WAR IN THE AIR.
■■■:■".•.'■■ NEW YORK, February 6. Henry Ford, of motor-car fame, has offered his factories to the Government in.the event of war for Operation without profit. While the President is still anxious to preserve peace, . he is determined that the first overt act will mean war. Congress is rushing all preparedness plans. The, Government is considering the question of convoying ships of the American lines.
Wall Street is buoyant, the market showing that it is prepared to stand the strain. United States Steel led a general advance despite an attempt to "bear."
American shipping companies say they would rather their ships were sunk than that they should consent to decorate them with' grotesque signs which Germany suggests in order to secure immunity. ■
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16892, 7 February 1917, Page 7
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