Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1918 — NEWS PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

KAISER PLANS HIGH SEA offensive. Further evidence that Germany in its efforts to end the war Uns summer, is planning to support its land offensive by sending its high sea force against the combined British and American grand fleets, is in an official dispatch from TRANSPORT SUNK by German submarine. The British transport Ansonia owned by the Cunard Steamship company, has been torpedoed from the British coast, while on her way westward, according to private cable messages recevied in New York Tuesday night INDIANA SOLDIERS in today’s casualty list are as follows: Private Paul F. Cross, Shelbyville, killed in action; Private B. Hurst, Oldenburg, died of wounds; Private Phillip Peterson, Hammond, severely wounded. HARVEST WHEAT in Kansas. The wheat harvest in the southern counties in Kansas has started. The weather is perfect, help is plentiful and the yield surpasses all estimates. BIGGER POWDER plants start. New government powder plant at Charleston, West Virginia, has begun operation two months ahead of schedule. The Nashville, Tenn., plant started last week. The two plants cost $120,000,000 and -will give the government a powder production equal to the capacity of all other American plants combined.