Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-06-29


About fifteen persons were injured,
twelve more or less seriously, when
an exhaust valve of a passing loco
motive blew out and sprayed steam
under heavy pressure through the win
dows Of ii passing train at New London,
Conn.
Union bricklayers, masons and plas
terers of Texas in convention at El
Paso, pledged themselves not to par
ticipate in any strikes that would
hamper the successful prosecution of
the war;
WASHINGTON.
The order placing the entire express
business of the United States under
control of the United States railroad
administrator has been signed by the
Adams, American, Wells Fargo and
Southern Express companies by Walk
er d. Hines, as acting director general
of the railroads.
Secretary of War Baker has an
nounced the war department would
brook no discrimination by draft
boards and that any complaints would
be thoroughly investigated. The secre
tary made the statement when his at
tention was called to reports that GER
tain boards were accused of discrimi-
nation against colored men.
A credit of $15,790000 to Greece
the first under the new financial agree
ment between that country and the
United States, was announced June 81
by the treasury department This
brings the total of allied credits to
100000
Reports of shortages of woolens and
wooden clothing for the civil population
are officially denied by the war indus
tries board in warning to dealers not
to speculate in wooden commodities.
Motor mail service, showing a sur
plus of 100000 for the first six months
of its operation, warrants immediate
legislation for road construction that
will extend the service throughout the
United States, according to James l.
Blakslee, assistant postmaster gem
eral.
Promising complete investigation by
the state department into the Tabriz
incident, President Wilson has laid a
restraining hand on congress, in which
body there is growing demand for an
immediate declaration of war against
both Turkey and Bulgaria.
FOREIGN.
Failure of the latest Turkish loan is
reported Saturday in a dispatch from
Switzerland, announcing that only
f12, 100000 was obtained of G32, 100000
sought. Germany already has advanced
to the Ottoman empire nearly $780,
100000
Chinese soldiers are available for
cooperation with the Japanese at Har-
bin and near the Siberian frontier, and
if necessary more will be sent, General
Tuan Chi-Jui, the Chinese premier and
war minister told the Picking CORE
spondent of the Daily Mail on Satur-
day.
Clothing in Germany has now be-
come almost as scarce as food. Per-
haps nothing could more graphically
reveal the clothing plight of Germany
than proposal just put forward by
Justizrat Otto Feig, a prominent Ber-
lin lawyer, that the government should
forthwith enact law making it COM
pulsory for the heirs of dead people
or the administrators of their estates
to turn over to the state all the cloth
ing left by the deceased persons.
A wireless dispatch received from
Rome stated that official estimates
placed the Austrian losses on the Ital-
ian front at 100000.
The Germans are massing more and
more allied prisoners both officers and
men, along the Rhine and in frontier
towns, says the Lausanne Gazette. An
Alsatian newspaper reports that five
allied prisoners were killed and six
wounded during recent air raid on
ThionVille, Germany.
The British government regard their
proposals of Irish home rule and CON
scription as postponed, but in noWise
abandoned, the Times says it under
stands. Conscription Will not be with
drawn, nor will efforts be relaxed to
frame a measure of self government
for Ireland.
Ship tonnage sunk by German sub
marines in the month of May amounted
to 614,000 gross tons, according to an
official statement issued at Berlin.
Germany, war weary and ill-fed, is
in state of unrest so acute that talk
of revolt is common among both the
military and civil populations accord
ing to Americans who arrived ut an
Atlantic port Saturday on a Norwegian
liner from Germany or adjacent neu-
tral countries.
The Vienna city council on Tuesday,
according to dispatch received at
Amsterdam, passed Il resolution pro-