Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-04-13

Internment of DR.. Karl Muck, former
leader of the Boston Symphony orches-
| ira, for the period of the war has been
ordered by the department of justice.
Police reserves were hurried to the
Pennsylvania station at New ork Fri
| day to save the twenty-one spies and
enemy aliens who were starting south
for lnternment from rough handling at
the hands of an angry crowd.
Nine billion dollars is the approx
mate cost TO the United States of one
year of war. More than one-half has
gone in loans to allies and will be re-
paid eventually; over one-third has
been spent for the army and military
establishment; one-tenth for the navy,
and one-fifteenth for shipbuilding.
After candy believed to have con-
| talned particles of glass had been sold
to sailor in Brooklyn, the police and
| the federal authorities arrested Ed
ward Waller, proprietor of the store,
and his clerk, Henry Willems, both
! Germans.
WASHINGTON
Communicating of all of the wheat
| in the country in the event congress
boosts the price to $3.50 bushel, is
| recommended in a joint report by the
food administration and the depart
ment of agriculture.
Baking of white bread and rolls will
be discontinued throughout the United
States after April ID, according to an
| announcement made at the New York
| office of the federal food board.
Diplomatic dispatches received at
Washington make it plain Ferdinand
Foch is in complete command of all al
| lied forces wherever located. He is re-
ported to have demanded that his au-
thority be without question. He re-
fuses to reveal his plans to anyone.
| Mob violence must be ended. This
edict was issued from the White
House Friday at the conclusion of the
cabinet meeting. To make it effective
the administration will urge the i'm
mediate enactment of the pending leg
islatlon which would empower the fed
eral government to deal severely with
the several forms of disloyalty.
The legislative foundation for the
third Liberty loan was laid April 4,
when congress completed and Presi-
dent Wilson signed the bill authorizing
issuance of additional bonds at Az
per cent.
Because of the enormous addition to
of the selective draft law, the espion-
age act and other war legislation, the
department of justice has asked con-
gress for deficiency appropriation of
$1,3S2, 151.
FOREIGN
King George has sent greetings to
President Wilson on the occasion of
the anniversary of the entry of the
United States into the war.
In an official statement issued by
| the French government, Premier Glenn
enceau's denial of the truth of the as
sertion of Foreign Minister Czernin,
that a conversation concerning peace
had been held between Austria and
France, was given consideration.
The American Red gross has just
performed another record feat by pre-
pairing and shipuping to town behind
the French front tent hospital of SOC
beds within twelve hours after receiv-
ing request from the French gov
eminent.
| The Russian government is sending
a delegation to the United States &c
liquidate Russia's war orders with
American firms and arrange future
trade relations, according to an Elk
change Telegraph dispatch from Mos
cow recently.
Erzerum, the principal city of Turk.
ish Armenia, is reported in IA Elk
change Telegraph dispatch from Mos
COW to have been recaptured from the
Turks by an Armenian corps, aided by
a detachment of Armenian volunteers
General Pershing has been awarded
the Belgian order, the Grand Cross OF
the Ofder of Leopold. according to 6
dispatch to the Belgian legation from
Havre.
The German press is warning its
readers not to expect too much of the
offensive in the west, says Reuter-
dispatch from London.
The American and British army of
ticers who recently visited Genera
Bannerheim, the Finnish White Guart
leader, upon orders from their Stock
holm legations, were insultcd ant
threatened with personal violence by
Finnish officers in hotel restaurant
in Vasa, according to war correspond
ent In Finland of a Swedish news
paper.
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