The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-06-14
FOR THE BUSY man.
NEWS EplToME THAT CAN SOON
O coMpAsoED.
NM EVENTS ARE MENTIONED

Home and Foreign intelligence cen
densed Into Two and Four
Line Paragraph.
According to reports the Germans
are using three-quarters Of a million
men In the Marine offensive.
British troops In Mesopotamia have
cleared the Turks entirely from the
Kurkuk area, $50 miles north Of
Bagdad.
The State department has been i'm
formed that the recent allied air raid
on Cologne caused the death Of lag
persons.
American aviators since April IA,
have shot down at least 33 enemy
planes In France and themselves only
lost seven.
The United States now has :, 2OO.O 900
dead weight tons OF shipping In trans
Atlantic service, against n ship
when war was declared.
I
The reinforced concrete gondola
freight car Is the newest invention to
be put forth as an aid to winning the
war. It Is being built Mt Chicago.
Sixteen hundred thousand letters
written by American soldiers overseas
to their homes on Mothers day have
been received at Atlantic ports for
distribution.
The American steamer Amackassin,
. vessel Of 226 tons gross, was sunk
By q German submarine near Gibral-
tar, with a possible loss Of all but u
Of its crew Of twenty.
A total of 4.SS inches Of rain fell in
north central Iowa in less than "a
hours. Hundreds Of people were driv-
en- from their homes and much stock
drowned by the water.
Army officials at st. Louis express
ed the belief that the mysterious fire
that did 100000 damage at two
warehouses at the United States ar.
senals there. were OF German origin.
An American warship saved the
French steamer Dadioliene from de-
struction By q German U-boat off the
Maryland coast. II was the first
transatlantic liner attacked by the
raiders.
Drafted men claiming conscientious
objections I military service and
who have been found by army author
tiles to be sincere In refusing military
duty. are to be segregated at Fort
Ieavenworth. Kas.
Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes Of New
York was sentenced to ten years Inn
prisonment in the Missouri state peni-
Tertiary on each Of three counts Of an
indictment charging her with violation
q the espionage act.
The Germans In their terrific on
slaught on the western front reached
the Marine river, near Fere-en-Tardo-
nois Inst Thursday. It Is generally be-
1ieved In allied Official circles that
Paris u the enemy's objective.
The lord lieutenant Of ireland IL.
med . proclamation. asking for 5O.-
90 voluntary recruits and thereafter
Two 10 three thousand monthly to
maintain Irish divisions. n an oppor-
tnnity to avoid CONSUMPTION.
sixteen persons who were aboard
~ American steamer Caroline before
q was sunk BY Z German submarine
near the shores Of the United States
we're drowned when one Of the ships
1ffeboats capsixed In a storm. Forty
to other persons, who were aboard
- Inflated ship, r missing.
American troops cooperating with
- French az one Of the most critical
hints along the Marine brilliantly
eAeeked the 0~nrushing Germans. They
noe oily tepulsed the Germans at
every point nc which they were en-
a6ed. buk took prisoners without hnv-
- ~ p~sfsonsss - turn taken By
~ GeEmanE
ne dotpr019mo allied war council.