Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-06-22


airplanes this spring with General
Pershing's men had stimulated Ger
many to build and not to brag.
Four men were electrocnted at New
Washington. Ohio, when they came in
contact with heavily charged electric
feed wire which had been blown down
during a storm. The men were run
ming to a fire when the accident hap.
pened.
More than a million men will be In
service in France in the near future,
declared Secretary of War Baker in
an address Wednesday to 1877 gradu-
ates of the United States Military
academy at West Point.
WASHINGTON.
With the end of this fiscal year only
two weeks distant, congress plans this
week to speed consideration of huge
war appropriations needed by July 1.
The governments financial program
for the next four months was disclosed
by Secretary McAdoo's announcement
of June 10 that, in preparation for the
fourth Liberty loan, to be floated prob
ably in October, about $6,000.OOO,O 900
certificates of indebtedness will be is
sued. They will be offered in blocks
of $750,000,00O each every two weeks
beginning June %.
A call for 1880 draft registrants of
grammar school education and quail
fled for military service was made ON
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vost Marshal General Crowder. The
men, of whom 1861 are to be negroes,
will be sent to schools and colleges
for training.
With losses last week numbering TO,
total casualties in the American ex-
peditionary forces abroad since the be-
ginning of the war amount to S039.
Messages of congratulation in the
anniversary of his arrival in France,
addressed to General Pershing, COM
mander in chief of the American ex-
peditionary forces, by President Ray
mond Poincare of France, Premier
Georges Clemenceau, General FOch and
General Petain were made public Fri
day by General March, chief of staff.
FOREIGN.
A dispatch to the Exchange Tele-
graph from Amsterdam says the Prus-
sian war minister has announced that
all German prisoners of war repatriat-
ed from Russia will resume their mill
tary service after short furlough.
The Berlin Vossische Zeitung says
Nikolai Lenine premier of the Bolshe-
vik government in Russia, Is planning
that he may meet prominent person
ages from all the states of the central
powers.
Germany's visible supply of pork has
been more than cut in half this past
year. The average weight of her cat
tie has fallen from 1852 pounds to 200
pounds.
1t is useless cloaking or minimizing
the naked fact that the critical point
in the fortunes of war has been reach
ed, declared former Premier Asquith on
June H. at a luncheon at the Aldwich
club. Mr.. Asquith added that he
wished to say decisively that nothing
has happened since March that has In
the slightest degree weakened the al
legiance or the great common purpose.
Twenty-one German airplanes and
balloon were destroyed and four enemy
machines were driven down out of con-
troll in day and night fighting by Brit
ish airmen Wednesday and Thursday.
1t will be necessary to introduce
meatless weeks in Bavaria, owing to
serious shortage of food, the home sec
rotary has announced, according to a
Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph company.
The British casualties reported In
the week ending June IA totaled "a, III
officers and men, of this number 4447
being killed
dispatch to the Exchange from
Moscow says that food riots have oc-
Cured at Kineshma, in the govern
ment of Gostroma, where a crowd of
10000 persons besieged the soviet of
fices. Machine guns were used to dis
perse the crowd, number of persons
being killed or wounded.
Fuly 1dIIulLd SOluiclS were hiiieu
by bandits personally led by Francisco
villa, who held up and robbed train
near Santiago Papasquiero, Durango,
according to reports.
The German admiralty intends to
declare the eastern coast of the Unit
ed States from Mexico to Canadian
waters a danger zone and will warn
neutral shipping, says dispatch to
the Exchange Telegraph from Amster-
dam, quoting reports received from
Berlin.
The French military authorities
have taken an important step with the
object of checkmating the operations
of enemy spies. General Dubail, mill
tary governor of Paris, has issued or
ders forbidding the sending abroad of
newspapers and periodicals containing
advertisements.
An American named Smith was