French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-03-28
Washington.

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A Toxic, Japan, dispatch says that
the interest in Europe in the posi-
bility Of Japanese military ~interven-
ton in the IA is duplicated in ia
pan, where the question Of the dis
patch of an army to Siberia not only
overshadows everything else, but has
created a national problem not ap-
preached in Importance since the Rus
so-Japanese war. The correspondent
says Japan is still studying the Ques-
ton and has not decided upon her
policy.
Not since the year began has official
Washington turned so completely to
the military situation in Europe, and
the c~oncensus Of opinion is thai this
government must speed up every fea-
ture of it's war program and rush ev-
cry available man to the front as
rapidly as bottoms a be secured for
transportation.
1t is announced that ship and aero
plane building is to be pushed more
vigorously under orders going out.
On the battle line in France, &C
cording to reports from all sources,
the s~anguinary struggle is going on,
with British troops on most of the SEQ
tors apparently holding their own, but
the Germans at salient points are re-
ported to be still pressing forward,
killed and wounded.
With what is declared to be a cap
tured German raider in tow, a United
States cruiser is expected to reach "a
Pacific Port"' soon, according to infor-
nation given out by naval officers.
The captured vessel is the Alexander
Agassiz, and the raider is said to have
been QUILTED on the west coast of
! Mexico.
Improvement Of bunkering facilities
so that cargo carriers may not waste
valuable time in waiting for fuel be-
fore beginning a voyage, is the prob
lem that now confronts the merchant
marine board. Steps are being taken
by the shipping beard to enlarge the
| coaling arrangements.
The president has signed the nail
road measure. No new lines or branch
es will be constructed without ap-
prevail of Director General McAdoo.
Advices received in Buenos Aires
seem to confirm the reports that the
Royal Mail Steam Packet company's
steamer Amazon, a 1%0,0OO-tOn vessel,
has been torpedoed. A cable message
says that all on board were saved, but
that the cargo was lost.
While/11, 000,0 tons of ships have
been destroyed since unrestricted sub
marine warfare began, only 5000, GOO
tons of ships have been built to take
their places.
A bill has been introduced in the
senate giving the president new power
to take over private property of all
kinds deemed necessary during the
war.
Publication of the long-held secret
official British admiralty figures show.
ing exactly the total of submarine
losses up to January 1, and that de.
spite antisubmarine measures the I'm.
dersea boats are destroying ships
twice as fast as the worlds ship yards
are building them, promises to be the
forerunner Of some further official
announcements which will bring home
to the United States more strikingly
than ever before the need of the bridge
of ships to France.
Amsterdam reports are to the effect
that members of the Dutch parlia
ment intend asking the Holland gov
eminent whether it is not time to re.
call the Dutch minister at Washington
and land the United States minister
at The Hague his passports. The
Dutch are o r about tie seizure Of
their ships.
The attitude of the United States
toward Bulgaria will remain in the
present anomalous state until Bulga
rian troops are used against United
States soldiers. 1t is known that Bull
garian soldiere have been sent to the
west front