Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-06-08
Army officials expressed the belief

Army officials expressed the BELIEF
that the mysterious fire that did ST.
100000 damage at two warehouses at
the United States arsenals at st. Louis,
Sunday morning, was of German ORR
gin.
Four persons were killed and two
probably fatally injured when cas-
ing head gasoline manufacturing plant,
two miles south of Okmulgee, Okla.
was wrecked by an explosion from an
unknown cause.
written by the American soldiers over
seas to their homes on Mothers day,
have been received at Atlantic ports
and are being delivered.
"Win the war by victory and not by
compromise bargaining" was the key
note of the convention of the Indiana
Republicans which nominated a state
ticket and adopted platform for the
November election at indianapolis, May
%.
WASHINGTON.
A revenue bill that will take up to
so per cent of profits is aimed by the
group of senators who have made up
their minds to go after the war pro-
fiteers. They intend to bend every
effort to have the new measure include
provisions which will allow not more
than 20 per cent of the war profits
to go into the pockets now claiming
them.
Efforts of the national war board to
adjust differences between the West
ern Union Telegraph company and
its employees have failed. A strike
of the telegraphers will probably be
called.
Further restriction of the brewing
of beer is in prospect, it was learned
Saturday when the fuel administration
announced that representatives of the
brewery interests will be called to
Washington in the next few weeks for
a conference on beer production for
the year beginning June 30.
A resolution providing for two more
years suspension of the act requiring
that at least 500 in labor be expended
on each mining claim annually was in
trOduced by Senator Henderson of
Nevada. Because of the war the act
had been suspended for two years.
A renaissance of higher ideals and
better living after the world war, was
forecast by President Wilson Friday
night in a talk to his fellow members
of the Central Presbyterian church,
gathered to commemorate the fiftieth
of the church.
FOREIGN.
Paul Rosner in the Lokal Anzeiger
says that Emperor William visited the
German army north of Rheims, May
30, remaining until evening" working
with individual commanders and re-
ceiving reports from the battlefield.
Food conditions in Turkey are be-
coming worse daily, according to auth
entic reports reaching the British
wireless service from London. The
poorest classes in Turkey, these re-
ports state, are forced to depend to
large extent upon chestnuts and pump
kin seed
MASS murder" committed by the
Turkish army advancing in the eau
casian districts has brought sharp
protest from the Russian commission
er of foreign affairs to the Berlin for.
eign office. Responsibility for the
crime, the protest said, falls on the
German government.
After several repulses the Germans
have abandoned, tenn
at least, their efforts to re-
take the ground captured by the Ameri-
cans at Cantigny.
Allied air raids on German towns are
the German people. 1t
is said that the effect upon the popu-
lations of cities bombed was far great
er than heretofore reported.
Germany is so well satisfied with
the progress of events in the Ukraine,
says a Stockholm dispatch, that she
has decided to withdraw two-thifds of
the German troops now in the east.
The troops withdrawn will be used on
the western front and they will be
replaced in the east with Austrians.
Thirty Y. M. c. A. workers, in the
face of the German advance and under
heavy shell and machine gun fire, car
ried supplies to the French soldiers
during the fighting Friday. They burn
ed their own warehouses to keep them
from falling into the hands of the
Germans. One hundred huts We're de-
stroyed by shell fire.
Two of Germany's newest and iarg-
est submarines of the cruiser class
were sunk May II and IS near Gibral-
tar.
"The American victory of Tuesday"
says the London Star has not re-
ceived the attention it merits. The
more we hear of the American army,
the better. So great is the German
chagrin that they have not vet ven
tured to mention the victory"
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, it has