AMERICA AND GERMANY

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16230, 28 March 1917, Page 8

AMERICA AND GERMANY

NAVAL AND MTLITARY PREPARATIONS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Aasn.) WASHINGTON, March 20 ' T/he outstanding developments to-day ' include the calling out of thp National i Guard (this means that 130,000 me,n arc available), and placing the navy on a rrar 'oasis. Many new ships are almost available for commission. Changes in the high army command include the creation of sis-\instead of four . military departments. Amongst thp preparatory measures is the placing of the army on an effective 'war basis. ANOTHER PROBLEM. SHIP SUNK EY RAIDER. Among the ships ' claimed to have been sunk bv the Moowo, with fiftyseven Americans aboard, is the Esmeralda s. Tins is likely to furnish America, with ,a, similar problem to that of the Yarrowdale's crew. MILITIA, / MOBILISING. Nine States have ordered a mobilisation of Militia as German outrages are feared. ALTERNATIVE MILITARY * PLANS. President Wilson is considering a scheme for universal militarv training, but believes the country does,not welcome it. tiierefore he may recommend Congress to recruit the armv to 000 or recruit the Militia to its fnil strength or raise a volunteer army of 250,00 a NOTE ' FURTHER IINGA G EMENTS USELESS. The United States, replvins to Germany s effort to reconstruct"" the German treaty of 1799, informed Berlin that, further engagements on Gennanv's part were useless The Note added that lite pmted States was seriouslv considered whether Germanv's fiV'r.int violations had not already cancelled this treaty as well as that of 1828. • ! SPY IMPRISONED. \;j '■ NEW YORK, March 2P • . teorac: Vaux Bacon, an American journalist, was arrested in England for spvm.s. He pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy and organisinsr on American soil o. military expedition a-eairist : ]Z n l llaly . Power - Ho w as sentenced to 466 da,ys' imprisonment.