Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1917 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

U. S. —Teutonic Break Reports from all sections? of Philadelphia tell, of organized efforts being made in. many cities and boroughs to stimulate recruiting in the army, navj and marine corps, and organization of local committees to arouse popular interest in defense measures. More than .eighty Slavs ■ , employed, in the steel mills at Sharon. Pa.. i been drilling for th? last ‘two months, and have volunteered for naval service. | Forty-five Roumanians have -formed a (•ontpany and will offer, their, seiyices | In event of war. . ’• The German government will ask i American ofiicltds and relief \utrnW> .of the American commission for relief in Belgium to submit to a period of ‘•news quarantine," the time not to ex-' Ceed 4 four weeks, to prevent tnilitar> information beiilg given out. says a dispatch received at Amsterdam. ♦ * * or ' A mid' cheers, shouts, waving of flags ami the Hare of photographers flashlights Compaim's G of the First Illinois infantry left Chicago for •‘somewhere in Illinois.” The troops were scheduled to begin guarding a point of strategic import am-e within the state. ' ° ♦ ♦ ♦ The New York Herald says it has obtained from observers at Montauk Point, L. 1., information that two German war submarines of the latest type, were seen distinctly a few miles frmri slr.re. Continuing the Herald -says: “Their obvious, objective will be an attack upon New A ork harbor if war is declared.” * * *

An attempt by three men to enter the arsenal reservation at Watertown, Mass., by burrowing under a fence was reported by Patrolman David A. Thompson, who said he fired five shots at th? men after two of them liad fired at him. The men escaped. • * * Four hundred and eleven officers and men of the Kronprinz Wilhelm arrived at Atlanta, Ga. The interned officers and men of the Prince Eitel Friedrich were sent to Oglethorpe. ♦ * ♦ The United States government at Washington has granted safe-conduct for German officials in China to pass through this country. They will probably land at San Francisco. ♦ ♦ ♦ Twenty-nine members of the Aerial Coast Patrol, the “millionaire flying corps,” left for West Palm Beach, Fla. They were for.training by Secretary Daniels, The order vtas received .at New York following the enrollment of the corps in the naval fly* ing reserve corps. •.-•;■ ♦ ♦ ♦ The American liner St. Louis, first armed .American ship to cross the Atlantic, has arrived safely at its destina-' tion, Secretary Daniels announced at Washington. * * i* J. P. Morgan & C 0,,, it was announced at New York, hate agreed to advance an amount up to $1,000,000, without interest, to relieve possible embarrassment of the depot quartermaster of the war department in the purchase of army supplies. ♦ * ♦ Congressman James R. Mann of Chicago, Republican leader of the house, announced at Washington that in the country’s crisis he would forego all ambition to be speaker of the house of representatives to prevent any possible deadlock in the house organization and the meeting of congress to enact legislation needed for the safety ot the nation. ' Reports reached the state department at Washington that German agents in Russia-are seeking to foment a counter-rev<dHi/on by Russian socialists present provisional government. So far their ,efforts have been unsuccessful. Corporal Frank E. Zellmak of L company, Seventeenth United States infantry, shot himself, his companions said, rather than stand guard over German interned sailors at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. He was a native Hungarian.

European War News r The village of Coucy-'LerChateau was captured by the French, the Prris war office announces. Further progress was made in the lower section of Coucy forest, all of the northern part of which is now held by the French. . The sinking of 25" more steamships, 14 sailing Vessels and 37 trawlers, with an aggregate gross tonnage of 80,000, In the last few days, was announced by the admiralty at Berlin. * * * .- ’ Hindenburg struck on the eastern front what are generally interpreted as the Initial blows in a drive against the heart of Russia. Contrary to expectations, these first attacks did not come on the Riga front, but ofi the sector between Dvinsk and Pinsk. Petrograd officially reports the repulse of both attacks. - -7 ... , ——’ * - ~

Eli H... Redman, former circuit court judge, one of the men convicted of election frauds in Terre Haute and sentenced in 191 a to five years imprisonment in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, died at the federal prison Friday after a few days’ illness. He leaves a wife and one son. The body was brought to Terre Haute for burial.