Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-12-27

WAo1liS1 ] ON.
Christmas recess of congress began
ut IL ~ p. m. Saturday night, when
the senate adjourned to meet again
January ). The house adjourned four
minutes earlier.
Legislation which would amount to
a virtual reorganization of the array,
with protection from outside attack
rs Il primary purpose and with mill
| tary training for boys from Is to p
years of age as leading feature, has
been agreed upon tentatively by the
senate military subcommittee.
The Cummins bill, paving the way
FOR return OF the railroads to private
operation, passed the senate IN Sat
urday by vote of 46 to 30. Unless
vetoed by the president, the pending
legislation, according TO plans of con
gresSional leaders, would require re-
turn of the roads by Januaf |.
The immigration commis1ee's bill
providing for the deportation of all
aliens affiliated with anarchistic or
CARNATIONS was passed by the house.
nt Nolt WIS uldllinOuS.
President Wilson has appointed
Henry NJ. Robinson of Pasadena, Cal,
John =. White and Rembrandt Peale
members of the commission TO investi-
gate wages and working conditions in
the coal industry, provided for in the
strike settlement agreement.
The urgent deficiency bill provid-
ing $33,000,000 for miscellaneous sub
jects including $30,000000 for increas-
ed war risk insurance allowances, has
been passed by the senate.
Secretary of the Treasury Glass has
Informed congress of his intention to
defer for two or three years the col
lection of interest accruing on loans
made by the United States to the al
lied powers during the war.
FOREIGN.
When the shipping trade again set
ties down to normal conditions it will
be found Japan's competitive capacity
has been considerably more than
doubled by the war. In the long run,
Japan viii probably be more for
midable competitor than America, says
the London Daily Express.
An order granting amnesty to mill
tary offenders has Laen passed by the
federal cabinet, it was announced Sat
urday at Ottawa, Ont. 1t stops all
prosecutions and releases prisoners un-
der the military service act.
Capt. Sir John Alcock, the first avi-
ator to make n nonstop airplane flight
across the Atlantic, died at Rouen,
France, as result of injuries he re-
ceived when his plane crashed near
Cottevrard.
Severe fighting in the vicinity of
Narva on the Esthopian front, where
the Bolsheyiki broke through wire
fences and captured several villages,
is reported in an official statement
issued by the soviet government at
Moscow.
The police on December 10 arrested
one of the men who attempted to as
sassinate Field Marshal Lord French.
discriminating papers said a. show that
there was money transaction in
volved in the plot to kill the lord
lieutenant governor were found on the
prisoner, the police assert
The prussian state assembly by
vote of 210 to 81, has adopted ii reso
luton in favor of centralized Ger
man state.
Sir Robert Borden will remain prime
minister of Canada. This decision has
been reached after considerable pres
sure was brought to bear upon the
premier by his colleagues and from
various sources outside of the cabinet.
A weekly airship service from. Eng
land to America is contemplated by
combination of aviation firms, which
are credited with the intention of ac-
qulring the famous RS: and her sis
tership, the R-39. These are being al
tered to meet passenger and cargo re-
quirements.
Admiral Sir John Jelicoe, who com
manded the British grand fleet in the
battle of Jutland, and Lady Jell.coe
will visit the United States naval aca-
deny the first week in January.
Starvation faces from 100000 to
20000,000 persons in central Europe
outside Germany unless some means
can be discovered for their assistance"
Herbert Hoover, former food admins
traitor declares.
Great Britain is prepared now to re-
lease American-owned goods seized
during the war upon the establishment
If their American ownership at the
ime the goods We're shipped, the state
department was advised Wednesday
: by the British foreign office.
German and allied experts met at
Paris, Tuesday, to discuss the mode of
! reparation to be followed by the Ger
mans in payment for the sinking of
German warships at Scapa Flow. The
difference was presided over by Louis
.oucheur, French representative on
the reparation commission.
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