Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1917 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

U. S.—Teutonic War News The German artillery is very active all night and day, and shells of various calibers rain around the American position in France. So thickly did they come at one time It was thought another barrage was about to be placed for another raid on the American trenches. The Americans were ready for the Boche and hoping he would try another raid. But none developed. » • • America’s mission to the allies’ conference ip Paris has arrived safely in England. Announcement to this effect was made at Washington, with the comment that the gathering is to be a “war conference” with the object of co-ordinating all the fighting forces against the common enemy. The delegation is headed by Col. E. M. House, • • « It was officially announced at Washington that Americans responded to the call for a second Liberty war loan by subscribing $4,617,532,300, an oversubscription by 54 per cent of the $3,000,000,000 asked, and only $383,000,000 less than the $5,000,000,000 maximum fixed by the treasury. ♦ * • The navy department at Washington announced that the converted yacht Alcedo was torpedoed at 1:30 a. m. November 5. The official announcement reads: “One officer and twenty men are missing. The ship sank within four minutes after she was struck. Several vessels were searching for possible survivors at the time the report was made. The Alcedo carried seven officers and 85 m s en.” • • • A small detachment of American Infantrymen was attacked in the front line trenches in France by a much superior force of German shock troops. Americans were cut off from relief by the heavy barrage in their rear. They fought gallantly until overwhelmed, solely by numbers. t* ♦ • Advancing under protection of a heavy barrage fire, a Getman raiding party, shortly before daylight on Ihe morning of November 3, stormed a portion of a trench held by American troops on the French front, killing three, wounding five and taking 12 prisoners, according to dispatches from General Pershing to the war department at Washington. One German was captured. » • • Washington President Wilson issued at Washington his 1917 Thanksgiving proclamation calling upon the nation, even in the midst Of the sorrow and great peril of a world shaken by war, to thank God for blessings that are better than peace of mind and prosperity of enterprise. The proclamation named Thursday, November 29, as Thanksgiving day. • « « The United States’ agreement to recognize Japan’s special interests in China, made public at Washington, was declared by international experts to be the greatest diplomatic achievement of the present administration. Henceforth Japan must guard against pernicious political activities of her subjects. Japan voiced her eagerness to aid the United States in suppressing Prussian militarism. * • •

Domestic Gov. Samuel W. McCall, Republican, of Massachusetts, was re-elected by 85,000 plurality, defeating Frederick W. Mansfield, Democrat, who opposed him last year. The whole Republican state ticket was elected with the governor. * * * An agitator against the war or against conscription does’ not have to oppose them openly to violate the espionage act, but may do so merely by expressing adifairation or by idealizing persons whQ have obstructed recruiting, according to the decision of Judge Henry Wade Rogers of the United States circuit Court of appeals in the Masses case, the. text of which was made public at New York. ♦ * ♦ Ten or twelve passengers, mostly civilian, were injured, some seriously, when two interurban cars on the Camp Custer Hue collided near Battle Creek, Mich.* * * * Judge W. W. Morrow of the United States district court at San Francisco, upheld the right of a native of the Philippine Islands to become a citizen of the United States. * ♦ * The great Empire state joined the rariks of its sister states in the ‘ far West and granted her women the right to vote. After years of campaigning the New York women came into their own. • ♦ • The American Red Cross next spring will again ask the nation for funds totaling $250,d00,000 to aid it in its work for suffering humanity. This was made known in Chicago in an address by Mrs. Florence Marshall, head of the woman’s bureau of the Red Cross at Washington.

♦ w ♦ John F. Dylan, a county judge of Kings county, was elected mayor of New York by a plurality of more than 140,000. He carried with him the entire Democratic city ticket. Mayor John P. Mitchel, who sought re-elec-tion as a fusion candidate, was a poor second in the race. His vote was 145,459, compared with 288,435 for Hylan. Morris Hillquist. the Socialist candidate, stood third, with 134.590, and William M. Bennett, Republican, was fourth with 51,956. ■, * * » ' Guards were placed about the residence of Archbishop Ireland and other Roman Catholic leaders at St. Paul, Minn., while police investigated the explosion which wrecked &e parish house of St. Agnes’ church. The police theory is that a pro-German was responsible for the explosion. The first dependent of an American soldier killed in trench warfare to receive compensation under the government system will be Mrs. Alice Dodd of Evansville, Ind., widowed mother of Private James B. Gresham, one of the victims of the German raid on American trenches in France, November 3. She will receive at least $45 a month. • • * European War News It is announced at the Austro-Hun-garian army headquarters, according to dispatch to London from Amsterdam to the Exchange Telegraph company, that the Teutonic armies operating against Italy number five. ♦ ♦ ♦ The r<4il crisis in the. Italian situation is rapidly approaching. According to dispatches, reaching Washington General Cadorna has abandoned the entire length of the line of the Taglianiento river in favor of his selected new line of defense. This line is that of the Piave river, which Is, generally speaking, 25 miles west of the Tagliamento. Failure to hold the Piave will hand over Venice as a rich trophy of war to the Teutonic forces. • * • A marked decrease in the British merchant ships sunk during the last week is noted in the admiralty report Issued at London. Only eight vessels over 1,600 tons were sunk by mine or submarine and four vessels under that tonnage. No fishing vessels were sunk. This is low-water mark. v • • According to Vry Belgie, the German administration in Belgium has decided to appropriate for German use half the entire crop of potatoes, fruit and vegetables. • • • The Canadians, in their drive against the German lines, have advanced about 800 yards beyond the center of Passchedaele, having battled their way to their final mark, says a dispatch from London. A considerable number of prisoners already have reached the’ cages. • • •

The French advance in pursuit of the Germans beyond the Chemin-des-Dames has attained an average of a mile and a half, the southern bank of the Ailette being reached everywhere. Altogether about eighteen square miles of territory have fallen into French hands. * * * The British admiralty announced at London that certain British forces have been engaged in the Cattegat, an arm, of the North sea. between Sweden and Denmark, and that ten armed patrol craft, in addition to a German auxiliary cruiser were destroyed. * * • Personal Maj. Birdseye B. Lewis, detailed to the aviation section of the signal corps and attached to General Pershing’s staff, whose death was previously reported to relatives in private cables, committed suicide last Saturday. * * ♦ Foreign Villa followers, who dynamited a Mexican Central train at Armanderiz station in Mexico, killed 125 soldiers, women and children. A messenger for an American company was robbed of SIOO,OOO. • * * Empeior Carl of Austria has assumed the title of king of Poland, says a dispatch received at Amsterdam from Berlin, which quotes the Lokal Anzelger. ♦ • ♦ An armed naval detachment, under orders of the Maximalist revolutionary committee, has occupied the offices of the official Petrograd Telegraph agency, says a dispatch from Petrograd. The Maximalists also occupied the Central Telegraph office and the state bank at the Marie Palace. No disorders are yet reported.