Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 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 / K. ' Notes Covering Most Important Happenings of the World Compiled In Briefest and Most Succinct Farm for Quick Consumption. U.S, —Teutonic War News America is to be consulted and its co-operation asked in every plan which the entente allies will make in regard to the future conduct of the war. It is to-be urged to agree with the entente powers, not only on the methods of defense, but also the methods of making peace. The full program will be placed before the American government soon after the arrival at Washington of the British commission, which will be headed by Arthur J. Balfour, minister of foreign affairs. ♦ • • Warning that German submarines are operating in the i’acitic were sent to all steamship captains at sea by wireless by order of Lieut. Com. E. C. Woods of the Twelfth naval district at San Francisco. ♦ * ♦ The provisional government at Petrograd has issued a lengthy proclamation directing attention to the grave danger of a German effort to deliver a decisive' blow at Russia and the necessity of immediately concentrating all of Russia’s forces for the defeat of the enemy. Russia has renounced all idea of territorial expansion. • * * - Immediate creation of a federal food commission, with power to iix prices and to .supervise marketing and distribution of food in the United States during the war, was proposed formally by the National Agricultural society at Washington. In a letter read to the convention President Wilson appealed to the farmers to swell their, production as a patriotic wartime duty. The house ways and means committee at Washington decided on a $7,--000,'MOW war loan. —The Committed agrc d to an issue of $3,000,000,000 in bonds and $2,000,000,000 additional in certificates of indebtedness. Both .bonds and Ct rtiiicates are to bear per cent interest. Under the terms of the. MH agreed on by the committee, the president ami secretary of the treasury are absolutely unhampered in the making of u loan 0f'53,000,000,000 to the allies. T

* * » Frederick Reuter. acting German' vice consul in Juarez, was taken into custody at Fl Paso, Tex,, and interned at Fort Bliss. Router's. home' is in El Paso and he has been going to Juarez daily, lie was Warned that he must cease crossing“to the American side. » , ♦ * ' Every drop of Catholic blood in Chicago, every penny of the great wealth of the Catholic church was pledged to support the United States against her enemies by Archbishop George AV. Mundelein of the diocese of Chicago. * * * The captains and officers of the seized German steamers at New York, signed a certificate declaring positively that no explosives had been left on the vessels, nor had the structure-hf' the ships been weakened in any way. ■ ’ * * * All the crew of the American steamer Seward, torpedoed without warning in the Mediterranean, have been safely landed, according to official word received at Paris. The Seward carried a general cargo valued at $300,000. * * ♦ Austria-Hungary, under the pressureof Germany, has severed diplomatic relations with the United States. , Baron Eric von Zwiedinek,charge d'affaires of the Austro-i limgarian embassy at asked for passports for himself and the embassy staff. Secretary Lansing in a statement said every effort had been made to prevent Austria from taking the drastic step. All Austrian ships in American ports have been seized. o * President Wilson's ad yi sers at Washington have decided to press congress at Q»ce fdr. authorization for launching the great $3,500,000,000 military plans of the ■administration and $2,000,000,000 or $3,000,000,000 to the entente. * » * Cuba is at war with Germany. At 7 :16 Saturday night President Menocal affixed, his signature to the joint war resolution passed unanimously by both the senate and house at Havana without a dissenting voice being raised. The singing of German songs in the public schools of Davenport, la., has been ordered stopped by the school authorities during the war between the United States and Germany. Much of the uncertainty as to Latin America’s attitude in the war between the United States and Germany was cleaned away by definite advices to Washington that Chile and Mexico will remain neutral and that Brazil, Argentina, Guatemala and will join ' Cuba and Panama on the side of the United States.

Without a dissenting vote, the Minnesota state < note at St. Patil passed the Sullivan bill appropriating $1,000,000 to be used.lor war purposes in Minnesota. , ' f .. ♦ ♦ ■'■■■'■' The state department at Washington was notified that the American liner New York struck a mine five miles off Liverpool bar. No casualties are reported. The steamer proceeded to Liverpool. * * * • European War News , London announces that the British swqep east of Arras turned the" northern pivot of the famous Von Hindenburg line and large forces of British troops are pressing far beyond the top of that German barrier, which was prepared mopths of labor. More than 11,000 Germans taken during the last two days already have been counted. g 7 ; ’—•• ■ • ' • “The party of the fatherland and the army,” which includes most of the. members of the Petrograd garrison, has adopted a resolution strongly supporting the war. “We urge the continuance of the war td a victorious conclusion,” reads the resolution, “namely, a peace restoring the ancient frontiers of ’Russia and free Poland, Including the German and Russian territory.” ■* * * Germany has stopped all mail service both direct and indirect with the United States. Telegraph service also has been stopped. * * * German positions in the region of Lotnbartzyde, Belgium, were penetrated at two points, the French war office announces at Paris. •• ■ ♦ Washington The Argentine embassy at Washington handed Secretary of State Lansing a note from its government strongly supporting the position this country has taken in going to war with Germany. -"~w~ • » • The army bill carrying appropriations of $278,000,000 was passed by the senate at Washington. ' •»." The senate at Washington passed the sundry civil appropriation bill which passed the house carrying appropriations of $138,000,000. The .appropriations committee of the senate increased this to $144,000,000. ? ’ * Tn the open senate at Washington the flood control bill carrying an appropriation of $10,000,000 for the prevention of floods in the lower Mississippi and the Sacramento rivers was voted in as an amendment and the bill carrying a total of $154,000,000 was passed without a roll call. 7** » » The. senate at Washington passed the administration bill providing a pehalty of $lO.6'M) fine aifd 3'l years’ imprisonment tor destroying or attempting to destroy war material or aiiy instrumentality of transportation used for such material.

* ♦ * Oregon's law, fixing minimum wages for woujen. the first compulsory minimum .wage. stafijtd ever before the Supreme court at Washington, was upheld as constitutional by an equallydivided court. Similar compulsory laws of Washington, Colorado, Wisconsin, California, Utah, .Minnesota ami Ohio likewise were sustained. ♦ ♦ ♦ t. Foreign Herr Pauli, the German minister to Brazil, was hamh d a note to his government ami passports for himsgelf, said a dispatch, from Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian capital. * .* * Direct and secret election-of deputies in Prussia tit the. end of the war is provided for by Emperor William in his order to Chancellor von BcthmannI Toll weg at Berlin, directing reforms in the Prussian electoral law. He declares that “in view of the gigantic deeds of the entire people there is no more room in Prussia for elections by the classes. ” . 7 i'T/l • .. . Personal Richard Olney, secretary of state under President Cleveland, died at Boston. Mr. Olney. who Was eighty-two years old, had been ill several weeks; ,» ♦ » Represent at ivy Henry T. Ilelgesbn of North,Dakota (Rep.) died at Washington of appendicitis. This makes another vacancy on the Republican side.

Domestic In anticipation of dizzy war prices in butter and eggs and a large amount of speculation, the < 'hieago, butter and egg board voted- unanimously to abolish the rule providing for trading in futures. ♦ ♦ • Maj. Geh. George Goethajs, builder of the Panama canal, was formally requested by President Wilson to take charge of the building of 1.000 wooden ships for foreign commerce. ♦ • * Heads of the principal railroads of the United States- meeting at Washington at the call of the council of national defense, appointed a board of five men to direct the operations of American railways throughout the war. ' • • • ■ One hundred and twelve persons, most of them women and girls, lost their lives and 121 were injured by a series of terrific explosions in the shrapnel building of' the Eddystone Ammunition corporation at Eddystone, Pa.