Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-07-16
GENERAL NEWS.
Items Of Interest Gathered From Va

Items Of Interest Gathered From va
rious Sources.
A Paris dispatch says that the Brit
ish fighting force in France now
aggregates 100000 men.
Loans made by the United States to
it's allies now total ss.09l.5s0.00o and
are continuing to pile up at the rate
Of $500. 100000 monthly.
Wireless dispatches received at Lon
don tell Of an epidemic Of cholera,
due 10 food shortage. in Petrograd,
with hundreds Of new cases and a
hundred deaths day.
Secretary Of the Navy Daniels. in an
interview at Atlantic City, y. j., last
week. predicted that the United States
would be bone dry" by January !,
1919.
The National Security league has
proposed a fusion OF Democrats and
Republicans in the twelfth New York
congressional district in an effort to
defeat Representative Meyer London,
Socialist.
A dispatch by way Of Rome, says
that Kaiser William has fallen a VIC
tim to Spanish influenza, now so pre-
valcnt in the German army. Several
members Of the emperor's family are
said to be victims OF the malady.
Corporal Everett Buckley OF Kill
burne, ILL.,, an aviator in the French
service, captured by the Germans at
Verdun in September last, and since n
prisoner Of the Huns has made his
escape and reached Zurich. Switzer-
land.
Fifteen alleged conscientious OBJ
jectors" were last week sent from
Camp Meade. Maryland, to Fort
Le:tvenworth, Kansas, pending dispo-
sition OF their cases 10y the war de-
partment. The bunch will probably
he put to work on farms.
Five American airplanes, which re-
Gently went on bombing expe edition
over German territory, have failed 10
return, according to a report by Gen.
Pershing. The Germans also report
the capture of five American Hers
who were trying to bomb CoblenZ.
Fourteen hundred and eighty y-one
women were added to the working
forces of the Pennsylvania railroad IN
June. The number Of women now en-
ployed by the Pennsylvania road IN
positions formerly filled by men. and
exclusive of office workers. totals 81
354.
Unable to agree on a candidate 10
present to the nominating convention
at Saratoga on July %. the commit
tee of AZ New York upstate Demo-
Gratis will present the names OF sew
eral men to the convention for sciec-
ton Of a candidate. The name OF w.
r.. Hearst is not i'm the list.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg has
issued a call for a million more SOL
diers. Recruits are being taken from
the factories, and vacancies are being
filed by prisoners. foreigners and ex-
changed prisoners of war. contrary 10
all agreements. Recruits of l6, IL ana
Is are being called out for the COM
ing drive on the western front.
The German army has declared or
ficiaily that the American soldiers ARE
remarkable" Regardless oc the stun
the Eaiser's propaganda bureau feeds
to the German people and to neutrais
about our soldiers not being able to
aGht sar ;te own nse the German -armV
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has compiled its own estimate, which
looks forward to finding tn, Americans
adverss ries." THIS esa-
mate Is set forth in an official army
report found on a captured German.
The report not only speaks respectful
~ of the nerve and bravery OF the
American soldiers, bu, also confesses
inability of the Huns to get ary iEfor-