Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-05-09
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There will be no difficulty in financ-
Ing the governments requirements for
the war with Germany and this can be
done without disturbing the country's
business, said William G. McAdOO, Sec
rotary Of the treasury, at New York.
In announcing that department OF
labor employment agencies throughout
the country had registered $4,000
skilled shipbuilders for work on the
great wooden merchant fleet, Secretary
Wilson, at Washington, said this
achievement was "Only minor step In
the nationwide mobilization of labor"
proposed as war measure.
"Unless the United States marshalS
all her resources, both military and In
dustrial, and does it Immediately, there
Is a great probability that we shall see
German troops In this country within
year." said Judge Lucien f. Burpee at
Hartford, Conn.
James w. Gerard Of New York, am
bassador at Berlin during the historic
crisis that led to war with Germany,
speaking before the Chicago Bar asso-
citation said that Germany, Officially,
was planning to invade the United
States Immediately upon a successful
conclusion of it's war with the allied
countries.
Under the initial draft to secure
100000 men to make up the first army
for the war with Germany, New York
will furnish the greatest number 49,
345 and Nevada the lowest, 500. This
has been determined by the war de-
partment at Washington.
1t was announced at Washington
that the American sailing vessel Mar
garet was destroyed off the Irish coast
on April y by a submarine.
Three hundred ambulances and T.
300 doctors and drivers will be sent to
France as soon as a transport can be
obtained, it was announced by the
council of national defense at Wash
ington.
Seventy-One German and Austrian
merchant ships seized by the U. S. gov
eminent will be repaired and ready for
commission within five months, the
federal shipping board at Washington
estimated.
The American steamer Rockingham
has been sunk by German submarine.
Thirteen men are missing. Two boats
containing SO men were picked up, one
by a patrol vessel. One boat contain
ing Is men was not found. The Ameri
can steamship Rockingham, formerly
the steamship Nebraskan, was of 4,408
tons gross.
The French commissioners were told
at Washington that the American gov
eminent is willing to send troops to
France-one of the urgent recon-
mendations they brought to this coun-
try-when the allies believe they can
afford to spare the necessary ships for
transporting an army and it's equip
ment across the Atlantic. Marshal
Joffre held q long conference with
President Wilson on the question of
sending American troops to France.
eff we don't fight the war on the
other side," Secretary Lane said, 1--WE
shall have to fight it on this side Of
the Atlantic" Lane, speaking before
the defense counsel of governors and
state representatives at Washington,
said that the great destruction Of ships
was threatening the existence of Great
Britain and France and menacing the
United States.
The movement to have an American
army sent to fight in France at the
earliest possible moment took one more
step toward accomplishment. 1t also
developed that the civilian officials Of
the government at Washington are al
most in e. body in favor of the plan,
while military advisers of the war de-
partment stand sOlidly against sending
any soldiers to France until they have
been thoroughly trained here.
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