Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-04-12

lnStOn ruled at san francisco III re-
fusing To dismiss complaints against
two alleged violators of the selectiye
draft act.
WASHINGTON.
Another issue of loan certificates of
Indebtedness of S5oO.000,000 minimum,
dated April TO- and maturing Septem-
Der 9, bearing Az per cent interest
is announced by the treasury depart
ment.
The war trade board has announced
that goods of enemy origin owned by
American citizens and stored in Hol-
land or one of the Scandinavian coun-
tries prior to April 6, 1917, now may
be imported into the United States,
provided the commodities are not on
the list of restricted imports.
Members of the special mission of
the Philippine legislature at Washing
ton seeking immediate independence
for the islands We're told by Secretary
Baker that he spoke President VIII
sons mind when he said he believed
the time had come to grant the COM
plete independence desired by the
Filipino people.
Attorney General Palmer has been
asked by John Barton Payne, general
counsel of the railroad administration,
to take action against the prohibition
might riders of Virginia.
Improvement in general business
conditions and the continuance of an
undertone of confidence in the essen
tial strength and soundness of the
country's economic position was re-
ported in the federal reserve boards
the end of March.
Army reorganization plans upon
which the war department Is now
working, it Is learned, provide for an
air service with approximately 100
airplanes In actual commission and
n minimum available reserve of 34OO
additional planes.
FOREIGN.
Marshal Foch has telegraphed the
allied governments that the right of
the allies to use Danzig as the port
for the return to Poland of the Polish
troops in France had been informally
upheld in the conference with the
German representatives.
The preliminary peace treaty will
be ready by Easter and the Germans
will be asked to come and sign it at
the end of April or the beginning of
May, Premier Lloyd George of Great
Britain has predicted.
Bolshevist pressure against Odessa,
the great Russian port on the Black
sea, is increasing and the evacuation
of the city by the allied forces is i'm
minent, the Paris Matin says. The
allied forces, it adds, probably will be
Withdrawn ultimately to the Dneister
in order to protect Bessarabia and Ru-
mania.
The Bolsheviki completely devasted
the town of Ossa before its capture by
Admiral Kolchaks forces, according to
official dispatches from Omsk. All
the educated classes in Ossa, the mes
sages declare, were murdered, the to-
tai number of persons shot reaching
1000.
The Italian transport Umbria, with
1000 officers and soldiers on board,
bound from Venice to Tripoli has
struck mine and sunk, according to
papers of that city. Several on board
were killed and 100 injured.
President Wilson has been confined
to his room in Paris with severe
cold. The presidents physician order
ed him to bed as preventative
measure.
Private and official advices from
Mexico City within the last few days
are interpreted as clearly indicating IA
sudden change in sentiment in the re-
public toward foreign investments in
Mexico and that the coming session of
congress will clear the atmosphere of
much of the hostility shown since the
adoption of the 1917 constitution.
Recent reports that Japanese were
immigrating to the Philippine islands
in increasingly large numbers are
denied by Manuel l.. Quezon, presi-
dent of the Philippine senate and
chairman of the independence mission.
NJ. Tchitcherin, Russian Bolshevik
foreign minister, continues to use the
wireless to deny authorship of the re-
cent message picked up by the French
government wireless ODeratOrS regard
ing the spreading of BOlshevism in
America.
Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik minis
ter of war and marine, has ordered
the Russian Baltic fleet to put to sea
and attack the allies, threatening to
have all the crews shot If they dis
obey the order, says the London Mail.