Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1918 — MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD [ARTICLE]

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD

BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS. (DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS j Kernels Culled From Events of Moment in All Parts of the World— Of Interest to All th® People Everywhere. Washington Minister Ira NelSon Morris at Stockholm reported to the state department | that as a result of a protest made by | him the Finnish legation in Stockholm had expressed regrets over the public insult offered Lieut. C. H. Thorlihg, the American attache at Vasa, Fin- \ land. The Finnish officer involved in the Incident has been punished. * * * The senate resolution for registration of men who have reached twenty- , one years of age since June 5, 1917,] was ordered favorably reported to the | house. The registration date would be fixed by presidential proclamation. • • * .. The fourth officers’ training camps will open May 15 at various divisional camps and cantonments, Secretary Baker announced. ♦ * * The sabotage bill, carrying penalties of 30 years’ imprisonment and fines of 'slo,ooo for injuring war materials or Interfering with war industry, was made ready for the president's signature when the senate accepted a conference report eliminating provisions designed to punish strikers on war icontracts. • • ♦ Secretary of War Baker arrived in 'Washington on Tuesday, being warmly, greeted by friends and his family. Secretary Baker rejjprted on the European (Situation and disposition of the American forces to President Wilson. * * * The brigadier generals of the National army were nominated by President Wilson to be major generals and 27 colonels were nominated to be brigadier generals. * • * j. Secretary Daniels was a passenger with Lieutenant Doherty, a naval aviator, In a 20-mlnute flight over the capital. A service Hydroplane was tised. ♦ ♦ ♦ The senate set a new record for war expenditures when they passed the legislative, executive .and judicial appropriations of $69,531,898.26. * * * Preceding a drive against delinquents on income and excess profits tax returns* Internal Revenue Commissioner Roper announced a reorganization of the revenue agent, force, with John D. Murphy of Boston as chief revenue agetit to succeed L. G. Nutt. • * * 1 The big American naval collier, Cyclops, carrying 57 passengers, 15 officers and 221 men in her crew, has been overdue at an Atlantic port since March 13. The navy department announced that she was last reported at a West Indies island March 4, and that extreme anxiety is entertained as to her safety. The Cyclops was one of the largest and ifewest colliers in the navy. Her complete cost \Has $923,000. * « * Personal Representative William Atkinson Jpnes of Virginia died in Washington after a long illnes'p. * 1 • * Senator William J. Stone of vMlssouri, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee and for many years prominent among Democratic leaders, is dead at Washington. He had suffered a stroke of paralysis. He was born in Kentucky May 7, 1848. » o’ •

Domestic The Third Liberty loan campaign is two-fifths over and less than one-third of the S3.(M>O,(MM),(MMI minimum Inis been officially recorded its subs<'ished. 1 The total reported on April IT to the I treasury, covering receipts by banks' up to the (dose of business April 16 was $952,923,250, or S4B,(MM),(MH) short of the $1,000,000,000 total which had been expected by April 17. ' ♦ » » Two army aviators in training at San Diego, Cai., lost their lives, according to witnesses, at Fort Rosecrans, when a machine fell in midchannel between the North Island camp and Fort Roseerans, and soon sank. * « * Private Vaughn Beckman of Marion, Ind., and civilian workers were injured, some seriously, When a tornado struck Camp Shelby, near Hattiesburg, Miss. • • • Two British missions to the United States arrived at a •Canadian Atlantic port and will proceed soon to New York. The purpose of one of the missions, headed by General Hutchinson, was not made public. Its plans were declared' to be important. * * The Jess Fulton world’s heavyweight boxing championship, scheduled for July 4, will be staged in an arena to be erected in the Midway district between St. Paul and Minneapolis, according to an announcement. — —*

Four hundred convicts in the state penitentiary at Santa Fe. N. M., tarred and feathered and led, with a rope about his neck, Maj. John M. Birkner of Camp Cody, Deming, N. M., held in the penitentiary as a federal prisoner In default of $5,000 bail. He is charged with violation of the espionage act ■* * ♦ Many German and Austrian women are under surveillance by government agents in the United States, and will be arrested and interned as soon as President Wilson signs the bill which includes women in the class of enemy aliens. It was said the number is more than IQO. T. Smith) a merchant of Melrose, N. M., said to be a Socialist ami to lutve made pro-Geiinan statements recently, was tarred and feathered by a large crowd in Clovis, N. M. » » » Foreign Paul 8010 Pasha, convicted of high treason against the republic of France in time of war has been executed at Vincennes, France. This announcement was accompanied by no details of the conspirator’s death. * * * Count Czernin, the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, according to a dispatch from Vienna, has resigned. Czernin did not know of Emperor Charles’ letter to Prince Sixtus when he made the statement that France had initiated %e conversations with Austria, according to a Vienna dispatch to the Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin. On learning of the letter he resigned. Thousands of people gathered in the streets of Prague, capital of Bohemia, denounced the Germans and cheered President Wilson, says a dispatch to Amsterdam from that city. • ♦ ♦ The labor ministers of the British cabinet, in an interview with Premier Lloyd George in London pressed the premier to grant s©lf-government to Ireland on the basts of the majority report of the Irish convention before corfscription is put into operation. It is understood that the conference had satisfactory results, and there will not be a cabinet crisis. • • • Canada started on Sunday on daylight saving in compliance with the new law passed by the Dominion parliament. * * *

U. S. —Teutonic War News Provost Marshal General Crowder said 150,000 drafted men, or nearly three times the month’s be mobilized during the month of May. By June 300,000 men of the second draft of 800,000 will be in training camps, he said. ♦ ♦ ♦ Probably the bigjest t/oop movement in the history of the country is tin' response of the United States to appeals from the allies for men to fill the gaps (‘rented by the great'struggle on the west front. ♦ » » “What is now most pressingly required is that the fighting lories of the United States should be brought as speedily as possible into tin* field," said A. J. Balfour, the foreign secretary, speaking at a luncheon in London. "The German plan,’’ continued Mr. Baffour, "is to shatter the British army before the American weight can be brought, into the scale.”

Minor Judson Chapin, a secondclass quartermaster V. S. naval reserve. attached to the aviation section, was killed in 'a seaplane accident in France, the navy department announced, Chapin's father. Ora E. ( hapln. lives at 6415 University avenue, Chicago. • • * The Col. R. C. Bolling named in a casualty list as captured or missing in action was identified by war department Officials as R. C. Bolling of New York, assistant general counsel of the United States Steel corporation. * ■. •* ♦ Preceded by an intense bombardment of high explosives and poison gas shells the Germans hurled themselves against the American positions north of St. Mlhiel but were repulsed. The Americans captured some pris- ’ oners. The German losses already counted are 34 dead and 10 wounded, who were in the American trenches, and 30 dead in No Man’s Land. » * * The Germans continued their efforts to drive through to the third line of the American positions near Apremont forest, northwest of Toni. They made two attacks, both of which failed. The enemy’s casualties in the four days fighting are estimated at between 300 and 400. Of this number more than 100 were killed. * * * European War News Italy’s war expenditures up to March 31 aggregated approximately $7,000,- ' 000,000, according to an official dis--1 patch to Washington from Rome. The 1 sum Includes Italy’s ten months of neutrality and 33 months of war. , ♦* * t German troops, supported by naval detachments, have entered Helsingfors, capital of Finland. This announcement is made by the German general headquarters. • • • i .’ ■' ' - - a'.-/' ■’ • " The capture by the Turks of the city of Batum is announced in an official statement issued at Constantinople. . The city was held by the Armenians. • ♦ * 1 Several instances of Russian sniping against Japanese patrols in . Vladivostok are reported fn ft * dispatch to' Tokyo from that city to the Asahi.