Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1918 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

U, 3.—Teutonic War News A raid in which tlie Germans killed two and wouifded four and captured one American occurred Thursday. Drafted men from California bombed the enemy as he retired. Two Germans were wounded. • • * The heart of America thrilled on Thursday with the news from Washington that the greatest armada in her history —18 huge transports—had arrived safely at French ports with thousands of officers, soldiers and supplies to battle the kaiser, Stealing out of American ports the last two weeks, the vessels —formerly the best of the Aus-tro-German merchant marine—delivered their precious cargo on European soil unharmed by spies and unobserved by the watchful eyes of submarines. » ♦ ♦ Two Americans attached to the Red £ro&s W§TC killed at Mestre, Italy, by bombs dropped by German raiders. They were. William Flatt and Richard Cutts Fairfield, the first Americans to meet death on the Italian front. ♦ * ♦ Three American aviators have been killed while training on Italian soil, said a dispatch to Varis from Foggla. They were L’lent. William Cheney, Lieut. Oliver Sherwood and Ca’def George Beach. The Americans were burled with military honors.

* * • Charges that Germany is violating the terms of the Russian truce by withdrawing troops from the eastern front and transferring them to the western battle lines were made by the war department at Washington. * * ♦ Brief details of the wounding of Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood of the United States army, while on a visit to the French front, have been received at Paris. General Wood was hit by a fragment of a gun which burst when being tested. His injuries, which are confined to the left arm, are not considered serious, but he was brought to a Paris hospital. ■ * * ♦ The American navy is ready to transport In safety all the troops the war department may decide to send, Secretary Daniels announced at Washington. ♦ ♦ ♦ General Pershing reported to Washington the .following deaths : Jack M. Wright. flrsLlieutenant, airplane acddent, New York ; Annabel S. Roberts, nurse, septicemia,-Madison, N. J.; Hubert E. Roberts, meningitis, Warren, Ore; Earl M. Norris, private, pneumonia, Jareh. Wyo. * • • Washington Raymond B. Stevens, vice chairman of the shipping board at Washington, and George Rublee of the board’s staff, are to be sent to London as permanent representatives of the shipping board. • • * Secretary of State Lansing reported to the senate at Washington that agreements had been entered into with Great Britain and Canada for the drafting of their nationals who are In the United States. • * * It was announced at Washington that the total applications for government soldiers’ insurance has passed the $5,000,000,000 mark. About 600,000 soldiers and sailors have applied. • • •

Domestic Ten years’ imprisonment at Leavenworth, and dishonorable discharge from the army, is the punishment a court-martial at Camp Logan, Tex., has meted out to three men of the Thirtythird division for conspiracy to rob and manslaughter. The defendants are Sergt. Granville W. Shaw aiid Privates Robert McCurry and Clarence A. Brobery, all Chicago boys. * * « The strike of motormen and conductors of the East St. Louis & Suburban railway was called off. ♦ • • Frank P. Woods of lowa was elected at the Republican house caucus in Washington chaiftnan of the Republican congressional campaign committee. The vote was unanimous. * * • Edwin D. James of Toledo, 0., and Carl S. Mathem of Paw Paw, Mich., second lieutenants of the First aviation squadron, Ellington field, Texas, were killed when the airplanes in which they were Hying collided headon and fell 2,000 feet. ■* * ♦ Descending ice gorges in the Tennessee and Ohio rivers, in Kentucky, swept the winter fleet of packets and other craft from their moorings at upriver points and in the Paducah harbor and carried the boats on down the Ohio. • The statewide prohibition bill passed the house of the Kentucky legislature, 76 to 11. Having passed the senate the bill became a law and Intoxicating liquors will be voted out at the November election in 1919 to take effect June 80, 1920.

jjour persons were killed aud forty Others were injured when an Illinois Central combination flyer from Sioux City and Omaha jumped the track at Granger, ill. Ten of eleven coaches plunged from the rails and rolled down a 25-foot embankment. Mrs. Dwight Henderson, Sioux City, la., wife of counsel for the Illinois Central railroad; Sidney Spitzer, five months old, Chicago, and ,M. O._ Thompson, Sioux Falls, S. I)., ami Miss Viola Burg of Le Mars, la., were killed. More than a score of the injured were from lowa. * • * European War News The German proletariat has raised the banner of revolution throughout the empire, it was revealed In advices from Geneva. These estimate that the working classes are responding literally in millions to the call for a general strike. The strikers have formed a council of workmen similar to that of the Russian bolsheviki and presented a demand for peace to the government at Berlin. ♦ * * A dispatch to the London Daily' Express from Geneva reports that there have been clashes between soldiers and strikers in the suburbs of Berlin, in which lives were lost. 'The dispatch adds that the troops in-some instances refused to fire on strikers. * • * An aerial attack of unusual severity was made on Zeebrugge, the German submarine base in northern Belgium, according to the Amsterdam Telegraaf’s frontier correspondent. • • * More than 2,600 prisoners have been taken by the Italians in their successful attacks upon the Austrian lines on the Asiago plateau, the Rome war office announced. Six guns and 100 machine guns also have been captured. Col del Rosso wasstakeu on Monday, the statement adds, and the Italian success was extended by the capture of Monte di Vai Bella. • • * The bolsheviki have split on the auestion of peace, a majority being against the conclusion of peace on the German terms and in favor of a holy war, an Exchange Telegraph dispatch to London from Petrograd says. • » » >— After three days of fighting the Ukrainian Rada's troops have defeated the bolsheviki army and taken possession of Lutsk, according to a wireless message from Kiev to the Ukrainian committee at Geneva. » * » German airplanes made their first attacks of the year upon London and Its suburbs on Monday night, their

oombs inflicting casualties officially reported at 47 killed and 169 injured. Of those killed 14 were men, 17 women and 16 children. British airmen brought down one enemy airplane in flames. The three occupants were killed. • • • Sweden is believed by London to have Intervened in the civil war in Finland. A paper announces the arrival of Swedish troops at Tornea and says a clash has already occurred between an advance guard of Swedes and the Finnish Red guard. • ♦ • The government commissioners at Petrograd announce that diplomatie relations with Roumanla have been broken, and the Roumanian legation and all the Roumanian representatives will be sent out of the country by the shortest route. • * • An official report issued at Rome says that bombs dropped by Teutonic airplanes on Treviso and Mestre claimed six women victims, three being killed. Three hospitals at Mestre were damaged by the explosions. *♦ • ’ The headquarters of —the German crown prince at Treves has been bombarded by British airmen, according to information received at Geneva. Personal United States Senator William Hughes of New Jersey died at Mercer hospital, Trenton, from pneumonia. * • • Thomas Wardell, friend of Abraham Lincoln, is dead at Seattle, Wash., aged one hundred and two years. He conducted a store opposite Lincoln** law office in Springfield, 111. • • • Foreign Information reaching Amsterdam from Berlin indicate the number who failed to appear in plants there for work because of the general strike movement was 90,000, most of them youthful workers of both sexes. • • • Forty persons were killed when the French transport Drome and a trawler struck a mine within sight of Marseilles, says a dispatch from Paris. Aviators soon afterward discovered several mlaee In the same vicinity.