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BULLETINS ABOUT THE WAR.
Progress of Hostilities in the Heavens
Above, the Earth Beneath and
the Waters of the Seven
Seas,
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WAR BULLETINS i
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POPPE POSE EPY
PPPOE POP
ed a
Russian delegates sign
peace with the central
Litovsk and German)
vasion, according to a
Petrograd said the delegates feared
more severe demands unless they sige
ed the new compact, which ir ed
the te ( Russia 8 10: Zzive up
three provinces probably going to Tur
key
Russia was
ambassador the
taken to keep order in §
ored the proj
newspapers urged caut
rese
Jritish press fav
some of the
The French shatter
the {
attack
a German
flicting h
on Aisne front, in
or
losses in savage hand to hand fighting.
the capture
Chavignon,”
Jerlin officially reported
of ten Americans ‘near
which defines the American sector,
Japar. stands ready to hurl her ar-
riies into eastern Russia as a check to
German domination the moment such
a course may seem desirable in the
eyes of Nippon and her European and
American allies,
A strong German attack, following a
heavy barrage fire, against the Ameri-
‘an trenches in the Chemin des Dames |
sector was repulsed with The |
well placed American machine guns
sent streams of bullets into the ad- |
vancing enemy, and as the German |
barrage fire lifted the American artil-
lery quickly laid down a curtain of fire,
the Germans retiring without a single !
prisoner.
losses,
Horo 200 of |
.
: WASHINGTON $
.
Boceworsorsossese. oreo ero
President Wilson began the second
Year of his second term, and the
twelve months just passed
t sformed from a peace lovi
“Ist” into a determined military leader
and dominant figure in world war.
Financial aid for farmers in loans
for seed and stock and in transport-
1(
is proposed in a bill soon
the
The country will be divided into f{
great aviation departments, each in
charge of a brigadier under
a scheme at Washington.
that
will
ing labo:
be presented in house,
general,
discussed
Secretary McAdoo announces
the third Liberty loan campaign
be opened on April 6, the first anniver-
sary of the United States’ entry into
the war, and urges patriotic
strations on that day throughout
country.
demon-
the
Rain ey rebukes the
crities in Doctor
in a speech telling of the beneficial re-
sults of the fuel order and dec
a circular sent out by the Conference |
Committee on Preparedness must
the enemy.
Representative
Congress of Garfield
ares
Li ave
given comfort to
President Wilson
with Secretary Lansing and
House and agreed that there
hope of peace in the German
lor's speech, to which the Presider
likely to reply.
The administration wins
house passes the railroad bill
ing provision for large rate
powers for the President.
certifi
was in conference
Colonel
was no |
chancel-
it is
when the
contain-
making
Sales of war saving ates and
thrift stamps from December 1 to Feb-
ruary 25 amounted to $70,798,886.
Samuel Gompers pleads for an ei’ ht
hour day
the meat
i declaring that “labor will
win the war.
us a witness for the employ-
ees in industry at the
ers’
V,
mike ev sacrifice” to
WPL IO « CHP IOO DPI OCO POI P POISE EO H
GENERAL
Were o POON PIS SIO OPES
Feceos
japan’s i tvention in Siberia is un-
del scussion by the allies and the
United States, the prevailing i
in Washington being that Japan al
take up the problem of
far
should Keeping
Germany out of
Naval reports
east,
told of the
*«d guard, in beating
IL a submarine.
es took a
specta lar dror
V IST
1 1
hes I
rail
reasonable
possibili
ld District
who t
d lost £10,
house
iness nian
y Swann he 000 in
a York
his check for
turned over to the
his name were not
&John Doe” gambling inqu
Three aviation fields will soon be in
ase near Mineola, N. XY, iad
proffers
gamb
the same amount to
city’s
poor fund i
drawn into
| and pork
anf AMERICANS WIN [3 Fesowano oF rowan + GERMAN INVASION
Franco and Sooo in camps efor { FERDINAND OF RUMANIA § DE! d
on x me to 3 li ve u | : : T | : Foe Makes His Abdica. ; OF RUSSIA ENDS
H ay 4 hor Y : wu . li . FIRST BAT ! LE i tion One Fcace Condition, : |
§ 1 mn ( S—— | fovrawererorvorressvsorcrvercssostt { -
Ns mp wx | Germans, Expecting Easy Tri-| ss—— Bolsheviki Delegates Forced to
nas, be ue \'ut te | Umph, Are Surprised by Re- | | ign Treaty by Fe il of More
= publican y P ; | : ommit at a sistance and Take Flight. | { Onerous Conditions.
uncheon in New York pledges Repub- |
lican support of the war till victory is | - .
Cont operators and mitroad oficiats | ASSAULT LONG + PREPARED | (TURKS GET NEW REGIONS.
in joint conference at Washington act | —— | s———
accordance
» supplies of fuel in
actual needs.
oppositior
Currency
with
Determined
Killed in Our Trenches ana Three
Taken Prisoners, Two
Wounded.
led by the
mmittee,
|
|
nce
|
|
|
Banking and
blocked the passage of the war fir
bill and upset ation of
the Finance Committee by limiting the
the recommend
With the American Army in France,
business activity of directors of the | American troops repulsed a strong |
government corporation | ire : : wl
Steel producers at New { German attack in the salient north of |
ference decide to demand { Toul. There were many Ameiican cas-
from the government 1, ies, one of the killed being a cap-
Midshipman Willi K. B. Swope | tain who was graduated frem West
resigned from the | academy on | pgint jn 1917.
wand of Secretar) ! S His raid was a complete failure
mother, now the Bi 0h a German prisoners remaining ii
er becam 1 1 "i : ner
Eas : i oie 1 American hands. The ground in front
a a 1 cod | of the American tren Ss
: with German dead,
tv nominations. including some A driving wet snow s fall
best two-vear-olds, | e hee the Germans opened fire on t
1 e for tl ky Derby. ican salient with every weapon at
"command. Seventy-sevens, heavy
BOCPL LOL POCO CPOE PPS SOLE
6 shells and gas shells fell in a perfect
r ican W $ i
¢ German-American War $ wind on our trenches for half an
. » At the same time other el
ey
HOPI PP POOP 0800 ISLE) EEOEE : :
shells in
Cn great numbers were dropping
Reproduction :
the American battery positic
ms,
France in fields 1 Tr . :
Sa : ia on I'he Germans, evidently thinking that
is starting the prepar: rite Amer: Wh ol 5
ito Raid : He Aamericans in this section, having
flying field on Long Is Yes 1 yp : : :
Five Americans were killed, five se 410 one taste of gus a few days ago,
4 PCE \ 1Hie n : a tr a ! oF
verely wounded and four slightly Woulq Jear, it row, let loose great
wounded in action north of Toul on | : antities of Po 2enons gas, but the
‘ 2 1 | men put o ir ‘ ang oe
March 1. Second Lieutenant Harold re I ih ht 1 ir m 28h, and only a |
F. Eadie was among those killed. gas Were affectea by it. .o intense
i was the fire that the woods back of
Lon-
American engineers resident in
the salient were shot to pieces,
don have rendered invaluable service A ens e S
to the allies by solving difficult war | At Six o'clock the barrage fire lifted |
problems | on the trenches to the right of the
the eating of beef | salient, and Germans, numbering 240, !
Restrictions on
Tues- | came sweeping forward under the pro-
were lifted, except on
cay, by the food administration in an | tection of their tire. They came for-
effort to conserve wheat. | ward, apparently intending to make a |
The Americans repulsed a strong | big haul, and jumped into what was
attack near Toul in hand to hand fight- | !eft of the trenches, but there, instead
ing. The ground front of their po- | of the easy time anticipated, found the
sition is strewn with German dead, | Americans all ready for battle. Fierce |
behind | hand to hand fighting began.
al- | :
| Americans Killed and Wounded.
Germans were left
The American ca
Among the dead is a
three
and
prisoners
ties were severe,
West Point Hero Slain—Ten Teutons |
| eral operation of railroads was passed
| Batoum, Karaband and Kars,
caucasia, Are Surrendered—63,800
Officers and Men and Mass of
Munitions Also Taken.
Berlin, via London “By
| the signing of the peace treaty with
Russia,” says the official communica
tion from headquarters, “military
movements in Great Russia have
ceased.”
The
through
ing to the official
Germans in advance
Russia have ea 1, accord-
from
I
communication
general: headquarters, 6,800 oflicers
and 57,000 men, 2,400 guns, 5,000 ma
chine guns, thousands of motor ve
hicles, S00 locomo ves and thous:
of railroad trucks.
The official statement says:
Eastern Theater, Front of Prince
ign min-
of Ru- |
brother
the
Count Czernin, Aust
Operations ini
f
: . Bavaria
ordered King
retire
ister, . teil
‘ after the lapse of the armistice
1 to
aty have lea to great successes.
(‘ol
peo- x
Count Kirch-
their glorious
represent ve. : y
I'roops under (en,
bach have hastened in
march through and Isthonia
to the suppert of the oppressed inhab-
itants, They accompanied by de- |
tachments of troops from the Baltic is-
= = lands, which ng
Rate Making Power Given Abso- | frozen Moon
thonian regiments
lutely to President. Reval and Doipat have been captur-
SF NANASAS NALINI INNIS
RAILROAD BILL PASSES
Livonia
were
across
Is-
advanci
and
were
sound, also by
ee | ed. Our troops have arrived before |
Reverses Amendment to Keep Author- | Narva.
| The armies of Kirchbach and Eich- |
ity in Interstate Commerce
horn continued in their uninterrupted |
Commission. advance by way of Dvinsk and Minsk
—_— | and after hard fighting captured
Washington,—The bill 10 govern fed- | ’skov, Polotzk and Borissoff. At Bo- |
bruisk a junction with the Polish divi-
by the house by a vote of 337 to 6. | sions was effected.
Two Democrats and four Republi- Detachments of the army group of
; General von Linsingen, with the ap-
cans voted against the measure when . :
the Ukrainian
government,
have opened fighting on railway
line from Luncinica, via schiza,
on the Dnieper, as far as Gomel, and
have had several engagements. Other
under von Knowzen
ix a proval of
'hey were Thom-
and Gordon, Ohio, Dem-
Oklahoma ; Deni-
Iowa, and Ram-
the final test came.
18, Kentucky,
erats, and C
Illinois; Haugen,
the
Roet
wandler,
son,
seyer, Iowa, Republicans, divisions Genera
captain, a 1917 graduate of West Point, | Whig i - Five Americans, in- The senate previously had passed | have cleared the roads leading from
: cluding sutenant re 1 five ’ : Cieff © s Kipv.S sriniia. railway
whe log 4 farce ent into Xo Mans | Se vere ly se 12 | oe be tilled, Eve the bill, which immediately went to Kieff and the Kiev-Shmerinka railway
ae 3, 0 » . alior » > f > » » t rr as i or is
Land to attack the ns scorned a a and om, slightly conference for settlement of differ-. line of the cneny er breaking his
mm tH ton innce was | ‘Wounded in the German raid against resistance In co-operation with the
I'he German-American Alliance was gal bot ' ; hh esi A peration h 1¢
10 ‘Pier , 1 nee tween the two houses. I'he on :
terined the “zreatest internal menace |* ie American trenches to the north of) ences G3 3 ive 3 : g | Ukrainians Kieft was captured. Ger-
t i th great i ! Piss ar Ales Ng hin wuse bi ovides for the return o ;
we have in this country today” by a | <n ) n March 1, the war department pause ill Protides fo tu ae : | man and Austro-Hu dan troops
witness before the senate. announced. The list follows : the roads to their owners two years have entered Shmerinka
| EADIE, HAROLD F., lieutenant, Til. | after the war ends instead of in 18 The booty taken from the enemy
PY CPOE ONSET ton, N. H. : ths, as the senate draft proposes i § t | approximetelv esti
° months, as tie enate aratt prop S, | cannot as yet be approximately esti
3 SPORTING AMODEL, ANTHONY, sergeant, Bal- an‘ the house measure vests tinal rate | mated. According to reports at hand,
| ti I aes 3 : : % ro ore 4 re ; + +
3 mere. fixing authority in the president, while | there are in our possession 6,800 offi-
® # | PARSONS, ED ivat ; : y
BO oPieivare oaveees | ? GAR, private, Obids, the senate would leave this power in | €ers and 57,000 men. In booty we
N. C. » : 5 , hav nk 04 y pF ¢
Ferdinand Schupp signed to pitch | ; the Interstate Commerce Commission. ] P2Ve taken 2,400 guns, over 5,000 ma
for the New York Giants at an in| BENRY, HARRY J, private, Logans- x : : : : chine guns, thousands of vehicles, in-
for the New York Giants at an in ort, Ind T'hese two sections of the bill caused a
in salary. | bors; . oi y : o cluding 5,000 motor cars, 11 armored |
Sacton. Goleitod Comba al | BREW, MATHEW, privrate, Fayette, spirited fights in the house. BBO: If otnobiles. 200000 hoxos of artillery
basketball by 27 to 18 N. D nents of these features won momen- | ymmunition, 12,800 rifles, 800 locomo-
Misa Me 2 be ae ‘eaths of four men in action in oth- | tary victories when the bill was dis- Ss 8,000 1: ay truck
Joe Stecher and Wladek Zbyszko eae 2 i RA i 1 oth tar) eto i } 5 $y tives and 8,000 railway trucks. oo
2 | et gagements also were announced | _;ssed in Committee of the Whole, I'he booty taken at Reval was 220
wrestle two hours without a fall at the | the denarimens ¢ ar ) 4 Ne
he 2 vi j J tie denarsment as follows: but on final vote proponents mar-| guns, 22 airplanes and a lot of rolling
Garden in New York. | CHAISSON, JOSEP 4 2 . Bt
i ma \ a Vs H P. sergeant, haled their forces, mostly on the | stock. Thirteen officers and 500 men
Pennsylvania retained her lead in Derby, M Feb 2 shaled their fq , mostly « -
the intercoliegiate basket Lull race by | goggs Ny meonyany 04. Democratic side, and succeeded in put- | Were taken prisoners. |
Si nr Vile ot ts 78 ¥ EPH, corporal, Red Jacket, H through the bill with these fea-| Field Marshal von Maciensen’s ar- |
defeating ale, « 0 18. | \ z ng throug eb \ Se a= te ' mh |
7 Pp. Lichte: f he Clilen Athleti W. Va., March 2, a ; i? } 1 mistice with Rumania lapsed I'he
J. P. Licnter o 1e cago Athletic | y i | oR. inine as oy ) y » Ccom- .
\ i5tion. Broks: th es 3 | WEATHERMAN, HIGH, private, Bea. | tures intact, as framed by the co Rumanian government thereapon de-
Association broke the world's record | . vitte : . .
Lae A x | man, la., March —, | mittee, clared itself ready to enter upon fresh
making the
the
ning meet in |
was
plunge by
seconds at
for a 60 foot
distance in
nual C. A. A
icago. The
3-0 seconds.
HARDESTY, THOMAS S. cook, EI |
Paso, Tex., February 28.
Those severely wounded on March 1 |
were;
FORTNER,
15 3-5 an-
school swin
previous record
ELLIOTT, corporal, Her- |
Three pitchers of the Yankee team— | rin, Il.
Ray Caldwell, Slir Love and Allan | HOWARD, ISAAC, private, Evarts, |
Russell—signed their contracts for the Ky.
NESS, ROY E,, private, Duluth, Minn
Season.
Connie Mack has selec for the | 'INKLE, REUBEN J., priva Hig
Athletics Cady, Gardner and Walker | wood, Mont.
of the Red Sox in exchange for Mec- | WORK, GLENN H,, cook, Obert, Neb,
Innis. | Those slightly wounded on March 1 |
Coming “over the top” with the were; |
most ambitious stake program since LITTLE, JOHN B, corporal, Abbot, |
the revival of racing, the Saratoga | Ark,
Association for the Improvement of | AC RAE, JOHN, JR. vate, Chi-
|
a list {
meeting |
$146,900 |
the Breed cf Horses announced
of fixed events for its August
Springs aggregating
With the overnight ra
iced it is
will
ong owners of horses
cago,
WILSON, ARTHUR B.,
bridge, Ill.
TURNER, EDWARD
private, Cam- |
at the
value.
ces yet
estimated that
be distributed
during the
be annou
000 or
more
;
¢ | POP POPE SOPE GOOD €
days of sport. { 6
BOOP ESOTOOOT ESP, PINS reeoe i P I T H Oo E T H E
$ S$ S
I FOREIGN i WAR NEWS
Broo 002C00 OIE NCR err ond: BOPo00 2000000 onrenonc cree rrerreest
is}
Hs
Picked German troops, equipped with
Switzerland, w by oi accurate and complete maps of the
rine It had a carg 5,000 erica pcsition, rehearsed four
times the raid made near Toul. The
cal time in P za. heavy American m e gun fire
1 one hour 1 broke up the enemy arran gements
and made the attack a failure.
-n independent Socialist, speaking in
the Reichstag, denounced the Ger-
man government's “infamous war
policy” and declared the attack on
defenseless Russia was for loot and
not for peace,
fe bers « Germany is sending troops to Finland
ie an il and will use the Aland Islands as a
temporary base of cperation
Ss.
German
send an army into Si-| The French defeated strong
y La tect efforts to debouch from the Neucha-
0 nd sta ly to aid | tel salient near Rheims. They aiso
the allies wherever civilization is men- | restored their line complete tly after
ed by the Huns. | a German attack on a half mile front
in the Mont Cornillet sector.
Sermany violated her solemn pledge o
Switzeriand, and a German subma-
rine sank a Spanish vessel carrying
3,000 tons of wheat for the Swiss.
Amsterdam newspapers
a passer
who s
Berlin,
sensus gathered from offic
df
test aif
ck from
the ore: n arriv
the great 1 a
peace negoti tt Germany ‘he Portuguese army, after being driv-
dare not yield any military advantage en from their trenches by a German
until peace is certain. raid, retaliated by driving the Huns
out and re-establishing their line in
record time. Raids made upon the |
Gritish lines met with same result.
Bolsheviki have seized
in Siberia:
kutsk, Khaba
igovieschtchensk, Ir-
rovsk and Omsk,
|
these cities |
| money
| er thap a night letter by
An amendment, by Repre sentative | negotiations for a further armistice on |
Sweet of Iowa, giving the rate mak- | the basis of conditions laid down by
ing power to the Interstate Com- | the central powers. With these armis- |
| merce Commission, was adopted in | tice negotiations peace parleys may be |
Committee of the Whole, 164 to 157. | commenced, [
, | The B 1eviki delecation a Irest-
This showed almost the full strength | The Bolsheviki delega ion at Brest
: ; | Litovsk wired to “Premier” Lenine and |
for the amendment, as when the vote | ,? : ;
: : te ra I'rotzky that the most serious feature
was taken on final passage it was de- : :
; 11. | of the new peace demands compared |
feated, 165 to 2 : with those of February 21 is the fol- |
In the Committee of the Whole an lowing : |
amendment by Representative Esch | To detach the regions of Karahand,
of Wisconsin to limit tenure after the | Kars and Batoum from Russian terri-
0
war to one year was adopted, 133 to | tory on the
40; but, like the Sweet amendment, it | peoples to self-deter:
proses of the
|
|
right of |
ination, |
| was thrown out on final! passage, 206 | Ka rs, also in ; scaucasia, 105
to 166 | miles northeast of Erzeroum in Turk-
: . : 13. oi
The senate bill definitely provides | ish Armenia, has been in dispute be |
2 g ; : tween the Turks and the Russians for
that the basis of compensation shall | ‘ :
t . ; a | nearly a century and finally was ceded
be a just return on the average net ed :
: : . , | to Russia at the same time as was
operating income for the three years Bator
: 3s ‘ > atoum.
period ending June 30, 1917, but the |
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house bill is a little more elastic. The
house gidopted an amendment which | Ho bi wos
President discretion-
take into consideration
spent improvemen the
roads between June 30 and December
28, 1017, the day they were taken over.
would give the
ary power to
WORLD’S NEWS IN i
$
CONDENSED FORM i
Foor - o¥
- a NEW YORK.—Theodore Roosevelt
JAPAN | READY TO ACT. { will be deaf in his left ear the rest of |
= — his life, according to the statement is- |
Russian Peace Pact Expected to In-| gyed by his physicians on the eve of
oo fluence Entente. his leaving the hospital, but otherwis
Washington. ion by | jie is in “better shape than before.”
the United PARIS.—British and French senti- |
lies in indorsi ment is strongly opnosed to permitting |
Germany and Austria to share in the |
| division of the raw materials of the
| world after the war,
WASHINGTON.—Edward N. Hurley
terms | announced that the nation would place
many and | 26 completed
re- | March, and would la
| vessels this month.
CHICAGO.—A new federal round-up
anarchists agitators
for ts by
Prompt decis
the
1g the proposed Japanese
result
pact,
States and entente al-
expedition into Siberia
the German-Russian
may
peace
gned.
rnment }
that in e
been
1
nas
Japanese gove 1S made
1Se peace
Ger
agreed upon vessels in service in
Japan
immediate action.
uncl
Bolshevi would be p t 34 additional
24 CENT AIR STAMP. of
and sabot
{ has been ordered in response to com-
Minimum Letter ~ Pobtags by New | plaints of I. W. W. activity in the log-
Service 27 Cents. i ging camps of the northwest. This |
Washington.—Coincident with the | time ‘undesirables will be deported. |
opening of the first aerial mail route | Probably from 3,000 to 4,000.
between New York and Washington
on April 15 there will be issued a new
stamp. This stamp will cause the let-
ter to which it is aflixed to be sent by
the The present plan is to
sell the stamp for 24 cents, which with
the regular postage will mak
27 cents. It will be cheaper
WASHINGTON. — Leaders of the
| German-American Alliance failed to
convince members of the Senate Inves-
| tigating Committee that the organiza-
| tion's charter ought not to be revoked.
NEW YORK.—The Jewish Socialist |
the cost | League called on all Socialists to take
r and quick- | an active part in the fight against
telegraph Prussianism,
|
{
air service.
in Trans-
reason of
| matter can be
| full
| ii
MAJ GEN. P. C. MARCH
SPs rrr ress rtN
;
U. 8S. Chief of Staff Has :
3
$
Just Returned From France,
over overrvrrvrrrorrrorrorrse rrr
Changes in the personnel of the gene
eral or were expected to follow the
arrival « Peyton C. March, act-
ing or of staff, who will have a free
Gen,
hand in selecting his aids.
THIRD LOAN APRIL 6
Begins on Anniversary of Amer-
ica’s Entry Into War.
Secretary McAdoo, in Announcing the
Opening Date of the Campaign, Says
He Will Ask Additional Authority.
Washington. — Secretary McAdoo
named April 6, 1918, as for
the opening of the third Liberty loan
campaign.
It is the first anniversary oi our en-
trance into the war against the Kaiser.
the date
The amount, terms and conditions of
the loan have not been decided, Secre-
tary McAdoo said,
are dependent upon further
islation.
Secretary
because these fea<
leg oy
In making the announcement
Mc
“I expect to ask the Congress at a
Adoo said:
early date to grant the necessary addie
tional authority. Of course the opens
ing date of the campaign is somewhat
dependent upon the new legislation,
but it is hoped and believed that the
considered and deters
mined in ample time to begin the came.
paign on the date suggested.
“April 6 will forever be a consecrated
day in American history, and it scems
peculiarly appropriate that the opens
ing of the second year of our particia
pation in this war for the honor and
rights of America and the freedom of
the world should be celebrated with a
nation wide drive for anoth2: Liberty
| loan.
“The campaign should begin with
great demonstrations of patriotism in
every city, town and hamlet in the
country that will truly express the
spirit of the aroused America. On
this date every American should
pledge anew to his government the
measure of his resources and re-
solve to make every required sacrifice
in the same fervert spirit that impels
our gallant sons in the trenches of
France and on the waters of the At-
lantic to shed their blood in Ameri-
ca's sacred cause,
“The campaign in all probability will
last three or four weeks, and announce-
ment of the opening date is made at
| this time in accordance with my proms-
all matters
as soon as
cone
des
ise to inake
nected with
public
the loan
| termined and in order that ample time
may be given every community
pare for the event.”
Secretary McAdoo declared that
with Liberty bonds selling at 96 on the
Stock Exchange the stabilizing of the
to pre-
Liberty bond market and the mainte-
nance of these bonds near par. consti-
tute grave financial questions. He
said this in a communication to the
House Ways and Means Committee,
MEAT BAN IS LIFTED.
| Greatest Need Now Is Conservaticn of
Wheat.
Washington.—Temporary suspension
of the meatless meal and of the re-
strictions against the use of pork on
Saturday was announced by the food
administrator, Herbert C. Hoover, as a
readjustment of the food conservation
program.
Increased
meat production and .te
necessity for still greater saving .in (
wheat, it was declared, K O\
change advisable.
make he, r
NEW TYPE AIR BULLETS.
Successful Tests Made of Special
American Cartridges.
Washington.—The ordnance depart-
ment has developed special types of
bullets for use in airplane work in
France, and tests of these missiles in-
dicate that they surpass those in use
abroad. These special types of bullets
are intended to pierce the armor of
| military airplanes. Some of them are
| of the tracer type and others are in-
cendiary bullets, intended to explode
se gasoline tanks.
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