14409, 10 May 1917, Page 1

THE UNITED STATES.

MR BALFOUR AT THE SENATE.

LOAN TO FRANGE

STATE" DEPARTMENT SECRECY

(Australian and, N.Z. Cable, Association)

Washington, May 8.

•'.•■ Mr Balfour met the Senate, and was warmly greeted. He referred to the British trials in the early days of the war, and declared that every American man and woman would re quire to throw into the scale, on the 6ide of justice all his or her efforts in order that-the cause of right might prevail.

A loan of £20,000,000 to assist France has been completed.

_ Mr Lansing has ordered tre dismissal of 7 State Department employees who give out"newsi.-v ,-Ia: future onlj : Mr Lansing and the Press Bureau wilL be permitted to disclose Governmental news. ■..:-".■■" : -.'■-