Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-04-25

Its treasury given to the Red Cross.
The British government is con-
STRUGGLING gun capable of throwing a
shell so miles.
Ten German trawlers were sunk by
the British in the Cattegat (between
Sweden and Denmark) the admiralty
| announces.
President Wilson has signed the
bill extending provisions of the espi.
onage act to women and requiring
registration of women enemy aliens.
The government railroad administra.
ton has taken over the Erie canal and
will construct fleet of barges to re-
lieve freight traffic.
Baron Burian has been appointed
Austro-Hungarian foreign minister IN
succession to Count Czernin, who re-
signed.
Secretary of War Baker announced
that the fourth officers training camps
will open May Is at various divisional
camps and environments.
Fifteen British merchant ships were
sunk by mine or submarine during the
week ending April 10, nine more than
during the previous week.
Thirty-fve boy inmates of the Okla
homa state asylum were burned to
death in a fire which burned three
frame wards of the institution at
Norman.
It is said that not more than 40
merchant ships flying the American
flag have been lost from all causes,
since the war began nearly four years
ago.
With liberty loan subscriptions now
nearing the $2,OOO,0O0,O0O mark, Secre.
tary McAdoo has set $4,000, 000, 900 as
the minimum result with which he
win be satisfied.
British Prime Minister Balfour de.
clared at London that one of Ger
many's greatest mistakes of the war
was her misjudgement Of the power
of America.
! Thirty-seven lives were lost when
the American steamship o. B. Jen-
nings and the British steamer War
knight collided off the British coast
on March "a.
Charles M. Schwab, steel magnate
is director general of a new shipping
administration just created. He ac
copied the post at the request of Pres.
ident Wilson.
The senate resolution for registra'
/ ton of men who have reached q
eayrs of age, since June 1, 1917, was
ordered favorably reported to the
house.
ton announced that Roman troops
will soon start for France to aid the
British, French and Americans to
check the onrush of the Germans on
the west front.
| Fifty-two counties and 243 towns
4 and cities in the Tenth federal re
serve district were awarded honor
flags, having subscribed their full
quotas to the third liberty loan up to
April 10.
France, Washington officials believe
not only for defeat of the German
drive, but for counter offensive by
General Foch's armies that may oper
the road to an allied military victory
4 Military men in Washington see il
the French gains in the Amiens sec
tor, that they are striving hard to re
Iieve the terrible pressure on tn,
4 British in the north. The British de
J Tense is considered one of the mos
stubborn and gallant in all history.
: Overwhelming German forces caus
ed the British to evacuate Bailleul
Wulverghen and Wytschaete, import
ant strategic point in Northern
France. The enemy also carried ;
large part of the Messinas ridge, Ike,
to the Ypres sector, by storm. DeSpit
} these reverses, however, the Britsl
are confident of holding their owl
: against the Germans, who seem de
termined to crush their army.
Secretary of War Baker has return
, ed from his visit to the battle field
of Europe and is back on the job a
Washington. On his arrival at an Al
, lantic port he authorized the follow
ing statement: II return with a sens
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