Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-07-18
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Of the Country.
In month or less General Pershing
will have 100000 men under his di-
rect command on the west front,
Washington reports say.
1t is generally believed in Washing
ton official circles that the United
States government will approve Of
military Intervention in Russia.
Workmen in a Belfast, Ireland,
ship building plant, have achieved a
worlds record in completing an 5000
ton standard ship in Is days.
Three persons were killed in bat
tie between officers and band of al
legged army slackers and their sup
porters in a woods near Heber
Springs, Ark.
State draft executives were directed
by Provost Marshal General Crowder
to have local boards call up for ply
steal examination Immediately all new
registrants who have been placed in
Glass 1.
Evidence secured by Italian army
officers from Austrian prisoners indi-
Gates that the Austro-Hungarian losses
during the recent offensive were in
the neighborhood of 100000.
Governor Lister Of Washington has
called out the National Guards Of the
state to patrol threatened forests and
fight fires. The northwest forest fire
menace is said to be the most serious
in history.
An Interpretation of the work or
fight order, announced by the South
Dakota State Council Of Defense, will,
in effect, make it practically impossi-
BILE to operate pool halls or billiard
parlors in the state.
More than 100 persons, most of
them negroes, were killed and as
many more injured in head-on col
lision between passenger trains on the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
Railway near Nashville, Tenn.
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It is planned to launch eighteen
large steel ships at San francisco on
Labor day, September 2. Approx
mately 100000 tons of shipping would
be added to the United States marine
by the projected launchings.
The success Of the Czecho-Slovaks
In Siberia has caused anxiety in Ger
many, says an official dispatch from
France. The liberal organs criticize
the government and affirm that the
German public has been deceived.
Representatives of the Western
League baseball clubs at meeting at
Omaha, unanimously decided to dis
continue playing out the present sea-
son, and to disband the league until
after the termination of the war.
Final compilations of third Liberty
loan subscriptions, announced by the
treasury department, show total of
$4,176, 516,S50, an increase Of $6,497,-
200 over the total officially estimated
after the campaign closed May 8.
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The fall of Foreign Secretary Won
Kuehlmann is regarded in Germany
us the introduction Of an open pan
German regime under the control OF
the military leaders, reports reaching
London say. The pan-German news.
papers do not disguise their delight
over it.
4 Government hopes for a billion
/ bushel wheat crop received a setback
when the department Of agriculture's
July forecast showed reduction OF
40,O0O,00O bushels in the prospective
crop. Unfavorable weather condi
tons during June cut the estimated
harvest to s91, 100000 bushels from
the 931 100000 bushels forecast ir
June.
To equalize the price of sugar tt
the consumer in the face of prospect.
for an increase due to q threatened
shortage, and to secure better distri
button, President Wilson created tn,
sugar equalization board. The boart
will be incorporated at $5,0OO,OO0, ant
will have authority to acquire, even a
a loss to the government, the produc
ton of beet sugar factories that can
not under the present price of beet
be svId to the public at reasonable
price, and other high cost sugar.
A Canadian hospital on site be
hind the British front in Flander
was bombed by German aviators an
several persons, including doctors