Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1918 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Jt7. S.—Teutonic War News Testimony that in 1916 Germans in the United States were planning to revolt against this country was given at the New York state attorney general’s investigation of reports of hidden munitions. Ivan Norodny, vice president nf the Russian-American Asiatic corporation, testified that Baron von Gerslorflf told him that German societies n the United States would be equipped with arms from Germany to combine with I. W. W. and Socialists against the government. • • • Aviator Frank Baylies of New Bedford, Mass., has just shot down his (eighth enemy machine, says a dispatch (from Parts. Lieutenant Guerin, the (French “ace,” who has 23 victories to this credit, has been wounded in the ..at.* • • • A whole squadron of German subjmarlnes, of a new large type, failed to (return after a cruise, according to information received in Zurich from a (German source. The new type U-boata |nre said to be unsatisfactory. • • * Falling through the clouds, an Arneiv lean airplane crashed to earth two kilometers behind the American line tn the Toul sector in France, killing noth the pilot and the observer. « • • Two draft calls, aggregating 51,600 |men, were sent out by the provost marshal general. The men called to the (colors will be moved to the camps Ifofom May 20 to 24 and from May 29 to June 7, respectively. These calls (bring the total number of men summoned since May 1 up to 311,000. i? * * Realizing that America and the (tidies have gained the mastery over the foresent submarine, Germany is planning new big U-boat cruisers to again assume the advantage In her underwater warfare. Announcement of the Jpew German scheme Is made by 'Georges Leygues, French minister of tnarlne, in an interview received at Washington from France. * * * Maj. Richard Bolles Paddock, reported slightly wounded in the U. fi. casualties, is a nephew of Gen. Pershing and lias been serving on his uncle’s staff. He is the son of General Paddock, who was killed in the jßoxer uprising. ♦ ♦ • ■-The appearance of American National army men on parade in London aroused the enthusiasm of the papers us have few events in months. The (writers unite in giving unstinted praise to the appearance of the men, and predict for them ■ a record of splendid (achievement when they reach the ifront. ♦ * ♦

'Foreign Coughlan's shipyard, at Vancouver. B. C., the largest shipbuilding Industry In British Columbia, was devastated by fire. The loss will run from a illlion ami a half to two million dollars. One fireman was killed. I* ♦ * • The Austrian and German emperors lat their meeting at German great headquarters, German newspapers say, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch to London from Copenhagen, selected monarchs for Lithuania, Courland, Esthonia and Poland., * ♦ ♦ M. Duval, who was director of the suppressed Germanophile newspaper, , Bonnet Rouge of Paris, France, was condemned to death by court-martial for treason- The six other defendants were sentenced to imprisonment for terms ranging from two to ten years. * * ♦ Fighting began at Moscow, Russia, (between bolshevik troops and anarchists. The soviet troops fired at the anarchist headquarters. The anarchists replied with grenades and machine guns. * ♦ ♦ s. The people of Finland are starving because no food is reaching that country from Germany, according to reports received at Copenhagen. People, are said to be dying in the streets of Helsingfors and Vdborg. * * » Domestic Twenty-one of the leading mining company officials, employees and business men of the Warren district were arrested at Bisbee, Ariz., on indictments returned by the federal grand Jury which completed an investigation of the deportation of nearly 1,200 alleged members of the Industrial Workers of the World. * * * The first million tons of ships completed and delivered to the United States government under the direction the shipping' board have been put <on the high seas to help defeat Germany. A total of 159 vessels of 1,018,4521 tons was completed up to May 11. * * * Aerial mail service In the United States on Wednesday became an accomplished fact. Piloted by army aviators, airplanes carried consignments of mall from New York and Philadelphia to Washington and from Philadelphia to New York. ~~ J .

Secretary McAdoo and Mrs. McAdoo announced the engagement of their daughter, Mrs. Tabor Martin, to Clayton Platt, Jr., of Philadelphia. * * • Railroads In the first three months this year earned only $71,431,000, making a loss to the government under the system of common operation of nearly $108,000,000. • • • Otto Ludtke, at one time personal bodyguard of the German emperor, was ordered Interned in a presidential warrant received at Des Moines, la. • • * Federal officials, for the first time, have Invoked the provisions of the New sabotage law to end a strike. As a “result 8,000 Chicago teamsters and truck drivers who walked out without notice, returned to work. • * * Neville island, in the Ohio river near Pittsburgh, was selected by the war department as the site for the great government ordnance plant to be built and operated in the interior. * * * European War News The Vosslsche Zeltung of Berlin announces that war has had to be proclaimed at Ekaterlnoslav, Odessa and Poltava as a -strong counter-current to the order of things was observable. There are.several groups of great Russian forces In the Don region, the newspaper says. • • • The Germans are still of the belief that they will be able to reach the English channel coast, bar navigation of the waters and bombard southern England, and that then it will be easy to begin peace negotiations, according to an interview the Copenhagen Polltiken has had with a prominent member of the relchstag. He added that the offensive proved a failure owing to heavy losses. Germany had lost In killed, wounded, and made prisoner 8,000,000 men, he said. • * • British troops after capturing Klsput In Mesopotamia pursued the Turks 20 miles to the northward, says an official statement issued by the London war office. • ♦ • Lieutenant Gelgel, a star Bavarian airman, has been killed on the western front, according to the Cologne Gazette. He was credited with 15 aerial victories In France. • » ♦ Gen. Maurice, former director of British military operations, has been retired by the army- council, it was officially announced In London. The council considered Maurice's explanation of the breach of regulations he committed by writing and causing publication of the letters questioning the veracity of Premier Lloyd George and Chancellor of the Exchequer Bonar Law and decided he should be placed at once on retired pay. * ♦ ♦ Fourteen tons of bombs were dropped by British aviators on I’eronne, Bapaume, Sliielt, Denial, Zeebrugge and the Bruges docks, Field Marshal Haig reported to London. Eight airplanes were shot down.

Personal James Gordon Bonnett, proprietor of the New York Herald, the Evening Telegram and the Paris edition of the New York Herald, died at his villa in southern France. He was born in New York May, 1841. ♦ ♦ » John Grass, chief of all the Sioux Indians, died at Forty Yates, N. D. Chief Grass was seventy-nine years old. * ♦ • Washington An amendment to the post office appropriation bill providing for an increase in the salaries of clerks and Increases of 20 per cent for rural mail carriers was adopted by the senate. • * • Food Administrator Hoover asked the house appropriations committee on Wednesday for $7,000,000 to provide offices and clerical hire for the 4,000 county food administrators. • * * The long fight in congress over the Overman bill, empowering the president to reorganize government departments and agencies, ended with passage of the measure unamended by the house. It goes to President Wilson for bis signature. The vote was 295 to 2, Representatives Sterling of Illinois and Gillett of Massachusetts, both Republicans, casting the only negative votes. * * * All plant inum held-by refiners, some importefs, manufacturing jewelers and large dealers has been commandeered by the United States government, The price fixed is $lO5 per trey ounce. * * * President Wilson informed his advisers in the senate that he will not oppose a thorough inquiry into the aircraft situation by the senate committee on military affairs. At the.same time he insisted that the Investigation should stop there. * * * President Wilson has asked Charles E. Hughes to assist Attorney General Gregory in investigating the aircraft situation. Mr. Hughes has replied that he will be glad to assist. The president said the importance of the aviation service warranted an investigation with as little delay as possible. • * • President Wilson’s autographs on numerous articles sold at auction are swelling the funds of the Red Cross. The president has been signing dally copies of bls speeches and other articles. _