Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-07-05

| six years.
| A downpour of rain, at times reach
| ing proportions of a cloudburst, Sat
urday night, caused damage estimated
at hundred thousand dollars or more
in Ravenna, Neb. and vicinity.
| Five robbers held up the offices of
the Middle Fork mine, two miles east
of Benton, H., and after wounding
three employees of the company, es-
capped with SAL 900.
WASHINGTON.
| President Wilson has decided he
could not legally lift the wartime pro-
hibition ban before the country went
dry, but he expects to do so as soon
thereafter as his power has been mat
clear by the completion of demobili-
cation.
The sundry civil appropriation bill,
the last of the regular supply meas
lres, was passed by the senate at
midnight, June %, at the end of a
fourteen-hour session.
On his arrival in the United States
President Wilson will go straight to
Washington to lay before congress the
results of the peace conference. He
will leave soon afterward for an ex-
tended tour of the country for the pur-
pose of explaining directly to the peo-
pie all questions relating to the peace
treaty and the league of nations cove
nant.
A bill authorizing the Incorporation
of the american Legion" composed of
veterans of the world war has been
introduced by Representative Johnson,
Republican, South Dakota.
Repeal of the postal zone system for
newspapers and periodicals is pro-
posed in bill by Representative Mon
deli of wyoming, the Republican lead
err unuer the measure second-class
man would be at the flat rate in force
before the war revenue of 1917 was
passed.
| Army ariplanes in commission or
available for immediate service num-
Der 3400, it is officially announced.
FOREIGN.
World peace was signed and sealed
in the historic hall of mirrors at Yer.
sailles, Saturday, June %. China re-
fused to sign. President Wilson was
the first to sign for the allies. On
July IS. 1914, one month after the
death of Francis Ferdinand, Austria
J rlyi n or 10
beginning of hostilities. On August
Germany declared war on Russia and
invaded Luxembourg. Germany sent
her ultimatum to Belgium August 3
and declared war on France August g.
The next day Great Britain declared
war on Germany.
The Berlin Tageblatt says: "The
German people reject the treaty which
it's delegates are signing today and it
does not believe for single moment
that it will endure. Despite the fact
that it is written on parchment, it re-
mains a scrap of paper, because 1t is
a mockery of all the laws of reason
and morals and the most disgraceful
exhibit in the museum of civilization u
China's refusal to sign the peace
treaty came after repeated efforts of
the Chinese delegation to get permits
sion to sign with reservations on the
Shantung settlement.
With the departure from France OF
President Wilson, Secretary Lansing
|
delegation, which will carry on nego,
tiations on the Austrian and other
treaties under consideration.
The allied and associated powers
will not ask for the extradition of the
former German emperor, the Paris
correspondent of the Telegraf says he
learns, but will ask the Dutch govern
ment in the name of the league OF
nations to see that Herr Hohenzollern
does not escape the moral conse
quences.
DR.. Theobald Won Bethmann-H oll
veg, former German chancellor, has
| formally asked the allied and associ
ated powers to place him on trial in
stead of the former emperor The
former chancellor says that he as
sumes responsibility for the acts OF
Germany during his period of office
and places himself at the disposal OF
| the allies.
The British flag was burned in Dub
lin Saturday night. outside of Trinity
college a number of Union jacks were
seized and the torch applied. Cheers
were given for De Valera, president
of the Irish republic" and revolution
airy songs were sung.
Movements of the Germans against
the western Polish boundary at three
points are giving great uneasiness in
conference circles, and Ignace jar
Paderewski, Polish premier, is making
earnest efforts to obtain ammunition
from the allies before the Germans cut
the principal railways.