Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1916 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

European War News Germany is ready to grant greatly modified peace terms, according to Information obtained in official circles. The chief modification in this version of the latest German peace terms is t the abandonment by Berlin of the proposal for the establishmen tof Poland and Lithuania, as independent kingdoms and tile proposal to pay a Belgian indemnity offset by allied indemnities. * * * A Petrogrnd dispatch says: “In the course of tin order issued to all the units of tluv Russian army, the emperor, in a brief review, shows how the inequalities in the technical resources for warfare as between the allies and tin 1 central powers are being gradually removed. The result, the order points out, is that the enemy strength is apparent ly waning, while that, of Russia and her allies is certainly growing.” • • * The five-day battle in eastern Wallacliia has resulted in The piercing of t the Russian lines at several points, army headquarters announced at Berlin. The Russians were defeated definitely sontinvest of Riiimik-Sarat. Several fortified villages have been captured by the Teutonic Danube army. * * * The capture of 5,590 Russian prisoners in the Roumanian theater of war was announced by the German war office tit Berlin, The strdhgly defended Roumanian village of Filipesti, on the Buzeu-Zraila railroad, has been captured by storm by Austro-German troops. * * * The London Daily Chronicle says it understands a Swedish note, identical In purport with the note of the Swiss government concerning President Wilson’s peace, initiative, lias been presented to the belligerent governments. ,** * . The reply of the German allies to the peace note of President Wilson was given to Ambassador Gerard at Berlin. It failed to name any peace terms. The reply renews the offer made by Chancel lo: von Betlinmnnlloliweg on December 21. to enter immediately into a peace conference. * * * Two Italian patrol boats were Sunk, one Italian destroyer was set on tire and three others' were damaged by shells during a raid by four AustroHungarian destroyers in Otranto channel, the Vienna admiralty a’unounced. A dispatch from Rome says three destroyers wore damaged. * * * South of Maghdadali. in Egypt. British troops have destroyed Turkish positions. More than 1,250 Turks have been raptured, says an official dispatch to London from Cairo. * * * * The Overseas News agency, Berlin, quotes the Gorman press its saying: “By an official utterance the, British government openly admits that its merchant ships have been armed for attack.” * * * The presence on this side .of the Atlantic of a formidable fleet of allied warships was Indicated definitely at Boston. The vessels are known officially ;ts commerce protectors. They are heavily armed and disguised. * * * Germany handed to the neutral nations whose servieoH she asked in forAvnrdiyg peace suggestions to her enemies, it sealed packet containing the specific terms Upon which she was willing to make peace, according to a report in circulation at Rome. The packet wits to be read and forwarded to Germany’s enemies only in case those powers actually requested terms. * * * A Reuter dispatch to London from Amsterdam says: “German newspapers are being instructed to declare that tiie Somme battle now has been really finished. They state that the German position now is stronger than on July 1. • * • In the Dobrudja the left wing of the Roumanian army abandoned Isaktcha (Isaceea) and Tulteha (Tulcea), which places were occupied by the Teutons, says a Petrograd dispatch. * * * Domestic The Union Pacific railroad is blocked in Wyoming by snow for the first time, it is said, in 20 years. Not a passenger train is moving between Laramie and Rawlins, Wyo. Nineteen trains are being held at various points. ■ From twenty-one to seventy persons were killed in a tornado that struck south central Arkansas, according to reports received at Little Rock, Ark. Four are known to be dead at England, 17 are reported killed at Keo and set** eral lives are declared lost at the state convict farm at Tucker. * * * The'" "‘battleship Delaware was rammed and a hole three feet in diameter Mas stove in its stern above the water line by the naval tug Sonoma at the navy yard at Norfolk, Va. No one was Injured. • .

Three coaches filled with passengers were hurled over a .‘lO-foot embankujeut at Xidintv. Mich., when the St. I'a ul railroad’s ('upper Country flyer was ditched by a broken rail. Twenty were injured. , * * * The appeal of John D. Shoop, .superintendent of Chicago schools, to the war department to assign Capt. E. Z. St cover. United States army, to Chi* ei'go schools, has been granted. Secretary of War 1 hiker gave his formal approval (o the.plan which places Captain Steevor at the head of all military institutions there. * * * Two men were killed and three others injured seriously at Penobscot, Pa., when a Jersey Central engine, running light, and a freight train collided. * * * More than $1,000,000,000 net income from operations wyx made by the railroads of the country (luring the year now closing. Statistics gathered by the interstate commerce commission at Washington complete for nine months and made the basis for calculation for the entire year, indicate that the total net income from operations will he approxiinately $1,008,000,000. * * * Mark K. Bacon of Wyandotte, a Republican, was declared elected congressman from the Second Michigan district, * * * Mexican War News

<' •nera I .Carranza, first chief of the Mexican do facto govonmont. lias ordered 1 Pisco orredondo, Mexican ambassador designate, to withdraw front the United States without delay.; This move,: whi eh has the aspect of a rupture of such diplomatic relations as exist: betwecii the Mexican de facto government and the United States, created consternation among administration officials at Washington who confessed they art 1 lnystitied by the ttnheralded action. • * * * San Luis Potosi, Mex.. is in the hands of Villa’s bandits. The entire garrison was taken prisoner by Villa alter a brief battle. /* *, * Hope was practically abandoned in Washington that auV working agreement can' now he reached between the American and Mexican commissions. First Chief Carranza’s: failure to accept promptly tin 1 protocol arranged by the Amerlcan-Mexican commission is responsible for the preseti t situation. , * * * A machine gun Was turned upon Mexican snipers near Hart’s Mill. Tex., by soldiers of the Third Kentucky infant r.v, Mexicans have been shooting into tin 1 camp of the American guardsmen nearly every night. * * * Villa troops defeated a large force of CarrunzisUis near San Pedro, in Cnejhtiila, accordant to reports received at El Paso, Tex., by the military authorities and by mining men. Thirteen hundred Carranza soldiers were captured in the battle. General Santos, who was in command of the Carranza troops, was killed. * * * W as king ton Springfield, Mass., Baltimore, Columbia, S. C„ Louisville, New Orleans, Sr. Louis, St. Paul, Omaha, Wichita, Houston, Tex., Berkeley, Cal., and Spokane; have been chosen as locations for 12 federal farm loan banks. The 12 districts into which the country is divided were announced by the farm loan board tit Washington. * * * The passing of tike old regiine at the enpitol a't Washington was marked by the death of Frank Jones, for 48 years doorkeeper of the United States senate. • V * * Administration men, officials at Washington, said Secretary Lansing will welcome the investigation by which Representative Wood proposes to ascertain whether any high vobernment officials or their relatives profited by the Wall street upset attendant upon Lansing’s two interpretive statements Thursday and the Wilson peace note. * • * Personal Mine, de Thebes, famous throughout •the world as an astrologist and clairvoyant, died at Meung-Sur-Lalre, Paris, at the age of seventy-two years. The real name of Mine, de Thebes was Anna Victorine Savigny. She predicted the San Francisco earthquake and the war. * * * Rt. Rev. Henry J. Richter, bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Grand Rapids, Mich., died of pneumonia. * * * The engagement of Miss Gladys C. C. Fries to E. Roland Harriman. son of the late E. H. Harriman, was announced at New York. * * • Foreign The Norwegian steamship Sno, 1,822 tons, has been sunk, says a dispatch to Lloyd’s at London. * * * The British foreign office at London has received advices that the Greek government is out Its promise to demobilize the Greek army. The work is proceeding satisfactorily, the advices indicate. - • • * It Is announced officially at Berlin that 320 workmen, who had been transported from Belgium to Germany, have returned to their homes in response to a number of complaints. Other cases are bejng investigated.