Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-11-09
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quota for the United war work cam.
paign. Immediately following the com
pletion and oversubscription of its Lib
erty loan quota it started on it's united
war work campaign and went over the
top.
Rehabilitation of the American
force in France will require a period
of two years after peace Is declared,
according to statement made at New
York by Gen. r. Coleman Du POnt,
just back from two months visit to
| the western front
An average wage increase of 81 a
day has been granted anthracite coal
miners by Fuel Administrator Garfield,
effective November !. In some in
stances the increase is below this
figure and In others far above it. The
81 average is described as very general.
WASHINGTON.
Draft calls for the mobilization Of
290,773 additional men at army train
ing camps before November II were
announced Saturday by Provost Mar
shall General Crowder.
Congress seems at last about to make
the Grand Canyon of Arizona a ma
tional park. For years the canyon has
been quite generally regarded as a
lpark, but officially it is a section of two
national forests, a game refuge and
national monument.
Three and half million tons of
coal have been saved in the past six
months by industrial plants which have
adopted the conservation recommends
tons of the fuel administration.
Orders for 3OOO,OOO,OO0 cigarets,
enough to provide two smokes for
every person in the world, have been
placed by the war department to sup
ply American soldiers for the balance
of the year.
Prosecution of the three army Off
GERS held by Charles f. Hughes in his
report on the aircraft investigation to
be guilty of dealing with corporations
in which they were financially inter-
ested is to be started without delay.
Announcement from London that an
armistice with Turkey, which permits
passage of allied warships through the
Dardanelles, already is in operation led
naval officers at Washington to believe
that an allied fleet, if it has not already
started soon will pass through to the
Black sea to attack the German naval
forces there.
FOREIGN.
An armistice has been signed with
,r;a hQr
last supporter. The surrender of Aus
tria leaves the road open from the
south, and with the continued sue
cesses on the western front, final vic
tory over Germany may come soon.
There are 1900 Austrian and Ger |
man prisoners in Siberian camps, says |
semiofficial announcement. Besides, |
many who deserted the concentration
camps when the Bolsheviki gained the
political control in Russia have not re-
turned.
Substituting olive oil for lard and
sweet condensed milk for sugar, util-
izing an abandoned German kitchen,
and In one instance making a bonfire
in a field, three American women on
the st. Mihiel front have been frying
10000 doughnuts a day.
Valenciennes was captured by the
British on November 2, releasing thous-
ands of residents who had been in
bondage for four years.
Dozens of trunks bearing the royal
Hohenzollern monogram have been ar
irving in the past week at the luxur-
ious chateau named "Buchas" on the |
Lake of Zug. The chateau, which is |
flying the German flag, is the property |
of Baron Won Kleist, a German.
Italian and allied forces in their
drive in northern Italy have captured
10000 Austro- Hungarians, the italian
war office announced Sunday. More
than 22OO guns have been taken.
Marked progress by the Belgian
army is indicated by the latest report
from Belgian headquarters. The Bel
gians have reached the west bank of
the canal which runs between Client
and Neuzen in a northerly direction,
and thereby have redeemed further
large section of that country.
Germany's armies are unbeaten, ac-
cording to German divisional staff
officer recently taken prisoner ON the
French front, and Germany's request
for an armistice was the result OF the
influence which pessimists have gained
in the government and over the EN-
peror.
A Tampico. Mex, dispatch says the
Influenza epidemic there Is the worst
scourge that has ever visited the city,
nearly 100 death occurring daily.
Mexican federal troops were defeated
| by a superior force of villa followers
forty miles south of the border, accord
ing to report brought to OJinaga by
runner sent out by the federai
commander.
| An armistice between Turkey anu
the entente powers was signed Octo-
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