Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1916 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

European War News The battle of Verdun continues with growing intensity. It extends over a front of twenty-five miles and seven Germany army corps (280,000 men) are engaged. This announcement was made officially by the Paris war office. More than six miles of French trenches were captured. The allies lost more than 3,000 prisoners. The French evacuated the village of Haumont, • . • • . Addressing the duma In Russia Foreign Minister Sazonoff reviewed the war situation In a most optimistic way, although he declared it was more difficult now than ever before to foresee the end of the world struggle. • ♦ • - ■ A dispatch received In London from Santa Cruz, Tenerlffe . (Canary Islands), says the British steamer Westburn has put in there for repairs, flying the German flag and with a prize crew. The officer Is believed to belong to the German raider Moewe. There are 206 prisoners, taken from various British vessels, on the Westburn • • • The entire crew of the Zeppelin airship brought down by French guns near Brabant-le-Rol, twenty-two In number, perished, according to a Havas dispatch to Paris from Bar-le-Duc. •" • • According to special dispatches to London from Petrograd the Turks are said to be evacuating Trebizond. • ♦ •

The Germans have penetrated the first line French trenches over a front of 800 yards (approximately half a mile) in the forest of Givenchy, in Artois, but were later expelled from the position. Official admission of the German success in Artois was made by the war office at Paris. German newspapers print dispatches from Italy saying that a Japanese fleet has arrived safetly In the Mediterranean sea, together with a great number of aircraft. • » • German naval aeroplanes attacked > the allied aerodrome at Furnes, southeast of LaPanne, it was official announced at Berlin. All the German machines returned safely to their base. ♦ • ♦ An official statement issued at London says: “An attack on the German depots at Don vras made by 26 of our aeroplanes. Extensive damage was done to the stores and railways.” In raids over the province of Brescia and toward Milan. Austrian aeroplanes killed four persons and wounded five. Only slight damage was done, says a dispatch from Rome. ♦ * * An entente allies’ submarine passed through the Dardanelles, reached the Bosporus and torpedoed one tug and six transports laden with munitions, according to an Athens dispatch to London. ♦ * • The British conquest of Kamerun is now complete, it was officially an- ; nounced at the colonial office in London. The German stronghold at Mora has just been captured. The American ship China, which left Shanghai, China, for San Francisco was held up on the high seas by s British auxiliary cruiser and 38 Ger mans were taken off. Tlihbllusslans have occupied Witde (Widje) in the Caucasus and pressed forward ten or twelve miles westward. On the left flank, after the occupation of Kolp, the Russians pushed on to Mush and Achlat. From Kolp to Mush they fought several battles and occupied Mush by storm. The thirty fourth division of the Turkish army was captured. , ...... • • • Domestic United States Senator Albert B. Cummins of lowa filed affidavit with the secretary of state at Des Moines as a candidate for the presidency Of the United States on the Republican ticket. '—• ♦ » John Z. Lowe, Jr., internal revenue collector of the district comprising the lower part of Manhattan island, estimated that the internal revenue tax collections from that district for the year ending June 30 would amount to $35,600,000—-possibly $40,000,000. * * *

An interlocutory decree of divorce was granted to Princess Evelyn Partridge Engalitcheff, daughter of Charles W. Partridge of Chicago, In her suit against Prince Engalitcheff of Russia in a decision handed down by the supreme court of New York. ♦ ♦ * Former United States Senator Theodore E. Burton of Cleveland filed with Secretary of State Hildebrand at Columbus, 0., his formal announcement that he will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for president

Five persons, four men and a woman, perished In a fire which destroyed a theatrical boarding house at New York. • * • A lone robber gained admittance to the Camden Park State bank at Minneapolis, Minn., locked the casher In the vault and escaped with S7OO. Nearly $2,900,000 has been sent from the United States for the relief of Jewish sufferers in the war zones, It was announced at New York by the joint distribution committee of the Jewish relief fund. * * Mrs. John F. Archbold, daughter-in-law of John D. Archbold of the Standard OU company, was bitten by a rattlesnake while hunting on the Archbold estate near Thomasville, Ga. Physicians said a kbavy leather boot prevented complete poisoning. , * ♦ • Before 400 Progressive Republicans gathered in a conference at Madison, Wls., from all sections of the state Senator La Follette announced his candidacy for the presidency. . * .*... • Henry Morgenthau, American ambassador at Constantinople, arrived at New York on board the steamship Frederlk VIII of the ScandinavianAmerican line from Copenhagen.

• * • Declaring that farmers in central and northern Illinois are In danger of losing more than $2,500,000 in corn as the result of the car shortage, E. M. Wayne of Delavan, a director of the Illinois Grain Dealers’ association, left Decatur, 111., for New York to confer with the Interstate commerce commision and the American Ballways association. . Heinrich Bachmann, a SVviss and Mrs. Elsie Schroeder of Berlin, pleaded guilty at New York to an indictment charging them with attempting to export rubber from this country to Germany. They were fined S2OO each. * ♦ ♦ William H. Orpet was ordered held to the grand jury for the death of Marlon Lambert, his jilted sweetheart, at the close of the coroner’s inquest at Lake Forest. 111. z • • ♦ Finley J. Shepard and his wife of New York have taken into their home a second child, with the intention of adopting it and making it a com panion of the little foundling whom they adopted on October 22. 1915.

Washington Seven members of President Wilson’s cabinet and fourteen labor leaders comprising the executive council and departmental heads of the Amer/ lean Federation of Labor lunched together at a Washington hotel. Secretary Wilson of the department of labor arranged the af'air. * * * The rivers and harbors appropriation bill, aggregating $39,000,000 in direct appropriations and authorizations for expenditures in various parts of the country, was reported favorably to the house at Washington; ■ .. ~; ♦ » * President Wilson told a committee of Hungarians at the White House that he had never doubted the allegiance to the United States of the great proportion of foreign-born American citizens. / * * ♦

The Austrian foreign office notified the state department at Washington that it could not reply to the American protest against the submarine attack on the Standard Oil ship Petrbiite until additional information is received from this government. ♦ -”<»* * The senate foreign relations com-, mittee at Washington decided to recommend the confirmation of Henry P. Fletcher as ambassador to Mexico. ■ • * ♦ .. David R. Francis, secretary of the interior in Cleveland's cabinet and former governor of Missouri, told President Wilson at Washington he would accept the post of ambassador to Russia to succeed George T. Matye. who has resigned. His nomination will be sent to the senate. v, ♦ * . * The house military affairs committee at Washington completed the first draft of the land defense bill. It provides: “An increase in the regular army to 147,000 men with 7,000 officers in a skeleton organization that in time of war could be expanded to 275,000.” Under the reserve provisions of the bill Chairman Hay declared that in ten yeav.s the United States would have a reserve of upward of .1,000,000 men.

Foreign It is announced in Berlin that ViceAdmiral Reinhardt Scheer has been appointed cbmmander of the German battle fleet, in succession to Admiral von Pohl, who, after holding the position for a year, is retiring because of' 111 health. * * » Ambassador James W. Gerard, the United States envoy to Germany, broke his collarbone and injured his left side while skiing near Munich, according to a dispatch to London from Berlin. ♦ ♦ ♦ The house of commons at London passed new votes of/credit to the amount’ of $2,100,000,00011 This is expected to carry the war to the end of May, bringing the total sum appropriated by means of votes of credit since the outbreak of the war to £}2,-1-82,000.000. I /