Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-04-20

| carrying fifty-seyen passengers, fifteen
officers ard POI men In her crew, has
| been overdue at an Atlantic port since
March 10. The navy department an
nouneed Sunday that she was last re-
porteu at a West Indies island March
| 4, and that extreme anxiety is enter
| tanned as to her safety. The vessel
was bringing cargo OF manganese
| from Brazil.
Walter Peters, a German sailor who
escaped from the German cruiser
| Leipsic at the time of the Leipsic and
| several other vessels of squadron
were sunk off the Farmland islands by
| British warships, has been arrested at
! Crockett, Cal, as a spy.
WASHINGTON
Senator William J. Stone of Mis-
souri,, chairman of the senate foreign
relations committee, and for many
years prominent among Democratic
leaders, died at Washington, April IA,
after a stroke of paralysis suffered
four days previous.
The appointment of Thomas Riggs,
Jr., formerly with the Alaskan railroad
commission, to be governor of Alaska,
has been confirmed by the senate.
President Wilson, by proclamation,
has Communicated the Clyde, Mallory,
Merchants K Miners and Southern
steamship lines, and assigned them to-
the supervision of Director General Nc
Adoo.
Presentation of medals and bars of
honor with bonus of 500 to men in
the naval service for acts of bravery
is proposed In bill introduced by Sen
ator Tillman of South Carolina, chair
man of the senate naval committee.
Immediate shipment of two shiploads
of grain to Holland was authorized
Thursday by the war trade board to
meet the growing shortage of food in
that country.
Immediate measures to stamp out
mosquito pest in regions surrounding
southern army camps will be taken by
the army medical corps. The war de-
partment has approved a suggestion
that army funds be made available for
the purpose.
FOREIGN
The German intention to replace Bel
gian tribunals by German courts is
confirmed by a notice issued by Gov
ernor Won Falkenhausen, basing the
measure on political manifestations by
Ra1 pi which raf,tSod 10 OF
a protest against the arbitrary meth
DDS of the invaders.
The first American prisoner to es-
cape from Germany, says the Temps,
has reached Basel, Switzerland
Germany is preparing for vast sea
raid, supplementing her west front
drive, according to information gath
cred officially by the navy.
Fighting is still going on between
Mohammedan tribes and the Assyrian
Christians in the district west of the
Turco-Persian frontier
Japan, according to the newspaper
Nichi Nichi will not heed the protest
of the Bolsheviki government against
the landing Of Japanese troops at Vlad-
iyostok. The Japanese government, the
paper adds, maintains that the action
was proper and fully justified but at
the same time Toxic treasures Rus
STA of japanese friendship
Two German fighting planes were
shot down Sunday morning inside
American lines by Lieutenants A. S.
Winslow of Chicago and Douglas
Campbell of Chicago. Each man
downed one machine.
The bOmbardment of the Paris dis
trict by the German long-range gun
continued Sunday. One woman was
killed.
The British and French governments
have agreed to confer the title of COM
mander in chief of the allied armies in
France on General Foch.
The entire allied line in Belgium and
France is holding firm. Nowhere have
the Germans been able, notwithstand-
ing the great numbers of men hurled
against it, especially that portion in
llduueIS WlitIe the IIillSi uIc iioluluS
forth, to gain an inch of ground.
Establishment of a university" In
France for the American expeditionary
force, With classrooms in the 500
Young Mems Christian association
huts along the French front, has been
begun with the sanction of General
John ]. Pershing.
Field Marshal Haig has declared:
EVERY position must be held to the
last man. There must be no retire
ment. With our backs to the wall and
believing in the justice of our cause,
each one of us must fight to the end
The safety of our homes and the free
dom of mankind depend alike upon the
conduct of each one of us at this criti-
cal moment"
The clause of the man power bill
placing conscription on Ireland was
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