OUR MEN TRAINED SOLDIERS TAUGHT HOW TO USE AND CARE FOR WEAPONS. They Prove Successful in Saving Food and Fuel — State Councils of De. fense Will Advise War Risk Claim. ants Committ n Public Informatior National itions of the (From Washington. and many organi: al Guard having the United rifle, (modified fleld), it sary to dey troops could } the use of this weapon A statement 3 nance department tell shooting, many United States tenn mational shooting missioned to Instruct Ing and in t the rifle. In one tion from th stration bling this record mounting bling. chanics’ hanlcs’ trained to ms fleld. their aot be alk fore they in taking in new Nation been equipped with States model of 1017 became n wher author and ser offi y amg cers under ¥ RL) classi ike rep Near orit] #3 00n Frequently i work Comm fished thre are proving end fuel « department from newspal “The public t kitchen made tively =h be | t establish people's kite (Lond This suppl week, wil ono to 17 mer « ber fa: The con urged the voluntary In the ser of pay ar of pay, t money diers and sail Allotments the directly by the treasury the for insurand should be ¢ risk Washington, D. C.; of pay, extra pay Aecensed other auditor of the agton, DD. C. war-rigk persons entitled ¢ taker dressed ¢ insurance, treasury saldiers claims shoul Consul General Thackarn, at Paris enables: “A decree of April 5, published April 6, gives notice t all merchan- dise prohibited from importation by law of May 6_1918, will be seized and sold for profit of the state unless n regular Import authorization be pre sented within five days after arrival For first 30 days after promulgation of this decree requests for derogntions from its provision can be addressed to the minister of finance, in case parti cular circumstances justify an excep tion.” Two per cent of the enlisted person nel of the divisions and detacked unite of the regular army, National Guard. and National army, excepting the coast artillery and various staff corps, will be designated to attend the fourth series of officers’ training schools, which will open May 15. Admission has also heen granted to some men who have hed a! least one year's mill tary training under army officers af educational Institutions which earned government recognition. Night driving of motortruck supply trains from the West to the seahoard has been started hy the quartermas ter's department as a stop toward finn) training to fit men for service In France, According to the council of national defense, the gained in cross-conntry convoy work hans made the truck companies able to travel en experience Camps are made nt the reguinr hour, no matter where the company ls la cated, except that open country Is giv en preference over cities, Optical glass equaling the product of European manufacturers, from whom only it formerly could be ob- tained, is now being produced for mili and several privately owned factory In Pittsburgh, for use by the navy department, contained 780 pounds enough 700 optical for glass lenses probably manufactur ing in the United States has been simi- lar to that tefore the Development In glass of dye making. were content to import thems- grinding, polish glass st be- Europe, selves Gong "ily hie European he three large lund, one in France, were closely rets of the trade ntury old, It was con- formulgs ad fa . by many years of #8 without tory processes develo One of the au of panies in problen aeing the hn tend standards when, with fal ] 0] America, it started to re ly made products the nss which a typieal telegr sent to the fa if a soldier in un southern ean “Have Coming Going to Atlanta through coun- tonight. Please wire me $60 at Atlanta so 1 may pay for uniform and home Wave identifica tion as 1 am known In Atlanta. Wire cash quick so 1 can get it to morrow morning.” Before being complied with, any re quest for money to be sent under such conditions should be verified by a let. ter or telegram to the commanding of- ficer of the camp in which the man whose name is signed to the request? Is stationed, been discharged, come direct. not The United States government Is looking for men who cun take charge of branch offices of the bureau of for eign and domestic commerge, depart ment of commerce, and men to act as assistants In theese offices. Branches are located in the principal commer cial eltien. The salaries range from £1800 to S000 for managers and from £1200 to £1800 for nssistants, A noncompetitive examination will he held May 16 in various parts of the country. Applicants will be examined in export-irade technique, promotion of commerce, and economic geography, and credit will be given for knowledge reign languages, The examina. tlona will be under the direction of the eclvll service, The minister of agrienlture of Brag! has been pnuthorized to establish .mod ern experimental farms and agrien) tural eolonles, especially for the edn: cation of orphans and abandoned chil dren, AMERICANS IN GREAT BATTLE U. S. Troops. HURL THE ENEMY BACK Huns Leave Amer Many Dead—Losses On can To Side Also Reported Be Rather Large. Th VILLA SLAYS ALL IN TOWN To Massacre Wh Mim, n Girls Are Refused Texas Thirty oid men. were killed bs Villa’ en at San uz de Rosales, 40 miles utheast of Chihuahua City, last Friday, according to a brought to the border by railroad Villa demanded that ¢ be delivered to him refused his men were evervone living in ment, according to Chihuahua City report men ree young girlie When thi ordered to RE Was kill setile from the little the report LUMBER RATES DISAPPROVED. Virginia, Carolinas And Georgia Af. fected by I. C. C. Report Washington in lumber ' roiina, Proposed nereases rates from Virginia, North South Carolina and Georgia n Buffalo-Pittsburgh and Frelght Association terri were disapproved in a tenta. port of an Interstate examiner just commerce ade pub 1 lesion MORE PEACE TALK, Charlee Of Austria Reported To Be Making Overtures To Ital Stockholm. ~The tional Press Agency patch from Bagel says, th Emperor Charlexs of Austria fg making a fresh Jeace offer, appealing to Italy to con: ider it in her own interests. Catholle nterna announces, a dis thant World War in Brief STEAMER RAMMED ware Coast. To Lower Rapidity ALEXIS CZAR, SAYS REPORT Sen Of Deposed Monarch Rumored To Have Been Proclaimed. that there ix ser rioting capital, and that the rumor is that Grand Duke Alexis Nikolaleviteh has been proclaimed tmiperor and that Grand Michael Alexandrovitch i= the leader in Russian affairs. ious wereinient i real DEFINITE ANSWER WANTED. Uruguayan Government Again Asks Huns If State Of War Exists. Montevideo. The Uruguayan Gor ernmetn has again requested from Germany a definite reply to the query forwarded as to whether Germany considers a state of war ex many's answer to Uruguay's first re. quest this point, but in the meantime Uruguayan Forelgn evades the ter. Xenophon PP. Wilfley Accepts The Missouri Toga. ry Vilfley 2t. Louis Xenophon member of the St Commissioners and a well Misgouri, was ten. Gardner the seat in the United States Senate vacated recently by the death of Senator W. J. Stone Willey announced he would accept the appointment and left for Jefferson City to confer with the Election known Democrat of dered by Governo: AMERICA MUST Again there has come a pauses in the clad bodies of German dead, and the British and French are holding secure- From Saturday until well into Man night General von Arnim's forces continued their efforts to break the British lines on the Ypres salient and 10 press back the British and French their efforts were True, they gained their ob but out hut everywhere fruitiess jective and again captured Locre a counter-thrust them in, and at # the French again were holding the forced lag! account village In the hilly region jus! l.ocre the British also § ine enemy atl seve tween Kemmel and Much of the snap of ching forces veen nas naneuvers Lhes in Flanders Reinforcements Depends On Man Power And Te it's Up America the west cannot engagement of crises on depends present in ultimate oulcome the which the These large crises, up to 1 a measure, have resulted favor enemy 3 Attacks lines were The against the vigorous ariven British intend paralyze the independent will the British command In this the enemy has failed Unity of command of the Allies has extended operations to the broader field of pen eral engagements in which all the Al led forces will henceforth be used in terchangeably. “This change in the combat situs tion has materially sitered the mo ment of decision of the offensive. In stead of the enemy being able to de feat the British Army and then turn its full energy against the French, the ed to power of full united strength to the Lostile at tack. GERMANS RESPECT MARINES, Devil United States marines Dogs. New York “Deufel Hunden” or “Devil conferred upon them by the Germans, according 10 letters received at Marine Corps recruiting headquar here from overseas. The name, the letters say, saves the “soldiers of the sea” from selecting a substitute for the unfavored "Sammy." “Wow, those guys put us in the game class with the ‘Ladies from Hell” a veteran sergeant of the ma rines was quoted as saying in one uote sent home, title, ters SCORES CASUALTY PLAN Representative Rogers Tells Of Dis may Of Relatives BRITISH AIRMEN BOMB TROOPS Huns East Of Locre Offer Good Tar gfts To Pilots. official report on just issued save “East of Loore the enemy's troops on Monday offered good targets to pilots, who dropped 275 bombs on them and engaged them with machine gun fire “Seven hostile machines were brought down in air figating and one was shot down by our infantry Two of our machines are missing London An aerial operations our KILLED PLAYING SOLDIER. West Virginia Boy Falls Wooden Gun And Dies. Elkins, W. Va Elkins lost its fret victim this week, not in the Upon lard Lyele Kemper, § years old. son and Mrs. J. R. Kemper, while upon bis wooden gun, inflicting in FIVE OF FAMILY KILLED. Hits Automobile. Ind. Five ! one family, were killed Big Four passenger an automobile In which wae riding All of them were instantly and some of the bodies were carried half a mile by the train A SA WASHINGTON. The Overman bill was passed by Faveile, persons,
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