Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1918 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

U.S. —Teutonic War News Mrs. Emma Baer Dyer, mother of Paul Baer, the Fort Wayne (Ind.) “ace,” revived a cablegram announcing thjkt her son had been located in a German prison camp in New Prussia. * » • ' Sick and wounded men from the overseas forces, arriving in the United States during the two weeks ending July 5, totaled 220, the war department announced. * * *■ Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt, son of exPresident Roosevelt, brought down his first German airplane in a fight north of Chateau Thierry, says a dispatch from France. • * • Instructions have been sent by Provost Marshal General Crowder to all local draft boards ordering the cessation of the privilege hitherto granted registered men of selecting the arm of the service in which they desire to enlist when volunteering. * • • Lieut. Warren T. Hobbs of Worcester, Mass., a member of the American aviation corps, was killed by German antiaircraft gunfire June 26. He was a noted athlete. „ • • • Everett Buckley of Chicago, captured by the Germans at Verdun in September, 1917, while an aviator with the French, has escaped from a German prison camp after five unsuccessful attempts. Buckley has reached Switzerland, according to a Central News dispatch to London from Schauhaven. • • • Following a conference between President Wilson and Earl Reading, the British ambassador, at the White House, it became known that the United Status and the allies are working out a plan of aid to Russia. The plan Involves the dispatch to Russia of a commission of civilians for the purpose of offering. assistance toward economic rehabilitation. This commission would be protected and supported by an allied army. * * •

Domestic Several banks and brokers are under investigation by the office of the alien property custodian jn an effort to trace the exact origin and handling of more than $1,000,000 paid the New York Evening Mail. ♦ * * About 300 American Protective league operatives searched downtown Cleveland for slackers and more than 1.000 youths between twenty-one and thirty-one were haled before the examining boaril. ♦ * * A fund of $30,000,000 was set aside by the central powers for the purchase of American ncwsimpers and the circulation of propaganda, according to evidence said to have been obtained during the seven months’ investigation which resulted in the arrest of Dr. E. A. Rumely of the New York Mail. * * * * Three men were killed and two seriously scalded- in an explosion of h steampipe on the Ann Arbpr car ferry No. 5 at Frankfort. Mich. The dead are A. Gilbert, William Freeman and Loti Boyd. ♦ » ♦ Lawrence De Lacey, former editor of the Leader, a weekly publication of San Francisco, began serving a sentence of 12 months for publishing seditious artietes. He will also have to pay’a ss.<hh) fine,- > «’■ * » Completion of 23 ships of 122,771 deadweight .tons in the first week of July made a total of 223 new vessels bililt under the direction of the shipping board. Their aggregate tonnage is 1.415,022. » * * One hundred persons, most of them negroes, are believed to have lost their lives in a head-on collision between passenger trains on the Nashyille, Chattanooga & St. Louis seven miles west of Nashville, Tenn.

»* * . Dr. Edward A. Rumely, vice president and treasurer of the Mail and Express company, publisher of the New York Evening Mail, was arrested in New York, charged with perjury in a report to A. Mitchell Palmer, aliejri property custodian. The attorney general charged that the German government paid to Rumely in several transactions connected with the purchase of the Mail $1,361,000.. * * * Rationing of coal to householders was announced by the fuel administration as among plans designed to prevent a threatened shortage of coal next winter. Each domestic consumer will be allowed only as much coal as is found to be scientifically necessary to heat his home to 6S degrees. • • * Lieut. Richard H. twentytwo, of Alexandria, Va., >j as killed and Cadet Lester H. Cox of New York city was slightly injured when an airplane fell 300 feet to the ground southeast of Scott field, Belleville, 111.

Thirty thousand persons marched through the New York city hall past the flag-draped casket in which reposed the hotly of Maj. John I’urroy Mitchel, soldier of the United States and late mayor of New York. The funeral was held with military rites. A squadron of airplanes dropped flowers on the cortege. v * * * Bruce N. Culmer of Martinsville, Ind., was killed in an aviation accident at Mineola, N. Y. L, • * *

Washington President Wilson signed the $12,000,000,000 army appropriation bill' to meet the expenses of the army program for the next fiscal year. The United States government regards the situation in Russia as so rapidly and constantly changing as to make it impossible to come as yet to any decision as to what military aid may be extended by the United States. This was stated authoritatively. ♦ ♦ ♦ Definite assurances that there Is no danger of a sugar famine were given by the food administration and the food situation generally was declared to be better than at any time since America undertook the feeding of the allied world. - * * • Legislation to prohibit the sale and distribution of liquor, wine and beer after January 1, 1919, and the manufacture of wine and beer after November 1 next, was agreed to by the senate agricultural committee. * * * European War News “Five enemy airplanes bombed Constantinople,” the Turkish war office announced. “No damage was done.” » * * Gen. Umberto Fadini, commanding the artillery of the Twenty-third army corps, was killed by an enemy shell while leading a reconnaissance on the Piave, it was announced at Rome. * » ♦ Maj. James B. McFadden; British star airman, who Is credited with bringing down 54 German machines, was accidentally killed while flying from England to France. He fell on the French coast. , * * * Thirteen German machines were brought down by British flyers on Monday, the London war office* announced. Four British machines are missing. * » » ♦

British naval airplaifes in the period between July 4 and July 7 dropped six tons of explosives on German works at Ostend. ZtM'brugge and Bruges. Direct hits were observed on buildings and vessels. Five German airplanes were destroyed. • * • The air superiority of the entente allies on the Austro-Italian front is indicated by the figures made public in Rome, dealing with the ten days’ offensive of the Austro-Hungarians last Juno. The allies, including American pilots, operated 120 chaser planes and destroyed 107 Austrian airplanes. ♦ * * The bombardment of Coblenz, capital of Rhenish Prussia, on Friday by British airmen was the most severe of the war. The railway station and tlie famous Iron bridge were damaged. A bomb fell on the royal palace. South Gorman newspapt rs state that 12 persons were killed and 23 wounded in Coblenz. * * * „ The entire population of the Murtnan coast has broken with Russia and joined the entente,, according to a dispatch ffoin Vardoe, Norway, to the Christiania Tidens Tegn. A supply of provisions from the United States has arrived at Murmansk. * * * Jan Olieshigers, who was the leading Belgian aviator seven and eight years ago. has just been credited with downing his sixtli German plane, says a report issued at the Belgian army headquarters. « • *

Foreign Admiral von Hintze, German ambassador to Norway, has been appointed secretary of state for foreign affairs, it was officially announced in Berlin, according to a dispatch to London via Amsterdam. X: * * Nikolai Lenine, bolshevik premier of Russia, has sent a message to M. Jbffe, Russian minister at Berlin, regarding tin- assassination of Count von Mirbach, the German ambassador at Moscow. Two unknown men entered the Germany embassy having documents from a special committee. They threw a bomb in Count Mirbach s office, wounded him so ..severely that he died* The government is taking every measure to discover the murderers. J. R. dynes, labor member of parliament from Manchester, lias been appointed to succeed the late Lord Rhondda as British food controller, it was officially announced in London, -I ■ Emperor William himself has fallen a victim to the “Spanish grippe” that has been so prevalent in the German army, according to reports from a Swiss source that have reached tlie Epocha at Rome. • » ♦ , A royal air escort of three Belgian seaplanes guarded King Albert and. Queen Elizabeth on their flight over the channel from Belgium to England. The purpose of their visit to England was to attend the silver anniversary of King George and Queen Mary.