Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-28

! Wack, New Jersey member of the
| National Assembly Opposed to Ma
| tional Prohibition.
WASHINGTON
| Senator Borah, Republican of Idaho,
gave notice in Il senate speech on Sat
urday that he could not remain in the
Republican party if it failed to take
more definite stand against the
league.
! The senate will take no immediate
action on the Knox resolution, which
separates the covenant of the league
of Nations from the peace treaty, it is
announced by Senator Lodge, chairman
of the foreign relations committee.
While the senate was threshing over
the issues of the league of nations con
troversy on Friday in four hours of
running debate, league opponents
started revival of sentiment for some
| definite action on the subject
Attorney General Palmer at the first
public hearing in the fight to prevent
confirmation by the senate of his APP
pointment turned sharply upon his ac-
cusers and boldly charged that they
were aligned with German interests
in concerted attempt to discredit his
administration as alien property Gus
todian.
Congressional investigation of ex-
penditures of the war department was
opened on June 10, with Sergt. Charles
b. Malcolm of company L., 23d ell
gineers, who has just returned from
France, testifying that he personally
had seen large quantities of govern
ment property, both new and old, wan
tonly destroyed by fire.
FOREIGN.
Germany will sign the peace treaty.
The national assembly on June %, by
vote of 237 10 13S decided to sign
The assembly also voted confidence in
the new government of Herr Bauer,
236 to 80. Sixty-eight members alb
stained from voting.
The German officers and sailors
forming the compliments of the Ger
man ships informed at Scarpa Flow
sank most of their fleet on June 81.
All the big ships, the battleships and
battle cruisers, excepting the Baden
and numerous smaller craft, were
sunk, while others went ashore in a
half sunken condition.
A new German cabinet has been
formed under the premiership of Herr
aply Of of labor
with DR.. Hermann Mueller, the ma
jority Socialist leader, as minister of
foreign affairs
A state of siege has been declared
in the district of Muenster, in West
phalia, northeast of Cologne, because
of Spartacan disturbances, according
to information reaching American
quarters at Coblenz.
Villa has given instructions to his
men to attack none of the small feder-
al garrisOns occupying towns and set
Elements along the Mexican side of the
border, according to information re-
ceived at FL PasO from the field in
Mexico.
Winnipeg strike-torn since May II,
is under martial law, following fighting
Saturday between strikers and provin-
cial police, in which two men were
killed and scores injured, while 300
rioters were jailed.
Spartacans have made an unsuccss-
full attempt to storm the prison and
police station at Cassell says Copen-
hagen dispatch. Several persons were
killed or wounded
Admiral Won Reuter-, commander of
the surrendered German fleet, person
ally ordered its scuttling in the belief
that the armistice had been termin-
ated. He says so himself, according to
the Daily Express.
The German cabinet headed by
Philip Scheidemann has resigned. The
cabinet, although ii has resigned, will
President Ebert has been able to
form new one.
An internal machine sent to Dr.
Manuel Trejo Castillo, civil judge of
SANTA AHd, III WESTERN SdlNuuOT
caused the death of the judge and SER
ious injury to a servant.
Delayed dispatches received from the
frontier of eastern Galicia state that
the Ukrainian army is concentrated
between Gbrucz and the Dniester river
The Ukrainlans have attacked TarBo-
pol and have penetrated the town.
One hundred and fifty person, in
Guiding many children, are reported
killed or injured in the destruction by
fire of motion picture theatre at
Mayaguez, Porto Rico.
All the American soldiers now have
left Archangel except the engineers.
Who are cleaning up the American base