Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-04-04
news BRIEFLY TOLD.
INTELLIGENCE GATHERED HERg
COVERS WIDE AREA.
GREATER OR LESSER IMPORT
includes What is Going On at Wash.
lnaton and In Other sections
Of the Country.

Of the Country. ,1F
Iowa's allotment for the third Lib.
erty loan has been placed at SILL
05O,OOO.
French soldiers of the class of 1919
are to be called to the colors April
10. This was decided on by vote
of the chamber of deputies.
Secretary McAdoo announced that
the third Liberty loan will be for
$30o0,000,0O0, and all over-subscrip-
tions will be accepted. 1t will bear
AZ per cent interest.
The Bolsheviki organ, Izvenstia,
published at Moscow, printed an ap-
peal signed by Leon Trotzky, calling
upon the people to cooperate in the
organization of an army to defend
the revolution.
Wheat boarded with unpatriotic in
tent will be seized by the food admin.
istration. Orders have gone out from
Washington to state administrators
to act promptly when boarding is dis.
covered.
To discourage all new Industrial
projects not deemed essential to the
prosecution of the war, the war indus
tries board will withhold from such
plants the benefits Of priority of
transportation for their products.
Twenty-eight British merchantmen
We're sunk by submarines and mines
during the week ending March %.
This is the greatest number of British
merchantmen sunk in one week since
the week of September 49, 1917.
Lieutenant General Won .Rohne, a
German authority on ordnance, says
in the Vossiche Zeitung of Berlin that
the bombardment of Paris is merely
in the nature of trial for guns which
are really intended to lombard Lon
don.
Homer Rodeheaver, Billy Sundays
famous chorus leader, is to marry a
grand opera star, Miss May Peterson.
In spite of Sundays oft-repeated in
junction that 'the stage is recruiting
place for hades," the wedding. is to
take place soon.
That Germany is engaged in war
r world domination was admitted at
the annual meeting in Berlin on Feb
ruary IS of the "Bund Der Land
wierts," junker organization, ac-
cording to German newspapers re-
ceived in New York.
A resolution extending the selective
draft to men reaching the age of 81
years since June 5, 1917-the first reg
istration day-was passed by the SEN
ate. 1t is estimated that about 7OO,-
600 men will be added to the regis
tration this year by the resolution.
In the engagement between allied
and enemy destroyer squadrons off
Dunkirk the British destroyer Botha
cut German warship in half and
took leading part in the fight, al
though her main steam pipe had been
severed by stray shell.
General Pershing, in conference
asked in his own and his countrys
name that the entire American forces
in France be engaged in the present
battle, the Paris war office an.
nounced.
Seventy-five persons We're killed and
ninety wounded most of them women
and children, when shell fired by q
German long range gun fell on 6
church in the region of Paris while
Good Friday services We're being
held.
State food administrators were in
structed by the national administra
ton, when violation of food regula
lions We're reported, to hold hearing.
open to the public and to the press
so that persons failing to cooperate
In the nations hour of emergency
may be known to their fellow-citizens
"America must strip for action
said Acting Chief of Staff March il
commenting on the pressing appeal:
from Britain, France, General Perish
! ing and elsewhere for more ship space
| for troops and army freight. March,
policy, it is said, is to get every pos
sible man to France in the shortes
possible time.
Director General of Railroads Nc
j Adoo issued orders abolishing the OF
fee of passenger and freight traffi
agents on all railroads. Under thi
| head soma railrood men cav all oit-