Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-08-15
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includes What is Going on at Wash.
lnpton and In Other Sections
OF the Country.
Reports from Russia via Berlin de-
clare that the bolsheviki government
is considering declaration of war
against Japan.
Denver is to have municaplly
owned water plant, voters of the city
having approved a bond issue of
$13,97OO0O to buy the privately owned
plant.
William G. McAdoo, secretary of
treasury, in an address at Chicago de-
clared himself unreservedly in favor
of fiat war profits tax of so per
cent. ts,ssl,st..s,..
Nineteen persons were killed, more
than twenty injured and over $1,000
900 damage done to property at Lake
Charles, La, by a terrific hurricane
which swept the district.
Six persons died at st. Louis, a
number at Chicago and points in the
east and over 100 were Frustrated at
the Hog Island ship works, near Phil
adelphia as the result Of the recent
heat wave.
Identical notes from Norway,
Sweden and Denmark appealing to the
United States to aid famine sufferers
in Finland, were presented to the state
department by the ministers of the
three Scandinavian countries.
officials in allied capitals believe
that the Germans do not intend to
make permanent stand on the banks
of the Aisne, but that they will re-
treat to the Chemin Des Danes ridge,
which is one of the strongest positions
in France.
It has been officially announced
that the total embarkation of Ameri-
can troops during July broke all rec
ords, more than 100000 men having
been shipped. The grand total EN-
barked to the end of July passed the
100000 mark.
Provost Marshal Crowder has sug-
| gested September as registration
day for the 100000 men between
the ages of 10 and As who will come
under the administrations man-power
| bill now before congress.
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British land and sea casualties to-
tai 100000, and of these 100000 are
dead, Louis Tracy, in charge of the
press section of the British mission,
said at New York. Great Britain has
raised an army Of 100000, he de-
| clared.
David Lloyd George, British pre-
mier, declared at London. that the
militarists of Germany, who have
made the war were still in evidence
and that they could not have peace
so long as they were predominating in
the councils Of the enemy.
4 Paris is not in danger; 200 villages
have been reeonquered $4,000 prison
ers and TOO big guns captured and
the enemy has been thrown from the
banks of the Marine to the Aisne BY
the glorious allied armies, Premier
Clemenceau of France declared al
1 Paris.
/ Providing draft ages of is to as, the
new army bill, now before congress
filings an American challenge to Ger
many that the United States is pre-
pared to enlist every able-bodied maj
in the country if necessary, to win thu
4 war. The bill puts practically ever.
able bodied man on a work-or-fgh
basis.
i A decision setting the precedent TO
4 protecting men in military servic
from mortgage foreclosure was hand
ed down by Judge Theodore Winde
in circuit court at Chicago. ACCORDING
to the decision soldier will not b
compelled to pay the interest on
mortgage until three months after h
has been discharged from militar
service.
Government acquisition and contre
of all the principal stockyards, col
. storage plants and warehouses an
both refrigerator and cattle cars ha
been recommended to the president b
the Federal Trade commission to d
stroy a monopoly which it declare
five great packing companies of tt
. TInitad States exercise not only 0yf