Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-09-28

of the shipbuilders.
As the result of saioon argument
at San Francisco. one man WIS killed
and three wounded in gang fight
between Italians following the argu-
ment Angelo Baffo was killed, ahd
among the wounded was James Pet
rncci, a Camp Fremont soldier.
After shooting and killing his pet
dog, James II. Mann, Jr, son of the
Illinois congressman and Republican,
leader in the house. shot himself to
death at Chicago. He was suffering
from tuberculosis.
WASHINGTON.
Christmas packages for the two and
a half million or more American SOL
diers who will be in France during the
holiday season this year will be deliv-
cred under an arrangement with the
Red Cross, announced Saturday by the
war department.
Striking proof that the German pow
err is fast crumbling came Saturday in
the announcement by General March,
chief of staff, that the news from all
battle fronts was continuously good"
and that 1,750,O00 American troops
have now been embarked for overseas
service.
Food administrator Hoover, in out
lining in statement issued September
81, the food conservation program
recommended for the American peo-
nj Il no, ha
United States was prepared to ship
5,730,000 more tons of foodstuffs to
its armies and allies than last year
and still have a margin over the
amount necessary to maintain health
and strength at home.
Mortified by the bloody reign of ter
ror in Russia, the United States has
called upon all allied and neutral ma
lions to consider what they may do to
impress upon the Bolsheviki the
aversion with which the civilized
world regards their wanton crimes.
| The house has passed the war reve-
nue. bill, designed to raise by taxation
approximately $S,1S2, 100000 of the
| twentyfour or more billions needed
by the nation for the current year.
President Wilson will fix the price
of cotton, placing the last of the prin-
ciptal commodities necessary in the
prosecution of the war under govern
mental regulation, despite strong pres
sure from the southern states.
FOREIGN
That the political crisis in Germany,
the intensification of which in the
last few weeks has been plainly indi-
Gated in various ways, is rapidly COM
ing to a head, appears to be evil
denced by news from that country.
Three hundred and eighty-two per-
sons have been killed and many others
injured in an explosion in an ammuni-
ton factory at Woellersdorff, town
near the Austrian capital.
Nazareth is in British hands. The
ancient city in Galilee, where Joseph
piled his humble trade as carpenter
and where Christ spent his childhood,
was delivered from the terrible Turk
last week.
The French line steamship Admiral
Charner, bound from Biberta to Malta,
has been torpedoed with the loss of
six lives, according to an official
statement. The passengers and crew
numbered ia. An unseen submarine
fired three torpedoes, two of which
struck the ship.
German troops recently were or
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struction of property in the region
evacuated by them.
In a cemetery near Limey, just
within the German lines previous to
the attack of September u, American
troops have discovered German ma
chine gun nests beneath the concrete
pedestal of a large cross.
The prisoners taken by the British
in the operation begun Wednesday
northwest of st. Quentin exceed TO-
600, according to Field Marshal Haig's
report. More than sixty big guns
were taken.
The allied advance in Macedonia has
spread until the attacking front is now
twenty-five miles wide, according to
word from the Macedonian theatre.
Allied airmen are daily bombarding
Cologne. CoblenZ and other German
towns, killing or injuring many per-
sons. says the Het Volk. The news
paper says the number of casualties
published in the German newspapers
are much under the actual total
From the top of the city hall in
Paris the Stars and Stripes fluttered
all day Sunday, having been holsted
by special order of the municipal ceun-
ell in celebration of the American st.
Mihiel victory.
German troops sent to the Mace
DOMAIN front to aid the hard pressed
Bulgarian forces have been put to
flight along with the Bulgarians, says
! Serbian official statement on recent
operations.