Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1917 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

U. S.—Teutonic War News Proof that German money was furnished in this country by Count von Bernstorff to Holo Pasha, under arrest in Paris as a spy, will be forwarded to the French government, it was announced aj New York by Merton E. Lewis, state attorney general. » * » Drastic action against newspapers printed in either English or German which are charged with having furthered treason or sedition by their utterances on the war was begun when the Milwaukee Leader, edited by exCongressman Victor L. Berger, was barred from the United States mails. • • »

The first casualty among the American troops in France was announced by the war department at Washington. Corporal Ernest F. Hart of Oxford, N. C., was killed when a hand grenade with which he was practicing accidentally exploded. * * * An American destroyer in British waters -recently was in collision with a British naval vessel, which, after taking off the American crew, towed the disabled destroyer to port. * • • W. W. Atterbury, vice president of the Pennsylvania railroad system, now supervising railroad operations for the troops in France, has been nominated by the president a brigadier general in the National army. Andrew Courtney Campbell, Jr., of Kenilworth, 111., a corporal in the Lafayette escadrille, disappeared while on a reconnoitering expedition in France in his aircraft. His fate is not known. * • *

Report that the rank and file of the enemy troops have a great' longing for peace is confirmed by every prisoner captured by the Canadians In France. One of their chief grievances is the failure of their higher officers to take risks. • • • Washington The $2,700,000,000 war revenue bill passed the senate at. Washington with the only announced dissenting vote coming from Senator La. Follette, although the senator did not seek a roll call on the measure and offered no objection to its passage. * * « Government life insurance for soldiers and sailors, with disability allowance, instead of pensions, is provided i,i the administration bill reported in perfected form to the senate at Washington with plans for quick passage. * ♦ ♦

A furtlter credit of $50,000,000 to Great Britain was extended by the government at Washington. This brings the total advanced to Great Britain thus far up to $1,240,000,000. ♦ * ♦ Important orders affecting coal prices were issued at Washington by Fuel Administrator Harry A. Garfield. By their terms the following become effective: Maximum retail prices of anthracite and bituminous coal, based on dealers’ average gross margin of profit in 1915 plus 30 per cent added to the present cost to dealers, as fixed by the government; reduction of 60 cents or 15 per cent in prices at the mines of Pennsylvania anthracite pea coal. * * * One year from today the United States will have achieved President .Wilson’s aim that we have “incomparably the greatest navy in. the world,” so far as destroyers aj'e concerned. This was the statement of a high official of the navy department at Washington. ♦ ♦ * In the presence of only one secretary, President Wilson at Washington signed the-$2.700 ( 000,000 revenue bill. The bill imposes some kind - off a tax upon almost everyone in this country. Witli few exceptions', its provisions go Into effect at once. * * *

Negotiations are under way, it is understood, between Ottawa and Washington, with a view to bringing,Americans of military age, resident in Canada,’ within the scope of the Canadian draft law. Canadian residents in the United States would similarly be affected under the American law. ♦ ♦ * Domestic The Laredo (Tex.) jail Is filled to overflowing with slackers captured while on their way to Mexico by fed-* eral authorities. *' ♦ *. Seven thousand pottery workers in the United States and Canada, members .of the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters, have voted to strike for higher wages. ■■■ ’. • * Under the direct supervision of President Wilson, assisted by the secretaries of war and labor, a special committee of thk council of national defense, headed by Samuel GomperSj is developing a new government policy toward labor questions, founded largely upon the British government’s war-time practices.

Charged with disloyal and seditious acts, Theodore Woodward, a banker of Lewis county; lowa, was arrested. He was released on bond of $5,000. • * • M. R. Underwood of Washburn, lit, former Kewanee man, shot and killed his divorced wife, Myrtle Suidan, as she stepped from a train with Ira Snow at Wyoming and then killed himself. Jealousy was given as the cause. • • ' • Mrs. William Littauer, wife of Captain Littauer of Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass., 'offered SSOO, with no questions, for the return of SIO,OOO worth of jewels. She discovered the loss after leaving a train at New York.,. * * • Miss Helen Cudahy, daughter of Patrick Cudahy, Milwaukee packer, expects to sail for Europe next month to drive a Red Cross hospital supply automobile in France. Miss Cudahy has thoroughly fitted herself to make good in her new work. An American patrol ship was rammed and sunk off an Atlantic port by an unidentified craft. The accident was reported to Washington. ♦ ♦ ♦ Gov. Keith Neville of Nebraska has accepted, the colonelcy of the Seventh Nebraska National Guard regiment and will resign as governor when the regiment is mustered into government service. * * * European War News “The central powers are prepared to enter peace negotiations as' soon as the enemy accept the standpoint of peace by agreement and accept a universal disarmament, applied to the navies as well as to the land forces.” Should this program be refused the central powers “must revise their program and demand compensation for further cost of the war.” This is the policy laid down by Count Czernin, Austro-Hungarian minister of foreign affairs, described, in dispatches from Budapest; British airmen who bombarded German stations behind the lines destroyed 15 Gotha airplanes at St. Denis and Westrom and Wrecked a troop train, killing many, according to messages received at Amsterdam from Sluis. •

♦ ♦ ♦ The German 'cities of Frankfort-on-the-Main, Stuttgart, Treves and Coblenz were bombarded by French aviators in retaliation for German aerial attacks on French cities. • * • The kaiser’s dream of an empire from the North sea to the Persian gulf received another blow in the announcement of the capture by General Maude, with Ramadie, in Mesopotamia, of 4,000 Turks, in addition to a number of- guns and vast quantities of stores and ammunition". * * ♦ ’Heavy fighting raged over a wide section of the west Flanders front, the Germans directing savage counter-at-tacks at numerous points. All of the assaults were repulsed, the London war office announced. An effort by the Germans to recapture Zonnebeke failed. ♦ * ■ The body of the famous German aviator, Lieutenant Vosse, who was recently reported in a German official communication as missing, has been found within the British lines. Vosse was killed on September 23, while engaged in a spectacular combat with a British airman. * * • A demonstration against the German government at Essen, home of the Krupp works, in consequences of the decision of Chancellor Michaelis no tto state Germany’s peace terms, is reported from Amsterdam. Women formed a majority of the demonstrators. * * *

German airmen made their third attempt in three days to raid London and lost three of the four airplanes that were able to reach the metropolitan district. Eleven persons were killed and 82 wounded by bombs on Saturday. * * * In their offensive operations of the last three days Italian troops have taken 2.019 prisoners, including 63 officers, the Rome war office announced. ■. * * * French aviators dropped half a ton of projectiles on the German city Of Stuttgart in reprisal for the bombardment by the Germans of Bar-le-Duc. * * ♦ In another powerful drive the Italians have captured the high ground to the south of Padlaca and southeast of Madoni, in the Isonzo sector. The official announcement of this success by the Rome war office reports also the capture of 1,409 prisoners. Foreign The Swedish ministry at Stockholm has resigned, but King Gustaf has requested the ministers to retain their portfolios for the present. ♦ • * The London Gazette prints a proclamation prohibiting the exportation to Sweden, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands of all articles except printed matter of all descriptions and personal effects. o ♦ ♦ ♦ A Shanghai dispatch to Reuter’s in London says that as the result of a typhoon which swept over Tokyo on Monday 100,000 persons are homeless and that 138 are dead and 217 missing.- The number injured is 168. The property; loss is $3,000,000.