Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1918 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

European War News ~~Although ponce negotiations between Russia and Ukralnia now have begun at Kiev, the Germans have broken the armistice on the Voronezh front, occupying the town of Vnluiki after four days of fighting, and making a farther advance, says a dispatch from Moscow. * * * It was announced at Rome that Italian troops broke into .the Ahstro-Ger-man defenses at Capo Kile, on tin? lower Piave front to a depth of 7;>o yards. Tiie Italians captured 438 prisoners. • * * The Germans have seized the Dutch steamship Jantje and sailing vessels 'Maria, Jacoba and Gerzine, says a dispatch from Amsterdam. This is in pursuance of their policy of not perunitting Dutch vessels to sail without safe conducts. * * * 1 Major Baraseoa, the leading Italian ace, lias brought down ins thirty second adversary, according to a dispatch from the Italian front to the Paris Temps. lie shot down tiie leading airplane of an enemy squadron. * * * , An important victory for the Italians on the northern front, northwest of ;Trent, was reported by the Rome war office. The Italians stormed tiie summit of Monte Zigoion and also won the village of Prezna, Montieello pass and the spur to the east of the pass. Eight hundred and fifty-seven Teuton prisoners were taken. * • * tThe attempts by the Germans to disrrn the Polish troops in the Ukraine nd Minsk governments are meeting •with fierce resistance, says a dispatch (front Moscow. The second Polish Icorps under General Makovitsky, stationed near Knneff, in the government ktf Kiev, defied the German ultimatum (to disarm. • • * ( Thirteen German sailors have been sentenced to death by a German eourt(martial for attempted treason in eonjnectlon with recent British raids Bgainst submarine bases at Ostend and IZeebrugge. * * * The Cork steamer Inniscnrrn, hound Erom Fishguard to Cork, has been toredoed and sunk. Thirty-seven meraers of tiie crew are missing and are •supposed to have been lost. Five survivors of the disaster have been landed. I• • • •f The British linei Moldavia, torpedoed in the English channel, was cartying American troops. All the crew (and marines are believed to be saved, but 56 American soldiers are missing and it is feared lost their lives in tiie explosion. British destroyers rescued 444 American soldiers and the crew.

* * * Fishermen who have arrived at Esbjerg, say Hint a Zeppelin has been brought down in the North sea. The crew of the German airship was rescued by a British destroyer, * * Domestic One union express company for the United States Was created by agreement between Director General MeAdoo and the Adams, American, Welis-Fargo and Southern companies, Whose transportathtw .business will lie merged under a new private corporation with capital of more than $30,000,000. to be known iirobaldy as the Federal Express conipany, George C. Tavlor. now president of the American, will bo head of the new company. The combination becomes effective July 1. The third earthquake shock felt in Santa Fe, N. M„ since 187-1 occurred at 5":30 o’clock Tuesday morning, and was severe enough to shake plaster off walls. The shock lasted about five seconds. * * * A total of 330.01 Ml will lie paid to the drivers who compete at the auto derby at Chicago on June 22. Tilts sum ,is practically certain to result in all of the speedway Stars entering the contest, Dario Ucsta, Louis Chevrolet and Ralph Mulford already have entered. * * * , The American people answered Germany’s renewal of the offensive on Ithe western front with an outpouring of more than $32,000,000, swelling the i American Red Cross second war fund ito $144,000,000. * * * Charges that beef “unfit for human (consumption” has been sold to the iUnited States troops in Texas by Wilson & Co. ami Morris & Co., two of the largest packers in the country, were made by the federal trade commission. • * • The United States ship Wakiva, a converted yacht,, was sunk in European waters in a collision on May 22 with a loss of two men. Joseph M. Farley, Chicago, and W. D. White of Gloucester, Mass., were the men lost

A bonus of $5,000 will be paid if necessary to get the winner of the Harkness handicap ht Sheepshead Bay to compete in the fourth annual auto derby at Speedway park, Chicago, on Saturday, June 22. * • * Superseding indictments charging violation of the espionage act were returned by a federal grand jury at New York against Max Eastman, former editor of The Masses, and four persons associated with-him. * * * V. S, —Teutonic War News Secretary of War Baker announced In an address at New York in celebration of Italy day that American infantry, American machine gun units and American artillery soon would be fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Italians on their front. * * *

Heroism and daring of American naval officers and men in rescuing 31 of tiie 75 in tiie crew of the American munitions steamer Florence 11., which caught fire and broke in two in French waters April 17, are described in the report of Rear Admiral Wilson, commanding, made public by the naval department. * * • . The Rotterdam Maashode reports that an entente allied air raid has been successful over Liege. The Longdoz railway station was destroyed and 26 persons were killed. * * * Lieut. Louis M. Edens of the medical corps, with (lie American forces in France, is a prisoner in the German prison camp, according to a telegram received at Cabool, Mo., by Mrs. Edens from tiie Red Cross. . • * • Foreign Aviators De Vienne and Lorgnat flew from Paris to London and back in a hydroairpiane Monday in three hours and ten minutes, carrying mail. The aviators will make dally trip?. * * * Discussing the problems of demobilization after war, the minister of labor, George 11. Roberts, said in a speech at Smethwick, England, that 400,000 discharged soldiers had been provided for already. * * * Dr. Johannes Kaempf, president of the reiehstag, is dead in Berlin. Doctor Kaempf had been president of the reiehstag since 1912. He belonged to the progressive peoples’ party. He was seventy-six years old. * • * Personal News of the death of Mrs. Clara Hamilton Deerlng, widow of .William Deering, harvester manufacturer, at her winter home in Coconut Grove, Fla., was received in Chicago. * * * Washington Claude Kitehin, majority leader of the house, told the lower body that lie would submit to tiie wishes of the chief executive and steer the proposed tax lull to final passage. Kitehin charged that tiie “great publishers of thevcountry were responsible f< >r the revenue Dill.” lie said that they hoped thereby to obtain a repeal of the postal tax which was laid on them last session. * * * Congressional leaders of both parties agreed on a plan for" a recess about January 15 after appropriation bills are out of tiie way until August 1, while tin 1 house ways and means committee works on (lie revenue-bilL- * * * The interstate commerce commission ordered the increased railroad rates announced by Director General McAdoo approved without hearing, and at tiie same time modified all outstanding previous commission orders which might interfere with the establishment of the new rates. * * *

The administration oil-leasing bill, by which more than 6,000,000 acres of public lands in the West will tie opened for development to supply the navy and other necessities, was passed by the house. * * * The shipping board has placed orders for r>OG_.(XMi tons of wooden barges, to be used in the New England coal trade, making a total of 77fi.000 tons of barges to be built for the board. * * * Reduction of the consumption es meats to two pounds a week for each person and economy in the use of sugar and* wheat were urged by Food Administrator Hoover in an appeal issued at New York to the people of the country through the churches. • * • Unlimited power to draft nien Within the ages prescribed by the selective service act was granted Secretary of War Baker by the house military affairs committee. The committee adopted an amendment to the military bill allowing the president to take any number of men in any fiscal year under the present draft law, observing the order of classification. * * * Inroads on class 2 and class 3 men under the selective service act have begun. It was announced in Washington. The men in these classes are highly trained workmen and specialists of which there are no more in class 1. The subdivisions called on so far are K and L. * * * A statement issued by the Cuban legation In Washington says the Mexican government has informed the Cuban charge in Mexico that the recall of the Mexican charge at Havana does not Imply a severance of relations. t