Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1918 — AROUND THE WORLD [ARTICLE]

AROUND THE WORLD

Japan is now printing textbooks for California schools and making bats for American baseball teams. A cargo of peanuts saved a ship from sinking recently when submarined off the Atlantic coast The peanuts swelled. An appeal to “lend a fishing rod for a soldier’s holiday” has been sent out by the Y. M. C. A. at Camp Dix, Wrightstown, N. J. To prevent heavy emigration after v the war, Germany has passed a law taxing all those -leaving Germany 20 per cent of their capital or property holdings.