Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-04-06


! A new study, "What every American
| school pupil should know about the
war;" has been tentatively added to
the curriculum of the public schools at
! New York.
WASHINGTON
Government operation of the big
packing houses of the country has be
come a strong probability. President
Wilson has approved the appointment
of. commission to study the entire
| complex meat problem, and that some
drastic change of policy with respect
to meat conservation and distribution
must be made Immediately.
Entering the fifth month of the sec
! ond war session, congress this week Is
expected to complete three more i'm
portant measures-the new Liberty
loan legislation, the bill creating war
finance corporation, and the long pend
ing Webb export bill.
Congress has just closed what vet
eran members declare to be one of the
talkingest weeks in it's history. There
has been added to the congressional
record 453 pages of fine print type, or
about 10000 words.
| Relief for farmers who raise wheat,
corn rye, oats or barley, and who are
unable to purchase seed this year,
would be provided in a bill passed by
the house March 20.
All householders, public utilities and
industrial users of coal engaged in es-
sential war work are urged by Fuel
Administrator Garfield to order with
out delay sufficient coal for their
needs during the coal Year begin
ming April 1.
Suspension of the meatless day reg
/ ulations for thirty days has been or
dered by the food administration and
instructions telegraphed to all state
! food administrators.
FOREIGN
Two girls and one man were shot
at Quebec, when O. mob protesting
| against the arrest of deserters under
the military service act, renewed their
riOting and attempted to raid hard
ware stores and seize guns and am
munitiOn.
| The seizure of the Dutch merchant
men in American ports is character
| lied by the Dutch government in a
statement in the Official Gazette, as
an act of violence which it will "op-
pose with all the energy of it's con-
viction and it's wounded national feel
ing"
| Eighty-three enemy airplanes have
been destroyed by British aviators
since they began operating on the Ital-
ian front, says British official COM
munication. The British have lost ten
machines in aerial fighting.
Bulgarian as we'll as Austrian troops
are in the battle of Picardy. This fact
has been officially confirmed. When
the Bulgarian and American troops
meet, If they do, it will need no dec
laration of war between the two cOun-
tries, according to the frequently ex-
pressed opinion at the war and state
departments. A state of war will
promptly exist.
Japan has proposed no military ac-
ton in Siberia, although if such move
should be suggested jointly by the en-
tente allies it would receive the most
careful consideration, said Foreign
Minister Motono in addressing joint
session of the Japanese parliament on
| Sunday on the eve of its adjournment.
Wang Shi Chen has been removed
from the office of premier of China by
Il presidential mandate, according to
an official telegram received from
Pekin.
| The impression among the troops
fighting along the front is that the bat
tie will develop into a long struggle
similar to those at Verdun and the
first battle of the Somme.
| General Foch, the French chief of
staff, has been appointed to supreme
command of al the allied and Ameri-
can forces in France. This means uni
fication of all the armies opposing the
| 0Cl u SICP WlASil lhC <AhiCliSah
and French military men long have
urged.
Japanese, French and British field
guns have been forwarded to General
Semenoff, the anti-Bolshevik leader,
whose troops have been opposing the
Bolshevik forces in Manchuria, says a
Pekin dispatch.
Germany having subjected Rumania
to the sacrifices of conquered prov
ince, now has demanded that the little
state turn over all her valuable Oil
fields to a German-contrOlled corpora
ton.
Seventy-five persons were killed and
ninety wounded, most of them women
! and children, when shell fired by a
German long-range gun fell on q church
In the region of Paris while Good Fri