Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1917 — WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE . I Notes Covering Most Important Ha|> penings of the World Compiled ' In Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. If. S—Teutonic Break The last day <>f the first month of unrestricted L'-boat warfare leaves the month's total; 28.000 tons below the half-million mark. This total, however, includes only vessels ’definitely reported by name to have been sunk ami does not include the toll oh February 28. ' . / • • * Three American consuls and two consulate officers are still detained in Germany because the German government declines to secure for them safe conducts through Austria-Hungary that they may proceed to new posts in Turkey, it was learned at Washington. It is understood they are detained because of failure of this government to secure safe conducts for German consuls here to South American posts.

• • » Complete arrangements for the withdrawing of American diplomatic and consular officers from Austria-Hungary have been made by Ambassador Penfield on instructions from the.state department at Washington. • • • German Chancellor von BethmannHollweg told the German rpichstag at Berlin that President Wilson’s action in breaking off relations with Germany* was “unprecedented.*' He characterized the method by which America terminated friendly intercourse as “brusque.”

Demand that the United States avenge his mother’s and sister's death was made in a cable dispatch from London to President Wilson by Austin Hoy. Both Mrs. Hoy and her daughter lost their lives on the liner Laconia. • • » Berlin reports that German submarines which have just returned to their base report the sinking of 21 ships. Eleven were steamers, two were sailing ships and eight were trawlers. Among the steamers sunk was a British transport, A-19. ’* *. * Authority to place the United States on a basis of armed neutrality to meet the Gorman submarine campaign would be conferred on President Wilson by a resolution introduced in the house at Washington by Chairman Flood of - the foreign relations committee. ♦ «. » Mrs. Mary Hoy and Miss Elizabeth Hoy. wife and daughter Of Dr. Albert H. Hoy. formerly of Chicago but now of London, were drowned when the Cunard liner Laconia was torpedoed anfi sunk by a German submarine off the poasf of Ireland. Of the 291 passengers and members of the crew on board the vessel, seven besides Mrs. and Miss Hoy are reported missing.

♦ ♦ ♦ * .. It" was announced at The Hague that the German government has offered to replace the seven Dutch merchantmen which were torpedoed off the English coast last week with German freighters until the end of the war on condition, that Holland purchase them afterward. Two hundred persons were killed and 700 wounded and 80,000 tons of ammunition was destroyed by the blowing up of a French ammunition plant near Paris, says a dispatch to the Overseas News agency at Berlin.

Telegraphing from Madrid Reuter’s correspondent says that James W. Gerard, former American ambassador to Germany, left the Spanish capital on a special train for Coruna, where the party will embark for the voyage to the United States. The Duke of Zaragoza drove the engine, having volunteered sot the task. ♦ • * Government troops in Cuba have captured Camaguey, It is announced officially. The rebels fled after offering slight resistance. It is reported from Santa Clara that heavy fighting at Loma del Grillo resulted in the defeat of rebel forces under Gerardo Machado and Sanchez del Portal.

Domestic v Four men were killed and one injured at Cincinnati when an automobile in which they were riding collided with a Madison road street car. ♦ ♦ * Legislation granting women limited suffrage was killed so far as. the present session of the Tennessee legislature is concerned when the state senate voted 18’to 10, to table a to reconsider a bill for that purpose. W. J. Bryan, in a statement issued at ■» Jacksonville, Fla., announced he was opposed to granting powers to the president such as Mr. Wilson requested of congress. He announced he would go immediately to Washington and use his influence to have the request de-

. More than 200 employees of the Rock Island shops at Cedar Rapids, la., telegraphed to Congressman Good a resolution supporting the stand of President Wilson on the rupture with Germany. A petition favoring/peace had been circulated in the shops and tQ this the 200 men object. Twenty-two homeward bound employees of the Ohio Steel foundry were hurled through the air and then crushed beneath train wheels when a Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton freight struck their auto-bus at Lima,, O. Seven were killed and'twelve hurt. • » • While crossing the Mississippi river on the ice in an auto, Jesse Welch of Montpelier. la., and Clifton Brisgel and the son of the station agent at the same place, were drowned. ♦ .. * Robbers got from a vault of the First National bank ;it Dayton, pa., §15,and an uiiesri mated amount of securities. Food prices were tumbling when 281 carl««ad- of foodstuffs arrived in New York and broke the “corners” which had been existing for weeks.

European War News Strenuous attacks, carried out by German troops in the Carpathians, resulted in the capture of several Russian positions on the heights, 12 officers and more than 1,300 men, it was officially announced at Berlin. Several counter-attacks were repulsed. The sundFy civil bill, carrying appropriations totaling §138,000,000 and providing $4 w.tnjp for an investigation of the high cost of living by the federal trade commission, passed the house at Washington without a record vote. • * • The war office at London announced that British troops occupied the important village of Gommecourt and captured the villages of Thilloy and Puie-sieux-Au-Mont as well, advancing their , ..line more than half a mile to the northeast of Gommecourt. * / Turkish troops taken prisoner by the British at Kut-el-Amara now number several thousands, Earl Curzon, member of the war council, stated in the house of lords at London. The British advance along the Ancre river has attained a depth of two miles and extends along a front of about,, eleven miles, according to the officiaP report to London from British headquarters in France.

Twenty-six Americans, six of whom were cabin passengers, and twenty paid members of tine crew, were on board the Cunard liner Laconia, from New York February 18 for Liverpool, with 75 passengers and a crew of 216, when the vessel was sunk by a German submarine off Ireland. « « • The British have captured Kut-el-Amara. the war office announced at London, aftd now are pursuing the retreating Turks. » • • German destroyers bombarded Broadstairs and Margate, England. One woman and one child were killfed and two persons were injured. Two houses were damaged. This announcement was made in the house of commons.

A dispatch .from The Hague „says Holland’s strained relations with Germany are near the breaking point as result of attacks by submarines on seven Dutch steamships. General indignation is expressed over the attacks, which are termed "deliberate.’’ Germgpy tacitly agreed to except Dutch ships from attack up to February 22, •‘But could not guarantee absolute safety." The seven ships were attacked on February 22. ‘ Under cover of a heavy fog and mist, the Germans carried out the greatest retirement they have made on the; western front in the last two years. The British have swept into possession of Pys, Serve. Miraumont and Petit Miraumont, including the famous Butte de Warlencourt. The German retirement is estimated by the war office in London at a depth of three miles at some points.

Washington The administration revenue bill, designed to raise 8350,000,000 through special taxes and bond issues, was passed by the senate at Washington by a strict party vote. 47 to 33. “I have done, am now doing and will continue to do everything in my power to keep the United States at peace.” This was the assurance given a group of pacifists by President Wilson at Washington. * • • Bids were opened by the” navy department at Washington for 2,400 onepound guns and mounts. 250 three-inch guns and mounts and several four and five-inch mounts. These guns are the type most effective against submarines. William Jennings Bryan is ready to a support President Wilson in his request to congress for enlarged powers to protect American lives and property on the seas and for the maintenance of armed neutrality. He made this statement at Washington. A unanimous report saying that no one save two Washington newspaper men—J. Fred Essary and W. W. Price —were responsible for whatever “leak” there was on President Wilson’s peace note, was presented to the house at Washington.