Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1914 — DIGEST OF WORLD’S IMPORTANT NEWS [ARTICLE]

DIGEST OF WORLD’S IMPORTANT NEWS

EPITOME OF THE BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK. TO BE READ AT A GLANCE Items, Both Foreign and Domestic That Have Interest for Busy Readers, Arranged and Classified for Their Convenience. European War News The Germans, beaten back seven times In their efforts to advance across the Yser and capture Dunkirk and Calais, are now preparing to renew the attack with an army of 350*000 men, which will be hurled against the allies* line' in the narrow field between Dixmude and Nieuport in a final gigantic struggle to reach the Straits of Dover town, from which England may be menaced. • * • In Poland, after several days of fighting, during which all Russian attacks were successfully repulsed, the German-Austrian forces were obliged to retreat before now Russian advances from Warsaw, Ivangorod and Novoe Georglevsk. The Russians have for the time being abandoned the pursuit, says a dispatch from Berlin.

• * • A wireless dispatch from the Berlin foreign office to the German embassy at Washington confirmed reports of a deadlock in the battle of the Yser and admitted that a strong Russian force has crossed the Vistula to the north of Ivangorod. • • • The River Yser is described as running red with blood, while piles of bodies line the sides, and at one place a bridge is formed across the stream by the German dead. The German losses in the battle along the Yser are placed at 46,000; those of the allies scarcely less * • Swiss papers report that since the capture of Fort Camp Des Romains by the Germans the French losses on the Verdun-Toul line have been more than forty thousand men ♦ * • The Ijondon Daily Telegraph’s correspondent on the Dutch frontier reports that the allies captured Thourout after It had been occupied by a large force of Germans from Bruges. • * • A statement given out. by the ministry of war In Paris tells of French successes on the right wing. It says: In the region to the east of Nancy between the forest of Bezange and the forest of Parroy we have assumed the offensive and driven the enemy across the frontier.” * • • French troops In the Woevre region gained a signal success by securing control of one of the principal lines of communication of the Germans toward St. Mihiel. • • • Fresh German troops numbering in the neighborhood of four hundred thousand are being hurried from Germany by way of Antwerp and Bruges to the fighting line in f the vicinity of Dixmude, where the full strength of the. German attack is being directed against the allied line of the north. * • • While Russia has declared the German army to be In retreat from Warsaw, an official statement received in London by wireless from Berlin says a battle is raging at the gates of the city and that the fortifications are being bombarded by Zeppelins and aeroplanes. The bombs have done great damage in the city. *■• ■ • •

Out of battle-swept Flanders come short announcements, laconic in the extreme, which, pieced together, seem to indicate that the Germans are defeated in their desperate final effort to capture Dunkirk and Calais. At the same time, the combined French garrison of Toul and Nancy have fallen on the German army of Lorraine and pushed It back toward Metz. It appears to be a victory for the allies’ army, from Belfort to the sea. Five thousand Germans who crossed the Yser were either killed or taken prisoners. . . • . . _ Foreign Turin has been visited by an earthquake. Considerable damage to property Is reported. No lives were lost. • • • Failing the acceptance of the proffer of his senrices by King George for the war against Germany, Manuel, former king of Portugal, has now offered the government of the republic of Portugal to serve with the Portuguese army if that country joins the alites. • • • The Swiss government Is preparing an Income tax bill for presentation to parliament to meet war expenses. The government has spent $10,000,000 upon the mobilization and maintenance of Swiss troops, guarding neutrality see It is learned in Berlin that the German medical authorities attending Prince Oskar, the sou of Emperor William. regard his recovery as doubtful. The young prince Is suffering from partial paralysis of the vagus nerve and his brain has become affeeted.

Judgment was passed at Sarajevo, Bosnia, on the assassins of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife,' the Duchess of Hohenberg. Gavrilo Prinzip, the actual assassin, escaped with a sentence to Imprisonment for 20 years. Four of the conspirators were sentenced to death by hanging. The crime for which Prin-"' zip and his companions are made to suffer was committed at Sarajevo on June 28 last. The incident was the indirect cause of this present war in Europe. . ■ * Washington President Wilson issued his annual Thanksgiving proclamation at Washington, setting Thursday, November 26, as a day of "thanksgiving and prayer” and Inviting the people throughout the land to cease from their wonted occupations and in their several homes and places of worship to render thanks to Almighty God.

* • • President Wilson has no Intention at this time of calling a special session of congress to precede the regular one in December, it was stated at the White House in Washington. He will consult with senate and house leaders directly after the November elections and bis plans will be based on their advice. A report Issued by the census bureau at Washington shows 7,610,682 bales, counting round as half bales, ginned from the growth of 1914 to October 18, as compared with 6,874,206 for 1912 and 7,758,621 for 1911, • * • Secretary McAdoo announced at Washington that the gigantic federal reserve bank system would open on November 16. With the 12 banks thrown open more than four hundred million dollars, the secretary says, will ba released from the mints and made available to the country’s bankers • • • Personal Arriving at Johnstown, Pa., on hla speaking tour, Theodore Roosevelt was presented with a birthday cake having fifty-six candles, prepared by a confectioner on an order telegraphed by the colonel's party from McKeesport, where he opened his speechmaking in a snowstorm. • .. • General De Wet, last of the Boer generals to surrender during the Boer war of 19011, and General Beyers, who defends/ forces of the Ujiion of South Africa last month are' leading an army of Boer burghers in revolt against the British in the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, town of Ileilbron has been seized and officials made prisoners. Gen. \ Louis Botha, premier of the Union of Africa, has left for the front.

Mexican War Through Roberto V. Pesqueira of San Antonio, Tex., Carranza’s accredited diplomatic representative in the United States, Carranza sent a personal appeal from Mexico City to President Wilson and the state department protesting against the alleged activities cf George C. Carothers and the friendliness of the United States for Francisco Villa. , * * * An attempt has been made to assassinate Gen. Francisco Villa by an agent said to have been commissioned and paid by Gen. Pablo Gonzales, General Carranza’s stanch supporter, said a message sent by Luis Aguirre Benavides, General Villa's first secretary. The would-be assassin. Francisco I. Mugia, was executed after making a confession before George C. Carothers, the American consular agent. • • • Domestic R. J. Costello was killed and a second is at the point of death and a third was probably fatally injured by the explosion of a new boiler which was being tested in the basement of Costello Bros.’ undertaking rooms, Chicago. With her propeller torn loose and her superstructure battered by a heavy sea, the torpedo boat Jouett limped into the. Portsmouth (Va.) navy-yards for repairs. The grounding of the Paulding in Lynnhaven roads also was reported to the navy department at Washington. • * S Ray Pfanschmidt erf Quincy, 111., was found not guilty of the murder of his father, mother, sister and a school teacher, Emma Kaempen, a crime which shocked Adams county over a year ago and for which the youth on his first trial was donvicted and sentenced to hang. The jury, after being out two days, returned a verdict on the twelfth ballot. • • * I The Standard Oil steamer Brindilla, flying the American flag, whose seizure by the British cruiser Caronia was made the occasion of a protest by the United States ,to Great Britain and a demand for the steamer's immediate release, was formally released by the Canadian authorities at Halifax, N. 8. • • • In spite of the official list of dead given out, rescuers declared that at least seventy-nine men are known to be dead, as a result of the mine disaster at Royalton, 81. One hundred and fifty-nine were rescued.