Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-08-10

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Isiesboro Inn, declared the place Of
every man Of fighting age who is ply
sically fit Is at the front.
In lieu of a Jail sentence for alleged
disloyal utterances, Charles Bauman.
IL years old, was told by United States
Commissioners Francis Krull at San
Francisco, to read Edward Everett
Hale's book, 1.-The Man Without a
Country" He was ordered to return
to court on August 10 and tell the
story to the commissioner.
A ship loaded with ammunition, ma
chine guns and mountain artillery I'M
loaded its cargo at Mexican west
| coast port for the Sonora revolution
lists. according to a report received
Wednesday at Ell Paso by federal
agents.
WASHINGTON.
| An army of 100000 fighting men
will be one result of the extension of
the draft ages between Is and 45, In
the opinion of war department Off
Gals. This is the minimum figure and
III means that every man of the
100000 will be of the type and
physique of those now On the battle
front In France.
The International Harvester COM
binations involved in the trust-busting
suits of the government to hold out on
appeal, finally has agreed to withdraw
| its appeal and to come into court to
arrange plans for dissolution.
President Wilson hopes to find time
to visit California and other states Of
the Pacific coast this fall. Tentative
plans now under consideration may
make 1t possible for him to make the
tour in connection with the next Lib
erty loan campaign.
Enactment of the Suzan B. Anthony
suffrage amendment to the federal con-
stitution is characterized as a great
and now critical reform" In a letter
written by President Wilson to David
Baird, the new senator from New Jer-
sey, asking the senator to vote for the
amendment.
Heavy Increases in the present war
tax on tobacco, cigars and cigarettes
were agreed to by the house ways and
means committee as part of the new
SIS, 900, 100000 revenue bill. The tax
imposes three times the existing rates
on some items of the schedule.
FOREIGN.
Not all the ships which German tor
pedoed and marine collisions send to
the bottom of the sea stay there. In
less than three years more than 400
sunken merchant vessels have been
restored to service. And more than
one ship has been raised, repaired,
sent forth on new career and then
sunk and raised anew for third
lease ON life.
General John J. Pershing, COM
mander in chief of the American ex-
pedtionary forces in France, has been
awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion
of Honor by the French government.
Plans for extending military aid to
Russia in Siberia will be undertaken
by the United States and Japan alone,a
with the other allied cobelligerents
asserting in principle, it is announced.
In a recent Italian advance In AL
bania. according to reports received
here, n German general and several
other German officers were made pris-
oners dressed in pink pajamas, SO
completely were they surprised.
While the allies both at the front
and at home are entering the fifth
year of the war with high hopes and
complete understanding among them
selves, the German people take mel
ancholy view of the future
scissors fell into the hands of the
allied forces on August ., Nilla-en-Tar-
denois also being taken.
The collapse of the German deren-
sive positions just north of the Ourcq,
forced by the dash of American troops
in the center and the brilliant French
and British flank operations is sweep
ing the enemy out of the Aisne-
Marine salient.
licensed at the German control of
Finland, the inhabitants of the Aland
Islands, in the Baltic sea, have dyna-
mited the Notifications on the islands
to prevent their becoming a menace TO
Sweden through German control ac-
cording to advices received through
official channels.
Intervention of the allied forces IN
Siberia now seems assured, Japan nav
agreet to join America in the enter
prise
The American forces in France have
reached such high proficiency in the
new methods of warfare that they are
to furnish instructions for the new
units being organized in the United
States. No additional instructors from
the allied armies will be asked except
possibly In special technical cases.