Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1918 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

U. S. —Teutonic War News A message from David LloydGeorge, prime minister of Great Britain, calling upon the United Slates to send “American re-enforcements across the Atlantic In the shortest possible space of time,” was read by Lord Reading, British high commissioner to the United States, at a dinner given in New York in his honor. * ♦ ♦ After an hour’s battle with a German U-boat the American oil tanker Paulsboro sent the enemy vessel beneath the waves ‘‘damaged and in distress,” the navy department reported. It was the tanker’s second struggle with a submarine in six days. * ♦ ♦ America’s effort to meet German submarine war, was outlined at New York by Chairman Hurley of the shipping board, in a frank statement setting forth the shipbuilding situation in the United States. Before the National Marine league Mr. Hurley disclosed that the country soon will have 730 ways turning out ships and that the government’s steel shipbuilding program of 8,000,000 tons on March 1 was 28 per cent on its way to completion. • • * The American positions on a certain part of the Toul front were bombarded with mustard gas shells at the rate of six a minute at night, but ineffectively. The American artillery replied with a heavy fire and deinolished segments of the German front lines and other points. ♦ ♦ ♦ The German lines were heavily bombarded and machine-gunned for an hour by American troops during the relief changes by the enemy. The French official statement says that east of Badonvillers (where American troops are in the line) the enemy attacked, but wgs thrown back with heavy losses. • * » General Pershing cabled the war department that two regiments of American railroad engineers are attached to the British force on the front attacked by the Germans. Three companies of the engineers were working in the area in which the German official statement mentioned the presence of American troops. This message definitely disposes of reports that American reserves had been sent into the battle. * * * Praising the condition and work of General Pershing’s expeditionary forces,/General Wood, recommended to rhe senate military committee Hutt an American army of 2,000,000 men be maintained abroad as soon as possible and that another 2,000,000 men be trained. ♦ ♦ *

Foreign Sir Herbert Morgan of the ministry of nation's service in London, urged tin' enlistment of men of fifty years and older for home service, in order to release younger men for tlie armies at the front. • * * (.'apt. William Redmond succeeded"' his father, John Redmond, the nationalist leader, in parliament in London. Returns from the the seat for Waterford show tiTat Captain Redmond received 1,243 votes as against 754 for his opponent, Doctor White, a Sinn Feiner. * * * A ney Helgoland to command the commerce of the Black sea, is to he constructed by Germany on Snake Island. about twenty-five miles from the mouth of the Danube, according to tlie Hamburg Nachrichten. ♦ ♦ ♦ A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph in London from Amsterdam says the city of Brussels, Belgium, Ims been fined 2.DOO.IHhi marks (more than $400,000) for a recent demonstration by anti-Flemish agitators. —♦ ♦ • Domestic The city council of Chicago by a vote of 63 to 2 passed the ■antienbaret ordinance, divorcing entertainment and liquor. It goes into < fleet May 1, unless the mayor vetoes it. * * * Wheat hoarded with unpatriotic intent will be seized by the food administration. Already 350,000 pounds belonging to Kempenieh brothers, farmers of German extraction in New Mexico, has been taken and orders have gone out to state administrators to act promptly when hoarding is discovered. • * * Fire following a series of unexplained explosives destroyed the sixstory building of the Jarvis Warehouse company, Inc., near the Erie railroad terminal in Jersey City and badly damaged the Erie repair shops. The damagb was estimated at $1,500,000. . •♦ ■ • Joe Sing, a waiter at Tulsa, Oklg., was shot by S. I. Miller, a special officer of the county defense council. Sing is said to have expressed a hope that “every American soldier in France be killed.” ..

■ The United States Steel corporation, announced at New York a wage increase of 15 per cent for all its mill and factory employees. The new scale is to go Into effect on April 15. Three miners were killed and a fourth is still entombed in the Ironton mine near Bessemer, Mich., as a result of a cave-in. * * * i The fabricated hull of the West Grove, an 8,800-ton steel ship built for the United States government, was launched at a Pacific port just 62 days after the laying of the keel. This Is claimed to be a world’s record for this type of shipbuilding. | • *♦ Washington I Negotiations for the transfer of 150,000 tons of Japanese shipping to the United States have been completed at Washington on the basis of two tons lof steel plates for one ton of deadweight ship capacity. ♦ ♦ ♦ Resumption of criticism of the government’s war preparations in the senate drew' from Senator Williams (Dem.) of Mississippi, a suggestion that the Republicans were playing pollj tics In behalf of Representative Len- , root, the Republican candidate for seni ator in Wisconsin, who, lie said, was j “lukewarm” in support of America’s course in the war, • * * Secretary McAdoo announced that the amount of the third Liberty loan would be $3,000,000,000, the bonds carrying 4*4 per cent interest and that all oversubscriptions will lie accepted. Outstanding features of the third war loan plan as announced are: Bonds for the first and second war loans may be converted into the new 4(4. per cent securities. The bonds will be acceptable at par and accrued Interest In payment of United States Inheritance taxes. They will have the benefit of a sinking fund of 5 per cent per annum. • * * -* President Wilson cabled Field Marshal Haig, congratulating him on the British stand against the fensive ami predicting a final allied victory. • « « The house adopted the conference report on the .urgent deficiency bill, carrying $1,150,000,000; providing for the sale of enemy property in the United States and giving the government power to purchase German owned’docks at Hoboken, N. J. The senate adopted the report and the bill now goes to President Wilson. ♦ ♦ * Senator New, Republican of Indiana. speaking in the senate, declared that Instead of 12,000 combat airplanes being delivered in France by July 1, as provided in the original airplane program, the number will amount to. only 37. * ♦ ♦ An official statement of the war department’s reasons for announcing only the names of American troops killed or wounded in France was submitted to the senate by Major General March, acting chief of staff. General Marell said the old system of giving addresses ami other details, gave information to the enemy and brought swarms of claim agents to harass the relatives of the men. • * * Tile transfer of 50,000 tons of American shipping to the Swiss government to take supplies to that country was announced by tin* shipping board.

• * • European War News A German Gotha airplane damaged by artillery fire was forced to descend back of the Belgian lines. The three men in the crew, two officers and a corporal, were made prisoner. ♦ * ♦ Odessa has been recaptured by the soviet and Ukrainian troops after a bloody battle in which naval forces took part, according to a Moscow dispatch to. London from the semiofficial news agency. » ♦ » The steamship Etonian of the Leyland line, which left Liverpool for Boston has been torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off the Irish. CWasf. A cablegram announced the destruction- of the vessel, but gave no information regarding the fate of the crew, which numbered 60 men. ♦ * ♦ British cavalry has lujen in action and has 'achieved a brilliant victory, according to a dispatch to Ottawa from the Router correspondent at British headquarters. ♦ ♦ * Eighty thousand Germans, formerly war prisoners of the Russians, have captured the great fortified city of Irkutsk, capital of the province of that name in according to official dispatches received at Tokyo. ♦ » • Resumption of fighting In Ukraine between the Germans and the bolshevik! is reported to London in a Reuter dispatch from Petrograd. The bolshevik! are said to have recaptured the city of Kherson. * * » Forty-five enemy machines were shot down by British aviators and 22 were driven out of control says, an official statement issued in London. Brit'ish anti-aircraft guns shot down twovhostile planes. Ten British planes are missing. During the day 1,700 bombs wer dropped on the Bruges docks, the Aulnoye railway station and the vicinity. of Cambrat. • ♦ ♦ The British admiralty announces at London the sinking of a mine-sweeping sloop through striking a r mine. Two officers and 64 inen were lost.