Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-08-24
WASHINGTON.

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cluded that even attendance at church
service would involve publicity and did
not go.
| A loan of S1,000000 has been made
dents special defense fund to combat
fires in the national forests of the
northwestern and Pacific states.
An appeal for government aid to
| livestock raisers in the west and south
west reached Senator Hitchcock OF Ne
braska Saturday in letter from III. II.
Tomkin Jr., Of the food administra ton
at Denver, who said the breeding in
dustry is threatened with 40 to 80
per cent liquidation this fall. 1t is
on breeding cattle, the letter declared.
The threatened crisis iD the rela-
tons of Mexico with the entente allies
and the United States apparently has
been aveIted by modification of the
new Mexican oil tax decree by Presi-
dent Carranza. 1t was learned Mon
day that on August II Carranza in
effect Cancelled provisions of the de-
cree on July 81, under which unde-
velOped oil lands might be seized by
the Mexican government upon failure
of their owners to make declarations
and submit to what they regard as ex-
cessive taxation.
With S15,O00,000 set as a goal, the
Young Women's Christian association
Sunday night opened its nationwide
war work campaign. The $15,O00,OO0
sought Is the share of the Y. w. G. A
of the $135,000,000 war fund of the
Y. M. c. A., the War Camp service and
the American Library association.
Few owners of the first and second
Liberty bonds have converted them
into bonds of the third loan, which
bear higher interest, treasury officials
announced. This can be done any time
before November l, but action at this
time is urged to avoid a rush in the
last weeks.
fhe war department has announced
that enlisted men in camp may obtain
Burroughs to engage in agricultural
work by making application to their
commanding officers or by having rela.
tives or other interested persons apply
through the local boards at which they
registered.
Freedom of departure from this
number of dangerous enemy agents
have been able to escape from the AIT
thorities will not be permitted after
September, under proclamation sign
ed by President Wilson and an execu
tive order.
Provost Marshal General CrOwder
announced Thursday that plans al
ready have been made for registering
the 100000 additional men which he
estimates will be brought under the Sc
lective service law when congress
enacts the pending bill extending the
age limits to include men between 1S
and 45 years.
FOREIGN.
The Americans in Lorraine have en-.
livened an ordinarily quiet sector by
taking from the Germans the village
of Frapelle, five miles east of St Die.
The action, which started with the
proportions of raid in the early
hours Saturday morning, developed
into an organized attack under the
dash of the American troops immedi'
ately after they left their trenches.
tIay
heavy in killed and wounded and pris.
oners also We're taken by the Ameri'
cans.
A letter from General Pershing was
among the scores of missives received
by Colonel Roosevelt from France
during the past few days offering con
dolence on the death of Lieut.. Quentin
Roosevelt and telling of his bravery
and the admiration in which the writer
held him.
A dispatch to the Exchange Tele
graph from Amsterdam quoting re
port received from Berlin, says DIR.
Richard Won Kuehlmann, former Ger
man foreign secretary has reported to
the military authorities. The dispatch
adds that it is expected they will give
him a command in the west. He Is
major in the Bavarian Cuirassiers.
The British Sunday morning attack
ed the Fourth Saxon division holding
Outeersteen and expelled it from the
village and from the adjoining bridge
A japanese contingent arrived Sun
day at Nikolskoye on its way to UsurS
front.
Air mail service between Paris and
St. Nazaire was opened Sunday. A
distinguished gathering of ministers
and other government officers wit
messed the departure of the first mail
carrier.
No increase in the amount of bar.
ley used for beer in Great Britain
will be permitted Notwithstanding the
demands of the brewers for an extern
sion of their allowance, according
the Central News.