Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-03-28

Heads of the German .,rmy have
invited neutral correspondents to
visit the western front to view the
coming German offensive"
Provost Marshal Crowder has call
ed out 10000 men from class one for
special instructions in technical po-
I sitions.
President Wilson has signed the bill
bringing the railroads under govern
ment operation and control until 81
months after the end of the war.
The British admiralty reports the
loss by mine or submarine of IL
British merchantmen for the week
| ending March 16.
| The first Omaha soldier to fall on
| the battlefield of France was Cor
poral r. G. Hughes of the 16Sth in
fantry. He was killed in action on
March IL.
|
| The British in Palestine have fore
ed passage of the river Jordan,
themselves on the east bank, accord
ing to an official report.
Five more Iowa soldiers have given
up their lives for world freedom,
their names appearing in General
Pershing's casualty list of March 10.
All were reported to have been killed
in action.
A bill authorizing county councils
of defense, under the direction OF the
state council to register and con.
script men for labor on farms, was
pessed by both houses of the South
Dakota legislature.
Captain William Redmond sue
ceeds his father, John Redmond, the
nationalist leader in the British par
lament, having been elected over his
opponent, DR.. White, Sim Feiner,
by an overwhelming majority.
Reduction in the use of wheat
products to one and one-half pounds
per person each week in every Amer
lean home is asked by the federal
food administration, in an urgent
wheat conservation appeal, just re-
Gently.
Hungary has lost 1,172, 1866 babies
and infant mortality has risen to so
per cent for a period of seven years,
according to Lodovic Hollo, Hungar-
ian deputy. Hollo presented these
figures to the Hungarian chamber of
deputies recently.
According to a Stockholm dispatch
| the German transport FARMLAND
struck mine and sank at Noorland.
! The transport was crowded with SOL
| diers, cannon and munitions, and the
entire crew, all of the soldiers and
Admiral Won Meyrer were lost.
The American soldier can buy his
own gum, cakes, candies and soft
drinks cheaper in France than here.
Hence the postoffice department urges
mothers and sisters not to send such
dainties to the soldiers-because ship
and rail space is needed for vital war
supplies.
The announcement that the kaiser
is in personal command on the west
ern front is regarded as further evil
| dence that the emperor has staked his
all on an offensive, hoping to win
| and go down in history as the victor
| in this great and decisive world con-
! f1ict.
Allied military officials are con-
WINGED that Germany is prepared to
sacrifice 100000 men in an effort to
i overwhelm the British on the western
battle front. 1t was with man power
in great masses, and not gun power
that the first line of the British de-
lenses were penetrated.
A sixty-foot American motorboat
the Aggassiz, which sailed from a
4 Mexican port with Germans, German
flags, rifles and pistols on board, has
been seized at sea by an American
warship and taken to a Pacific port
1t is believed she was starting on Il
Ncommerce-raiding cruise. The entire
crew was captured.
Boy Scouts of America are called
upon by the government to participate
in the third Liberty loan campaign.
Eleven days, beginning April 20, have
been set aside when scouts will con-
duct countrywide campaign in an
effort to surpass the bond selling
record, $102,0S4,10 which they made
on behalf of the second loan.