Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-06-29
WASHINGTON.

the war.
WASHINGTON.
The order placing the entire express
business of the United States under
control of the United States railroad
administrator has been signed by the
Adams, American, Wells Fargo and
Southern Express companies by Walk
er ID. Hines, as acting director general
of the railroads.
nounced the war department would
brook no discrimination by draft
boards and that any complaints would
be thoroughly investigated. The secre-
tary made the statement when his at
tention was called to reports that GER
tain boards were accused of discrimi-
nation against cOlOred men.
A credit of $15,79O,OO0 to Greece
the first under the new financial agree
ment between that country and the
United States, was announced June p
by the treasury department This
brings the total of allied credits to
$3.50, 100000.
Reports of shortages of woolens and
wooden clothing for the civil population
are officially denied by the war indus
tries board in warning to dealers not
to speculate in wooden commodities.
Motor mail service, showing a sur
plus of 100000 for the first six months
of its operation, warrants immediate
legislation for road construction that
will extend the service throughout the
United States, according to James /.
Blakslee, assistant postmaster gen.
eral.
Promising complete investigation by
the state department into the Tabriz
incident, President Wilson has laid a
restraining hand on congress, in which
body there is growing demand for an
immediate declaration of war against
both Turkey and Bulgaria.
FOREIGN.
Failure of the latest Turkish loan is
reported Saturday in IA dispatch from
Switzerland, announcing that only
f12 100000 was obtained of f32 100000
sought Germany already has advanced
to the Ottoman empire nearly $780,
100000
Chinese soldiers are available for
cooperation with the japanese at Har-
bin and near the Siberian frontier, and
if necessary more will be sent, General
Tuan Chi-Jui, the Chinese premier and
war minister told the Picking CORE
spondent of the Daily Mail on Satur-
day.
Clothing in Germany has now be-
come almost as scarce as food. Per-
haps nothing could more graphically
reveal the clothing plight of Germany
than Il proposal just put forward by
Justizrat Otto Feig, prominent Ber-
lin lawyer, that the government should
forthwith enact law making it com
pulsory for the heirs of dead people
or the administrators of their estates
to turn over to the state all the cloth
ing left by the deceased persons.
a wireless dispatch received from
Rome stated that official estimates
placed the Austrian losses on the Ital-
ian front at 100000.
The Germans are massing more and
more allied prisoners, both officers and
men, along the Rhine and in frontier
towns, says the Lausanne Gazette An
Alsatian-newspaper reports that five
allied prisoners were killed and six
wounded during n recent air raid on
Thionville, Germany.
The British government regard their
proposals of Irish home rule and con-
scription as postponed, but in nowise
abandoned, the Times says it under
stands. Conscription will not be with
drawn, nor will efforts be relaxed to
frame a measure of selfgovernment
for Ireland.
Ship tonnage sunk by German sub
marines in the month of May amounted
to 6l4,0O0 gross TONS according to an
official statementr-Sueda at Berlin.
Y Germany, war weary and ill-fed, is
in "A state of unrest so acute that talk
of revolt is common among both the
military and civil populations accord
ing to Americans who arrived at an
Atlantic port Saturday on a Norwegian
liner from Germany or adjacent neu-
trail countries.
The Vienna city council on Tuesday,
according TO dispatch received at
Amsterdam, passed resolution pro-
testing against the reduction of the
bread ration.
New bread riots started Thursday
night in the Favoriten and Brigittenay
districts of Vienna and there are now
more than 10000 munition workers
on strike in the Austrian capital, says
an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Zurich.
Declaring the British and Americans
an unconquerable race who never fight
so well as with their backs to the wall
and face to face with the foe, as today,
the lord mayor of London declared in