Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-05-09

over by the government has reached
a total of $2SO,OOOO0O.
1t is predicted that the I. w. w. Sc
dition trial now going on at Chicago,
will last at least three months.
Sixty-six people We're lost when the
Il collision off the Delaware coast.
Sebastopol, big Russian fortress in
the Crimea, has been occupied by the
Germans, according to Berlin dis
patches.
An interstate boy scout conference
will be held in Omaha May 1919. All
officials from surrounding states will
be present.
Michigan joined the ranks of the
"dry" states April 80. A total of
1926 saloon in the state closed their
doors on that date.
The War department is planning
for an army of 100000 and is care
fully studying the problem of increas-
ing cantonment space.
British casualty lists published dur
| ing April showed 1853 officers killed,
4,s41 wounded, and 2,459. missing;
$3.50 men killed, 35,3O4 wounded, and
| 814 missing.
A heavy German attack launched
against the Americans. in the vicinity
| of Villers-Bretonneaux, was repulsed
with extreme heavy losses for the
enemy.
Five million men must be sent to
the battle front by the United States
within year, Senator McCumber of
North Dakota, declared in an address
to the senate.
German newspapers are preparing
| the German people for an announce
| ment that there will be no immediate
attempt to take Ypres from the Brit
ish and French.
Wyoming democrats endorsed state
wide prohibition at the recent state
convention at Cheyenne. The commit
lee also adopted resolutions endors-
ing the national administrators war
program.
Two enlisted men Of the Fort
Omaha balloon school We're killed and
eighteen others were seriously burn
ed, when big sausage balloon ex-
ploded and burned in its hangar near
the fort.
The government has fixed the max
imum price of the present stocks of
packed and country hides at that
prevailing April "a, this year. This
action, it is believed, will reduce the
price of shoes.
The Nebraska farmers loyalty con-
ference held at Lincoln recently adopt
ed resolutions favoring immediate ma
tional prohibition and the prosecution
of the war until autocratic military
power is dethroned.
| New York went wild with en-
thusiasm last Monday, when los
heroes Of the French army and So
veterans Of General Pershing's army
marched up Broadway shortly after
| landing from the war zone.
Lord Robert Cecil, British minister
| of blockade, predicts that the failure
of Germany's knockout offensive" on
the western front will result in big
peace offensive, which will not afford
any terms the allies can look at.
\
| In preparation for tremendous in
crease in the American army the
house military committee was told
| by Secretary Baker that every exist
/ ing cantonment in the country will be
enlarged and every national guard
camp utilized to its full capacity.
BY the calling of $4,000 more men
to the colors this month the War de-
partment abandons it's plan of assem-
bling men in even monthly increments
of approximately 100000. The calls
for April and May will bring out In
two months half Of the number orig
inally contemplated for the year.
The Germans have established mill
tary rule in Kiev, the Ukrainian
capital, and have arrested number
of the members of the government on
the ground that "the government had
proved too weak to maintain law and
order" according to a Berlin official
statement.
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