Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-06-01


Texas.
Several persons were injured, one
of them seriously, in a tornado which
struck Bern, near Topeka, Kan, Sun
day.
WASHINGTON.
By an unanimous vote, the senate
passed bill appropriating $2,000,000
for wounded soldiers and sailors.
Full strength of the army, including
national army, national guard and
regulars, is now 100000, Chairman
Dent of the house military committee
announced in his report on the army
appropriation bill.
Further restrictions on the use of
wheat are believed by some officials
of the food administration to be I'M
necessary.
Another national lottery will be
necessary to determine liability of SER
vice for men to be registered June 5,
1t has been learned The drawing will
be held in Washington soon after the
registration.
No army ever before assembled in
history has had more painstaking
thought given to the protection and
stimulation of its mental, moral and
physical manhood than the new
American army, President Wilson de-
clared in statement made public Sun
day.
Director General McAdoo has an
nounced that soldiers would be car
ried on the American railroads for the
duration of the war ut the rate of one
cent a mile.
FOREIGN
Figures have been obtained from a
Serbian source showing the terrific
losses sustained by the Serbian popu-
lation of Bosnia. In three years, 1915.
1916 and 1917, there were 150,314
deaths, of which 65,042 were children
under 10 years old. OF these, 12,S67
were infants under one year.
The attempts by the Germans to dis
arm the Polish troops in the Ukraine
and Minsk governments are meeting
with fierce resistance.
The first draft of men in the 44-year
class marched off to training camp
from London on Sunday with the regu-
lar draft of 1S-year-olds to the accom-
paniment of cheering and waving of
hats. Wives, daughters and babies of
the drafted men were ON hand to see
them leave.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg,
chief of the German general staff, is
in hospital at Strassburg. suffering
from typhoid fever, according to re-
ports from that city. Typhoid fever is
said to be spreading rapidly in the
German army.
Mrs. Max Green, who formerly was
Miss Johanna Redmond, daughter of
the late John NJ. Redmond, makes
strong appeal for unity between Ire
land and England against the COM
mon enemy, Germany, in a letter print
ed in the Manchester Guardian.
The British armed merchant troop
ship Moldavia with American troops
on board has been torpedoed and
sur.k, according to an official bulletin
issued by the admiralty. Fifty-six
Americans have not been accounted
for.
The government of Costa Rica has
declared war on the central powers, ac-
cording to advices received at San
Juan, Nicaragua.
Knud Rasmussen, the Danish ex-
plorer, according to an Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch from Copenhagen, has
reached Longs firth with his Arctic
expedition and has charted all the
firths of northern Greenland. Import
ant scientific results, the explorer says,
have been attained.
Further reports of disorders In Bo-
hernia are published in the Lokal An
zeiger of Berlin. 1t appears that re-
Gently there We're extensive demon
strations in Prague, which the police
found difficulty in quelling.
August Philips, Dutch minister to
the United States, who recently re-
turned on leave of absence because
of ill health, has requested that he be
relieved of his post at Washington, ac-
cording to advlceS from The Hague.
German ayiators made an ineffect-
ual attempt Tuesday night to raid
Paris. Three persons We're killed and
several wounded in the outskirts of
the city, but none of the raiders
reached Paris itself.
Turkish troops at Adm, in Asia
Minor, have mutinied. Two Thousand
soldiers sent from Manissa, 20 miles
northeast of Smyrna, to queu the dis
turbances have deserted. Numerous
desertions also are reported from the
coast garrisons.
John Dillon, the nationalist leader,
in an interview Tuesday, emphasized
the divergence between his party and