Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1916 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

Mexican Revolt Frederick Griese, German banker of Mexico City, detained at El Paso, Tex., by department of justice agents on the suspicion that he had violated American neutrality, was released on receipt of orders from Washington. * * * It was announced at Washington that strong pressure is being brought to bear upon Carranza by representatives of European powers to prevent him from forcing a break with the Uhited States. * * * Gen. John J. Pershing, commander of the expeditionary forces, seized the Mexican towns of Nueva Casas Grandes and Casas Grandes. This information has been received by botli military and state department officials at El Paso, Tex. * * • A squadron of the Tenth cavalry, negro soldiers, was ambushed by Carranzista troops under Gen. Felix Gomez at Carrizal, Mex. General Gomez was killed. A number of Mexican soldiers were also killed and many wounded. Reports from Mexican sources say that 40 Americans were killed and 17 taken prisoner. * * * News of the attack by Carranzistas on an American cavalry detachment at Carrizal struck Washington like a thunderbolt. Everywhere, among officials and On the streets, it was taken to mean that Carranza had attempted to make good his threat to drive the American forces out of Mexico. * * * An admission that the Mexicans who fired upon the American expedition retiring from Mexico near Matamoros were Carranzistas, not bandits, was contained in a message received at the Mexican consulate at El Paso, Tex., from 11. Perez Abreu, director of the de facto consular service. * ■*■■■,♦ ■■ The administration’s indictment of Carranza is on its way and the armed forces of the United States on land and sea are rushing plans to meet any eventuality. War or peace rests with Carranza. The position of the United States government is pointedly set forth in its review of the apparent inability of Carranza to prevent border raids, ": r '

The American flag flying over the hotel iii which was located tlie office of American Consul W. A. Julian at Cananea, Mex., was made the target of hundreds of Mexican bullets during the anti-American demonstration, according to American refugees arriving at Douglas, Ariz. * * * Full and complete authority to use the National Guard as an offensive arm in the Mexican campaign was demanded of congress by President Wilson. Both house and senate will pass at Washington a resolution placing the militia called into service under the absolute authority of the federal government. ** ■ * lptx, The Mexican government in Yucatan lias issued a proclamation ordering out all Americans and declaring a state of war exists between the two countries, according to passengers arriving at Galveston. Tex. * * * The governor of the state of Sinaloa has declared war on the United States, according to a radiogram from Commander Kavanaugh of the gunboat Annapolis at Mazatlan, Mex. * * * President Wilson has called out the militia of every state for service on the Mexican border. Brig. Gen. Alfred Mills, chief of the division of militia affairs, estimates the minimum militia force to be called out at 145,000. ./* * * Sonora military authorities have seized the Southern Pacific railroad of the Mexico system and cut all telegraph wires at the border, according to private advices to Tuscon, Ariz. * * * Domestic Three United States cruisers and three destroyers are steaming under forced draft for the coast of Mexico to pick up Americans in the republic. * * Major General Funston requested the war department at Washington to send to him as soon as possible a large part of the National Guardsmen, to be stationed along the Mexican boundary- “from Brownsville to the Pacific ocean.” * * * Lieut. Carlton D. Chapman, piloting an army biplane, volplaned from an altitude of 4,000 feet near Columbus N. M., and suffered only minor injuries in the descent, which was necessitated by a broken propeller^ * * • More than 2,600 telegraphers and station agents on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad have voted nearly unanimously to strike if the comiNiny again refuses their demands for shorter hours and increased pay

Philadelphia was selected for the meeting of the thirty-fourth triennial conclave of the Knights Templar in 1919. • * m\ • President Wilson reviewed the National Guard of the District of Columbia as it marched through Pennsylvania avenue en route to the mobilization camp at Fort Myer. * * * Missionaries from Turkey arriving at New York ion the ScandinavianAmerican liner Oscar II stated that all of the American mission schools in Marsivan and Sivas, in Asiatic Turkey, valued at $1,000,000, have been taken over by the Turkish government for military purposes. * * * The railway express drivers’ strike at Chicago was called off unconditionally. * • • The United States is preparing for any eventuality in Mexico. Lightdraft warships are being assembled along the east and west coasts of the revolution-torn republic. The entire strength of the mobile National Guard of the nation is being assembled In camps ready for active duty along the border. • * • Four persons met death and damage to the extent of $.700,000 was done at Joplin, Mo., by floods following a heavy rainstorm. * * • Probate Judge V. T. Lawler of Huntsville, Ala., was kidnaped, shot and beaten to death, and his bodyweighted with steel and thrown into a slough in the Tennessee river. • * * European War News A Berlin dispatch to the Copenhagen correspondent of the London Telegraph states that Lieutenant Immelmann, the daring aviator who on the 17th of May brought down his fifteenth aeroplane, was killed on the western front. * • • Six German divisions —120,000 men —have been hurried eastward to check the Russian offensive hearing down upon Lemberg, Geneva dispatches reported. Two German divisions are en route to the Lutsk-Kovel front. • • • The war office at I’etrograd announced that the number of men captured by the Russians in the vicinity of Volliynia and Galicia up to Thursday of last week was 172,484. The official announcement says that in a severe engagement on the Stokhod river German troops were repulsed and took to flight. • * * The Russian drive westward from Volliynia and northward from Czernowitz swept the Austrians farther back opposite the Sereth river at several points. Gilboka, Zadoya and Stroginetz fell before the Russinu hosts, but northward from Lutsk the Russians suffered the first serious setback of tlie present offensive. The defeat ot the Russ came at the hands of the Germans.

The Turkish city of Smyrna, on the coast of Asia Minor, has been nearly destroyed by a mutiny of the garrison ami by the shells of allied warships, according to travelers reaching Rome. * * * Eighty thousand Austrians were cornered by tlie Russians when Czernowitz fell and are threatened with capture unless they make a precipitate retreat, according to dispatches received at I’etrograd. * * * The capture after hitter fighting by the Russians of Czernowitz, capital of the Austro-Hungarian crownland of Bukowina, was officially announced by the Russian war office and admitted by Vienna. * * • Washington The house -it Washington voted an increase of $2,600,000 in the appropriation for aviation in tlie army appropriation Dill. The vote was S 7 to 81. * * * It was announced at the White House in Washington that the nomination of Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory of Austin, Tex., to he a justice of the Supreme court to succeed Charles Evans Hughes, resigned, will be sent to the senate in the near future. * * * The house at Washington by a vote of 208 to 85 found District Attorney--11. Snowden Marshall of New York guilty of contempt of the house of representatives because of Marshall’s Criticism of a subcommittee of the judiciary committee appointed to investigate impeachment proceedings against him. * * • A second note to Austria-Hungary, regarding the attack by an Austrian submarine upon tlie American tank steamer Petrolite, was coded at the state department in Washington for immediate transmission to Vienna. It is understood to demand an apology for the attack and reparation. ** • 4 Foreign Six persons were killed and 11 injured in a fire which started in the Imperial hotel in Liverpool. * * * “France and England can follow only- one policy- in Mexico and that is to support loy ally any action taken by the United States, hoping in the meantime, that it will obtain support from one of the Mexican factions which would facilitate greatly the pacification. of the country,” says a dispatch from Paris.