Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1916 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

European War Aewj An Italian shell has blown up the largest munition depot at Roverto and the town is now in flames, according to a news dispatch to Paris from Home. Several heavy guns were destroyed by the explosion. On the Artois front the British have made fresh attacks in the sector of Givenchy, but they were repulsed, the German war office announced at Berlin. Heavy losses were suffered by the Englisl| troops, it was stated. The entente allies have occupied the railroad station at Florina, south of Monastic, according to a Saloniki dispatch to Paris. The Germans have bombarded the village of Potheles, south of Doiran. The Germans have reoccupied Fort Douaumont, while the French hold the Immediate approach to that position. This announcement is made in the official communication issued by the French war office at Paris. This success of the Germans followed capture by the Teutonic troops of the village of Cumieres, east of Dead Man hill.

• • * Spurred on by their success in taking the larger portion of Fort Douaumont from the Germans, the French are continuing their terrific drive in an effort to dislodge the enemy from the small angle still retained, the ■war office announced at Paris. Berlin denies the Germans have been forced back. » ♦ * Along the Isonzo front the Italians have made prisoners of Bulgarians, showing that Bulgars have joined the Austrians in their present offensive, says a dispatch from Rome. • * * The house of commons at London passed the $1,500,000,900 credit asked by Premier Asquith for war purposes The credit voted ..by the commons brings the total since the war began up to $11,900,000,000. . ♦ ♦ ♦ The Italians have been driven from their entire position on Lavarone plateau; the Austrian war office announcement says: it is stated that the Italian defeat is steadily becoming more serious. The number of Italians taken prisoner has been increased to 23,883. * ♦ ♦ French infantry stormed and captured German positions in Fort Douaumont after a powerful artillery preparation, the Paris official report says. The Ger mans still hold the northern part of the fort, but a number of prisoners were captured by the French. German positions on the entire front were captured.

Several lines of British positions on ! a front of about - one and one-third i miles have been captured by the Ger- J mans southwest of Giveuchy-En-Ge-1 belle; it was officially announced at Berlin. German troops also stormed French positions on the eastern spurs of Hill 304, on the Verdun front. A thousand French soldiers were captured. * * * George Boillot, French automobile racer arid aeronaut, has been killed in a tight with live German aeroplanes. He succeeded in bringing down one of trip German machines before a bullet pierced his heart. Russian troops have joined the British at Mesopotamia and an allied drive on Bagdad is now believed to be imminent, The Russians, after a wild and adventurous ride from Persia, joined the columns of Gen. Sir G. Gorrhighe, which is fighting its way up the Tigris toward Kut, says dispatches to London. • • • Domestic Testimony of Dr. Albertus Adair Moore, the physician who attended John E. Peck, millionaire drug manufacturer of Grand Rapids, in his last illness, for whose murder Mr. Peck’s son-in-law, Dr. Arthur Waite, was placed on trial at New York, indicated that Doctor Waite feared some time before his arrest that he might be accused of causing the death of his fa-ther-in-law. * • * Raymond Robins of Chicago was selected as temporary chairman of the national convention of the Progressive party at Chicago at a meeting at New York of the executive committee of the Progressive national committee. • • • The American steamer Ventura, from San Francisco, reported on arriving at Sydney, N. S. W., that it had picked up while at sea wireless messages from the station at Tuckerton, N. J., when 9,000 miles from the American plant. * • » Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was married at Elliott City, - Md., to Virgil James Montani, son of the late Brig. Gen. Joseph -Montani of the royal Italian army. Mr. Montani is better known as Jack .Clifford, his professional name for many years.

The president and Mrs. Wilson attended the wedding at New York of Miss Alice Gertrudq Gordon and Dr. Cary T. Grayson, past assistant surgeon U. S. N., the White House physician. 5 ; • • • Almost without a dissenting vote the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church held at Saratoga Springs, N. Y„ went on record as favoring woman suffrage. ♦ » * The Supreme court at Washington annulled as unconstitutional the Wisconsin statute making it the duty of state officials to revoke the license to do business in the state of any foreign corporation which shall remove into any federal court any action against it by any citizen of the state upon any claim or cause of action arising within the state. »• * . The Michigan statute imposing a high license tax upon public employment agencies and forcing them to give bond to the state and submit to strict regulations by the state commissioner of labor was held constitutional by the Supreme court at Washington. The court upheld the conviction of Leroy Brazee of Detroit, Mich., for violation of the act. » » » Mexican Revolt General Funston electrified the military camp at Fort Sam Houston with orders to proceed to the border as quickly as possible. ♦ « A note from the de facto government of Mexico to the government of the United States, demanding the immediate withdrawal of the American troops from Mexico, was dispatched to Washington. The note states the Mexican people do not want war with the United States, but they are ready for war rather than to have their national honor and sovereignty trampled on. * ♦ ♦ Reports to both the state and war departments at Washington further indicated plans of the Carranza government to prosecute pursuit of Chihuahua outlaw bands vigorously while the American forces remain comparatively quiescent. Obregon has ordered 30,000 troops to engage in the bandit hunt. * * * The flying columns of the Eighth and Fourteenth cavalry, detailed by Maj. Gen: Frederick Funston to give chase to the bandit raiders of Glen Springs and Boquillas, have returned to American soil near Boquillas. * * * Two troops of the Fourteenth cay airy are making a forced march southward from a point 40 miles below the river to Cerro Blanco to re-enforce Major Langhorne’s 90 troopers, who were reported at Marathon. Tex., beleaguered by several hundred Yaqui Indians. - Foreign John Mac Neill, president of the Sinn Fein volunteers and professor of law in the National university, was found .guilty of complicity in the Irish uprising by a court-martial at Dublin He will be sentenced later in the week. Miss Stiliemann, an American instructor at Roberts college, who had been imprisoned at Warnemunde for carrying a secret code, has been released and is departing for America, Ambassador Gerard stated at Berlin.

* ♦ ♦ The Exchange Telegraph company at Londeifl sajs'ft learns from diplomatic circles that Ppince von Buelow, former German chanceTfqr, is proceeding to Washington, charged by Emperor William with a special mission. » * * Spencer Churchill declared in the house of commons at London that the allies now have 200,000 officers with a similar number of servants and 60,000 grooms. He said that officers’ servants and grooms should be abolished. J ♦ * ♦ If ashmgton Senator Hitchcock’s resolution looking toward the relief of starving Po land was recommended to the senate at Washington for passage by the foreign relations committee. The resolution requests the president to furnish the senate with data regarding the the British obstruction to the proposed relief in order that congress may act. * ♦ ♦ The army reorganization plan developed in conference between the senate arid house at Washington and providing for a larger standing army for thde country, together with increased and enlarged defenses, was approved by the house by a vote of 349 to 25. The bill provides a standing army of about 218,000 men. The bill is now ready for the president’s signature. ♦ • ♦ By a vote of 60 to 37 the house at Washington, in the committee of the whole, adopted an amendment to grant suffrage to the women of Porto Rico. It was proposed by Republican Leader Mann. » •< • • The naval appropriation bill, the biggest national defense measure—was reported to the house at Washington from the naval affairs committee. It carried a total of $241,449,151.99, about $90,000,000 more than last year’s bill. ♦ * ♦ The senate judiciary committee at Washington, after weeks of consideration, by a vote of ten to eight,, decided to make a favorable report to the senate on the nomination of Louis D. Brandeis to be an associate justice of the Supreme court.