The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-09-13

az NFA abThf hNMRfie8 tN{Al hte
enemy II doomed and We shall
choose and appoint the day for pence
san Francisco was selected as the
place for holding The 1919 national
convention 81 the United Spanish War
Veterans IS the delegates ~ the Of.
ganixnfion Al their nnnuni reunion at
Baltimore The time WAS not an
bounced
Voluntary enliniHenfs for the army
eGn,sps VII authorized by acts 81 con.
gfess 81 certain cases. have i,sen
ordered discontinued by General
iareh and all Recruiting stations viii
he closed.
WASHINGTON.
without evidence Of political disi-
sion, congress on Friday began work
on the greatest revenue measure 10
ali history, providing for the raising
III twenty four billion dollars 5000,
O00,000 IA taxes and twice as much in
bonds 10 pay Americans share of the
cost Of the war next year. aud for
loans to III co-bellIgerents.
Retention 81 the present sugar ra-
ti0n % two pounds month for each
person was announced BY The food al
mlnisirati0n Friday
The st2O00,0OO emergency ngrlcul.
tural appropriation bill with les rider
for national prohibition from next July
until the American armies are dc.
modified after tile end Of the war,
was pissed Friday ~ the senate with
cut roll call,
President Wilson has asked Attorney
General Gregory Tor complete report
uf the circumstance surrounding the
''siackrr roundup" iu New York City
this week ii which upwards Of i0
Wn men we're taken into custody by
agents ~ the department OF justice.
Government expenses 10 August were
ut the ritte 1T more than Sl0,i4G min
ute, reHehing the enormous total ~
VI. 500. 5l8,OO0 nua exceeding more than
s.s000tD, OO0.m0. the highest previous
monthly record 81 expenses since the
war began
The average Cost ~ wheat produc-
ZION was estimated al $50 a bushel
by =. II Thompson, acting chief u
the bureau Of farm management testi.
fslng before the senate agriculture
committee.
FOREIGN.
The Germans are giving ground over
the i50mlle front from Ypres 10
rheims. Particularly heavy defeats
have been inflicted on them by the
French Ia the old Noy0n salient, aud
By the French and Americans ia the
region between the veslc ana Alsne
east 0f Solssons
Intellectual weapons play IN this
War hs inlluentini aud Important d role
~ the battlenctd ana diplomacy seia
Admiral Won Hintze foreign German
minister, III speech In vienna In
which he Was emphasizing the impor-
nnee Of eyeSthlng's being done TO
bring about an honorable pence,
The French have occupied all their
old trenches along the whole of the
front to the north Of the Aisne river
aud also have captured the towns of
Ham and uhauny Ia the salient south.
west % 81, Quentin
The American refugees Who left Mos
COW August ~ arrived al Haparanda
sweden, Thursday after nh uneycutful
trip through Finland The Italian mill
tary mission accompanied the Ameri-
cans from Moscow.
Count T.. Won Hertling, the Imperial
German chancellor, has resigned. Civ
Ing bad health rs the cause for hts
retirement. according 10 the Geneva
correspondent of the London Daily Tx,
press. quoting dispatch received In
Geneva from Munich Bavaria.
A spirit 81 dependency has begun
u Peryado the German press, and II
h Indicative ~ the feeling through
out the rnptre Iii Berltn, something
bordering o. panic has been pro-
yeked by rumuts OF German disasters
d the west
a dispatch has heeu received al
Nlatlrtd frniu Lnaduu reporting he az
sAsstnatL0n If The tortnpr Russian
empress and Her daughters, but III view
lht tAAF AEFtH iAAtAA Wy EAlHl& AttbNmh ~
lnhJatu the transfer "a Spain ~ IA,
family ~ the depesed aud murdered
/ Russian monarch tbs report sas treat
ed with ali reserve
/ Loon rrotaky, the BDlsheytk minis
ter 81 war, bhs hcen elected presidcn
- the Russian supreme war council
| al meeting Of the soviet eNecutty,
committee, according e. n Berlin Wolf
bureau dispatch fFnm Moscow
| Germaa.lnsulreA attacks on America
lappoaring Ia Danish newspaper
Threaten the Interruption OF ncgotla
tions now pending between Denmark
and the United States for a CONNER
einl agreement This became knew
after receipt u an official report fror
90 American agent n Copenhagen
A decree signed by General won Lln
Siagrn, commandment or the Braedeu
burg province. according to the O.
lpKne Nolks ZcitunE. places the cit
81 Berlin aud the province Of Bran