Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1914 — WEEKS NEWS [ARTICLE]

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Washington Prospects of peace took on a much brighter hue with the arrival in New York from Europe of two envoys, both of whom are believed to have made the trip at the direction of neutral governments that think the time has arrived to start the movement to end the war. Henry Van Dyke, American minister to the Netherlands, was one of the arrivals, and the other was Per Ostberg, who came from Christiansand bearing a special message from King Gustav of Sweden to the Swedish embassy in Washington t ♦ ♦ European War News An official dispatch from Vienna says: "Our troops have captured several bases of operation in Russian Po land and are progressing, especially toward Woldrom and on both sides of Pllica. The prisoners in the interior of the monarchy number 110,000 men. among them 10,000 officers '’ « « • On the Czenstochowa-Cracow front the battle is developing successfully for the Russians, says Petrograd. On Sunday over C;000 prisoners were taken. The enemy’s attempts at a counter-attack were repulsed. » » ♦ German airships attacked Warsaw, capital of Poland, killing several persons and breaking all the windows in the American consulate. • * * The death of General Stenger, who commanded the Fifty eighth German Infantry brigade, was reported at Bordeaux. • « « The combined French and British armies have been attacked by the Germans in force from the North sea to I.a Bassee. A battle on the scale of the battle of the Marne is in progress. I’he Anglo-French fleet is participating in the conflict, bombarding the Germans along the Belgian coast and setting Zeebrugge on fire t German submarines have emerged from Zeebrugge and tried to torpedo the British battleships. •'. ♦ ♦ ■Germany’s scheme to establish a naval base at Zeebrugge has been thwarted by British warships,” says the Mail’s Rotterdam correspondent. Zeebrugge is burning and the Solvay works are in ruins and the sections of six submarine boats brought there are reduced to twisted iron The military trains at the works were blown to fragments." • » ♦ A dispatch to London from Lisbon sayg the Portuguese congress decided that Portugal should co-operate with the allies -when it considers the step necessary. The minister of war will issue a decree for mobilization in part

The London Telegraph's Petrograd cotrespondent intimates that the Ger man crown prince's army during the last fire days threatened Warsaw, but was severely repulsed. The correspondent says, however, that his forces arrived alarmingly close to War saw before they were finally checked. » * ♦ Turkey has voluntarily explained to the United States government at Washington, through Ambassador Morgen than, that the shots fired toward the launch of the American cruiser Ten n-ssee were intended merely as the customary warning that the port of Smyrna was mined and closed to navigation • • • . All movements of the prince of Wigles. now at the front, are being kept a profound secret because of reports reaching London that German aviators have been endeavoring to locate him and drop bombs upon him • * • The British admiralty announced in London that the German submarine 1-18 was rammed and sunk and spe cial cables said the German tdrpedd boat destroyer S-124 foundered as the result of a collision on the Swedish coast. All but one man on submarine saved Two burned to death on destroyer; 58 saved. * * • The number of refugees from 1 the ten departments composing the theaters of xvar in France is estimated by an official commission of Investigation at 1,000,000. • • • The official Russian report says the Germans have begun a retirement from a line indicated by the following points: Strykoff, Zzierz. Sczadek, Gudunska, Volja and Voznikl. Large German re-enforcements, however, are rushing to the front. • • * The Turkish government has notified the cable messages from or to belligerent countries wIH. not be admitted to Turkey either terminally or in transit, according to an announcement made kt New York by the Commercial Cable company. .• • • The official statementJssued in Berlin says: ’Tn the eastern war theater the situation Bas not yet been decided. In East Prussia o ir troops are holding their own. In northern Poland fighting still has been without result"

Two aeroplanes, thought to be French, made an attack on the Zeppelin dock and sheds on Lake Constance, according to a Friedrichshafen paper. The aeroplanes dropped six bombs, none of which did any damage. One aeroplane was shot down; the other 1 * escaped. • • • The liner Correntina, with a cargo of meat valued at >1,000,000. was overtaken 270 miles northeast of Lobos island by the German converted cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelm, which, after taking off the passengers and crew, sent the British liner to the hot tom • • • It was announced officially in I .ondon that the British aviators who raided Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance. report positively that all the bombs thrown by them reached their objective and that serious damage was done to the Zeppelin airship factory ■• • • Foreign In a lecture at Browning hall, Walworth. - and, Sir Oliver Lodge, president of the Society tor Physical Research. expressed his absolute conviction of a future existence and stated that he had conversed with friends who had passed away • • • Official announcement is made in Berlin of the death of Major General von Voights-Rhetz from heart lailure. He was quartermaster general r>f the German army, in which position he succeeded General von Stein

Personal William Rockefeller, Standard Oil millionaire, petitioned the federal court at New York to dismiss the indictment charging him and 20 other former New Haven directors with criminal violation of the Sherman law. • * * Mexican War The capital has been evacuated by Gen. Lucio Blanco. Zapatistas are entering. It is reported at Mexico City that the advance guard of General Villa's army has reached Teoloyucan. about twenty miles north of Mexico City. Gen Alvaro Obregon is still in the city. • • • 'i’lie entrance of the 4,000 Mexicans into Vera Cruz was effected as quietly as was General Funston's withdrawal. The withdrawal of 6,000 Yankees was accomplished without hitches and little ceremony marked the departure, but General Aguilar's occupation was as rapid, as complete and as orderly. General Carranza may arrive any day to establish headquarters there. Gen eral Aguilar personally raised the Mex lean flag over the municipal palace • • » An unconfirmed report from Vera Cruz says that Gen, Lucio Blanco of the constitutionalist forces has made himself executive head in Mexico City by a coup d’etat, in which he imprisoned General Obregon. •■ * • Brigadier General Funston's infantry and marines, numbering about six thousand men, hauled down the Stars and Stripes which have been flying over Vera Cruz s.ice last April and" began to evacuate the Mexican port, in accordance with instructions from President Wilson. Five battleships on the west coast w ill remain indefinitely. ♦ ♦ ♦ The state department at Washington received much general information of a disturbing character from its agents in Mexico. It was officially informed -that railroad communication had been cut between Mexico City and Vera Cruz and also between Mexico City and points north, where Provisional President Gutierrez is in control « • « Domestic Eighteen dead and 45 survivors in a pitiable condition due to the terrible suffering and exposure in a rough sea. and a ship reduced to splinters, tells the comprehensive story of the fate of the coasting steam schooner Hanalei, which went on the rocks off San Francisco. • • ♦ The Kansas wheat crop of 1914 amounted to 180.924,885 bushels, with a value estimated at $151,583,032, according to the annual wheat crop report of the Kansas board of agriculture • ♦ ♦ The .barge Annie M. Peterson of the Edward Hines Lum jer co -pany's fleet of Chicago has been found broken up on the shore near Grand Marais, Mich. The bodies of six men and tw o \ omen have come ashore. • ♦ ♦ Four laborers employed on the government levee, 20 miles north of Burlington, la., were killed by dynamite. • • ♦ Henry G. Sieget the New York merchant, charged with grand larceny, was foqnd guilty of committing a misdemeanor at Geneseo, N. Y. Justice sentenced Siegel to pay a fine of SI,OOO and to serve ten months in jail. Stay of prison sentence granted until June. • • • I Driving hoipe from the cemetery near Lincoln, 111., where she had gone to inspect the new mausoleum being erected In memory of her husband, the late Governor Richard j. Oglesby, Mrs. Emma S. Oglesby, aged sixty-eight, of Elkhart, was severely injured when her carriage team ran away. • • • The greatest wheat area in the world’s history will be planted for the ltls harvest as a result of the European war, in the opinion of Charles M. Daugherty, statistical expert of the department of agriculture.