Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 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 Abrosd That Are of Legitimate Interest to All the People. Washington That the Panama canal and the foreign possessions of the United States are weakly protected against attack by any first-class military power, because of the present inadequate strength of the army, is the opinion expressed by Gen. W. W. Wotherspoon, chief of the general staff, in his annual report at Washington. Necessity for a mobile force of 500,000 thoroughly trained and equipped fighting men, in the first line of the military establishment, and the need for a secondary force of 300,000 of organized militia is urged. * * * Europe’s cry for food is being answered by the United States. Exports of breadstuffs in October of this year amounted to 138,247,570, according to statistics made public by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce at Washington, an increase of nearly $25,000,000 over figures for October, 1913 • • • “A future clear and bright with promise of the best things.” was the way President Wilson summed up his view of the business prospect in a letter to Secretary McAdoo of the treasury department at congratulating him on the opening of the new federal reserve bank system. * * * Secretary McAdoo announced at "Washington the success of the cotton loan fund through the subscription by banks and private parties, of the entire $100,000,000 of class A certificates. * * * At the close of the last fiscal year, Jnne 30, 1914, the cost of the Panama canal stood at $353,559,049,69, according to the annual report of Col, George W. Goethals, governor of the canal zone, made public at Washington. The figures include the appropriation of August/1914, and the collection and return to the treasury of more than $6,250,000. * i t European War News Three Turkish destroyers have appeared before Sulina with the object of getting into communication with representatives of Austria and Germany or possibly merely as a protest against the governance of the Danube delta. Roumania as a result of this action has the question put broadside on whether she takes sides with Germany and her ally, Turkey, or whether she maintains her own rights and supports the right of the public law of Europe. The Germans succeeded in gaining a 'footing in the region of Lentchitza (Lenozyca) and Orloff, throwing out advance guards in the direction of Poiatek.

capture and recapture of the first line of Anglo-French trenches about Ypres and the blowing up of the western part of Chauviricourt are the spectacular events of the latest violent fighting in Belgium and France. * • * David Lloyd-George, chancellor of the exchequer, in the house of commons estimated that the cost of one year of the war for his country would be $2,250,000,000. To pay this enormous bill, the government had decided,- he said, to raise a loan of $1,750,000,000. The chancellor proposed, and the house unanimously supported him, that the income tax should be doubled. » * * Another big battle is developing in Poland between the Vistula and Warthe river, where the Russian advance has been met by large forces of Germans coming from Thorn. According to a Reuter telegram from Berlin among the Russian prisoners captured by the Germ ails in the battle of Kutru were the governor of Warsaw and his staff. , * • * England has decided to declare all the North sea a military area. The British government decided that such action was necessary to prevent Germany from getting supplies. • * * The Russians have stopped and are rolling back the German re-enforced invasion of Poland from Thorn. The advance is being crushed without any abatement by the Russians of their energetic penetration northward into East Prussia. • • • There is prohibition in Russia, prohibition which means that not a drop of vodka, whisky, brandy, gin or any other strong liquor is obtainable in a territory populated by 150,000,000 arid covering one-sixth of the habitable globe. * • • The prince of Wales arrived at the front In France from London. He has Joined the staff of Field Marshal Sir John French. The prince paid homage in the name of King George V to the memory of Lord Roberts, “father of the British army.**