The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-06-14

ported curing the mOntn OF May
reached q total Of 168, 8O2.
News Of the sinking Of American
vessels by German submarines or the
New Jersey coast caused marine in
surance rates to advance 1,4OO to 5000
per cent
Ohicial announcement has been
made that $4,000 men will be called
to the colors during June. They will
be ordered to report June "a.
Charles Warren Fairbanks, former
vice president Of the United States
and former United States senator for
Indiana, died at his home at Indian
apoliS.
The official list Of vessels sunk by
the U-boats off the American coast
rs given out by the navy department
included seven schooners and four
steamers.
According to press reports riots and
disorders Of al! kinds are increasing
ings have been burned at Tabor and
other towns in the country.
Eighteen persons were injured at
Dc rtC vr,hnp C,,a, 1r~O vo,,ra nrno
shelled the French capital. The pop
ulace was celebrating the feast of
Corpus Christi at the time.
Virtual admission that the third
German drive in the west has been
brought to a halt was seer by Wash.
ington authorities In an official state
ment received there from Berlin.
More than 1900 German and Bull
garian prisoners, among them thirty
three officers, and a large quantity OF
war materials have been captured by
Greek trops on the Macedonian front.
Eleven men accused Of lynchins
Robert Praeger, alleged pro-German,
at Collinsville, H.. April 5. were ac-
quilted by a jury at Edwardsville
that deliberated but five minutes.
A German submarine. lying in wait
for transports carrying American
troops. was rammed and sunk by a
large transport off the Irish coast dur
ing the second week in May.
A witness In the governments trial
Of l. w. w. leaders at Chicago. when
asked IL he did not consider stripping
covering from automobile engines as
stealing, replied that was conscript-
ing wealth."
American troops are constantly
reaching useful positions In tfe battle
lines of France, and are displaying
the most ardent desire to share the
present great battle with their Euro
pean comrades.
The picking up OF a floating mine
of the New Jersey shore was an.
nounced by the Navy department. I'm
doubtedly 1t was dropped by one OF
the nemey U-boats, operating off the
American coast.
The largest annual army a%ppropria-
ton hill In history. carrying $12.O41.-
$4,000 and authorizing the president
to call into military service all men
who can be trained and equipped, was
passed by the house.
Only unarmed ships were attacked
by German submarines of the New
Jersey coast In the recent raids. OF
the ter or more ships that were sunk
only n m oil tanker, contained a
cargo OF any renl value.
Thirteen Iowa soldiers. all members
OF the Rainbow division, including
Ave from Dubuque. three from Mason
City. two from Des Moines, two from
Winterset and one from Red Oak,
we're killed In action In France
May p.
As a war measure suggested hv the
department Of the interior. between
10000 and 100000 acres OF Indlan re-
~servation land In Montana and Nyo-
ming are to be placed under cultiva-
tion for wheat growing, with the
financial backing Of eastern capital
lists.
With German submarines lurking oI
the coast. the possibility that they
may carry hydro-nirplanes from which
bombs can he dropped. New York
wns given grim meaning when police
authorities made formal announce
ment that siren signals wifi be sound.
ed IN case Of enemy air raids.
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