Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-06-07
WASHINGTON.

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/ 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
I in crippled condition when the peace
/ treaty is signed, automatically releas-
! ing 10000 men from service, the navy
department is planning to wage an in
tensve 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.
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
would abe earnestly requested to Sc
cure a hearing before the peace con-
ference for leaders in the movement
for independence of Ireland, under a
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 Il 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,
Brockdorff- Rantzau that no ground
has been found for further modifica-
ton of the original terms.
More than eighty persons were
killed and 100 injured in a panic dur
ing a fire in a moving picture house at
Valence Sur Rhone, France -Four
thousand spectators were in the
theatre and when the fire broke out,
there was a mad rush for the exits.
Many children We're trampled on.
The Rhine republic was proclaimed
on June l 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.
ferences with employers over the
method of applying the new S-hour law
The Temps estimates the strike will
affect more than 100000 workers.
1t is understood the Turks have
called n great council in Constantine
ople to consider what action to take
with regard to the occupation of Turk
ish territory along the Aegean by
Greeks and Italians.
A parading 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 broke up council meeting
Three nurses attached to the Amer-
can eXpeditionary force were killed
Sunday in an automobile accident at
Chateau Thierry.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg ex-
poets soon to go to SwitzeriSnd, where
he will take long rest, according to
Berlin dispatch.
Germany is willing to agree to the
proposed stipulations regarding he
military, aerial and naval forces con-
tanned in the draft of the peace treaty,
provided that she is permitted to en-
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footing Immediately upon the signing
of peace, says a Berlin cablegram.
The Bolsheviki before they retired
from Riga, shot thirty persons in the
central prison there, according 20 of
fetal reports received by the Ameri-
! can peace delegates.
/ Information has been received in
l French circles that Greek troops are
advancing from Smyrna toward Mag
4 nesia and Adm, the Turks retiring
before them. The statement is made
by the Greeks that their purpose is to
restore order 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.
England's bin for transporting a mil
/ lie" American soldiers across the At