UNITED STATES.
SHIPS COLLIDE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. WASHINGTON, April 18. News has boon received at an Atlantic port that the War Ivnight, a British merchantman, and the 0.8. Jennings, an American ship, 'collided off the British coast. Both wove laden with miptha and the Brtisber caught fire. Thirty-six of the crew were burned tr> death. The vessel struck a mine and sank while being towed to safety. Orit.i American was killed. THE LIBERTY LOAN. The Liberty Loan exceeds a' billion dollars. WHEAT FROM AUSTRALIA. The "United . Press Agency reports that the Japanese ships. bought and chartered by the United States will probably be used to carry Australian wheat to America and the Allies. ' A GALLANT AN ZAC. NEW YORK, April 18. Tl:le_ New York "Tribune,"' in an editorial paiys a tribute to Captain • Kii.vvett's valuable recruiting speeches, and adds: "We salute the memory of a gallant Anzac, and through liini our bravo Ally in -he Pae lie."
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16524, 20 April 1918, Page 9
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159UNITED STATES. Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16524, 20 April 1918, Page 9
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