Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1917 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

S.—Teutonic War News Among 47 officers of the expeditionary forces recommended for promotion by General Pershing in a list made public by the war department at W ashington, is Second LiebC AreDb.iid B. Roosevelt, son of Theodor- 1 It vet t, who is proposed for a . of infantry. • • • ■ One hundred American soldiers with the American army in France r> reived premotions for their Christmas presents. Included in the lucky list were two engineering officers ■ whose coolness at Cambrai helped the British check the Boches counter attack. • • • German airedlies. against American soldiers -are officially. .'reported tn dispatches from Framse. An American gentrv has bet-u :■’•<&*! with his threat cut, and it is ofib-mliy declared, he must have been so killed after captare.” Two commi ■' officers and two sergeants were seriously injured near field headquarters of. th»- American army in France. when an automobile belonging to the aviatbm section plunged 15 feet down an embankment and overturned. • • • Direct assurances of the confidence of both British and French commanders in General Pershings ability and their satisfaction with the breadth and soundness of his preparations to make American arms Effective on the western front Lave reached Washington with the return from Europe of Maj. Gen. Hmffi L. So-tt. • • • Foreign Nicholas Bokdayetesky, Russian consul at Seattle, WadL, announced that he had received a cable telling of the establishment of a new Russian government at Voronezh. the capital of a province of the same name between Moscow and Rostov-on-Don. This is the ninth portion of the old Russian empire to declare Its independence. The latest estimate of dead In the Halifax disaster IK-cember.S is placed at 1,500. • • • Importation of intoxicating liquors into Canada after Monday next Is prohibited and their manufacture will be prohibited after a date to be determined later. Premier Borden officially announced at Ottawa. Ont. • • * <i'— ■" As rhe result of the publication in Buenos Aires of the telecrams sent by Count von the former German minister. to the Berlin foreign office, it again has been necessary to <-ti!l out mounted patrols to disperse crowds <>f js-- pie wb«» demands! a rupture ofrelations .with' Germany. • • •

Domestic The mills at Minneapolis, Minn., began grinding “war tb-nri" under the new government regulations designed to save 16.000JWX1 bushels of wheat in the present crep year. The regulations provide for the use of «4 per cent of the wheat berry instead of but 50 per cent. • * • Evidence has been uncovered by government agents indicating that American Industrial Workers of the World. Russian bcdsheviki. Irish agitators and revolutionists in various countries at war with < Jermany may be seeking to lay the foundation of an elaborate world-vride plan to overthrow existing -e -ial orders. This was admitted by Washington iiieials in connection with news of the dis«?overy of rifles and ammunitson in th- Tins--slan freighter Shifts. which arrived at a Pacific port- » « ♦ ■Fred.. Green one of engin-’ors of the N 'rthw»-sf? E?hd Miss Jessie Wharton, were killed when their automol die was struck by a train on the outskirts of Rutte. Mmt. Three British avkt?->r<. in training at Fort Worth. Tex, were killed when two airplanes crashed in midair. The dead are: Arthur EL Webster. Kingston ; Lieut. Russell Jenner. Kingsville. Ontario, and Cyril! A. Baker, Kent, Eugland- « • • Federal officials announced at San Francisco the arrest on a presidential * warrant of Franz Schulenberg. alleged to be one of the cleverest and most dangerous German spies operating on the Pacific coast. »■* , ■ Sixteen persons were killed and 98 injured when a Knoxville car crowded with shoppers ran wild through the South Hill* tunnel at Pittsburgh. Pa., jumped a switch and overturned. • ■ *!• Xi . - 1 Berne M. Mead, cashier of the State ®ust and Savings bank of Peoria. 111., ttes shot and killed by Edward A. Sira use. president of the bank, in-a revolver duel in the bank building, feusinesw jealousy over the honor of being named'president of the bank is believed to have been at the bottom of

Negotiations for the purchase of a large part of the Cuban sugar crop, how being harvested and amounting to an estimated 3,600,(XX) tons, for the use of the United States and its allies, have been virtually completed, it was announced at New York. The price was said to be $4.60 a hundred pounds f. o. b., Cuba. ’ • • ♦ More than a half-million working days—the equivalent of the labor of 20,000 workmen for a solid month — have been lost to the government’s shipbuilding program through strikes and lockouts, R. B. Stevens of the shipping board told the senate investigating committee at Washington. ■* ♦ * Alphonse St. Pierre, twenty-five years old, was shot and killed when attempting to escape from Fort Wayne at Detroit, Mich. St. Pierre was taken into custody on a charge of deserting from a New Jersey engineer regiment. • • • Washington The senate military committee at Washington sent to the war department a resolution urging that immediate steps be taken without regard to departmental routine to supply deficiencies of winter clothing to men in the camps. Gen. Tasker 11. Bliss will be retained on active service as chief of staff of the army after he reaches the retirement age, next Monday, December 31. Secretary Baker announced at. Washington that this had been decided upon by President Wilson. * • ♦ Fuel Administrator Doctor Garfield told the senate committee on manufactures at Washington that If the war continued very long the government would be compelled to pool coal and sell it at reasonable prices. * • •

Food Administrator Hoover’s statement on the sugar situation was made public by the White House at Washington. It attributes the shortage here to th<- heavy movement of sugar from the western hemisphere to Europe ami asserts that without the fixing of prices by agreement sugar would be selling for 25 to 30 cents a pound. * • • Francis J. Heney. special trust Investigator for the federal trade commission, stated at Washington that the packing interests are in reality a mammoth food trust which has the entire country in its grasp. ♦ * • Col. Isaac Lewis, Inventor of the machine gun which bears his name, in testimony before the senate military affairs committee at Washington, blames General Crozier for the failure to supply guns to the American forces now in France. * * • Without waiting for congressional appropriation, the war department at Washington authorized orders to supply 1,000.000 troops before the United States went to war, it was brought out in the testimony of General Sharpe, quartermaster general, before the senate military committee. • * * Personal - Senator Francis Griffith Newlands of Nevada died of heart failure at Washington after an Illness of a few hours. Senator Newlands was an authority in congress on railroad and waterway legislation. He was born near Natchez, Miss., on August 28, 1848. He became a citizen of Nevada In 1888, and was elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh congresses. Representative E. 11. Bathrick of the Fourteenth Ohio district, died at his home in Akron, O. • • • European War News

The losses to British shipping show a material decrease for the last-week. According to the admiralty repoH issued at London, 11 British merchantmen of 1,600 tons or over were sunk during this period by mine or submarine, as well as one merchantman under that tonnage and one fishing vessel. ' V,: * * * An attack in force by the Germans in Flanders was announced in London in a dispatch from Field Marshal Haig. The Teutons struck the British front in the neighborhood of the YpresStaden railroad. Field Marshal Haig admits his advanced posts were driven in over a front of 700 yards. ♦ • • A considerable portion of the ground gained by the enemy in the region of Monte Azolone, on the northern front, east of the Drenta river, has been retaken by the Italians, the Rome-war office announces. A German airplane was brought down and its crew of three captured in one of two German raids, announced at London by Viscount French, commander In chief of home defense forces. * * * Vice Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss has been appointed first sea lord in succession to Admiral Sir John R. Jelllcoe, accordftig to an official announcement issued at London. Admiral Jellicoe has been elevated to t hcj peerage in recognition of his services. ” ♦ * * One hundred and one lives were lost when the British armed steamship Stephen Furness was sunk by a German submarine in the Irish channel, according to official announcement made at London. Six officials and 93 men were drowned.