Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-08-03

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great that army officers nave predict
ed that men of class will be called to
the colors in September, unless wages
are raised by congress.
WASHINGTON.
Complete governmental supervision
and control of the oil industry from the
well to the consumer Is foreshadowed
by Mark l.. Requa, head OF the Oil
division of the fuel administration, In
n statement to the Universal Service
Releases of hotels and public eating
places from the voluntary pledge to
use no wheat until the new harvest
was in, is announced by the food adj
ministratlon. Hcmes operated on the
same basis are also released.
The war department announces that
the army Is in need of chaplains and
it called for volunteers to take five
weeks course of training at the school
for chaplains at Camp Zachary Taylor
Kentucky.
The railroad administration has
announced the appointment or three
special investigators to represent the
division of labor In settling wage or
employment disputes throughout the
country.
Professional baseball players are
given until September l to seek essen
tial employment orr be called to tn
colors, in an order issued by Secretary
Baker on July 26.
The age limit for civilian applicants
to the central officers training schools
has been raised from 40 to 4 years,
the war department announced July %.
Announcement is expected this week
of the decisions in about 254 railway
wage appeals which have been heard
by the national war labor board. All
the street car cases will come together.
FOREIGN.
Territorial market commission COM
posed of five members, all 'dollar-a
year" men, has been appointed by Gov
ernor Mccarthy to stimulate food pro-
duction in the Hawaiian islands and
to endeavor to bring the products TO
the consumer at less expense and to
promote the efficient and economic
distribution and marketing of all agri-
cultural products.
Hostilities have broken out between
Bulgarian and Turkish troops along
the Dedeagatch railway,
according to Swiss advices reaching
Rome.~e The Turks are claiming. this
railway and both towns.
The Italian troops in France have
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without rest until the battle of the
Marine has been definitely decided, ac-
cording to an official telegram from
Rome. The Italians have been given
credit by the French press for saving
Rheims
Switzerland, according to a Berne
dispatch, has received the apologies of
the German government for the sink
ing of the Spanish steamer Sardinor
carrying American supplies for Swift
zerland. Germany In her note of apol
ogy placed the blame on the submarine
captain.
Thirty thousand prisoners have been
taken by the allies since July 10, it is
authoritatively estimated July 81. OF
this total the Americans are alone Of
ficially credited with at least one-half.
Premier Lloyd George has announc-
ed in behalf of the government that all
men who are wilfully absent from
work after Monday will be deemed TO
have voluntarily placed themselves
outside the munitions industries.
The provisional government at Omsk
has assumed supreme authority In
Siberia and proclaimed Siberia's in
dependence, according to Reuter- dis
patch from Berlin.
Second Lieutenant Coeffard of the
French army has broken all records
in aerial fighting, according to the
newspapers He won fifteen aerial VIC
tories in fifteen days.
The Rumanian press bureau says
that, according to the Spanish en-
bassy's doctor at Constantinople, so
per cent of the Rumanian prisoners
have died from typhus in Turkish
camps.
Cuba will send at least one regiment
of regulars to France, as well as all the
volunteers who offer themselves, ac-
cording to the military service bill
adopted by the house of representa-
tives.
From the aged civilians who were
left in Chateau Thierry, details were
learned of the German occupation of
the city and of visit by the kaiser.
The latter arrived on the Marine on
June 3. He expected to stand ON hill
204 and watch his troops debouche
from Belleau wood, reach the Paris
highway in the rear of the prepared
positions, and capture La Forte then
Meaux and finally Paris. But he didn't.
An investigation by the government
of Argentina develops the fact that
German endeavors to acquire colonial
lands in southern Chile caused the
recent outbreak there, near Lake