Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-03-30

proposed the partition of Belgium as
the best means of ending the war.
Two trainmen were killed and ga.
other fatally injured when locomo.
tive exploded on the Fort Worth &
Denver road near Wichita Falls, Texas
The heavy freight train ran half a mile
before it was stopped.
A sentence of fifteen years in the
federal penitentiary at Atlanta, was
imposed on the Rev. Clarence III. Wal
dron, Baptist clergyman of Windsor,
VT, convicted Tuesday night of dis
loyal utterances and opposing the gov
ernment's military service plans.
WASHINGTON
Germany's stroke against the west
front has driven home to the American
capital fuller and graver realiza-
ton than ever before that America
must Increase the punch in its war
work. 1t served to spur rather than
to dishearten war workers.
Six months Imprisonment or IL fine
of $500 was prescribed for decorators
of the American flag under a SEN
ate bill passed March %. The bill
provides also that the flag shall not be
used for advertising purpose or mutt
lated in any FORM.
Increase in the government guaran-
teed price of wheat from 81 to $3.50 n
bushel was approved by the senate on
March 81. An amendment to the agri-
cultural appropriation bill offered by
Senator Gore of Oklahoma providing
for the higher guarantee was adopted
Provost Marshal General Crowder
will begin within a few days calling
out for special instruction the men in
the draft needed by the army in tech
nical positions. A general surveyor
>the educational institutions of the
country il in progress, it was an
nounced, TO determine what colleges
and Industrial schools will be available
for their training during the summer
months.
Pay increases of Is per cent for all
employees of the postal service, recon-
mended by the senate postoffice sub
committee in revising the postoffice APP
preparation bill, were approved by the
full committee, which ordered the bill
fayorably reported.
FOREIGN
A Daily Mail dispatch from Tien
Tsin says that Japanese university pro
fessors are conducting campaign in
favor of sending half a million troops
as far as Irkutsk into Siberia to check
the German ambitions in the Far East
before it is too late.
The guns in France are distinctly
heard in London, particularly in higl
places there is a continuous throbbing
Many persons have gone to the house
tops to listen.
Major George G. Welsby, paymastel
of the Winnipeg military district, was
sentenced to Jail for twenty three
months. He was convicted of em-
bezzling $13,500 of army funds.
Twenty-seven hostile airplaneS
were downed on March %, Field Mar
shall Haig reported. OF these
twenty descended beyond control and
three were shot down. Eight British
machines are missing.
A dispatch from Berlin says the
German empress has received the fol
lowing telegram from the kaiser: 80
am pleased to be able to tell you
that, by the grace of God, the battle
! La Fere has been won. The Lore
has gloriously aided. May He fur
Their help"
The distinguished service cross has
been awarded nine more American
soldiers, but three thus decorated are
dead, and the cross, with an appro
pirate letter, will be forwarded to the
next of kin.
In speech delivered in the British
house of commons on March 20, Sill
Eric Campbell Geddes, first lord of thu
admiralty, declared that during thu
last quarter of 1917, the allies WERE
averaging within 100000 tons MONTH.
of making their losses good and wer,
then replacing 10 per cent of their los
: tonnage.
, The Peruvian senate has approved
the first section of the bill which /
has been debating authorizing the is
sue of gold certificates as currency
guaranteed by deposits in banks in thu
United States.
Dispatches from The Hague repor
that n local news agency says tina
Germany considers her relations witt
Holland altered by the attitude of tn
Dutch government toward the entent
: and the United States and publishe
report that the abandonment by tn
Dutch government of the remaining re
strictive clauses in its shipping LOAF
terms would be regarded by German.
as cause for war.
: Released German prisoners are co
l operating with the Bolsheyiki in 81