Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-01-25


WASHINGTON.
Only one more big war loan drive is
planned by the treasury department,
according TO Secretary Glass. This
Will be the Victory-Liberty loan, to be
floated probably the last three weeks
in April. The amount will not be
more than S6,000,000,000, and may be
$4,000, 100000.
Fuel administration officials expect
a decrease in the price of bituminous
coal and coke to result from an order
disseminating maximum prices on
these commodities and eliminating the
zone system of their distribution.
Licenses for the expectation of sugar
to all destinations except the United
Kingdom, France and Italy, will be
considered after February l. the war
trade board has announced.
Ratification on January 16 of the
federal constitutional prohibition
amendment made the United States
the first great power to take legisla-
tive action to permanently stop the
liquor traffic. Thirty-eight states have
declared for dry nation.
BY vote of fifty to twenty-one, the
senate adopted a resolution recon-
mended by a majority of the privileges
and elections committee, dismissing
disloyalty charges brought against SEN
ator La Toilette of Wisconsin by the
Minnesota public safety committee be-
cause of his speech on the war de-
livered before the Non-partisan league
of st. Paul. Mimi, September 20, 1917.
denomination of John Shelton Will
lams as comptroller of the currency
when his term expires, February 2,
will be recommended by Secretary
Glass.
FOREIGN.
The peace conference formally open
ed at Paris on January 16, Premier
Clemenceau of France being nomin-
ated by President Wilson as perman-
ent chairman, his selection being by
reclamation President Wilson, Pre-
addressed the conference.
President Poincare of France, in ad-
dressing the peace conference, thanked
the allied nations for having chosen
Paris for their important work and
praised the valor of the allied armies
which had preserved the capital of
France from the enemy.
A dispatch from Coblenz says the
greatest reason for believing that when
the German national assembly gets in
to operation it will turn out safe and
sane product is the fact that elements
opposing the Socialists are showing in
creasing signs of cooperation without
any expectation of reviving the mon
archy.
Germany lost forty-eight Zeppelins
during the war; the total including
those destroyed by accident in Ger
many. The Zeps dropped approxi-
mately 5000 bombs in England thus
the net cost to Germany was something
like $115,0O0,0O0 for her Zeppelin cam
paign.
American forces in France and in
the occupied territory of Germany are
to be reduced to the minimum strength
consistent with our national obliga-
TONS" General March announces. He
added that General Foch had been in
formed of this policy by General Perish
ing.
Mitau, the capital of Courland, has
been occupied by the Bolsheviki ac-
cording to a wireless dispatch received
at London. The Germans were obliged
to leave behind numerous guns and
supplies of ammunition.
During the last quarter of 1918 there
We're begun in Great Britain 424 ships
having tonnage of 1,979.952 compared
to 800 ships, with a tonnage of 1866
591 during the same quarter in 1917,
according TO authoritative figures.
Prince John, the youngest son of
King George, died at Sandringl.am
Saturday night. He had been i'll for
some time. The prince was born MT
Sandringham, July u, 1905.
Grave election riots are taking place
in Germany, where the people are vot-
ing to choose members of the national
assembly. A general strike has been
declared at Leipsic, which is without
gas and water, according to Copen-
hagen advices to the Exchange Teie-
graph company.
lgnaee Jan Paderewski, world
famous pianist, having reached an
agreement with General Pilsudski, has
succeeded partly in forming a new
Polish cabinet.
1t is the conviction of Marshal Foch
that the Rhine must be made the bar
rier between Germany and France. He
expressed this clearly when he re-
eeived American newspaper cor
respondents at Treves a few days ago.
Many British soldiers homeward
bound from German prison camps are
frghtfully emaciated from the bad
treatment they have received, and
many will never see their homes ac-
cording 20 IA dispatch received from
CoDenhaqen