Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1918 — WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. (ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE • Notes Covering Most Important Happenings of the World Compiled In Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. U. S. —Teutonic War News Convinced that the German submarines which have been operating off the Jersey coast now are headed south into the lane taken by vessels from the West Indies and the Gulf of Mexico, the navy department at Washington has i a ken special precautions to protect shipping in that vicinity. It also has '- ken steps to prevent damage by mite s which they have been laid along the routes which the sub-. - marines now seem to have abandoned. Meanwhile movement of men anti sup plies nvee ;l> is proceeding exactly on schedule with every possible precaution taken to protect these transports. • * * The Germans have used at least fifty divisions (600,000 men) in their latest offensive on tlie Aisne-Marne front, according to Corden Knox, war expert of the London Daily News. The stabilization of the allied battle front between Reims and Soissons has now been accomplished. • * * While a million young Americans were registered for service In the war, orders went out from Provost Marshal General Crowder to the governors of all states except Arizona to mobilize between June 24 and 28, 200,000 men. * * * Suggestions of peace based «on a “perpetuation of Prussia nism” and criticisms of the government and the conduct of the war, “which are not constructive,” were condemned by Secretary of State Lansing. Mr. Lansing spoke at the commencement exercises of Columbia university. * * *

The supreme allied war council, •which has had under advisement the entire war situation, has expressed in an official statement made public at London full confidence in the outcome of the war, with the aid of the American forces. * * * A recent air raid by the allies on Cologne caused the death of 140 persons, the state department was Informed. About 150 were injured. The people, were thrown into a panic. * * * Except for street lamps, not only Greater New York but the nearby Jersey and sound coasts were dark Tuesday night, even lighthouses extinguishing their lamps. No reason was given for the order, bqt the presumption is that because of the presence of enemy submarines in American waters the authorities are taking precautions against the possibility of air raids by airplanes launched from P boats. * * * During a fight between four American plains and six German plant's north of Toitl one of tin* American pilots shot down an enemy biplane. Almost at the same time, however, one of the American ■.'■machines, burst into flames and crashed to earth inside the enemy lines, *. * * The United States now has a large cumber of first-class battleships “pre- • paring side by side with the best ships of the British navy for an engagement, to occur at any time with the German fleet."’ according to a statement made In aii adore s at X'ew York by Bear Admiral Albert (Heaves'.

Tlie riti'vy department : announced ■that all * a"5 tigers; inel tiding the sick, : h : r<! -he trail-port President Lincoln wore? saved by American destroys Four officers ami twenty-three enlisted men are missing. Lieut. E.' V. M. Laws was takeiv prisoner. The vessel was hit by three torpedoes and sank in is minutes. The submarine was 200 feet long. , > . ; * *' *■ Domestic A mot'a die passengers arriving on a French liner which came to tin American pen under convoy of United States destroyers was Mi s. Emmeline PankTmrst, the fatuous leader of the militant suffragists in Eng!and. .She said she had tome on 2a surprise visit.” * * * The large dam above Tama, la., went out, sending a tliree-foot wave of water down the lowa river. Traffic on five railroads running through that district was completely paralyzed. * * * Cadet George La Soske of Saginaw, MichL, was killed at Taylor field, Atlanta, Ga., when his plane, in flames, fell 300 yards to the earth. * * * Motorraen and conductors of the Public Service Railway corporation, which operates in all sections of New Jersey, went on strike because of the company's refusal to grant them a flat rate of 45 cents an hour and 65 cents an hour overtime. Between *1,400 and 1.500 cars are operated oil the system and 4,000 conductors and motormen employed.

Maj. Gen. Henry G. Sharp, who was relieved as head of the quartermasterj corps of the army, was transferred to the post of commander of the Southeastern department at Charleston, S. C. * * * Felix A. Roerig, Elizabeth, N. J.. member of a squadron near Fort Worth, Tex., was killed when an airplane fell on him while it was-landing.. He was riding a motorcycle.' * * * Almost* twice as many volunteer harvest hands were signed up in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday as were reported at tabulation Tuesday, when 1.093 were listed. The total was over 3,000. "• * * The federal farm loan board withdrew further offering of farm loan bonds because 300.000,000. have been sold, providing-enough funds tor loans until about November 1. , * * * c inly 18,000 Chicagoans registered under the selective service act Wednesday, according to approximate figures. Advance estimates were that the total would he somewhere between 30.000 and 33,000. Officials said the low figures wefe.a tribute to Chicago’s patriotism. They explained that thousands of young men enlisted without waiting for the draft iim,olmiery to operate. * * * Nineteen thousand Liberty motors, produced mainly in Detroit, will have boon delivered to the government by September 1, 1918,. according to members of a senate committee. * * * Presided! Wilson lias written a sec-

ond letter to Governor Stephens of California, urging the pardon of Thomas J. Mooney. * * * Personal Charles Warren Fairbanks, former vice president of the United States and former United States senator for Indiana, died at Indianapolis. Death was due to nephritis. Ail members of the family except Maj. Richard Fairbanks, who Is in France, were at his bedside. * * * Benjamin Chester Chapin, movingpicture actor and scenario writer, whose striking resemblance to Abraham Lincoln gave him wide popularity, died In a sanitarium at Liberty, N. "Y. * * * European War News As a temporary measure, it was officially announced in London that Sir William Robertson, chief of the eastern command, and former chief of the Imperial staff, lias been appointed to command the forces in Great Britain. * * * The official French report reveals the fact that the Germans have a new airplane which is much Larger and more powerful than any previously reported. The machine has four motors, and was brought down on June 1 in the region of Nnntmenil le Haudonin. Its crew of eight men was n ade prisoner, * *

A diplomatic dispatch to Washington from Switzerland says that .Prince von Buclmu, the commanding general of a Bavarian division, lias been killed in the fighting on tlie Marne. * * * The executive committee of the Russian soviet at Moscow decided on May 2'.) to call to arms several classes of workmen stud peasants in the districts of Bet rugrad, Moscow, Kuban and in the Don region. A widespread counter revolutionary plot has been discovered. * * • A cablegram received at five Belgian legation in Washington said that IS Belgians ■confined in the fortress Yieux Dieu had been shot. * * * Washington Miss Jane Delano, director of the department of nursing of Red Cross at Washington, says persistent bombing of hospitals by the Germans will not deter American girls from volunteering for hospital work. She declares that tactics cf fright fulness will lend merely to send more of them to back up iheir brothers in their fight for liberty. * * * Efforts of the national war labor board to adjust the differences between the Western Union Telegraph company and its employees have failed. Seven to five the hoard voted ‘"it dales not seem useful to further prolong the mediation,” * * * The child labor law, enacted by congress last year, after a bitter fight, was held unconstitutional by the Supreme court. ■■* • * Official announcement was made at Washington that 280,0‘*0 men will be called to the colors during June. They will be ordered to report June 24. ' * * * The house military affairs committee has issued a report detailing the expenditure of last year's $040,000,000 aircraft appropriation. Of the total $316,500,000 Ims been spent. Deliveries to” France have totaled 1,136. There are 3,7GC machines in this country, besides 1,041 Liberty motors. * * * Appointment of directors for the 20 industrial zones as finally formed by the war industries board was announced. The directors will have su■pervision of the production of war materials. *■■ * • v v Representatives of 500,000 railway shopmen asked the railroad administration not to, put into effect the new wage scale without upward revision for their crafts, saying great dissatisfaction would be created,, and intimating that it might be impossible to avoid many strikes.