Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1917 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

U. S. —Teutonic Break Concern over Americans in. Turkey was somewhat relieved at Washington, wlien the state department received messages from Constantinople via Copenhagen. The messages showed unusual danger to Americans, the department said. The bpoak between the United States an'd Gejinany is treated as a matter of gravest importance t<> Mexico by El Pueblo, a Carranza organ of Moxiet) City. The editor in an editorial begs the Mexicans to restrain feelings. Senator Saulsbury of Delaware, president pro tern of the senate at Washington and one of the senators closest to the White House, introduce/ a bill designed to throw open Aine/can ports to entente warships which are engaged.in resisting German submarine warfare. * ♦ • Speaking at New York, Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, chairman of the national patrol commission, after recalling the surprise caused by the sudden appearance of the German submarine U-53 and the raids off Nantucket, gave‘’this warning - “Within 30 days we may have a thousandfold greater shock from tluj air, with ourselves as victims instead of spectators.” ♦ * * A fleet said to contain 35 merchant ships, carrying to the allied armies the greatest quantity of food and supplies shipped at one time since the war began, left' Virginia capes, convoyed by a converted cruiser and two new British speed cruisers.

» » * It was announced at Washington upon the highest authority, ■ the proposals for safeguarding Americans and American ships Germany is prepared to. make to the United States if President Wilson consents to a discussion of the questions in dispute between the two nations. These proposals, in substance, are: That all American ships be allowed to pass through the submarine war zones without molestation. That the United States designate the siiips not carrying contraband, which guaranty will obtain immunity for those vessels. “ * ♦ * Unless the United States government provides convoys or guns and gunners to. protect ships the American line, owners of the steamships St. Louis, St. Paul and other liners will not send its .vessels across the Atlantic, it was announced .at New York. * * *

Washington Despite a time-honored rule against demonstrations of any kind, Democratic members of the senate and house at Washington broke out in wild applause when Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Riley Marshall were officially proclaimed chosen by the people to succeed themselves, as president and vice president of the United States, respectively. > \•* * * The Mexican government’s representative at Washington delivered to Secretary of State Lansing a memorial to the neutral nations of the world by General Carranza proposing mediation between , the European belligerents and, if this fails, an embargo by all neutrals against the export of war munitions and food. Carranza offers the plan as a means of starving the belligerents into peace. * * • The federal trade commission announced at Washington that at the direction of the president it would begin immediately an investigation of the high “cost of foods in the United States, with special reference to alleged violations of the antitrust acts. » ♦ * It was announced at Washington that Ignacio Bonillas, one of General Carranza’s representatives on the Mex-ican-American joint has been named ambassador from Mexico to the -United States. • * * It was announced at Washington that President Wilson nominated the following persons to be postmasters: Illinois—Anna Byron, Bourbonnais. lowa—H. D. Mussmqn. Germania; Arthur E. Bassett. Little Sioux; Oscar G. Conwell, Lovilia; Peter H. Jurgensen, Lowden; Josephine McMahon, Melbourne; C. Ola Goode, Melcher; William 11. Fowler, Paton; Emil M. Peters, Schleswig; John Grant, Stanwood ; Mayme L. .Petersen, Totenka. • • •... A $300,000 appropriation to pay £Xpenses of the newly created tariff commission for the next fiscal year was requested of congress by Secretary McAdoo at Washington. • *■ Bitter condemnation of the rivers aqd harbors bill carrying approximately $38,500,000, described as “the fattest of the pork-barrel measures,” is contained in a report submitted to tffe senate at/Washington by the minority members of the senate commerce committee, the majority of which has recommended the bill.

The right of railroads to charge a single passenger occupying a Pullman drawing-room two fares was upheld by the Interstate commerce commission at Washington, The tariff was fought by Henry H. Carter of Boston. European War News Speaking in the house of lords at London, Earl Curzon, member Of the wag council, said Admiral Jellicoe, first lord of the admiralty, was, “not dissatisfied” with the number of German submarines which would never return to Germany. * * * Official announcement was made at London that the British forces on the Tigris . front have established a line across the Tigris bend west of Kut-el-Amara, completely hemming in the Turks, »•* * - The-capture of more than 400 Italian prisoners was reported by the w’ar office at Vienna in an official statement. There has been heavy fighting near Goritz, where the Austro-Hungarians have captured some trenches and repulsed counter-attacks. Trieste has been bombarded by Italian airmen. ♦ ♦ ♦ Five German army corps concentrated on the Holland frontier furnish a fairly convincing explanation, in default of other reasons, for the failure of the Dutch government to adopt the policy toward Germany recommended by President Wilson on account of the German submarine campaign, says a dispatch from Copenhagen. • * • It is officially announced at Rome that two Austrian seaplanes which were scouting off the Albanian coast were shot down near Sanes. Two of the occupants of the machines were made prisoner. One of the seaplanes was captured and the other sunk. • * * In the forest of Apremont we penetrated the enemy’s lines and made nine prisoners, including three noncommissioned officers, says the Paris war office. * • ♦

Domestic James B. Regan, a New York hotel proprietor, denied at the “leak” inquiry that he had ever received advance information of the peace note from Joseph P. Tumulty, the president’s secretary. The Ohio senate at “Columbus, 0., passed the Reynolds bill giving Ohio Women the privilege of voting for president. The vote was 20 to 16. The bill already has' passed the house and Governor Cox Iras intimated he will sign it. • ♦ ♦ Three masked robbers, heavily armed, entered the barns of tl)c street railway company at San Jose, Cal., overpowered, bound and gagged five employees, blew open three safes end escaped with about $3,000. , > * * * ■ An urgent plea that the United States strengthen its military forces on the contention that “a government is only as strong as the military force behind it,” was voiced by Gov. E. L. Philipp at Milwaukee in a welcome address to Wisconsin National Guardsmen, who recently returned from service on the Mexican border. * * ♦ The Robert C. Clowry, repair ship of the Commercial Cable company of New York, picked up off the beach at Far Rockaway one end of a cut cable, and is searching for the other »end. The damaged cable’s European end is at Waterville,: Ireland, whence messages are forwarded to England and France.

The arrival of the steamship New York at New York brought the number of American transatlantic passenger ships at this port up to four. The New York sailed from Liverpool on February 3 and, according to wireless messages received, its passengers passed through the submarine war zone without incident. ♦ * * Sporting The baseball players’ strike, in so far as it would affect the National league, was virtually called off at New York as a result of efforts by John MdGraw, manager of the New York Nationals, acting as unofficial mediator between the club owners and the Baseball Players’ fraternity. - ♦ * * Joie Ray, a supple, lithe-limbed specimen of athletic magnificence, broke the American indoor running record at Madison Square garden, New York. His time was 9 minutes and 11 2-5 seconds for the five miles. The former record, made by George Bonhag in 1910, was 9:14 1-5. ♦ ♦ ♦ Foreign The Nortlicliffe papers of London are beginning to show not merely impatience but thinly veiled hostility to Premier Lloyd-George and his cabinet. Probably Lord Nortlicliffe is looking around for a new prime minister. * t t ... ' ■ . Diplomatic circles at Washington heard reports that China had broken diplomatic relations with Germany as a result of the German submarine campaign. ■ • * . * President Menocal of Cuba issued a decree authorizing a call for volunteers between the ages of eighteen and for-ty-five years to serve for a period of 90 days, to aid in fight against rebels. ’Fire swept through a large section of the Piraeus and caused a heavy loss of life, says a dispatch from Greece.