Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1914 — SUMMARY OF THE WORLD’S EVENTS [ARTICLE]

SUMMARY OF THE WORLD’S EVENTS

IMPORTANT NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LAST ANALYSIS. ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS Brief Notes Covering Happenings In This Country and Abroad That Are of Legitimate Interest to All the People. European War News The seat of the French government was removed from Paris to Bordeaux, which lies 358 miles south-southwest of Paris. The proclamation announcing this action refers to it as a temporary arrangement. • * « Regarding the progress of the battle whlcn the Germans are waging on French and Belgian soil, both French and British governments virtually are keeping silence. The movements of the troops are meajjerly reported, and it has been Impossible, through these reports, to form any adequate idea of how the tide of battle is flowing. * » ♦ Direct advices from the Russian capital give the official report of a battle lasting seven days between the Russians and Austrians around Lemberg, capital of Galicia, in which the Russians were successful, forcing the Austrians to retreat and seizing heavily fortified positions. The Russians captured 150 guns and the Austrians are said to have suffered enormous losses. In this battle three full Austrian army corps and parts of two others were engaged. • • • French aviators have pursued a German aeroplane over Paris. There was an exchange of shots in the air, but the German craft succeeded in getting away. • * « The Paris correspondent of the London Chronicle says that 12 of the women Red Cross nurses sent to the front have been killed and that others have been wounded. • • Ihe Petit Parisian announces ej;t Paris that 14 German general staff officers have been captured by the allies and taken to Nimes. The war office has not confirmed this report. • • • Great Britain formally accepted the proposition advanced by the United States with respect to the wireless stations at Sayville and Tuckerton, By this acceptance it is agreed that < ode messages may be transmitted by both stations provided the American censors are given a copy of the code. * • ♦ Another German aeroplane has been dropping bombs into Paris ,and the American ambassador has organized a committee and has sent a protest against this method of warfare to the government at Washington. -* • • The French war office announces that, as a result of the turning moveinent of the German army and in order not to accept battle under unfavorable conditions, the French troops on the left have retired. • • German troops captured 70,000 Russians in the battle of Gilgenburg, East Prussia, says a report published by the general staff in Berlin. Of the prisoners 300 were officers. • • • A story has been circulated in Berlin that the Russians are preparing to avenge Louvain by destroying the German empire's capital. Berlin residents are alarmed and many fleeing ' * * • Fearing that a complete defeat of Its armies on the Austro-Russian frontier will be followed by a general insurrection, Austria is reported recalling its troops from France and Servia. ■f • • • Austrians reattacked Mount Ixivchen and Budua Sunday w ith land and naval forces, but were repulsed in a battle in which the British-French fleet arrived opportunely to save the Montenegrins. *. * * The Belgian special commission, on its way to the United States to protest against alleged German atrocities, has been received by King George and has presented him with an address setting forth some of the happenings In Belgium during the present campaign, and has warmly thanked Great Britain for its intervention. • • • I The United States cruiser Tennessee is to be utilized for the transportation of Americans from Havre to England. • » • The French minister of war has decided to call out all reservists hitherto unsummoned. * • • Japan has landed thousands of troops at the Chinese port of LungKow, 100 miles north Tslng Tao. and the German legation at Peking has protested to the Chinese foreign office against this alleged infringement of China’s neutrality. ♦ • ♦ Russia admits a serious defeat In east Prussia at the hands of the Germans. In this battle two Russian army corps were badly cut up and three generals and a number of staff officers were killed.

TTie Exchange Telegraph company announced at London that the steamer Drifter had been sunk while sweeping out mines Six men are missing. • • • The German governor of Brussels has ordered the expulsion within 24 hours of all British subjects in Brussels. They have made a protest to the United States minister, demanding an extension of time. • • • Commenting on the fact that the 140,000,000 levied on Brussels by the Germans has not been paid, the Intransigeant of Paris says: "Brussels is under the protection of the United States. In case of pillage or the destruction of the city, they have plenty of means for revenge on German commerce and ships now in American waters." I , * • * A long official statement Is Issued by the French war office reviewing the operations in Belgium and along the French frontier A new retirement by the allied forces is recorded, while at the. same time the statement is optimistic -with reference to the opposition which the French and British are offering to the German advance. ♦ • » The French war minister has Inspected the supplementary defenses around Paris, which rapidly are being pushed forward in anticipation of a possible investment of the French capital. * * • An Antwerp dispatch credits General Pau with a victory over 50,000 Germans near Peronnes. Whether this is a new victory or one to which reference was made several days ago Is not known. • • • A .Japanese destroyer, which ran ashore near Tslng Tao, China, was shelled by a German gunboat. The crqw of the destroyer, however, previously had abandoned her. ♦ ♦ ♦ The Austrians have suffered an irreparable defeat at Zamosc, a city of 12,000 inhabitants just over the border in Russian Poland. 50 miles southeast of Lublin. The German trawler Gerda has been blown up by striking a mine off lungeland island in the Great belt. While warning off a neutral vessel she struck a mine herself. • • • Earl Kitchener, the British secretary for war, gives in detail the part played by* British troops in the operations in Belgium and France These operations extended from August 23 to August 26, and the British losses numberd in the neighborhood of six thou sand • • •’ Apia, a seaport of Upola, Samoan islands, and capital of the Ger man part, of the group, surrendered to a British force from New Zealand .■ • » • Foreign That there will be another revolution in Mexico unless President Carranza takes some immediate action to settle the peon land question was the prediction of Rupert Jones of Monterey, Mex., right hand man of Gen. Pancho Villa, in Chicago Washington The senate at Washington passed the Clayton anti-trust bill by a vote of 46 to 16. * * • Secretary of the Navy Daniels announced at Washington that the American fleet will remain in Mexican waters indefinitely. ♦ » ♦ James Clark Mcßeynolds, for the last two years attorney general of the United States, was confirmed by the senate at Washington as associate justice of the Supreme court to succeed the late Associate Justice H. H. Lurton. The vote on the confirmation was 44 to 6. The senate then confirmed Thomas Watt Gregory as attorney general to succeed Mr. Mcßeynolds. • • • Domestic Two more refugee ships, the Hol-land-American liner Ryndam and the Italian steamer Princlpessa Matilda, arrived in New York from Europe with 1,673 passengers on board. As much as $7,000 had been paid for the passage over in a cabin de luxe on board the Principessia Matilda, which had been chartered by John E. Jones, the United States consul at Genoa. The entire National Guard force of Montana, consisting of six companies of infantry, with machine gun platoons, has been ordered to Butte, Mont., by Gov. Samuel Stewart in consequence of the dynamiting and destruction of the t'wo-story employment office of the Anaconda Copper Mining company. Governor Stewart also has urgently requested the president to order federal troops to the citv. > ♦* * 4 Two hundred and fifty persons were rescued off Chicago by government life savers under the command of Capt. Charles Carland when the steamer City of Chicago, an excursion boat inbound from Benton Harbor, caught fire on Lake Michigan a mile off the mouth of the Chicago river. The steamer was a complete loss. • • • Not more than 200 of the 10,000 Q. A. R. veterans who participated In the parade at Detroit, Mich., were forced to retire from the line until the march was completed, a mile and a half long.