Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1917 — TEUTONS SINK ELEVEN SHIPS [ARTICLE]

TEUTONS SINK ELEVEN SHIPS

Morchantmen, Mine Sweepers and Destroyer Sent Down BATTLE OCCURS IN NORTH SEA Germans Attack Convoy Kn Route tp Norway, Sinking 8,000 Tons* Other Vessels Are Wrecked. [London, December 17. —One Brit* ish and live neutrfal merchantmen, a British destroyer and four mind sweepers have been sunk in tbo North sea by German naval forces. The losses were the result of an attack on a convoy bound front Scotland to Norway, Sir Eric Geddes, flrat lord of the admiralty, announced to day. The total tonnage of the merchantmen was 8,000. Eighty-eight Scandinavians, including two women, and ten British were rescued by four British destroyers detached from a cruiser squadron, which was hastened to the Beene. Other survivors reached Norway in boats. Washington, December 1 6. —Seventeen enlisted then of the United States army engineer corps were reported missing in action by General Derailing in a dispatch today to tho war department. They were missing on November 30, the day of the German turning movement at Camibrai, and are believed to have fallen into the hands of the Germans while fighting valiantly with the engineer contingent which distinguished itself helping the British to check the attack. Notwithstanding the terrible losses they have suffered, the Germans and Austro-Hungarians in the mountainous „ regions of northern Italy continue their efforts to break the Italian line and open up a passageway to the plains below. In France and Belgium there is little military activity except for small engagements by outposts and raiding contingents and artillery duels. Berlin, December 17—An armistice between the Bolsheviki government in Itussia and the Teutonic allies was signed at Brest Litovsk Saturday, an official communication «*ays. The text of the communication follows: An armistice agreement was signed at Brest Litovsk by plenipotentiary representatives of the Russian upper army administration on the one hand and those of the upper army administrations of Germany, Austria-Hnugary, Bulgaria and Turkey on the other hand. The armistice begins at noon, December 17 and remains in force until January 14, 1918. Unless seven days’ notice is given it continues in force automatically. It extends to all the land, air find naval forces of the common fronts. According to clause 9 of the treaty, peace negotiations are to begin immediately after the signing of the armistice.