The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-06-28
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Admiral William b. Caperton, en-
mander in chief of the Pacific fleet of
the United States navy, and the mem
bers OF his staff have been received
with honors at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Prospective reorganization of the
council of national defense at Wash
ingtOn was confirmed from official
sources. The 80 volunteer commit
tees of that organization will be re-
duced to four. These will operate I'M
der the direction of a war industries
board.
An official history Of the entry of the
United States into the European war
was issued at Washington by the COM
mittee on public information. The docu-
ment reveals bad faith and treachery
by the kaiser that forced the United
States to declare war. How the War
Came to America" Is it's title. The
pamphlet is published in response to a
demand from all parts of the country
for detailed statement of our reasons
for pouring out blood and money to de-
feat Germany.
A Roumanian mission to the United
States has arrived. Count Vassile
Stoica, Rev. f. Meta and Bassile
Llcaci are the members Of the mission.
American physicians, nurses and en-
listed men have taken over six of the
British great general field hospitals, re-
leasing the English stats for duty near
their front.
The commander of an American
armed steamer said that he believed
he sunk U-boat on June A, when two
days out from Liverpool, en- route to
an Atlantic port.
Like the head of a great corporation,
General John J. Pershing, the Ameri-
can commander in France, is conduct
ing his war plans on the lines of TWEEN
tieth century business efficiency.
that the subscriptions to the Liberty
loan have surpassed the highest esti-
mate Of the treasury officials and ex-
coed $3,000,000,000.
Repatriation of $4,000 Americans
now fighting In Europe under the ban
ners Of various entente allied countries
is now under consideration by the gov
eminent and will be an accomplished
fact before the close of this congress.
This prediction was made at Washing
ton by a member of the presidents
cabinet.
A German submarine was rammed
and sunk by an American destroyer
after q German-born American blue
jacket had spied out the underwater
craft, according to belief expressed by
the crew of certain American sea
watchdog which returned to its base.
1t was announced at Washington
that Immediately after July the op-
Grafton of the draft will begin. During
July and August the drawings will take
place, the exemptions will be author
lied and by September 1 the men Sc
lected will have been notified to report
for service.
Two American destroyers reached
an Irish port with so survivors Of
two torpedoed British ships. The ships
were sunk at the farthest point west
ward In the Atlantic at which the
U-boats have appeared since the unlim-
tied campaign began and the response
of the American destroyers to their s.
o. S. was a run of more than 100
miles.
President Wilson issued proclama-
ton at Washington designating the
week of June 1880 as recruiting week
for the regular army and called upon
unmarried men without dependents to
enroll for war service In order that the
ranks of the regulars might be filed
promptly.
Domestic
Three men were sentenced to jail for
draft-law violations at New York.