Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-04-20
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| Dee0 overdue at an AuldDllc port Sl1Ct
March 10. The navy department an
nounced Sunday that she was last re
ported at West Indies island March
f. and that extreme anxiety is enter
tanned as to her safety. The vessel
was bringing a cargo OF manganese
from Brazil.
Walter Peters, a German sailor who
escaped from the German cruiser
Leipsic at the time of the Leipsic and
several other vessels of a squadron
were sunk off the Farmland islands by
British warships, has been arrested at
Crockett, Cal, as a spy.
WASHINGTON
Senator William j. Stone of Mis-
souri,, chairman of the senate foreign
relations committee, and for many
years prominent among Democratic
leaders, died at Washington, April IA,
after stroke of paralysis suffered
four days previous.
The appointment of Thomas Riggs.
Jr, formerly with the Alaskan railroad
/ commission, to be governor of Alaska
has been confirmed by the senate.
President Wilson, by proclamation,
has Communicated the Clyde, Mallory,
Merchants 4 Miners and Southern
steamship lines, and assigned them to
the supervision of Director General Nc
| Adoo.
| Presentation of medals and bars of
| honor with a bonus of 500 to men in
| the naval service for acts of bravery
| is proposed in a bill introduced by Sen
ator Tillman of South Carolina, chair
man of the senate naval committee.
Immediate shipment of two shiploads
of grain to Holland was authorized
Thursday by the war trade board to
meet the growing shortage of food in
that country.
Immediate measures to stamp out
mosquito pest in regions surrounding
southern army camps will be taken by
the army medical corps. The war de-
partment has approved a suggestion
that army funds be made available for
the purpose.
FOREIGN
The German intention to replace Bel
gian tribunals by German courts is
confirmed by notice issued by Gov
ernor Won Falkenhausen, basing the
| measure on political manifestations by
| Belgian courts, which refused to sit as
a protest against the arbitrary meth
! DDS of the invaders.
The first American prisoner to es-
cape from Germany, says the Temps,
has reached Basel, Switzerland.
Germany is preparing for a vast sea
raid, supplementing her west front
drive, according TO information gath
cred officially by the navy.
Fighting is still going on between
Mohammedan tribes and the Assyrian
Christians in the district west of the
Turco-Persian frontier.
Japan, according to the newspaper
Nichi Nichi, will not heed the protest
of the Bolsheviki government against
the landing of Japanese troops at Vlad-
ivostok. The japanese government, the
paper adds, maintains that the action
was proper and fully justified, but at
the same time Toxic treasures Rus
STA of japanese friendship.
Two German fighting planes were
shot down Sunday morning inside
American lines by Lieutenants A. S.
Winslow of Chicago and Douglas
Campbell of Chicago. Each man
downed one machine.
The bombardment of the Paris dis
trict by the German long-range gun
continued Sunday. One woman was
killed.
The British and French governments
have agreed to confer the title of COM
mander in chief of the allied armies in
France on General Foch.
The entire allied line in Belgium and
France is holding firm. Nowhere have
the Germans been able, notwithstand-
ing the great numbers of men hurled
against it, especially that portion in
flanders where the British are holding
forth, to gain an inch of ground.
Establishment of university" in
France for the American eXpedItlonary
force, With classrooms in the 500
Young Mems Christian association
huts along the French front, has been
begun with the sanction of General
John ]. Pershing.
Field Marshal Haig has declared:
"Every position must be held to the
last man. There must be no retire
ment With our backs to the wall and
believing in the justice Of our cause,
each one of us must fight to the end.
The safety of our homes and the free
dom Of mankind depend alike upon the
conduct Of each one Of US at this criti-
| cal moment"
The clause Of the man power bill
placing CONSUMPTION on Ireland was
passed by the British house Of com