Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-10-17

SdIo OF possible TO DO anytnIn9
but push our effort to the utmost.
The time Is critical and the re-
Spouse must be completed"
Military strategists foresee a grand
collapse of Germany's great military
organization on the western front.
Prisoners taken by the Egyptian ex-
peditionary force, exclusive of those
taken by the Arabs, have risen to
more than 75,OOO.-
Members of the American expedi-
tionary forces, who have been identi-
fed as prisoners of war in Germany,
numbered 1,4so on October 5.
Forty-eight persons are reported to
have lost their lives when the Ameri-
can steamer Herman Frasch was sunk
in collision off the Nova Scotia
! coast.
Thirty members of the crew Of the
American cargo steamer Lake City
| lost their lives in the sinking Of the
steamer in collision at Key West,
Fla.
The city council of Detroit has
passed an ordinance making idleness
crime, punishable by 500 fine or 30
days imprisonment, each day of idle
ness being separate offense.
Six officers and seventeen enlisted
men of the crew Of the cargo steamer
Herman Frasch, sunk in collision with
the steamer George G. Henry, October
4, were officially reported missing.
From one of the European neutral
countries report reached the State
department that General Ludendorff
has suffered physical collapse and
relinquished command Of the German
| army.
A French military official on his
return to Paris from northern France,
| declared that st. Quentin, Leon, Cam
brai and Douai have been almost COM
1 pletely destroyed by the kaisers sol
diers, who started fires whenever pos
sible before evacuating the cities.
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| President Wilson was asked to use
his influence for immediate passage
Of new child labor law, which is
! framed to meet objections of the SUI
preme court, which recently declared
| the Heating child labor law unconsti-
tutional.
| Thus far this year there has not
been in this country lone single fire
or explosion which could be traced to
enemy Aliens" according to a state
ment made recently by John Lord
O'Brien, special attorney general of
the United States assigned to war
work.
More than 300 persons persisted,
many of them women and children,
when German submarine torpedoed
without warning the Japanese steam
ship Hirano Haru in European waters.
A few survivors of the disaster who
reached British port declared that
the vessel sunk in seven minutes after
being struck.
An official "eye witness" who has
visited the neighborhood of Lens
since the Germans withdrew from that
city reports that railways and tram
ways are torn up and are converted
into huge piles of twisted rails, and
that water fills the galleries of the
coal mines, which used to turn. out
100000 tons of coal a year.
Sc Il
| Field Marshal Haig has announced
that since August p the British Thirc
and Fourth armies have penetrated
enemy defense position from st. Quen
tin to Arras, a depth of between THIRTY
and forty miles, and in that perio(
have captured over 10000 prisoner.
| and 1000 guns, besides inflictin.
) heavy losses in killed and wounded OF
the enemy.
:. SiXty-eight persons are known t,
i have been killed, and possibly more
1,2O0 injured and more than 700,
/ made homeless as the result of
; series of explosions which destroye,
S the big Gillespie shell-loading plant a
l Margan, N. J. The shock of the ter
rife detonations which continued TO
more than 10 hours, Shook the terri
+ tory for a radius of so miles. TIL
plant, which covered - acres O
e ground and built at a cost of S1S
: 100000 was the greatest industry o
| ifs kind i'm the world