Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-08-17


buster Brown" son of the cartoon
list, was injured in an airplane accident
in France few weeks ago, according
to letters received by friends of the
family
A total of ,151 ,065 voters registered
In California between January 1 and
July ~ last, according to Frank l..
Jordan, secretary of state. OF this
number 126,4S3 declined to state any
party affiliations.
Twenty thousand dollars booty was
secured Thurday afternoon from the
Southside bank at Indianapolis by
three bandits. The holiness of the day.
light robbery disarmed suspicion by
the cashier when the bandits entered
the bank. AT the point of the pistol
they compelled the delivery of their
loot, then departed hastily.
WASHINGTON.
Fearing a coal famine again this
winter, President Wilson has issued
an appeal to miners for full-speed pro-
duction. In 1t he states that many more
miners will be taken In the draft, in
dicating no formal intention on the
part of Provost Marshal General
Crowder to grant vocational exemp-
tions to miners, but at the same time
extolling the patriotism of those miners
who are granted deferred classified
| lions and meet the nations crisis by
plying their underground trade, though
more spectacular heroism of war
allure them.
John w. Garrett, American minister
at The Hague, has been designated to
represent the state department and to
head the mission of the United States
which will meet German delegates at
Bern, Switzerland, within a month to
discuss the treatment and exchange of
prisoners of war.
Restrictions on the consumption Of
beef in public eating places and the
voluntary restrictions on householders,
have been removed by the food admin
istration.
New draft regulations under which
the government would do the selecting
rather than leaving it to the registrant
are under consideration by the war de-
partment.
Calls for 130,207 draft registrants
qualified for general military service
to join the colors before the end of
August We're issued August s by the
provost-marshal-gen One hundred
thousand white registrants from forty
three states are ordered entrained be-
tween August 26 and August 80 TWEEN
ty-one states and the District of Column
bia ere directed to furnish 30207 negro
registrants, to entrain August 1924.
FOREIGN.
Chaumes, the important railway
town in the heart of the Somme battle
front and the key to the southern fine
of the German salient, has been captur-
ed by the allies. The capture was
effected by Australian and Canadian
troops.
The anti-Bolshevik movement in
Russia is growing rapidly, the Bolshe
vik soviet organization has virtually
gone to pieces, and Nikoai Lenine, the
premier, and Leon Trotzky, his war
minister, intend to flee to Germany
should the situation become too SER
ious, according to recent Russian news
papers.
A dispatch received from Stockholm
Sweden's representatives in Moscow
the British and French consuls, who
were recently arrested by order of the
Bolshevik, have been released.
Apprehension that. there will be ex-
tensive bombardment of German cities
by swarms of American airplanes has
moved the Vienna correspondent of the
Berlin Tageblatt to seek the opinion
of the chief commander of the Austro,
Hungarian air forces.
1t would cause no surprise if Spain
would break off diplomatic relations
with Germany us the result of the u
boat attacks on Spanish shipping.
The Ukrainian revolt against the
Germans is assuming more and more
serious proportions, all advices show,
Chaos reigns in the provinces of Kiev
and Poltaw Germany is trying to sup
press the rising with an iron hand,
Uhlans charging into great mobs and
moving down the rebels.
\ squadron of Italian airplanes, COM
manded by Capt. Gabrielle dAnnunzio.
has flown over Vienna and dropped
manifestoes. The planes We're not
molested.
Gen. I<ikuzo 0tani, one of Japans
most distinguished soldiers, has been
chosen TO command the Japanese sec,
ton and will be the ranking officer
of the American and allied expedition
in Siberia.
French peasants found by the Ameri-
can soldiers in Il cave near Vile Savoy
just south of the Yesle, had been told
by the Germans that If the Americans
discovered them the men would be kill
ed and the women mistreated.