Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-27

The war department has announced
that American casualties up to Febru-
airy IS We're 24S,149 Of these 81 1863
We're killed in action.
The American Liberty association
has shipped to soldiers overseas more
than 2,00D,0eo books ESQ, 900 of them
since the signing of. the armistice.
The last of the wartime coal regu-
| lations of the fuel administration still
| IN force will be suspended March r.
Fuel Administrator Garfield ANNOUNCED.
The Germans have. accepted the
new armistice terms which, it. is I'M
| derstood, provide for the continuation
of the blockade during the arinistice..
Blight thousand Costa Rican troops
have been modified on the border be-
tween Costa Rica and Nicaragua and
threaten invasion of the latter
country.
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The project for a league Of nations,
which has been placed before the
Paris peace conference, has evoked
sharp criticism in the German press
generally.
Nepraska's per capita sales of war
saving stamps in 1918 were Spills
greater than those of any other state
the war savings organization at Wash
ington reported.
The lower house of the Nebraska
legislature adopted resolution OBJ
posing the suggestion that loans Of the
United States to the allied european
nations be cancelled.
Charles Strader. Lincoln, Neb.. was
unanimously elected as district gov
ernor of Rotary clubs of Iowa, Ne
hraska and South Dakota at the dis
trict conference at Omaha.
A bill providing for the teaching OF
q course in citizenship and patriotism
in the public and private schools Of
Iowa has been passed by the lower
branch Of the state assembly.
American potash forces at Wash
ington are now convinced That the
Henderson bill providing regulation
for their industry will be reported out
OF the senate mining committee soon.
Army discharges in Rehabilitation
camps in the, United States had reach.
ed total on February Is of 4. 174.545
officers and men. and the total number
assigned for Rehabilitation was l..
sol, 900.
Both branches of the Nebraska leg
islature have approved bill providing
a $5,OO0,00O fund for a new state can.
itol at Lincoln, to be raised by a IL
mills levy extending over a period 81
six years.
The shipyard strike at Seattle
Wash, which affected more than
250O0 workers and which was respon
sible, to some extent, for the first
general strike ever called in this coun-
try, has ended.
Secretary. of War Baker has I'M
formed congress that American and
allied troops operating in north Rus
fsia will be withdrawn "at the earliest
possible moment that weather condi-
tons in the spring will permit"
Secretary of Labor Wilson, nm.
nounced that aliens found advocating
destruction of property or overthrow
of the government by force will he de
ported under the provisions Of the
immigration act of February 5, 1917.
49,
Advices from Berlin are to the eff
feet that the Pan-Gerlnan military
party, headed by Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg, bitterly resents the new
clauses in the armistice and that in
dignation against Matthias Erzberger.
armistice commissioner, on the part
of the military authorities is increas-
ing.
Roger u. Simmons. who recently re-
turned from mission to Russia for
the bureau Of commerce, made the as
sertion at Washington that If the AM
erican and allied forces were with
drawn from northern Russia the boil
sheviki would engage in one of the
bloodiest massacres the world has
ever seen.
The house eliminated the provision
for an army Of 100000 from the an.
nual appropriation bill and passed
the senate bill for resumption Of vol.
untary enlistments in the peace-time |
army, which would be restricted to
the minimum of 17SOOO mon o,,t,,nr