Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-04-18
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\ jcludes What Is Going on at Wash.
lnUton and In Other Sections
Of the Country.
Senator William J. Stone Of Mis-
souri,, was stricken with paralysis at
Washington.
Eleven persons were killed and fifty
injured in an air raid on Paris April
the 10Th.
The Senate by vote of "a to % re-
fused to approve labors right to
strike ia war tine
-Four thousand tifty-one persons in
Sioux City, Ia, subscribed $252S, 400
to the third liberty loan in one hour.
General Leonard Wood has return.
ed from the war zone and taken over
command Of the S9th division of the
army az Camp Funston, Kans.
The teaching of the German lam
guage in any public or private school
In Kern county, California, will be
made misdemeanor.
A proposal that church and charit-
able institutions pay their debts with
Liberty bonds instead of with cash
has been made by the woman's ma
tional Liberty loan committee.
Laxity of the law dealing with dis.
loyalists caused the lynching of Rob-
ert F. Prayer, pro-German, who was
hanged at Collinsville, ILL.,, according
to Mayor J. T.. Siegel Of that city.
Fifty million dollars has been asked
Of congress by the shipping board for
development of concrete shipbuilding.
The plan is to establish at once five
government yards.
A report made by the national food
administration shows that 15,OO0,OO0
pounds of wheat flour was saved in
March in the United States through
conservation measures.
During an engagement between an
American cavalry patrol and Mexican
federal troops near Fort Hancock,
Tex, four Mexican soldiers were
killed.
Announcement has been made that
American reinforcements have ap.
peared on the British battle front in
Picardy and their presence should be
felt soon.
S Twelve thousand selective service
men, in addition to the 10000 already
called, will be called to start for
training camps on April &c, Provost
Marshal General Crowder announced
So
A. NJ. Deyoe, state superintendent
Of instruction in Iowa, has sent let-
ter to every institution of learning in
the state demanding that German be
dropped from the curriculum on
May /.
Under the terms Of the Russo
German peace treaty. Russia has lost
10000 square kilometers of territory.
with 100000 inhabitants, or SO per
+ cent of the entire population Of the
country.
il
The man-power bill. proposed by
Premier Lloyd George, including
Irish CONSUMPTION, raising the draft
Limit to SO, and lowering it to 1S,
passed second reading in the house OF
commons by vote of 223 to 100.
It is announced that Brigadier
General Frederick e. Resche Of Min
nesOta, German born officer com.
handing brigade of the Thirty.
fourth national guard division at
Camp Cody, N. NJ, has been dis.
charged from the service.
At the end of three weeks of a
combat which has eclipsed anything
that has ragged during the entire war;
Field Marshal Haig issued a COM
nand to his men to hold their ground
at whatever cost, and asserted that
powerful aid from the French is com.
ing to the rescue.
For pronounced German sympathies
and disloyal remarks made in the
presence Of four fellow officers,
Major John M. Birkner of Lincoln,
Neb.. a German born medical officer
Of the Nebraska National Guard was
arrested at Camp Cody, N. NJ. He has
been discharged from the army and