Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-04-27


ously wounded the other.
approximately 300 boys, ranging in
age from 10 to 20 years, ducked Pas
tor Josiah Sykes and two of his elders
in baptlsmal tank, chased several
other elders through the residence dis
trict and wrecked the canvas taber-
nacle of the Church of the Living God,
religious denomination, at Berkeley,
Cal, when the pastor and his assist
ants refused to sing the national
anthem.
WASHINGTON
Under the classification of men for
selective draft service, Provost Mar
shall General Crowder has advised the
senate military committee approxim-
ately 100000 will be placed in class
one-from which it is expected all fu-
ture calls will be taken.
The burn received by President Will
son when he grasped a hot exhaust
pipe as he climbed from the fighting
tank Britannia" after a ride around
the White Hhouse grounds, will pre-
vent him from playing golf for at least
month.
I'VE will do our part; you do yours"
Is the message from the American army
in France to the American people that
Secretary Baker delivered at Washing
ton Saturday, at a Liberty loan rally in
his first public address since his re-
turn from Europe.
New and even more determined on
slaughts of the Germans, paying the
toll of thousands and thousands more
lives, are anticipated in the weekly re-
view of the military operations made
public by the war department.
Increase to $50 month in the min
imum pensions for civil war veterans
and graduated increase to $40 are pro-
posed in bill by Senator Reed Smoot
of Utah.
Friday, April 26, will be Liberty day
throughout the United States under a
proclama ton issued by President Will
son calling on citizens of every COM
munity to hold Liberty loan rallies
and 'liberally pledge anew their finan-
cial support to sustain the nations
cause"
FOREIGN
The men of the American expedition
airy force soon will begin gardening on
a grand scale. Plots of ground near
all points where they are stationed will
be given over by the French authori-
ties, to be planted to potatoes and other
vegetables.
The streams of wounded Germans
from France and Flanders, says the
frontier correspondent of. the Tele-
graf, continue so great that all hos
hospitals, mOnasteries, converts and
schools, not only in Brussels, but iii
many towns are filled to overlooking.
The Germans have even requistioned
private houses for hospitals.
With the safe arrival in France of
large shipments of artillery tractors,
the program for the motorization of
field artillery units included in the
American expeditionary forces now has
been practically completed.
British and French troops have been
landed at Mourmansk on the northeast
coast of Kola peninsula in the Arctic
ocean, to reinforce a British marine
detachment sent ashore several weeks
ago.
Analysis of the German long range
gun bombardment of Paris shows that
shells have fallen on seventeen days
since March % and that, with figures
for two days missing, 11S persons were
killed and 230 injured.
Events on the western battle front
are shaping themselves, American of.
ficers believe, not only for defeat of
the German drive, but for a counter
offensive by General Foch's armies
that may open the road to an allied
military victory.
The French, in their successful at.
tack on the west bank of the Avre.
in which they took 500 prisoners, in,
flicted on the German casualties
equivalent to the entire attacking force
of the French" says Reuters CORE
spondent
France, in four years of conflict to
preserve her own liberty and that of
the world, according to Andre Tardieu,
French high commissioner to the
United States, has lost 100000 men
killed and almost as many wounded or
prisoners.
A dispatch from Eindhoven says
that another mutiny broke out at Bev-
erloo camp in the province of Lin
bourg, Belgium, among the German
troops when ordered to the British
front in France. A number of the
mutlneers We're shot, the dispatch
adds, but the resistance continued.
Recruiting in Australia has been
stimulated by the serious news from
the front, says Reuter- dispatch re-