Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-09-14


German is under way, according to an
announcement made at New York by
the American defense society.
Jules Jusserand, the Frehch ambas-
sador, In an address before the BAN
quet of the Franco-American societies
at New York, asserted that THE
enemy is doomed" and we "shali
choose and appoint the day for peace.
San Francisco was selected as the
place for holding the 1919 national
convention of the United Spanish wa
Veterans by the delegates of the or
ganization at their annual reunion at
Baltimore The time was not an
nOunced.
WASHINGTON.
The war department has Announcer
the arrival in France Of Secretary
Baker, accompanied by an official
party. including John d. Ryan, assist
ant secretary in charge of aircraft, and
Major General Gorgas, surgeon geo.
eral of the army.
A new priorities list of industries
and plants essential to the war or civil!
population was announced Sunday Oy
Chairman Baruch of the war indus
tries board.
Without evidence of political dlvl-
sion, congress on Friday began work
on the greatest revenue measure IN
all history, providing for the raising
of twenty-four billion dollars-Soooo,-
OOO, 600 in taxes and twice as murh In
bonds-to pay Americas share or the
cost of the war next year, ana Tor
loans to its co-belligerents.
Retention of the present sugar ra-
ton of two pounds a month for each
person was announced by the food ad-
ministration Friday.
The $12.000,000 emergency agricul-
tural appropriation bill with its rider
for national prohibition from next July
| until the American armies are de-
modified after the end of the war,
was passed Friday by the senate with
out roll call.
President Wilson has asked Attorney
General Gregory for a complete report
of the circumstances surrounding the
Stacker roundup" in New York City
this week, in which upwards of 40
600 men were taken into custody by
agents of the department Of justice.
FOREIGN.
A nephew of the kaiser Is among
seventy-one prisoners taken by the
Americans, according TO "A front dis
patch. His name is not mentioned in
the dispatch. The only detail about
him so far known is that lie wears
monocle.
General Pershing on September
decorated a large lumber of men be-
longing to divisions which had dis
tinguished themselves during the sum-
mer. All the men received the dis
tinguished service cross.
The large number of German Off
! Gals i'm Belgium have been called for
military service, according to the
Nieuwe Rotterdam Courant- Their
places are TO be taken by women.
Talaat Pasha, the Turkish grand
vizier, in an interview published in
the Vienna Neue Presse, said he firm
ly believed that peace would come be
fore the winter. Talaat is now In
| Vienna.
Thirty-five members of the crew OF
| the American army transport Mount
Vernon, formerly the North German
Lloyd liner kronprinzessin Cecilie,
were killed by the explosion of a tor
pedo which struck the vessel when she
was 200 miles from the French coast,
homeward bound.
| japanese forces have occupied the
town of Khabarovsk, Siberia, accord
ing to advices received from Vladivo-
stok.
Concentration of American troops in
| the American sectors in France is pro-
ceeding rapidly and General Pershint
now has under his direct command
more than 90 per cent of the troops
who have reached the other side.
Because of the shortage of working
horses in Berlin, coal is to be trans
| pun Atd AApAli tAiN NOtt ssttN- ~ TN
homes of consumers by trolley, accord
ing to the Berlin Tagebla,t. The Goa
will be conveyed in trailers attached
to the street cars.
Nikolai Lenine, the Bolsheviki pre-
mier, is recovering from the w0 lnd'
recently inflicted on him, accoI ainl
to medical bulletin received at Lon
don.
The Germans 81 giving ground ovei
the 150-mile front from YpEes Il
Rheims. Particularly heavy defeats
have been inflicted on them by thu
French in the old Noyon salient, anC
by the French and Americans in the
region between the Vesle and Aisn'
east of SCISSORS.
The French have occupied all theil
old trenches along the whole of thu
front to the north of the Aisne rive
and also have captured the towns o
Ham and Chauny in the salient south
west of st. Quentin.