Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1917 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

U. S.—Teutonic War News . It’.'.- .was /aß.nc»un.wß;.' that GrCH-craJ • r s-. • .T-roops ■ ■ eat f - . 4 vlE* - ;rrimc in the frenches in France. Tbenineregunents of engineers a;~«' ■■ .;„ nsv- Ajpencan ■ food, ,®s will ■'rhe. of marines ■ which will vps_mte with Pershinas men. ’ A; .■•..■ • • • Ty-■:* re'-ried Intentions to thwart the German suhnarines is to be ■undertaken by . the goverarecnt on * flealenot hith rto attempted, tt w»s > declared st of 'the -:Navy-\Daniels.y • • • "The Anter' an destroyer; are rlaying nosmall r In-tM’ aaU-suhinanne . war :.r 1 ffioers harie • -.-xpressed!-| th a greatest st -the sp.-rit. ■ enterpr •• me malm-wm--;-., Hess with v’L, 1... ’he . American -—-t; has take.. ;.y-1“- »vrk. In these words j an admiriiiy official of England mmmarized the, work --f Yankee tar- s.r te their arrival to at 1 in orercohaing tie German- submarine menace. ... '-. k I • • • ‘ The first :f United States engir r- m 1-r command of Major Parsec.- .arrived in London. The second unit ' 'he Amer at- t. ■‘T-tal corps has res 1.-d Great Britain. ’ • • • Organization ' f -cores of new regiments of Nari» -rial Guard infantry, artillery. engineers.-signal corps and cav-1 airy will be ander'.nken soon to supply the tactical furmauona n.eessary for the establishment of the I*s ci. visions of the gnard:provided-for in the war department plans. ’ I • \* •

.' • \ i The provost marshal reneral’s office *t Washin gtpnjs. flooded with inquiries from all corners f the • untry regarding exemption from military service under the selective draft law. The answer to all these, q .-st. >as is that there Is no exemption from registration ; that each male person between the ages of twenty-one and thirty years Inclusive must register. | I President Braz of Brazil has sent. a message to congress reconunending the revocation of the decree of neutrality In the war be T w*-en the United States ■and Germany. <'■ ngress is expected to accept the Feconimendatk n by a large majority. * * ’ The Philadelphia Pr.— puMßhed a story to the eff-• t that “America has found the peri or answer to the German submarin - terror." It is said to; be a mereham subm&nro* standard-; ized at about 7.*•>•'» tons, r tons, dead weight, of such steed that it can . even when submerged easily elude any surface pursuer and that it is sonsinkable. The 'craft is the invention of| Simon Lake. / | In an accident in practice firing at sea by gunners -d-<ard an awn—! American Steamer bound for Europe, two American Red Cross nurses from Chicago were killed and a third, also fr»>m , Chicago, wounded, making virtually; ' the first Americancasualties of the; war. •*• . I Secretary Daniels announced at Washington that a reaiment of United States marines. 2.000 strong, under command of CoL Charles A. Doyen, now cf»mmandant of the marine barracks in Washington, will be sent to the fighting fr» nt in Europe at the earliest practicable moment. • • • Domestic Measures to force down anthracite coal prices will i-e taken, the federal trade commission announced at Washington if pr<*luc-ers and dealers d<v not adhere to their recent promise to cease extortionate practices.

With 40 vessels chugfet in the ice within A two-mile radius of the harbor entrance, residents of Duluth, Minn., witnessed the novel spectacle of an arctic scene with green grass and budding trees as the background. • • • Heinrich and Johann Shmidt. German Subjects both of New York, who had been interned at Fort Mclntosh, . Laredo, Tex_, attempted to escape. United States District Judge’ Hollister at Cincinnati. G_ sustained the demurrers to the indictments which charged 99 men with having violated the election laws at the election last November; This action serves to throw the cases out of court without -trial. \ 'j A referendum on prohibition in Wisconsin within the next two years was killed when Governor Philipp vetoed a prohibition referendum bilL The governor ih Lis urged legislation which would permit the sale of beer and wine. One year in jail was the sentence imposed upon Capt. Franz Ilmtelen of the German navy, David Lamar and EL' B. Martin, convicted in the federal* Court at New York of couspiracy to interfere with shipment of munitions to the entente allies in 1015. J

Possibility of a reunion of the northern and southern branches of the Presbyterian church received a setback in'the adverse report of the committee on bills and overtures of rhe general assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States, in session at Birmingham. Ala. --{7 ' • • * The ‘ f automobile thieves whose ti> ns ' extend from St, L uls to Cl.:-:s. >- eoiltinues at St. r . -. fng the arrest of'six - ■ W •;n. in St. Louis - r _. M. 18. ■■ '. ■ ‘ ’ \ * • • Foreign The scarcity of bread and potatoes ha- caused an outbreak of rioting at; LYf oSi. Mobs attacked several stores, buz order was restored by the police. * • • ■ A y*"x* l * will be issued at once fi?r a convention of representative Irishmen to consider the best means of governing Ireland;- | The entire Hungarian cabinet, head- ! rd by Orent Tisza, the premier, has of- j f -red its resignation to Emperor I ■ Charles A»j.<:ria. Tisza and his cab- ■ :■■ have unpopular! with «.'i.arles because of their proTwwirceu prv- = a tendency. Personal Mr-. M. ry D. Oliver, wife of for-, user S nator. George T. Oliver of Pitts- . t-urzh. died at Washington of pneumonia.. . ' ; - Bev. Dr. Duane S.‘ Phillips, rector • emeritus of St. Paul’s Episcopal church I of Kankakee. 111., city and rector of same since 1567, is dead, aged eightythree, after a short Illness. • • • U. S. Senator Harry Lane- of Portland. Ore., is dead at San Francisco. He was suffering from a breakdown of the nerve tissues. He was born in Oregon in 1555. _» • • Rev. James K. Smyth, New York, was chosen at Philadelphia president. of the " general convention of the Church of the New Jerusalem in the United States. •• • -

European War News East of Reims the French swept over the slopes - of Mount Cornillet, captured several lines of trenches, and took 800 prisoners, says the Paris statement. » • • • The British are working north jmd south of Bullecourt astride the T3lnd- nburg line. Instead of a frontal attack they are now making a flank movement. Haig’s soldiers stormed the enemy’s supports, bringing them right up *g a lost the Wotan, or QueantDr- ■O’Urt. line. The British now hold; the entire Hindenburg line from the; eesi of Bullecourt to Arras (about eight miles). • • • The Norwegian steamship Thorum been seized, by a German submarine indde the four-mile limit, which N««rway always has claimed as the boundary of Norwegian territorial waters. ano a serious diplomatic conflict may result. . • • • It was announced officially at London that the British steamship Hfgh- . land Corrie was torpedoed without warning. Six members of the crew I and tw»> passengers were killed by the explosion. ’ ■ •■ • • The French torpedo-boat destroyer k Bontefen ; was sunk by striking a mine lin the naval engagement between entente and Austrian vessels in the Adriatic on May 15. according to a state- ■ ment Issued at Paris.

General Cadorna’s forces extended their positions on Hill 652, on the Julian front, repulsed counter-attacks of dense masses of Austro-Hungarian troops and captured a large quantity Of war matter, says the Italian official statement issued in Rome. Washington Some of th# shells aboard the armed American liners Mongolia and St. Louis to be used in resisting Submarine attacks were made during the Spanish-Ameriran war. This came to : light at Washington when Admiral Earle, chief of the ordnance department. submitted to Secretary Daniels a report On the accident which caused the death of two American nurses on the Mongolia.

• • • The state department at Washington announced that no passports would be issbed, to anyone desiring to leave the Unitefl States, to attend the conference of socialists at “Stockholm to dismiss peace, • • • A nation-wide drive for a $100,000,000 Red Cross war fund was inaugurated'at Washington when prominent men from, all sections of the country assembled for a conference with the Red Cross war council. A 25 per cent increase irf this year’s yield of early Irish potatoes was forecast by the agricultural department at Washington. On the basis of present crop conditions the department estimates. the crop at 33,516,000 bushels, against 26.451.700 last year. The revised administration food-con-trol bill, providing for the office of administrator. to which President Wilson has announced he will appoint Herbert C Hoover, was introduced in the, house at Washington.