Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-12-14
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pany has applied to the interstate COM
merce commission for authority to in
crease rates applying to or from Of
fees of the Canadian Express COM
pany, Canadian Northern Express com
pany and the Western Express COM
pany in order TO align these rates with
the generally increased domestic rates.
Not a single member of the Amer
lean army has been put to death since
the beginning of the war because of
the commission of a purely military Of
Tense, Major General Crowder, judge
advocate general, declares in his an
nual report to Secretary Baker.
Congress has been asked by Secre-
tary McAdoo to authorize loans after
the declaration of peace to govern
ments which have been associated with
the United States in war to aid in feed
ing and reconstructing devastated
countries.
Organization of Republican wom-
ans national executive committee to
cooperate with Republican state chair
man has been nominated by Mrs. Medill
Mccormick, wife of the senator-elect
of Illinois.
Aggregate resources of the $4,000
banks in the United States, state and
national, last June 80 amounted to
$40,310,000.00, of which So, 81 100000
was credited to the state savings and
private banks and trust companies and
S1 Z go 0nA ono 70 han lie This
was shown by report of Comptroller
of the Currency Williams.
More than half million high capac-
ity demolition bombs with which to
carry the war into Germany had been
ordered for the air service before last
June 30. and 1923 had been delivered,
according to the first annual report of
the bureau of aircraft production.
Fuel Administrator Garfield has been
asked by President Wilson to hold HIM
self in readiness to join the peace dele
CATION in Paris to advise concerning
problems of fuel production and distri-
button. Similar requests have been re-
ceived by Henry p. DAWSON, chairman
of the Red Cross war council, and
Bernard NJ. Baruch, chairman of the
war industries board 1t is understood
that the call for all three officials may
soon come shortly after the president
lands in France.
All liabilities contracted by the Rus
sian government, except those made
by the Bolsheviki regime, are recog-
nized by the all-Russan government u,
Omsk and will be executed by it, ac-
cording to a statement authorized by
the ministry of foreign affairs and re-
ceived In Washington.
Buenos Aires newspapers are la
menting Argentina's position, as a re-
suit of her neutrality in the world
war. Diario refers to the great peace
celebrations as "a Jordan, in which the
public conscience has washed itself OF
the infamy caused by Argentina's Of
fetal policy during the war;
FOREIGN.
A decree relieving Polo de Bernabe,
the Spanish ambassador at Berlin,
from the functions of his office is
published in the Official Gazette.
Rumors are current in Berlin, the
Spartacus socialists will Monday night
name DR.. Liebknecht president of the
republic.
A violent outbreak of influenza in
Paraguay has been reported to the
state department. In Asuncion alone
there were said to be $4,000 cases.
The Dagens Nyheter of Stockholm
says that Petrograd is suffering an I'M
speakable famine. Prices of provisions
are out of reach. One herring sells
for five rubles and is called cheap.
People buy them on the street and
eat them on the spot, and If behring's
head is thrown away there is a rush
to get it.
General Du Pont of the French army
has arrived in Berlin, according to adj
vices received at Washington and has
established his headquarters in the
palace formerly occupied by the French
embassy. General Du Pont has been
| intrusted with the transport and re-
patration of French prisoners held in
Germany.
President Wilson is invited to visit
Cologne by the Volks Zeitung of that
city, which suggests that representa-
| uves of the German foreign ministry
meet him there. The Independent re-
public of Schleswig Holstein will soon
be proclaimed, according to the Weser
Zeitung of Bremen.
4 hnl1 in, IAl.
nesburg, Durham and Mossel Bay,
adopted resolutions opposing the re-
turn to Germany of her former African
colonies, and insisting upon the repa-
| triation of all German citizens now in
| this territory.
The people in the liberated regions
of northern France and Belgium ur-
gently need American help, the results
of Investigations by the French press