Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 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 Notes Covering Most Important Happenings of th© World Compiled in Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. U. S.—Teutonic War News It was announced at Washington that immediately after July 1 the operation of the draft will begin. During July and August the drawings will take place, the exemptions will be authorized and by September 1 the men selected will have been notified to report for service. * • * .... Two American destroyers reached an Irish port with 80 survivors of two torpedoed British ships. The ships were sunk at the farthest point westward in the Atlantic at which the U-boats have appeared since the unlimited campaign began and the response of the American destroyers to their S. O. S.' was a run of more than 100 miles. • • • President Wilson issued a proclamation at Washington designating the week of June 23-30 as recruiting week for the regular army and called upon unmarried men without .dependents to enroll for war service in order that the ranks of the regulars nilght be filled promptly. * * » An American ambulance detachment of 250 persons has arrived at a French port. W. ‘K. Vanderbilt of New York crossed on the same liner. * * ♦ Vice Admiral William S. Sims, U. S. N., has been appointed to take general charge of the operations of the-allied naval forces in Irish waters, says an official announcement issued at London. •*- • ■ America is determined that Belgium shall be restored to her former place among nations. President Wilson stated in greeting the Belgian special commission at the White House in Washington.

Hayti has broken diplomatic relations with Germany, according to Word received by the state department at Washington from Port au Prince. * * • Simultaneous construction of 16 war army cantonments, each to house 40,000 troops, has proved such an enormous task that officials' at Washington do not now believe it can be completed in time to permit mobilization of the first full quota of 650,000 by September 1. : » * * The first official reference to the National army, the designation which will be applied to the forces raised under the selective draft in orders at Washington directing several reserve officers of the engineer corps to report to the commanding officer of “Tlie Second Engineers, National Army, at St. Louis, Mo.” ♦ ♦ ♦ European War News Canadian troops captured a nest of German trenches at the front of Reservoir hit! and iiave made the entente approach to Lens less difficult.

• ♦ * Twenty-seven British ships of more than 1,600 tons have been sunk, according to the weekly British summary. Five British vessels under 1,600 tons also; were sent to the bottom. • » » Marine circles at Boston were advised of the sinking by U-boats of the Warren limn- Bay State, the British steamer Elele and the Dutch steamer Eemdijk. • • ♦ Minister of War Kerensky at Petrograd discarded the pleasant phrases of oratorical persuasion for iron-hand-ed disciplinary measures to force Russia's troops to fight. Two persons were killed and 16 injured in an air raid in England during which a Zeppelin was brought down.

A resolution calling for an immediate offensive by Russian troops has been adopted by the duma at Petrograd in secret "session. The Pan-Rus-sian congress of all councils of workmen’s and soldiers’ delegates ratified the action of the provisional government in expelling from Russia Robert Grimm, the Swiss Socialist, medium through which the Germans attempted to arrange a separate peace with Russia. * * * • While Japanese destroyers were attacking a submarine in the Mediterranean the destroyer Sakaki was torpedoed and damaged, says an official announcement of the Japanese admiralty at Tokyo. It is believed many of the crew were killed or wounded. Contracts for ten more steel merchant ships complete and for 24 .additional wooden Mils were announced at Washington by Major General Goethals, general manager of the emergedcy fleet corporation.

Personal Commissioner Judson C. Clements of the interstate commerce commission died at Washington. He was sixty years old. ♦ ♦ ♦ Foreign A list of persons to be expelled from Greece, ~ following the abdication of King Constantine, has been forwarded by the entente allies to the Greek minister of the interior at. Athens. ■* * * J ■ ■ The kt Petrograd has begun to take severe measures against the highest officials of thp regime, who are declared to. be guilty of breaches of the laws of the empire. Throughout. Germany, according to reports reaching Copenhagen, all valuable grain crops-are burning up, as they did in 1915, in an unprecedented heat wave. The prolonged drought has not been broken -.since early in May. • ♦ ♦ A Vienna dispatch to Basel, Switzerland, says that the Asutrian cabinet has resigned. ■' -■* *!' ■ The house of commons at London by a large majority passed the'final reading of the clause in the Electoral reform bill dealing with the question of woman suffrage. • ' - ♦♦ ♦ ♦ Count Plunkett, member of parliament and .Sinn Feiner, and the other members of the Sinn Fein who were arrested on June 9 when attempting to hold a prohibited meeting at Dublin, Ireland to protest against, the imprisonment of Irish rebels, were released. * * * Washington . Government pools of coal production and distribution and of rail and water transportation were recommended to congress at Washington by the federal trade commission as the only means of avoiding a disastrous * coal shortage next winter. ♦ » ♦ Ordinary internal revenue receipts, composed chiefly of taxes on whiskj. beer and tobacco, were $424,327,463 so far this year, compared with $365,126,544 last year, says a statement issued at Washington. Gauged by revenue receipts the present year probably will go down in history as the banner year of the liquor traffic. --

* * * Registered men must keep themselves informed as to whether or not they have been drafted. This pronouncement was issued by Provost Marshal General Crowder at Washington. • * * Food speculators have been taking $50,000,000 a month for the last five months —a total of a quarter of a billion dollars —from the American people, Herbert C. Hoover told senators at Washington in explaining the purposes oTthe food control bill now before-con-gress. - ■ ♦ ♦ * Secretary Daniels has ordered coal and oil producers to'supply the enormous quantities needed by the navy at prices to be fixed later by tly 1 president when the federal trade commission has determined a fair rate. Similarly steel for the entire navy building program Is being bought at a rate fixed when Secretary Daniels, rejected the proposals of the steel makers as too high. • ♦ ♦ Herbert C. Hoover outlined his plans at Washington for enlisting the nation’s housewives as actual members of the food administration and on the theory that 90 per cent of American food passes through their hands appealed to them to join him in the fight for conservation measures and elimination of waste. The women will be enrolled during a period of registration from July 1 to July 15. ♦ • * Full approval has been given by the war department at Washington to the air supremacy program of the defense council's aircraft board, and President Wilson has been asked to put the administration’s support behind the appropriation of $60,000,000.

♦ .♦ • Domestic , Three men were sentenced to jail for draft-law violations at New York. ♦ * * Liberty bonds sold at San Francisco gt $lO6, a premium of $6, in a private transaction. ’ . * . * * ■ i Operations in Michigan coal mines employing about two thousand men are at a standstill as the result of a strike of 200 machine workers, who demand an increase in their share of a wage advance allowed last April. » ♦ *,. Sheriff J. K. May and City Marshal August Leker were shot and killed at the’ Louisville & Nashville station at Nashville, 111., by H. C. Rice, a coal miner. The marshal shot Rice in the stomach and the latter probably will die. ♦ ♦ ♦ Sensational charges that naval recruits at the Newport (R. I.) training station are exposed to onen gambling houses, immoral resorts and Illegal ’ sales of liquor were made at Washiug- ; ton by Secretary Daniels in announcj ing that he had appealed to Governor I IJeeckman. , Cold weather has set the season back two weeks $o far as growing crops are concerned, the weekiy-crop bulletin for j the period ending June 19, issued at i Springfield, 111.,’ by the federal weather 'taftea states.