Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1917 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

U. S.—Teutonic War News Major General Pershing and staff have arrived in Paris. The genera! recei v«.-d a t umultuous welcome- At the station he Wt-h-omed by Marshal Joffre, Amlteis<ad*.r Sharp and IhiiU Poinleve, minister of war. President Wil- 1 »n in a Flag day address delivered «it Washington declared that we were forced into the world-War by the .extraordinary insults and aggressions of the military masters of Germany, who left us no respecting choice but to take up arms in defense of our rights as a free people and of our h««i<»r Jis a sovereign government. : .The ; r, -idelit als [ that we are ai“mt to Carry our flag Into battle where it will draw the fire of our enemies. Destruction <>f a German submarine by the American steamship Kroontand was reported by tfie merchantman uix»n her arrival in an American hartH»r. The Kroonland managed to ram and sink the U-b<>ai shortly after tw,« of the underwate r boats had attacked her. • • • It was announced that a high ■ ommissioner to the United States v will be appointed by the Italian government. His task will be similar to that of the French high commissioner. Andre Tardieu. An American army medical unit, comprising 150 men and 75 woman nurses, has arrived at a French town, it was announced at Paris. The unit is from Chicago- It was accorded a hearty welcome: • • • The American, steamer Petrolite has fceen sent to the bottom by a German submarine. The statedepartment at Washington was advised of the sinking of the steamer. One boatload of survivors has been landed but two boats are missing* A * f£ ‘S -‘.—e—. * * Lord Northcliffe. on an errand to America to co-ordinate British activ-, ities here as a commercial representative of the British government, arrived in the United States on an American steamer. • • • The American sailing vessel Magnus Manson has been sunk by a German I submarine, says a dispatch from Lon- ! don. It was sent down after the crew had left it.

• * • President Wilson in a communication to the new government of Rus- j sla has made plain the war aims of i the United States and its position on “no annexation, no indemnities.” In I a parenthetical note the president says [ that the United States faces grave ! danger unless we defeat Germany. I He declares Germany very possibly might be victorious unless we back the allies with all our resources. • • • A number of officers of Major General Pershing’s staff have arrived in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, to begin the work of organizing the bases of the American army in France. • » • A big electric sign on the roof of a Broadway theater in New York effectively concealed the aerials of a powerful wireless plant operated in the interests of Germany, and federal secret service agents have placed three men under arrest. AH are citizens of Germany. ♦ •, ■• ‘ Domestic A penitentiary sentence of 11 months and 29 days for not registering under the selective draft law was imposed by Judge Chatfield in the federal court ,in Brooklyn on Herman P. Levine, school teachvf. . Adolph Germer. executive secretary of the National 'Socialist.' party, under Indictment with 11 others charged with conspiracy to violate the military conscription law. surrendered at Grand Rapids, Mich.’ ♦ » » Two men are dead. 17 others are in hospitals, seriously hurt and more than 20 others are missing as the result of a fire which destroyed an 11story building used a® a refinery by the American Sugar Refinery company on the Brooklyn water front. The fife was started by the explosion of a condenser. Fifty-five white men, members of the Farmers and Laborers’ Protective association, were indicted on seven counts by the federal grand jury at Dallas, Tex., for conspiracy against the government. Several persons were killed in a tornado that swept Unionville and Mercer, Mo. A demand that Organized labor be represented od the exemption hoards that will weed out those selected for the army draft was voiced by Samuel Gompers at Washington. K • • After they had gone on the warpath, made prisoner of the acting Indian agent. Indians of the Ihapah tribe in the Unita basin. Utah, have agreed to register for conscription.

Wabash allityl crafts’ representatives have signed a wage agreement calling f<>r an increase of 5 cents an hour for all crafts. It affects 3.000 employees of the Wabash.railroad, , \ • * ♦ Many American citizens arrived in the United States from Europe on the Norwegian steamship Bergensfjord. The vessel brought 923 passengers. No submarine was sighted on the vojgige. ♦ ♦ ♦ Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, cabled a message from Washington to Jatnes Duncan, representing organized labor in the United- States diplomatic mission, to Russia, to contend for democracy and national independence at the conference’ of socialistic bodies to be held in Petrograd. ♦ * • Federal authorities at Chicago are conducting wholesale raids for ‘‘Slackers.” They arrested more than one hundred in dance halls. Y oung men who could not show a registration certificate were ordered to- -leave their partners and come with the officers. ♦ » * Calvin S. Hutson, formerly sheriff of Marshall county, lowa, was killed and his daughter seriously injured when their auto overtimed. • * • Washington The senate at Washington agreed to the conference report on the $3,340,000,000 army and navy war budget without a roll call or dissenting voice. * » ♦ President Wilson, who now has under consideration the regulations for exemption from military service, expects to initiate the first drawing of names for the selective draft about July 1, according to information obtained at the White House. Indications are that the registration will run over 9.000,000 and may approximate 9,500,000. • * *

The administratioin’s food control bill providing for a minimum price for food products, but with provision for a maximum price eliminated, was adopted' by the house committee on agriculture at Washington. The minimum or guaranteed price provision will be enforced through proclamation which the president may issue in his discretion. Either a spy or traitor has been divulging confidential information of the bureau of ordfiance, Secretary Daniels told the senate naval affairs committee at Washington. ♦ * * The Sheppard resolution proposing nation-wide prohibition was ordered favorably reported by the senate judiciary committee at Washington by a vote of 11 to 3. The resolution would submit a nation-wide constitutional amendment to the various states. ♦ • •

European War News The death of 97 persons and the injury of 437 in an air raid on London was announced in the house of lords by the earl of Derby, secretary of state ' for war. The Leyland liner Anglian has been i torpedoed and sunk. Five men are , missing. « * • The French South Atlantic liner Sequana, 5,557 tons, with 550 passengers on board, has been torpedoed and sunk with a loss of I'9o men, • * * The French chamber of deputies at Paris has already voted 100,000,000,000 francs (§20,000,000,000) in war credit, according to a report made by Raoul Peret, reporter for the budget committee.. • » * Another advance of the British forces on a front nearly two miles east I and northeast of Messines and the capture of the village of Gaspard is reported in the British official comI munication issued at London. 1 * * • The council of soldiers and workmen at Petrograd, Russia, has made public the fact that the German commander in chief on the eastern front sent a wireless message inviting the Russian armies to a separate armistice and proposing that they enter into secre. pourparlers with the German leaders. The council denounces the proposals. ■ J * * • Three American survivors from the British steamer Manchester Miller, torpedoed on June 5, have been landed in England. ■ , British troops have captured another mile of German trenches southeast of Messines, together with seven field guns and prisoners, according to the official report from British headquarters. Foreign Polich Inspector Mills was fatally injured while preventing the holding of a meeting in Dublin, called to protest against the imprisonment of Irish rebels. He died soon after.

The act of registering under the selective draft law does not prevent men from enlisting in any of the government’s forces that are now organized. Men between the ages of eighteen and forty can volunteer for the fegutar army, the navy, the Marine corps, the National Guard or the Naval Militia. Men are needed at once to fill the ranks of all of these branches of the service.