Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-10-12

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plan and works back to regular stan
dard time.
Major General c. C. Williams chief
of ordnance of the United States army,
has arrived at Perth Amboy, n. J.,
to conduct a rigid investigation into
the explosions and fire which demol-
ished the shell-loading plant of 7. A.
/ Gillespie company at Morgan, with the
probable loss of 30 lives and injury 10
$50 more worknen.
WASHINGTON.
Congressional leaders have held up
their plans for definite recess or ad
journinent over the November elections
| until the new revenue bill and the
| $1,000, 100000 army emergency appro-
| priation measures take more definite
| form.
Delay in final enactment of the war
time prohibition bill until after the No
, yember elections seemed assured
Thursday, when the senate sent the
bill back to conference, insisting on
| its amendment to regulate the profits
of Washington landlords.
Plans of congress to adjourn for a
month over the November elections
drew a warning from Secretary Nc
Adoo that failure to promptly enact
the $4,000. 100000 war revenue bill will
disorganize and eDdanger the national
finance.
The adoption of n constitutional
amendment which will enable congress
to pass national divorce law is being
urged upon members of congress by a
delegation Of distinguished clergymen.
First of the master lists of order
numbers for the 100000 men who
registered September II were placed
In the mails Wednesday night en- route
TO district boards over the country
which are to make them available to
the newspapers and post them imme-
diately upon receipt.
Senator Shafroth of Colorado pre-
dicted that the nation suffrage resOlu-
tiOn which was defeated in the senate
yesterday would be finally passed by
the senate before congress ends
March next.
FOREIGN.
Prince Macmillan of Baden, the new
German imperial chancellor an
nounced lin the reichstag, October s,
that he had sent note through the
Swiss government to President Wilson,
in which he had requested Mr.. Wilson
to take up the question Of bringing
about peace and to communicate with
the other belligerents regarding the
subject
The new German chancellor, Prince
Macmillan of Baden, is reported to
have proposed, or to be on the eve of
proposing. general suspension Of hos
tilities, the appointment of plenipoten-
tiaries to meet ut neutral place for
the discussion of league for arbitra-
ton and disarmament and the forward
ing of request to the entente allies
for their terms.
An Austrian appeal for an armistice
for discussion of peace on President
Wilson's own terms is regarded here
as the logical sequel of the presidents
| iN'Nht iVJtttipi vi thO Pip
posal that hostilties be suspended for
secret and non-binding peace discus
sions.
Austria Hungary has at the most
only two modern battleships left She
has lost n large number of small craft,
and now Durazzo, the advanced base
of her depleted fleet. has been rem
dered useless, writes the British naval
expert, Archibald Hurd, in the Daily
Telegraph.
Norway lost eight vessels from war
causes during the month of September,
the Norwegian legation ut London an
nounced Saturday. The aggregate ton
mage of these vessels WAS 11.943. SIX
sailors lost their lives.
The official Austrian correspondence
bureau has given out a dispatch from
Sofia, dated Friday, stating that King
| Ferdinand of Bulgaria abdicated on
Thursday in favor of Crown Prince
Boris The new king, ii is declared,
has already assumed office.
Unconditional surrender character
lied the general comment IN Paris ON
the demand for peace sent by the cen
| trail powers 10 President Wilson
An Understandable panic. without prec-
edent. broke out on the Berlin stock
exchange, October D, according to the
Neueste Nachrichten of Munich. Sh p
ping and armament company shares
We're affected.
Emperor William on October is
sued proclamation to the German
army and navy, in which, after an
nouncing that the Macedonian front
had crumbled he declared that he had
decided, in accord with his allies. to
again offer peace TO the enemy, which
would mean Il Ger1nan-made peace.
There is every indications according
to authoritative naval sources, of the
early abandonment by the Germans of