Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1918 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

U.S. —Teutonic War News American air squadrons have engaged in participation with the French In bombing operations behind the German lines. These operations are being carried ont on a very large scale. At one time recently 120 allied machines Were flying at the same moment in bombing work. • • * Lieut. W«lliam H. Taylor of New Tork chased a German biplane from the American lines to over Pagny-enr-Moselle, north of Pont a-Mousson, and defeated the Boehe In a desperate fight 5,000 meters in the air. • • • News of the death >f Ensign Stephen Potter. United States naval reserves, -who wea killed while lighting seven enemy single-seated airplanes In the North sea. was received at Washington from the representative of the committee on public information. Ensign Potter’s machine was ■hot down in flames. • • • In a statement Inserted in the house record Representative Caldwell of New York, a member of the military committee, declared that during the first ten days of May 90,000 American soldiers were sent abroad, and paid that after the expiration of one ye«r from the arrival of the first shipment of troops from this country the United States would have 1,00*3,000 mm In France equipped with the necessary arms and supplies. • • • Hie avenging of the deith Of MaJ. Raoul Lufbery has begun. Slue© the American ace of aces was brought down hl3 flying have succeeded in bringing to earth two German places. At the sqme time their French comrades of the air engaged the enemy plane which was responsible for Lufbery’s death and shot It down. • • • America’s first field army—approximately 200,000 men—has been formed In France. It is understood to consist of two army corps of three divisions each, with Pol. A. W. Bjornstad as chief of staff. , Capt. James Norman Hall of Colfax, la_, who was brought down behind the German lines, is alive in a German hospital. It was learned. He is wounded.

f * * The Americam tanker William Rockefeller has been lost at sea, according to official advices reaching Washington. Tlie navy department withheld formal announcement of the disaster. • * • Maj. Raoul Lufl>ery. who has beerregarded as the best aviator in the American s*-rvi»-e, was shot down in flames and killed by a big tSernme triI»!«ne which be was attacking over the Amerf« -.n front ranee, I.aiberv JuiE[e! from his flaming machine when yards above the ground. He had 33 victories to his Credit. I.uft cry's home was In WnDlngfofd, C onfi. * * * Upon approving the act of congress bringin:: under the army draft law all men a* = r ing the age of twenty-one years sill's- the first registration day, June 5. 1917. President Wilson issued a proclamation formally fixing next June 5 as the date for new eltgildes to appear before their local hoards. • • * General Pershing's request that American soldiers and sailors be permitted to accept and wear foreign decorations given by otir allies was granted by the senate in a resolution adopted. • • * Domestic Nineteen persons were killed ir. lowa, nine in Wisconsin and one in Illinois in storm that swept over these three .states. 1c lowa the Storm reached its greatest velocity at Boone. The heaviest death list in Wisconsin was at Lone Rock. Damage to property and erotec'iti lowa is estiroated far it) i*f Set .•» *!.» >* 5t *, tv 1 1 \! v iii \V i SCO» i - ; S*ixi tb? |n_*ss is likely t'» mtcli I,* K^J, - ' <*3o. * * * &arir._- an import m? report on the Russian si;uari.•>* •{r-un A mho ssndor Frsn* is’ Jnti.es G. Bailey, ..flrsi.'Sif cj <ta s ir‘ ? ■ 'sa**t TutgtTV' t*> tbt 1 Aiftoritun t*U* _ l*is.«sy at V--U-_ ia. arrived at a Pacific pert. • * * ■ Ten persons were kiiieti, dozens injured, two probably fatally, in n tor--gitrt j;t r:b*rii Ellis arc! southern Rooks Counties in Kansas. Codell, Rocks county, was practically wiped ca‘. • * * Probst-Iy 290 men were killed when an explosion of T. N. T. demolished tho pl&at of the Aetna Chemical company et Oakdale. Pa. Coroner Samuel C. Jamison ordered a census of the town In an effort to ascertain the number of persons killed. \* * * Federal Agent C. K. Berge was sent oat to get Jess C. Wilson, a Chicago draft fvader. He caught up with Wilson near Spanish Fort, Ala. Wilson Mid: *TH kill anybody who tries tc come after me.” Berge drew his rewinu- and shot Wilson, dead.

Thomas J. Mooney was resentenced at San Francisco to hang on May 28 as a result of his conviction on a firstdegree murder charge growing out of the bomh explosion, which killed ten persons in 191®. • * • Fifty airplanes being constructed for the government were destroyed at San Francisco when six buildings occupied by the Fowler Airplane corporation were burned. An enemy plot Is not suspected. • * * German women In the United States are required to register with chiefs of police or postmasters between June 17 and 20, under regulations Issued at Washington by the department of Justice. • • • Miss Gretna I’etzer, a schoolteacher, daughter of Henry Fetzer, a banker of Sturgeon Bay, and Raymond Napledlnskl drowned when their automobile plunged Into the river at Manitowoc, Wls. - i • • * Lleuts. Lathan Polk of New York city and Spencer Charles Williams of Buffalo were killed at Gerstner field when two airplanes collided at an altitude of 3,000 feet, it was announced at Lake Charles, La. • • •

Foreign Count Plunkett, member of parliament from Roscommon, was one of the 500 men and women arrested In connection with the German-Irish revolt in Dublin. With his arrest four of the six Sinn Felners In parliament have been apprehended. The two others, Ginnell and McCartan, were in Jail when the new plot was discovered. • * * In response to a request from the United States, the commonwealth decided to charter American vessels to carry wheat to the United States, says a dispatch from Melbourne, Australia. * * * European War News Twelve German airplanes were brought down during Monday’s air fighting by British aviators, while gunfire accounted for another, and an additional two were driven down out of control, says a statement from London. * * * The casualties in Sunday night’s air raid on London are .given in a supplemental .statement issued here as 44 killed and 179 injured. * # * “Have torpedoed ship.” “Am destroying my boat. All attempts rescue useless.” These two messages flushed by luminous signals from the port of Pola are all that the Italian navy knows of the fate of one of its most gallant commanders. Captain Pellegrini. With a motorboat and three companions lie penetrated the defenses of the Austrian naval station and sunk an Austrian■ dread-naught. * * * The sinking of a German submarine by a French trawler is reported to Washington in an official dispatch from France. The trawler took prisoners the entire crew, including the captain. The captain of a Spanish schooner who was on board the submarine was released, • * * The city of Abo, Finland, hns been captured by the Germans, who have taken prisoner the Russians fourd there, says a dispatch from Moscow. * * * Thirty-seven persons were killed and 1151 injured in an aerial attack on London and the provinces. Four enemy machines were shot down. Of those killed 14 were women and six children. * * *

Washington Every railroad president In the United States was relieved from active duty as executive manager of liis road by Director General MCAdoo. lie Wilt .appoint a federal director for •each road, responsible only to'tin* railroad administration. In many cases *.he president of the road may be named federal director. , * * * Holland lias been notified hj the United States government that its request for three ships now in Amerlear. ports to carry the balance of the grain prorr-ised it by President Wrlson cannot be granted and that to prevent further delay in the movement of the grain Dutch, ships should be sent for It at once. * * * President Wilson sighed the sedition hill, giving the government wide powers to punish disloyal nets and utterances. -* * • President Wilson nominated throe generals. Maj. Gen: Peyton 0. March was named chief of staff, General Bliss was nominated brevet general. Gen. John IT. Pershing as commander in chief of the expeditionary forces, becomes a full general. * * * Ir. a vigorous letter sent to the senate military affairs committee Charles E. Hughes made it plain that the aircraft investigation by the department of justice must not be hampered by a parallel Inquiry by the committee.