Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1918 — 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 Form for Quick Consumption. Washington The food administration at Washington is not getting the results that it , expected. Food Administrator Hoover told a senate committee that laws should be passed to regulate the amounts and kinds of food to be served in hotels and restaurants. • ♦ • Plans for a complete reorganization of the ordnance bureau at Washington were given out by Secretary of IS ar Baker in an announcement. The changes will place the bureau under control of civilians. * ♦ • Army supply contracts given through the supplies committee of the council of national defense to concerns in which committee members are interested were investigated by the senate military committee at Washington. Charles Elsehiuan, vice chairman of | the supplies committee and a retired ,■ clothing manufacturer of Cleveland, ■ and Samuel M. Kaplan of New York were the principal witnesses. • * • Railroads Director General McAdoo at Washington dissolved the railroads war board at Its own suggestion and appointed Hale Holden of Chicago a member of the board to direct the na-tion-wide organization which It has built up. The director general also appointed a temporary advisory cabinet. • • • The January schedule of loans to foreign governments, carrying a total of $348,500,000, was announced at Washington as follows : England, $184,000,000; France, $155,000,000; Serbia, $1,000,000, and Belgium, $7,500,000. * * • Washington announced that the parcel post convention between the United States and Chile has been terminated because Chile refused a request that she Indemnify exporters whose packages are rilled. • ♦ • Domestic Louis Fons, Republican, running on an “America First” platform, defeated Edmund F. Melins, Socialist, in a special election tn the Eighth sena-1 torial district at Milwaukee, Wis. Fons will fill the seat vacated in the state senate by Frank Reguse, who was expelled for an alleged disloyal remark. * » * Fire of mysterious origin damaged the plant of the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending company at Harrisburg, I Pa., to the extent of several hundred thousand dollars. The plant is engaged in the manufacture of four-inch shells. •*‘ . I Announcement was made at Pittsburgh, Pa„ that four fast trains on the Pennsylvania railroad had been ordered discontinued to conserve ihotive power. • * * Registration of all German alien enemies will be made in the first week Of February. Rules and regulations tor the registration were made public by the department of justice at Washington. • • « The American Red Cross will begin the new year with a membership of | more than 20,€00,000, it was announced at New York at the close of the ua-tlon-wide enrollinon t < amj>aign. ♦ .# * W. 11. Moran, assistant chief of the United States secret service, was appointed chief of the sen ice by Secce- i tary McAdoo sit Washington. Moran feucceeds William J. Flyim, recently re-, signed. * * » Orders to commandeer at a reasonable profit all army uniforms, overcoats,. and army cloth now on the, shelves of Chicago’s mercantile houses ' have been issued-by Washington. Twp men were killed outright and a third is expected to die as the result of tin explesion which occurred at the Bacchus plant of the Hercules Powder company, 18 miles from Salt City, ' Utah*. • • * The big cement dam across Beaver creek, Barren county, Kentucky, used by large flour mills under federal food administration license, was dynamited near the center. Alien enemies are suspected. * ♦ • Norfolk, Va., was swept by a series of mysterious fires which did $5,000.000 damage. German agents are blamed. Hugo Schmidt and H. K. Lessing suspected of starting t-he fire, have been arrested, charged with incendiarism. Norfolk is under martial law. The fire wiped out two blocks in the heart of the business section. * * • Dr. Maurice F. Egan, the American minister to Denmark, arrived at an Atlantic port on a Danish steamship on bls way to Washington. Mrs. Egan accompanied him. _ >

E. A. Strause. tanker uho shot and killed Berne Mead, bank cashier of the State Trust and Savings tank at Peoria, 111., was held for murder, without bail, by a coroner's Jury. • • • U. S.—Teutonic War News The bulk of the'National Guard will be hurried to France at once or as soon as it can .be shipped, and the Prairie division, including the Illinois regiments now at Houston, will be one of the first three divisions sent forward. The administration at Washington is endeavoring to speed up the dispatch of troops to France, as urgently recommended in Co!. E. M. House's report on the achievements of the American war mission, which was made public. ' ■ ‘ . • • • Allied air raids over Germany are awakening the people to a recognition of their ruler's mistaken air ruthlessness, according to the Amsterdam correspondent of the London Times. ■ There Is great nervousness throughout Germany, he says, owing to the. reported intention of the Americans to Invade Germany by air. • • • That a number of American aviators are the first American fighting unit to reach Italian soil was revealed by cables to the Italian embassy at Washington. These men were given a most enthusiastic reception when they marched through the Itali- r. capital on their way to the training eamp. • • • Foreign A dispatch from Petrograd says that the chances of a separate peace between Russia and the central powers being effected seem remote because of what are regarded as Germany's unreasonable demands. M. Kamenoff, a member of the Russian peace delegation, said the German terms show the positive annexation plans of the central powers. He declared they were unacceptable. • • • The Norwegian government at Christiania warned ’.he nati -n through the clergy at the New Year’s services in an official proclamation that suffering and danger were in store for it during the coming year and (alin'd Upon the people to show resignation and practice frugality, as the f<>od supply was p<ff>r while the chances of Norway being drawn into the war were greater than before. • • • An estimate cf 1.000 persons dead in the earthquake ruins at Guatemala City is contained in a telegram received at New York from the Central and South American Telegraph company's manager at Jose, Guatemala, who returned to San Jose from Guatemala City, • • • One of the forts at Kronstadt, the naval base near Petrograd. Russia, has been blown up by an extremely violent explosion, according to a Petrograd dispatch to the London Times. • • • John -F. Stevens, chief American railway conimis'i. ner to Russia, arrived at Nagasaki. Japan, from Vladivostok. In a statement. Mr. Stevens said he fully expected soot return to Russia to prosecute the- proposed work of v.-sisting in the reorganization of Russian rail ci-iurrunieations. Soldiers aciing under th- orders of Finance Ce.vimissioi.er Menzhinsky suiTounde’ and seized all private banks in Petrograd, the branch of the National City l-tuk of New Y'ork. The mstager.. B, R. Stevens, was arrested and detained for a short time. • • • “Acjiievem.’nt of the purposes for which the allies are fighting is essential to the future freedom and i-eace of mankind.” says Premier Lloyd George in a letter which he sent to the labor congress in London. The pre--mier’s statement is regarded as the British reply to the German peece offer. • • • European War News Eighteen British faevchaatruen of 1.«00 tons or over have been sunk by mine or submarine during the 1-mt week, according to the admiralty -statement issued in Ijondon. Three merchantmen uiider tons were k’so sunk. This is r material increase over the. last re- ort. , * ♦ * Six German airjdaites were pflt out of action ’ y the rt-n-k H Is announced •-•ffi>-ia | ly at Paris. » • • • “The enemy becomes more bitter in the bombardment of cities, says the Rome war • re|»«rt. Sunday night his airmen returned for the dwrd time over Padua, dropfuna several score of bombs. The casualties were only . five wounded, including one woman. » • • C-orrespondents of 'Reuter’s Limited at Peking. Harbin apd petrogra-1 report fighting at Irkutsk. East Siberia, between regular troops and red gnards and Cossacks and military cadets. The fighting has lasted nearly a w-eek. The Austrians were compelled In consequence of Italian operations to abandon the Zenson bridgehead, where they had a iodgnprat on the western bank of the Piave river, and pass to the eastern tank of the river, the Rome war office reports. AU the Zenstm bend is now held by the Italians. • • • A communlcc.tlon printed in German newspapers referring to the British air raid on the city of Mannheim says that i two persons were killed and about a ' dozen were wounded.