Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-03-28


Tor permanent increase in the sal.
aries of all postal employees ranging
from 5 to 25 per cent.
Sixteen deaths resulted from y
collision between the destroyer Man.
ley and British man-of-war March
~, the Navy department announced.
Two alleged pro-Germans werd
compelled to kiss the American flag,
dashed with a blacksnake whip and
tarred and feathered at Altus, Okla
Practically the entire business sec
ton of Washta, Ia, was wiped out
last Tuesday by fire. The loss is es-
timated at 100000.
General Pershing, the American
commander-in-chief, has approved the
awarding of the first American mill
tary crosses for extraordinary hero
ism.
according to Washington advises
Americas attitude toward Bulgaria
will not be altered at least for the
present, by operations of Bulgarian
troops on the western front.
As*
A formal recommendation against
any attempt to record the soldier
vote in France for elections held dur
ing the war has been prepared by the
war department.
A fleet of 33 liberty trucks, the first
output of the quantity production
which has been ordered to supply the
army with motor vehicles left Lima,
Ohio, for an eastern port, where they
will be loaded for France.
1t is announced that the Twin
City motor speedway at Minneapolis,
purchased year ago by an associa-
ton Of 300 bondholders for $25OOOO
is to be turned into war garden for;
the benefit of the Red Gross.
A resolution authorizing the remov.,,
al Of the Liberty bell from Independ-.
ence hall, to be taken ON a tour Of.
the country in the interest of the
next Liberty loan, was introduced in
the Philadelphia city councils. !
/
Men of the Seven Day Adventist
faith who are members of the 89thl
national army division under training
at Camp Funston, are permitted tot
observe Saturday as those of other
creeds do Sunday.
Proof that Paris has been lombard.
ed by German guns at q range Of
about sixty-two miles was received in;
Washington and astonished American
ordnance officers beyond belief. No
such range of guns had ever BEEN
dreamed of, they said.
A cut Of so per cent in the con-;
sumption of wheat between now and.
August 81 must be made by the;
American people to supply the armies,
of the allies, Harry A. Wheeler, fobdi
administrator for Illinois, declared in
an address at Chicago.
An official list of 200 Americans
now prisoners in German camps,
made public by the state department,
records the death of Charles Hemp
hill, shot while attempting to escape
in September, 1917, and the death of
Andrew Campbell Murtroy, an aviator
brought down near Pargny, Septem-
Der 80, 1917.
The British embassy has made
public figures showing that since the
war began the total loss in world
tonnage, due to enemy action and ma
rine risk, is 11,827,572 tons. Output
of world tonnage in the same period
was only 6,60e,275 gross tons. Every
vessel captured since the war began
amounted to 2,5s9,00O gross tons.
This makes net loss of 2,63l ,297
tons.
EOIty NcIuldu ulVlSlOUS were ems
gagged in the fighting in the initial Of
fensive on the western front, reports
say. The concentration of artillery
for the drive has been described as
the greatest in the worlds history.
All reports Of the fighting in the early
stages emphasize the heavy cost to
the Germans and depict the ground
from which they We're forced to aban.
don as being Uttered with German
dead.
Suppression of all German language
newspapers in this country as danger.
Gus organs of German propaganda
was recommended in resolution
signed by &C prominent men of Cleve,
land Ohio, and sent to President
Wilson.
American Ambassador Francis an.