Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1918 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

u. S.—Teutonic War News

American troops are now holding something over eight miles of trenches on the battle front in France, it was learned at Washington, although in an airline their frontage is only about four and a half miles. This frontage is liable to extension at any time to the regular trench allotment for an army corps. • • * The American steamship Armenia, formerly a German merchantman, lies beached and badly damaged on the British coast after being torpedoed by a German submarine, it was learned with the arrival of tlie Armenia’s crew at an Atlantic port. * * * Conscription of income is inevitable if the next Liberty loan is not a success. Representative Rainey of Illinois, ranking Democratic member of the house ways and means committee, declared. • • * Forty-three American soldiers had been killed in action in France at the end of March 2. while 252 had been wounded and 35 captured or missing, according to war department information. * * . * A German attack at night on the trenches held by American forces in Lorraine was repulsed, the Trench official statement issued at Paris announced. American patrols operating In the same region, the statement adds, took a number of German prisoners. * * *

Building a §25,1X10,000 ordnance base In France, which will include about twenty large storehouses, 12 shop buildings. 100 smaller shops and magazines and machine tool equipment, was announced by the war department at Washington. • * • European War News A preliminary pence treaty between Ronmania and the central powers was signed, says a dispatch from Bucharest. Under the terms Roumania cedes the province of Dobruja as far as the Danube to the central powers. • • • Official announcement was made by the admiralty at London that the British armed merchantile cruiser Calgarian was torpedoed and sunk on March 1. Two officers and 46 men were lost. * * * The Russian official news agency announced at Petrograd that a supreme military council had been formed for defense of the country. The commissioner for military affairs has issued a decree ordering that the entire people he armed. The bolshevik leaders are prepared to withdraw even ns far as to the Ural mountains rather than submit to the defeat of the revolution, said Leon Trotzky, bolshevik foreign minister.