Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 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 the World Compiled In Briefest and Most Succinct -<» Ferm for Quick Consumption. U. S. —Teutonic War News American infantrymen with the American army in France exacted a part revenge for a trench raid during a recent night by ambushing a large German patrol in No Man’s Land, killing or wounding a number of the enemy. The American patrol, in which there were some Frenchmen, arranged to ambuscade near the German lines on a shell-ruined farm. * * * President Wilson is' expected to issue a proclamation at Washington soon requiring every allied enemy within the United States to register as a step toward ridding the country of spies and sabotage. < * * » American aviators have participated in bombing raids over Germany and have been doing observation duty at various points of the battle line In France. The aviators are officers of the regular army, one of whom had been flying before the United States entered the war. Two deaths among the American expeditionary forces announced at Washington were Private E. B. Galllac of Chelsea, Mass., who died of pneumonia, and Seaman Andrew M. Halseth of Minnesota, who cracked his skull in falling from a hammock aboard transport. • • • Washington The appointment of J. L. Replogle, vice president of the American Vanadium company, as federal director of Steel supplies was officially announced by the council of national defense at Washington. * * * To inform the tax-paying public on different questions arising out of the war revenue bill, a special division of taxpayers’ co-operation has been established in the internal revenue bureau, Secretary McAdoo announced at Washington. • * * Thirty-one militants with banners appeared before the White House at Washington again and were arrested. Ten of the women had their banners torn from them before the police took charge.

, All makers of breadstuff's, from bread to oyster crackers, will be required to conduct their business u:der government license, beginning December 10, according to a proclamation by Presi- < dent Wilson, issued at Washington. The order includes not only bakers, but hotels, restaurants and all other establishments using as much as ten barrels of flour monthly. • • « All forty-one of the woman’s party militants arrested for picketing the White House in Washington were convicted in police court, but sentence was suspended. Late in the day thirty militants, nearly all of them who had been convicted in the morning marched to the White House and were promptly arrested. • • • Domestic Enemy aliens are barred from the streets along New York’s water front under orders posted by United States Marshal McCarthy. ♦ * ♦ An attempt to blow up the Denver & Rio Grande troop train on which three soldiers were killed as a result of a collision near Cotopaxi, Colo., is being investigated. Arrangements had been made to dynamite the train. • « * Judge Bradford, in the United States district court at Wilmington, Del., handed down a decision sustaining the constitutionality of the draft law. The. action was brought by Donald Stephens of Ardea, Del. ♦ * ♦ Secretary Baker announced at Washington that all men who qualify in the officers’ training camps will be given commissions and practically all of them will be assigned immediately to active service, either with troops or at service schools. * ♦ ♦ Scott Nearing, former professor of the University of Pennsylvania, arrested while making an alleged antiwar speech at Duluth, Minn., was arraigned in police court, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was fined SSO. * * * Three soldiers were killed and sixteen w’ere injured in a rear-end collision between two troop trains on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad about a mile west of Cotonavi, a station near the Royal gorge in Colorado. * * * The federal grand jury at Cleveland, 0., reported indictments' against Mayor Carmichael of Willoughby, O. ; Prosecuting Attorney von Bessler and Marshals Barnes and Lamos for impeding shipments and for conspiracy to commit such acts. All are charged, with seizing rallroal cars of coal.

•_4 ’ ’ All strikes affecting government work in shipping, munitions and other war enterprises have been called off by the building trades section of the American Federation of Labor, it was announced at Buffalo, N. Y., by Secretary Morrison. • • • An attempt to hold a session of the People’s Council of America in a hall at Duluth. Minn., brought about the arrest of Prof. Scott Nearing of Toledo. and New York, president and chairman of the executive committee of the organiaztion. • • • Cardinal Gibbons issued a warning at Baltimore, Md„ to all Catholics to disregard a “peace prayer” chain of letters which has made its appearance. The cardinal believes it is a form of German propaganda. * * • Cadet Walter I. Jones of Minneapolis, Minn., fell 800 feet at Hicks field, Camp Taliaferro, Tex., and was killed instantly. ♦ ♦ ♦ President Samuel Gompers, the head of the American Federation of Labor, addressed a joint meeting of the Executive club and the Greater Buffalo club at Buffalo. N. Y. He told the business men that, while the longstanding problems affecting capital and labor are virtually insolvable, industry must be speeded up to win the war. * * » Foreign The Finnish Telegram bureau says the whole of Russia except a small part of Petrograd is now in the hands of the provisional government. Premier Kerensky is now in Petrograd and has taken virtually the entire city, the announcement of the Finnish telegram bureau says: Ontario subscriptions to the victory loan tabulated at provincial headquarters early totaled $10,000,000. of which $7,000,000 was taken in Toronto.

Premier Lloyd-George explained to the house of commons in London that the interallied council, the establishment of which was arranged for at the recent conference of British, French and Italian representatives, would have no executive power. He said final decision in regard to matters of strategy and the distribution and movement of armies, would rest with the several governments of the allies. * ♦ ♦ . One of two Americans who were operating a machine gun in Ojinaga, Mex., when a Villa force attacked the town, was wounded during the fighting. The other American escaped. Mexican federal troops evacuated Ojinaga and came to the American side, where they surrendered their arms. • * * Announcement was made at New York that Lord Northcliffe and Lord Reading, who spent some time in the United States on missions, had arrived in England. ♦ * ♦ European War News Although the Austro-German drive into Italy is no longer speedy, it continues to make - progress, and Berlin now claims the .Capture of additional positions east of Asiagb. The Piave line,' upon the retention of which the holding of Venice by the Italians depends, is how embattled, with the enemy succeeding in crossing the river at some points. ■♦ ♦ ♦ Only one British merchant vessel of more than I.GOO tons was sunk by mine or submarine hist week, according to the weekly statement of shipping losses issued at Loudon. This is the low record Since Germany began her submarine campaign. Five vessels of less than 1.600 tons and one fishing boat were sunk during lhe week.

“The Italians have successfully resisted the enemy everywhere on the northern front, along which the Austrians are attempting to outflank the Italian river line,” the Rome war office reports. * ♦ » France’s confidence that the Teutonicdrive into Italy lias been stopped is expressed in a war office statement cabled to the French embassy at Washington. “The Germans have exaggerated the importance Of the Italian defeat,” says the statement, “In reality the Italian armies are far from being defeated. The line of the Piave is actually solidly held.” Attacks by the Teutonic allies along the Asiago plateau front have been re-pulsed-by the Italians, according to the official communication issued at Rome.