Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1917 — ENLIST NOW! [ARTICLE]

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Your president calls you! The army wants you! The country needs you! Come on you loyal Americans and let’s free the w<sHd, that our children may live in peace. ,

European War News The French made a surprise attack northwest of Hurtebise. The Paris war Office announces the Capture of the entire first line German tranches. More than 300 prisoners were taken. ■ * * * Canadian troops entered the village of La Coulotte which is only one mile south of Lens. The Germans have withdrawn in this neighborhood from a line about one and three-quarters miles long, * ♦ * A to the London Times from Athens says French troSps entered Athens and occupied several points in the city. A Reuter dispatch from Athens says there was a demonstration in the city and that the allies’ troops entered the city to assist in maintenance of order. ♦ * ♦ There was sharp fighting between the Teutons and Russians on the battle fronts in Southeastern Galicia and in the Carpathian mountains, says the official statement issued by the German war department at Berlin. ♦ * ♦ Sailors on a British steamer which arrived here reported having sunk an attacking German submarine. The British vessel sent a shell into the U-boat- magazine, causing an explosion which parted the underwater boat about amidships. a

Washington The daylight saving bill, amended to take effect next year, passed the senate at Washington without discussion or record vote and was sent to the house. Under the bill all timepieces would be turned forward one hour beginning the last Sunday in April and continuing until the last SIX id ay in September. * ♦ * A proposal that coal prices during the war be fixed by a joint government commission was approved at Washing-., ton by a special committee of coal operators representing the trade in all sections of the country. » * * Behind jail bars, six woman suffragists, convicted in tlie police court at Washington of obstructing ti.e sidewalk by displaying propaganda banners before the White House, held a song service and suffrage meeting for the other 40 woman inmates of the prison. - V - * • ♦ Extension of government control to iron and steel and their products, farm Implements and sisal, jute and hemp products, such as binding twine, was decided upon as an amendment to the administration food control bill by the senate agricultural subcommittee at Washington. ♦ ♦ * As a result of federal forces set in motion at Washington, 400 coal operators, representing the great fields of both bituminous and anthracite, pledged themselves to sell their product at a fair and reasonable price to be fixed with- the approval of the national defense council’s coal committee. The action of the coal barons followed an all-day conference with defense council’s coal committee. * * * President Wilson at Washington appointed the local boards named by the governors to hear exemption claims on the first draft by which 650,000 are to be selected for the army. The rules governing exemptions have not yet been issued, but will be soon, so the work of selecting the army may be begun. ♦ * ♦ More than a dozen suffragists were arrested by the police at Washington when they marched in front of the White House, lined up against the fence and unfurled suffrage banners. * • • President Wilson, by executive order issued at Washington, created the new export council, better known as the embargo board. It will have complete authority; to declare embargoes on exports from this country and is expected to prove a niost powerful weap-. in in dealing with the neutral nations that are known to have been engagedtfn supplying Germany with foodstuffs and materials for the manufacture of munitions. * * * Foreign Dissolution of the council of the empire is declared for in a resolution passed by the Pan-Russian congress of councils of deputies of soldiers and workmen at Petrograd after a prolonged debate. The elimination of the duma also is asked. * • * Doctor Michaelis, German minister to Norway, has resigned and Is returning to Berlin, said a dispatch to Copenhagen from Christiania. • * • A Reuter dispatch to London from Athens says it is stated on good authority that M. Venlzelos will form a cabinet. * * • A report pointing Out that prospects are bright for a good crop In the prairie provinces was received at the head ofi flee of the Canadian Northern railway at Toronto, Ont.