Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1917 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

U. S. —Teutonic War News The United States has asked England to be more strict with her ceiusor- • ship insofar at least, as it concerns. American military movements. ' The quest is the result of several stories which slipped through the British censor, causing concern at Washington. • ♦ ♦ Senator McCumber’s resolution requesting the president to negotiate with the allies, for an agreement to allow drafting of their alien hatipnals in this country was adopted by the senate at Washington. •. * * The American steamship Motano, of 2,730 tons gross, was sunk by a German submarine July 31. Twenty-two survivors have been landed. The vessel carried a crew of 34 men. • ♦ * American torpedo-boat destroyers were reported to have engaged two hostile submarines, <'ausing them to submerge without shooting.. One of the U-boats had just sunk a steamer ami the other was attacking a merchantman. « * « Recruiting for the regular army Monday was the heaviest since the outbreak of the war. It was learned that 4705 enlistments were reported. Seven States turned in more than 100. * * ♦- One company from each unit of the lowa National Guard will depart “immediately” for the training camp at Deining, N. M., under orders received at Des 'Moines from the war department.

“Germany’s latest' peace suggestions, sent forth from Berlin and Vienna, carry nothing new. They are intended only to influence public opinion in neutral countries and possibly in Russia. The United States cannot seriously consider them.” This was as far as Washingtori officialdom cared to go in commen fl ng on the statemen t s < >f Chancellor Michaelis of Germany and Foreign Minister Czernin of Austria. ♦ » ♦ In a speech at Madison Barracks, Ky., before 1,700 members of the officers’ Reserve”corps, Secretary of State Lansing. emphasizing the peril of <lerman imperialism to the United States and .the world, declared his belief that the German people would not cast off the yoke of autocracy “until the physical might of the united democracies of the world had destroyed forever the evil ambitions of the military rulers of Germany.” That, he added, is the only way to restore the peace of the world. • * * European War News Forty thousand Greeks have been starved tq death in eastern Macedonia since the Bulgarian occupation began, according to authentic reports* received by the -Greek government, says a Havas dispatch to Palis from Athens.

* * * At least four persons dead, and possibly a dozen injured, is the toll of the second air raid of the Germans on Paris within 24 hours. * * » Reference to Great Britain’s war aims by Mr. Bryce and others, including Noel Buxton, who said an unfortunate impression got abroad that Great Britain favored a policy of annexation, brought a reply from A. J. Balfour, foreign secretary. Mr. Balfour said he was sure it would be unwise for the government to declare its policy now. * * • Some falling off in the loss of British merchantmen by submarines is noted in the official summary issued at Lon<lon. Eighteen British vessels of more than 1,600 tons were sunk by submarines or mines last week. Three vessels under 1,600 tons were sunk. ♦ ■ ■•. • ‘ British casualties In all theaters of military operations published in the London newspapers in the month of July total 71,832 officers and, men. The officers killed, wounded or missing total 2,503, whilst the privates number 69,329.Russian troops retreating on the eastern Galician front have retired behind the Russian border at Iluslatyn, the German general staff announced officially at Berlin. Further south the Russians made a stand between the Dniester and Prulth fivers, but a powerful German attack broke their resistance. Kuty, in the Gallclan Carpathians, has been captured by the - Teutons. • ♦ ♦ A Japanese destroyer smashed the periscope of a hostile submarine In the Mediterranean and undoubtedly destroyed the U-boat, it was announced at London. • * • Canadian troops succeeded in wThning at small cost a section of valuable ground in the regions of Gitte de Moulin, an eastern suburb of Lens. Positions on a front of 1,000 yards 1 to a depth of 400 yards have now been | consolidated, but the Germans have I made no serious attempt to counterattack. ’ ;■ ■ . '■ ... ■ ■‘TF-. .<

The correspondent of the London Times at Russian southwest headquarters, after describing the desertions and panic of the Russian troops, says General Korniloff’s measures against breaches of discipline nave been approved and that he is executing deserters by wholesale. • • * Personal Frank '"Richardson, barrister and novelist, was found dead in London. Richardson was born in 1.870. • ♦ • Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, president and geperal manager of the Los Angeles Times, died in Los Angeles at the home of his son-in-law, Harry Chandler. Heart trouble paused his death. General Otis was eighty years old, his birth having occurred on a Washington county (Ohio) farm, February 10, 1837. * • * Rear Admiral Stephen B .Luce, founder of the naval war college and one of the leading advocates of the establishment of the naval training system, died at his home in Newport, R. 1., aged ninety years. Washington Preliminary returns of railroad earnings to the interstate commerce commission at Washington covering appr<>ximately one-third of the railroads, Show an increase in net revenues for the month of June of nearly 10 per cent over June, 1016. the most marked; increase of recent months.

* ♦ ♦ Oscar A. Price of West- Virginia, auditor for the interior department at Washington. has been appointed publicity! director of the Liberty loan by Secretary McAdoo. * * * A resolution for submission to the states of a prohibition amendment to •the federal Constitution was adopted by the? senate at Washington. The vote was 65 to 20. As adopted, the resolution contains a provision that the states must be asked to ratify the amendment within six years. The house must still act bn the resolution. • * * Increase of the pending $1,670,000,000 rax bill to a total of $2,008,000.000 was decided upon by the senate finance committee at Washington, This will be an increase of 5335.0 , h>,000. Increases on corporations, normal income-taxes, on incomes of individuals of $15,000 and over and a further increase of SI a gallon on distilled spirits and 50 cents a barrel more on beer, with a few other minor tax increases, will make up the additional levy.

.• ♦ * President Wilson, in a letter to Secretary of Agriculture D. F. Houston at Washington appeals to the women of the nation to take immediate steps to avoid a therateiled loss of a vast amount of perishable fruits and vegetables. » • » Domestic William Allen White, editor of the Daily Gazette of Emporia. Kan., and nationally known as an author, has been ordered abroad as a member of the Red Cross war council investigation committee, it was announced. The interests of the state are superior to the interests of the individual. District appeal boards in deciding exemption claims must not be influenced by the fact in individual cases that military service will work hardship or cause private loss. This is the keynote of instructions to district boards sent out at Washington by Provost ?Marshal General Crowder.

* * * Frank Little, member of the executive board of the Industrial Workers of the World and prominent in labor troubles in Arizona, was hanged at Butte, Mont., by masked men. Little in a recent speech referred to United States troops as “Uncle Sam’s scabs in uniform.” • • • Mrs. Gregory Mason of New York and other travelers arriving at Tokyo from Russia told of two attempts, supposedly by anarchists, to kill members of the American mission to Russia en route home while In Siberia, by destroying a bridge. The flaming cars were sent near the Root special. The attempt was made at the Vlatka station. ♦ • * The young men who have thronged to marriage license bureaus in hope the government would exempt them from army service have got married in vain. They may be. liable to prosecution.. If this is so, their war brides, as aiding them in the misdemeanor, also will be liable to prosecution, according to a statement issued at Washington by General, Crowder. * ♦ * Rev. John Reich art. pastor of the German Evangelical Church at Lowden, la., has been held to the federal grand jury in $5,000 bond on charge of preaching seditious sermons. ♦ * * ■>’ W. L. Mabrey of Jackson. Mo., was elected (’Monel and Bennett Clark, son of Speaker Chrtmp Clark, lieutenant colonel of'the reorganized Sixth regiment, Missouri National Guard at St Louis. United Slates Marshal Thoms3 D. McCarthy, with 15 of his deputies, appeared at the marriage license bureau In New York, whefeiscores of young men of the draft age with their prospective brides were waiting for licenses, and cleared the room and hallways of half of the number.