Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-09-28

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land, resulted in the injury OF many
of the shipbuilders.
AS the result of a saioon argument
at San Francisco, one man was killed
and three wounded in gang hgh'
between Italians following the argu
ment. Angelo BaffO was killed, ana
among the wounded was James Pet'
rucci, Camp Fremont soldier
After shooting and killing his pet
dog, James r. Mann, Jr., son of the
Illinois congressman and Republic III
leader in the house, shot himset 10
death at Chicago. He was suffering
from tuberculosis.
WASHINGTON.
Christmas packages for the two ana
q half million or more American SOL
diers who will be in France during the
holiday season this year will be deilV-
cred under an arrangement with the
Red Cross, announced Saturday by ire
war department.
Striking proof that the German pow
err is fast crumbling came Saturday IN
the announcement by General March,
chief of staff, that the news from all
battle fronts was continuously g0od,
and that 1,750,OO0 American troops
have now been embarked for overseas
service.
Food administrator Hoover, in out
lining in statement issued September
u, the food conservation program
recommended for the American peo-
pie during the coming year, said the
United States was prepared to snip
5,73O,OO0 more tons of foodstuffs to
its armies and allies than last year
and still have margin over the
amount necessary to maintain health
and strength at home.
Mortified by the bloody reign of ter
ror in Russia, the United States has
called upon all allied and neutral M
lions to consider what they may do to
impress upon the Bolsheviki the
aversion with which the civilized
world regards their wanton crimes.
The house has passed The war reve-
nue. bill, designed to raise by taxation
approximately $S,1S2 100000 of the
twenty-four or more billions needed
by the nation for the current year.
President Wilson will fix the price
Of cotton, placing the last of the prin-
,iptal commodities necessary in the
prosecution of the war under govern
mental regulation, despite strong pres
sure from the southern states.
FOREIGN.
That the political crisis in Germany,
he intensification of which in the
asst few weeks has been plainly indi-
Gated in various ways, is rapidly COM
ng to head, appears to be evil
ienced by news from that country.
Three hundred and eighty-two per-
sons have been killed and many others
injured in an explosion in an ammuni-
ton factory at Woellersdorff, a town
near the Austrian capital.
Nazareth is in British hands. The
ancient city in Galilee, where Joseph
piled his humble trade as carpenter
and where Christ spent his childhood,
was delivered from the terrible Turk
last week.
The French line steamship Admiral
Charner, bound from Biberta to Malta,
has been torpedOed with the loss Of
six lives, according to an official
statement. The passengers and crew
numbered ia. An unseen submarine
fired three torpedoes, two of which
struck the ship.
German troops recently were or
dered to be more methodical in the de-
struction of property in the region
evacuated by them.
In a cemetery near Limey, j2st
within the German lines previous to
the attack of September II, American
troops have discovered German ma
chine gun nests beneath the concrete
pedestal of a large cross.
The prisoners taken by the British
in the operation begun Wednesday
northwest of st. Quentin exceed TO-
600, according to Field Marshal Haigs
report. More than sixty big guns
were taken.
The allied advance in Macedonia has
spread until the attacking front is now
twenty-five miles wide, according tC
word from the Macedonian theatre.
Allied airmen are daily bombardins
Cologne, Coblenz and other German
towns, killing or injuring many per
sons, says the Het VOlk. The news
paper says the number Of casualtie!
published in the German newspaper!
are much under the actual total.
From the top of the city hall il
Paris the Stars and Stripes fiutteret
all day Sunday, having been hoiste,
by special order Of the municipal coun
Gil in celebration Of the American ST
Mihiel victory.
German troops sent to the Mace
DOMAIN front to aid the hard-presse'
Bulgarian forces have been put t
flight along with the Bulgarians, say
a Serbian official statement on recen
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