Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1914 — Summary of Most Important News Events [ARTICLE]

Summary of Most Important News Events

European War News Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany in a letter to President Wilson at Washington said that he deeply regreted that it was necessary to destroy Louvain. He said his commanders were forced to take drastic measures following the attack by citizens upon his troops. • • • Allied armies In France continue to force Germans to retreat. British troops pushed for five miles across the Marne river. * * * Berlin asserts Maubeuge l has been captured by Germans and 40,000 French troops are held. prisoners. . Four generals and 200 guns were also captured. • * • Germans have evacuated Luneville and French troops now occupy the town. * • * 1 Kaiser Wilhelm sent a cablegram to President Wilson at Washington protesting against the use of dum-dum bullets by the English apd French troops and the participation of the civil population of France and Belgium in the war. • • • Tlte great battle at Rawaruska between Russian and Austrian troops is over after four days of terrific fighting, and it resulted in a complete victory for Russia. * * * Many distinguished names are included in the casualty list issued by the war office in London. Among those reported wounded or missing are Viscount Castleross and Lofti Robert Edward Innes-Ker, brother of the duke of Roxburgh. Both jare of the Trish guards. Captain Lord Desmond Fitzgerald, who is wounded, is heir presumptive to the' dukedom of Leinster. . \ • • • The Hoßand-American liner Noordara was towed into Queenstown by a British cruiser, a prize of war. xvlany German reservists were aboard. *• * - London's elation over the continued success of the allied arms is increased by the announcement semi-officlally that 60,000 Indian soldiers, including a number of Hindu potentates, have been landed, and are about to be add-, ed to the armies that are driving the Germans from France. * * *

The official press bureau at Ixtndon says the Oceanic, the W r hite Star liner which is now in British service as a converted cTfiiser, is a total wreck on the north coast of Scotian 1. The officers and crew were saved. .** . * Belgian refugees to the number of 1,300 arrived at Folkstone, England. Many are wealthy residents who have left Belgium to escape the Germans. Many others are entirely destitute. * * * The viceroy of India, in council at Simla, India, announced that India was contributing $5,000,000 toward the cost of the Indian contingent in the war; this in addition to applying the gift of the maharaja of Mysore of sl,600,000 to the cost of transportation. * * * The Gloucestershire and the British Cornwall regiments stationed at Shanghai, left for France on the Pacific Mall liner Nile. * • * A Havas agency dispatch to Paris from Rome says; f4ews has reached there that the Montenegrin troops commanded by General Vucotich have occupied important points in Bosnia south of Sarajevo, the capital. * * * Official reports from both Parts and London indicate successful movements at least fpr the time being by the allied armies against the Germans. London reports that the British have pushed the opposing forces back ten miles and that the allies are gaining ground along the line of the Ourcq and Petit Morin rivers. * * * In reply to a request by the Germans for an armistice of '24 hours to bury the dead and care for the wounded, the French authorities are reported to have sent this message: “We grant you that time to get out of France." * * * The Belgian troops are reported to have repulsed a large German force which made an advance on Antwerp. The Germans’ loss is said to have been heavy and they are reported to have retreated to the neighborhood of Brussels. * • * Germans have destroyed the Belgian town of Dlnajit after shooting hundreds of the male inhabitants because It was alleged shots had been fired from the heights overlooking the city, says an Ostend dispatch to the Reuter Telegram company in London. * • * Official announcement is made In London that the German forces have fallen back before the offensive tactics of the allies on the line from Manteull-le-Haudouin to Verdun, a distance o& roughly, 120 miles. 1

The Russian troops are still engaged in fierce combats with the Austrian forces in the Rawa district, Russian Poland. Fighting is almost continuous and the outcome in this region has not been determined. • • • France announces that it is sending reserves to Morocco to release regulars now there for service with the army in France. * • • The casualty list as a result of the blowing up of the British cruiser Pathfinder by a mine In the North sea comprises four men killed, 13 wounded and 242 missing. • * • German aeroplane dropped three bombs on Belfort, one falling on the Red Cross hospital and injuring three wounded soldiers. The other bombs did no harm. • • • " ounded soldiers who have reached Paris tell of the severity of the fighting in the Champagne country and re-, port heavy losses. * * • The British passenger liner Runo, with 600 passengers on,board, struck a mine in the North sea and was sunk. All of the crew and passengers, with the exception of about twenty Russian refugees, were saved. John Ray, American consul at Odessa,who was a passenger on the Runo, was woundoti on the head. • • • Foreign Christabel Pankhurst, the militant leader, has ranged herself on the side of the prime minister in the present critical condition of the country. She says the militant women are ready to take their place in the line Or serve the nation in any way deemed most advisable. • • • Personal Mrs. Amanda Weeks, the last survivor of those taken prisoner at the time of the assassination of President Lincoln, died at Washington. Mrs. Weeks was ninety years old. She was a visitor in the home of Mrs. Surratt at the time of the assassination and foolishly remarked: “Lincoln should have been shot long before;." After ten days she was released. 1 * • • Word has been received from Dublin of the death in Austria of Mrs. Richaid Croker, wife of the former leader of Tamamny hall.

Washington The senate at Washington passed the mUlion-dollar appropriation tor extra expenses of diplomatic and consular service occasioned by the European war. It has already passed the house and goes to the president. • • • An income tax increase of one-half of one per cent and a reduction of the minimum exemption from $3,000 to $2,000 and the maximum exemption from $4,000 to $3,000 were tentatively agreed on the Democratic members of the ways and means committee at Washington, who are framing the emergency revenue bill to raise SIOO,000,000. It is estimated that the proposed income tax changes would produce $35,000,000 annually. * • * President Wilson issued a proclamation at Washington designating Sunday, October 4, as the day of prayer in the l nited States for peace in Europe. • • • The bill extending the thanks of congress to the builders of the Panama canal and authorizing the promotion of Col. George W. Goethals, chairman of the commission, and Brig. Gen. William C. Gorgas, surgeon general of the army and head of the canal zone sanitation forces, to bev major generals on their retirement, passed the house at Washington, and now goes to the senate. • • • Post office officials at Washington look forward to the immediate expansion at the parcel post as the result of an advertising campaign under way at state and county fairs. « * * * President Wilson read his message before a joint session of the senate and house, held in the house chamber at Washington, advocating emergency revenue legislation to replace the losses caused by decreasing customs duties during the European war period. The president asked congress to pass measures to raise SIOO,000,000 additional revenue through internal tax. • • • Domestic Upon telegraphic advice received from Washington, General Pershing, in command of the troops at Fort Bliss, Tex., lifted the embargo on the exportation of munitions of war into Mexico.