The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-04-26
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A severe earthquake of approx
mately twenty seconds duration
shook the entire southern portion of
California ct $3.50 O'Clock Sunday
afternoon. Dozens of plato glass
winoows in Los Angeles stores were
broken and several women were in
jured in panics at theaters in Los
Angeles. The damage was quite OK
tensive. One fatality was reported,
a man being tramplod to death in
the rush of crowd on the municipal
pier at Santa Monica. Hundreds of
persons who were fishing off the pier
made mad rush for solid ground
when the trembler began to rock
the heavy concrete construction,
Several persons were injured in the
rush. Chimneys were shaken down
in various localities, and at San
Bcrnardino, a brick building was re-
ported to have collapsed. According
to reports, Hcmet and San Jacinto,
in Riverside county, were virtually
destroyed by the earthquake. There
were no telephone or telegraph
wires in operation, but persons who
escaped to nearby points reported
serious destruction of property and
probable loss of life.
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Detailed reports of the participa-
tion of American engineer troops
with the British fifth army during
the first days of tho German on
slaught have reached the War De-
partment from Gen. PerShing. "They
will make splendid reading for
Americans" Secretary Baker said in
making the announcement. The re-
ports tell how two regiments nd a
battalion of engineers, working with
the British forces, consolidated and
held subsector of the British line
from March rs to April against
text of message from Gen. Rawlin-
son, the British commander, to Gen.
Pershing highly pressing the Ameri-
cans is given. The engineers fought
under their own officers. They lost
two officers killed and three wound
ed, twenty men killed and fifty-two
wounded and forty-fvo missing,
some of whom probably will be found
with British organizations.
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British and French marines have
landed on the Peninsula of Kola, in
the Arctic Ocean, to aid BolShevik
forces against the Finnish White
Guard. British troops for some time
have been at this port and the ma
rines are re-enforcoments. The Firms
are attempting to hold the railway
to the ports on the White Sea where
quantities of stores and ammunition
have been stored since the days be-
fore the Russian revolution. 1t is
for the protection of these supplies
that the Entente forces are aiding
the Bolsheviki
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officials at Washington believe
that the German drive toward the
channel ports has practically been
defeated, and see in the arrival of
Italian soldiers on the Western
front indications of an early counter
blow by Gen. Foch. With the Allied
Commander-in-Ch massing units
of all the Entente nations, they be-
1ieve that the mighty stroke may be
delivered at any moment.
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Russia's debts are piling mountain
high with practically no revenue
coming in to support the Govern
ment, Minister of Finance Gukovsky
reported to the Central Executive
Committee of the Soldiers and Work
mems Delegates. He said the semi
annual expenditures would amount
to 10000, 100000 rubles and that
all the revenue would total only
$1,000, 900, 900.
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