Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-05-25
Branding all German peace proposals

as '1nSfncere PreSldehL WfiSOn III III
! address Saturday night at New Yorl
| City, called upon America to make wa
| to the utmost limit of it's resources ant
= manpower The war must be VOL
greatly and worthily," he said. Their
must be no limit to the size of tn
American army. Every ship musti'b
used, laden to capacity.
! Assembled in "Win the war con
vention, the League to Enforce Peac
in convention at Philadelphia adopted
a platform in which it declared tina
until Germany is overcome the para
mount and pressing duty of the ,unite'
Estates and other free nations, VIII
which this country is allied, is Il
fight with unconquerable determination
for a victorious peace
| The total Of the third Liberty loan Il
| 3d. 0,019,65O, an Over-subscripflon %
- per cent above the S3,OOO,OO0 mini
mum sought.
WASHINGTON
Railroads under government opera
ton this year will spend nearly bill
lion dollars for additions, betterments
and equipment, or approximately three
times rs much as in any one of the last
three years.
Every effort is being made in the
house to defer revenue legislation al
this session Of congress if possible.
For the first time in the history OF
the world, an aerial mail service con
Quoted under definitely arranged
time schedule was placed in operation
May Is between New York, Philadel'
phia and Washington by the United
States government.
President Wilson has declined to
veto The bill passed by congress
changing the basis Of army draft
quotas from state population To the
number Of men in class one because of
objection 20 the elimination OF the
plan for giving credits for volunteers
To stimulate the campaign to obtain
pledges for the purchase Of Outstand'
ing issues of war saving stamps, Sec
rotary McAdoO, in an announcement
May 10, fixed June 2S as national
war savings day.
FOREIGN
Once again the long arm Of the Brit
ish government has reached out and
nipped in the bud a gigantic German
plot in Ireland. Fully 500 men and
women, it is estimated, most of them
Sim Feiners, have been arrested with
out bloOdshed In all parts Of Ireland.
A most successful raid was carried
out by British Airmen Saturday in
broad daylight on railway stations, fac
tories and barracks at Cologne. Thirty
three bombs were dropped and were
seen to explode on railway sheds.
Americans and other foreigners more
than IS years old residing or travelling
in Canada on and after June % must
register with the Canadian authorities,
the Canada registration board has an
nounced.
Kiev, capital of Ukraine, has been
placed in state of siege by the Ger
man artillery command in conjunction
with the Ukrainian provisional gov
eminent.
Although the Germans in Flanders
and Picardy are keeping up incessant-
ly their preparations for resumption
of t.eir spring drive, there is as yet
no indication that an attack on large
scale is Immediately imminent,
IAN enemy monitor shelled Ostend
yesterday and inflicted considerable
losses upon the population" says a
war office statement issued from Ber-
lin on Friday.
IF the English soldiers We're driven
from France, Germany would not win,
because she must win both on land
and at sea. Her position is the same
as that of Napoleon" declares General
SHUTS, the famous Boer leader.
Germany is calling in her nickel coin
age, the metal of which Is needed for
proiectiles, and is substituting zinc for
minting coins Of this class. Authority
has lust been given for the minting OF
100000 marks worth of zinc IL
pfennig pieces.
The United States has promised to
have 100000 fighting men In France
by the end of 1918, says rHomme
Libre, Premier Clemenceau's news
paper. These troops, 1t adds, must
have their own organization and ser
vices, which will mean at least two
million, specialist workers, men in the
quartermaster's department and others
Russian naval officials blew up thei
four American submarines before re
treating from Hango, in southwestern
Finland. last April, the British adj
miralty announces.
Czechs and Jugoslavs taken prisone
by the Russians while fightingawitl
Austro-Hungarian armies have organ
lied an armyswhich now is resistin,
the Teutonic invasion of Russia, it il
reported.
A Garoon nffanSjvp of terror apainS