Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-09-14


language in the schools, and in sixteen
other states campaign to eliminate
German is under way, according to an
announcement made at New York by
the American defense society.
Jules Jusserand, the French ambas-
sador, in an address before the ban
quet of the Franco-American societies
at New York, asserted that "the
enemy is doomed" and we "shall
choose and appoint the day for peace"
San Francisco was selected as the
place for holding the 1919 national
convention OF the United Spanish Wa
Veterans by the delegates of the or.
ganization at their annual reunion at
Baltimore. The time was not an
nounced.
WASHINGTON.
The war department has announced
the arrival in France of Secretary
Baker, accompanied by an official
party. including John d. Ryan, assist
ant secretary in charge of aircraft. and
Major General Gorgas, surgeon gen
eral of the army.
A new priorities list of industries
and plants essential to the war or civil
population was announced Sunday by
Chairman Baruch of the war indus
tries board.
Without evidence of political diyi-
sion, congress on Friday began work
on the greatest revenue measure in
all history, providing for the raising
of twenty-four billion dollars-$9, 000,-
100000 in taxes and twice as murh in
bonds-to pay Americas share of the
cost of the war next year, and for
loans to Its co-belligerents.
Retention of the present sugar ra-
ton of two pounds "A month for each
person was announced by the food adj
ministration Friday.
The $12,000,O0O emergency agricul-
tural appropriation bill with its rider
for national prohibition from next July
L until the American armies are de-
modified after the end of the war;
was passed Friday by the senate with
out roll call
President Wilson has asked Attorney
General Gregory for complete report
of the circumstances surrounding the
Stacker roundup" in New York City
this week, in which upwards of 49,
600 men were taken into custody by
agents Of the department of justice.
FOREIGN.
A nephew of the kaiser Is among
seventy-one prisoners taken by tue
Americans, according to front dis
patch. His name is not mentioned in
the dispatch. The only detail about
him so far known is that he wears a
monocle.
General Pershing on September Z
decorated large umber of men be-
longing to divisions which had dis
tinguished themselves during the sum-
mer. All the men received the dis
tinguished service cross.
The large number of German Off
Gals in Belgium have been called for
military service, according to the
Nieuwe Rotterdam Courant. Their
places are to be taken by women.
Talaat Pasha, the Turkish grand
vizier, in an interview published in
the Vienna Neue Presse, said he firm
ly believed that peace would come be-
fore the winter. Talaat is now in
Vienna.
Thirty-five members of the crew of
the American army transport Mount
Vernon, formerly the North German
Lloyd liner Kronprinzessin Cecilie,
were killed by the explosion of tor
pedo which struck the vessel when she
was 200 miles from the French coast,
homeward bound.
Japanese forces have occupied the
town of Khabarovsk, Siberia, accord
ing to advices received from Vladivo-
stok.
Concentration of American troops in
the American sectors in France is pro-
ceeding rapidly and General Pershini
now has under his direct command
more than 80 per cent of the troops
who have reached the other side.
Because of the shortage of working
horses in Berlin, coal is to be trans
ported from the coal yards to the
homes of consumers by trolley, accord
ing to the Berlin Tageblatt. The coal
will be conveyed in trailers attached
to the street cars.
Nikolai Lenine, the Bolsheviki pre-
mier. is recovering from the. wo inds
recently inflicted on him, accol ding
to medical bulletin received at Ion,
don.
The Germ,..is e~' giving ground over
the 150-mile front from Ypres to
Rheims. Particularly heavy defeats
have been inflicted on them by the
French in the old Noyon salient, and
by the French and Americans in the
region between the Vesle and Aisne
east of scissors.
The French have occupied all their
old trenches along the whole of the
front to the north of the AiSne river