Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-04-25
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COVERS WIDE AREA.
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includes What is Going on at Wash.
lnston and In Other Sections
Of the Country.

The British man power bill, includ.
ing subscription in Ireland has been
approved by parliament and signed by
King Edward.
Members of the board of education
at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, adopted a re-
solution disseminating the teaching OF
the German language in all city
schools.
Charlie Chaplin, motion picture
comedian, has been drafted and ex.
poets call for mobilization about June,
1t was announced at his studio at Los
Angeles.
Casualties among Americas expedi-
honary forces in France totaled 1860
up to April Is. OF this number 264
were killed in action and 237 lost at
sea.
The British war Office reports that
sunk by submarines averaged 46 per
cent in the last year, and reached 113
per cent in January.
New York women are to be allowed
to join the military force of the state,
becoming commissioned officers and
members of the ambulance corps of
the home defense reserve.
The senate amendment to the agri.
cultural bill which proposes an in.
crease of the government guaranteed
price of wheat to $3.50 was defeated
in the house by a vote Of 1877 to 9S.
Both North Dakota and Montana
reported their Liberty Loan quotas of
$6,5O0,OOO and 100000 respectively
Oversubscribed by more than $1,000.
600 each, on April p.
Condition of Kansas wheat was
S7.6 per cent of normal April 10, ac-
cording to the first monthly crop re-
port OF the season, issued by the state
board of agriculture at Topeka.
tails about 100000 acres.
The Trinity Evangelical Lutheran
church at st. Louis, founded 70 years
ago, and said to be the Oldest Evan.
gelical Lutheran church in the United
States, has abolished the use Of the
German language.
Miss Jeanette Rankin, Montana's
representative in congress, was re-
fused permission to speak in Deer
Lodge because of her alleged asso-
Citations in Butte with leaders in the
strike there last summer.
Announcement has been made that
Director General McAdoo will soon
clip 100000 miles month from
passenger train mileage west Of the
Mississippi river as an economy meas.
other purposes.
1t is estimated that 100000 Ger.
man and Austrian war prisoners have
been released by Russia since hel
peace agreement with the central
powers was signed. 1t is said that
less than six divisions of Germans
! $4,000 men are on the Russian front
| Representatives of the army ant
naval intelligence departments are
urging congress to enact legislation tt
permit the military authorities to dea
directly with spies and German prop
uganda as the only way to curb lyncl
law against disloyalty eand enemy agi
tation in this country.
Belgian soldiers aiding the British
in northern France dealt the Ger
mans hard blow last week in the
User region and captured 600 prison
ers including officers belonging to foul
different divisions. This would indi
cate that some of the German divi
sions have been so badly shot up tina
ii has been necessary to merge tn,
remnants into single units.
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Considerable opposition has sprun,
up in Washington over the possible
appointment of Senator Hitchcock t,
the Craftsmanship of the foreign rela
tions committee, made vacant by tn
death of Senator Stone. The Nebras
ka senator is the ranking democratic
member, but opposition to his appoint
ment has developed because of hi
outspoken criticism of war depart
ment activities.
A new record for merchant shi
building was made when the SkiHne
& Eddy Ship Building Co. of Seattle
Wash, delivered to the shipping boar
an S,S00-ton freighter in 100 day
from the time the keel was laid. BE
fore the war it took IL months to az
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