Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-06-07

WASHINGTON.
Congressional investigation of the
war departments vast expenditures
during the war will be under way be-
fore the end of the week, according to
plans of Republican leaders in the
house.
To prevent the navy from being left
in a crippled condition when the peace
treaty is signed, automatically releas-
! ing 100000 men from service the navy
department is planning to wage an in
tensive recruiting campaign as soon as
congress determines how large a navy
will be authorized.
| Tariff duties of one-half of one cent
pound levied on imported citrus fruit
/ by existing law would be doubled in a
/ bill introduced by Representative Ran
dell of California .i
Secretary Daniels likes the work of
the 5000 yeowomen of the navy so well
that he wants to keep some of them
in the service indefinitely
The American peace delegation.
| Nou'h w tstihNSlis ItIutSttu " So
cure Il hearing before the peace con.
ference for leaders in the movement
for Independence of Ireland, under
resolution introduced by Senator
Borah, Republican of Idaho.
FOREIGN.
Germany, although realizing that she
must make sacrifices to obtain peace
is convinced that the execution of the
peace treaty is more than the German
| people can bear Count Won Brock
dorff RantZau, head of the German
peace delegation thus sums up the at
tude of the German nation towards the
proposed treaty of peace in ii note to
the allied and associated powers. out
lining various German contemporaries.
Employees of the Toronto Street
Railway company decided Sunday not
to join the sympathy walkout called
to aid striking metal workers.
In reply to the counter proposals
presented by the German delegates,
| the big four will inform Count Won
| Observation-Disclosures that no ground
/ has b'tll lOuHd ioi iui iilti IHouilltd-
| ton of the original terms.
More than eighty persons We're
! killed and 100 injured ir Il panic dur
| ing II fire in II moving picture house at
Nalence Sur Rhone, France. -Four
thousand spectators were in the
| theatre and when the fire broke out,
there was II mad rush for the exits.
Many children We're trampled on.
The Rhine republic was proclaimed
on June in various Rhine cities. The
| population welcomed the event with
satisfaction and expressed the hope
that it would put an end to the painful
uncertainty prevailing in the Rhine
provinces regarding the allied nations.
and Germany.
Metal workers in the region of Paris
have decided~to strike because of diff
feIences with employers over the
method of applying the new S-hour law.
The Temps estimates the strike will
affect more than 100000 workers.
Ii is understood the Turks have
called II great council in Constantine
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with regard to the occupation of Turk
ish territory along the Aegean by
Greeks and Italians.
A paruding crowd of 200 or more
returned soldiers and union men swept
through the provincial house of par
liment at Winnipeg on Saturday, and
then marched TO the city hall, where
they breist up council meeting.
Three nurses attached to the Ameri-
can expeditionary force We're killed
Sunday in an automobile accident at
Chateau Thierry. III .. 81.
Field Marshal Won Ijndenburg eX-
poets soon to go to Switzerland, where
he will fake Il long<rest, according TO
Il Berlin; dispatch.
Germany is willing to agree to the
proposed stipulations regarding he
military. Saerial and naval forces CON
tanned in the draft of the peace treaty,
provided that she is permitted to en-
ter the league of nations on an equal
of peaee says a Berlin cablegram.
The Bolsheviki before they retired
from Riga, shot thirty persons ia the
central prison there, according ~ Of
fetal reports received by the Ameri-
can peace delegates. 49,! Il ... q.
Information has been received in
French circles that Greek troops are
advancing from Smyrna toward Mag
nesa and Adm, the Turks retiring
before them. The statement is made
by the Greeks that their purpose is to
restdraYbrder and to take a census.
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. famous
poet and writer, is critically i'll in the
Church, street nursing home in Bath.
Little hope is entertained for her re-
covery.E
Englands bill for. transporting MIL
licn american soldiers across the At
lantic in British ships Is approximately