Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-08-22

Western Union Telegraph company
have been granted ten per cent In
crease in wages.
1t is estimated that twenty-five mil
lion bushels of corn valued at $40.-
100000 have been lost in Iowa during
the recent hot wave.
Chief of Staff March made known
at Washington that thirty-one COM
plete American divisions are in
France, or approximately 100000
men.
Nine fishing schooners were sunk
off Georges Bank Sunday by Ger,
man submarine, a naval scout boat,
which put in to Nantucket, Mass, re-
ported.
The First American field army. has
been organized in France. 1t is UNI
der the direct command of Gen. John
]. Pershing, commander in chief OF
the American forces.
Canada's wheat crop this year is
232, 100000 bushels, or l,742,S5O BUSH
els less than last years crop, accord
ing to a report IF the Dominion bu-
reau of statistics.
Six persons were overcome by gas
at the naval station on Smiths
Island, North Carolina, when Ger
man U-boat discharged oil on the wa
ter adjoining the station.
Allied armies in their Marine, Pic
ardy and Flanders campaign in three
weeks wrested from the Germans
what required four months for them
to obtain.
The British government has recog-,
nized the Czecko-Slovaks as an allied
nation and the Czecho-slovak armies
as an allied force regularly waging
warfare against the central powers.
Americas mission to the British
trades union congress which meets in
London September IL to 10, will be
headed by Samuel Gompers, president
OF the American Federation of Labor.
Provost Marshal Crowder has am
nounced that plans already have been;
made for registering the 13,OO0,O0O
additional men which he estimates
will be brought under the new draft
law.
Much damage was done at Frank
fort and Karlsruhe by recent British
aerial bombardments, according to re-
ports in Switzerland. In Karlsruhe
eleven persons We're killed and TWEEN
ty-six injured.
The Current History Magazine of
New York estimates that during the
four years of the war nearly 5000, 600
men have been killed, and the wound
ed, captured and missing have
amounted to nearly 100000.
In the three days of engagements
that eliminated in the taking Of
Montdidier, at the tip of the German
salient in Picardy, the French took
5000 prisoners 200 guns and an enor-
nous amount Of war material.
The rapidly with which the allied
armies under General Foch over
whelmed the Germans in the recent
Picardy drive is regarded by military
men as the most brilliant piece of
strategy accomplished in history.
Sinking Of the British steamer Pen
istone Of 4,1S9 gross tons, and the
Swedish steamer Sydland, Of 3,O31
gross tons, in New England waters
near where ten fishing smacks were
destroyed August IL, has been report
ed to the Navy department.
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set for the great union war fund drive
to raise $133, 100000 for war work Of
the Y. M. @. A., the Y. w. G. A., the
War Camp Community service and
the American Library association.
Quit calling American soldiers Sam
mics. Nobody in France wants
to be called by that name and. nobody
in this country ought to be-" General
March told newspaper men at Wash
ington. American troops abroad pre-
fer to be called .Yanks," he said.
Bolo Pasha, recently executed In
France as traitor. and German Am
bassador Won Bernstorff called at the
home Of w. r. Hearst, newspaper
man, on several occasions, according
to affidavits by employees at the
apartments, just made public by At
torney General NJ. e. Lewis of New
York.