AMERICA'S ENTRY

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15191, 11 April 1917, Page 5

AMERICA'S ENTRY

GERMAN PLOT DISCOVERED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received April 11, 9.15 a.m. WASHINGTON, April l'O. A German plot to dislocate the entire Western Pennsylvanian coalfields has been discovered at Pittsburg. TO DODGE CONSCRIPTION. AMERICANS RUSH TO GET MARRIED. Received April 11, 9.15 a.m. WASHINGTON, April 10. Thousands of men of military age at New York, Chicago, and San Francisco are besieging the registry offices for marriage licenses, in order to escape conscription. Chicago already records 1100.

WHEAT FOR THE ALLIES.

WASHINGTON, April 10. A conference of agricultural experts is being held at St. Louis under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, to devise means of increasing the wheat yield to assist the Allies. The conference has suggested that a limit should be put on grain for breweries and distilleries, an.. mill a greater percentage for flour.

LIMITATION OF WAR PROFITS.

WASHINGTON, April 10. President Wilson's advisers are urging that the Government's intended prohibition of excessive war profits should apply not only to American contracts, b_t also to the Allies.