Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1918 — WORLD'S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD'S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWS BOILBfI DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE! Notes Covering Most Important Hap penings of the World Compiled In Briefest and Most Succinct Ferm for Quick Consumption. Washington Construction of 454 vessels of lz 800,000 deadweight tons is the addltlonal program of the shipping board disclosed to the house appropriations committee nt Washington by Chair* man Hurley In explaining his request for additional authorization of $484,000,000 for the present fiscal year. » * » Maximum end minimum retail prices for shoes as agreed to by the Industry, and ranging from $3 to sl2 for men and women, were announced by the war industries board at Washington. >♦ * * By a vote of 53 to 31, the senate at Washington failed to give, the two thirds majority necessary to adopt th® resolution passed by the house submitting to the states the Susan B. Anthony amendment to the federal Constitution.

’ * * * All men who have had any experience In seafaring life were called upon, in a personal appeal by President Wilson at Washington, to submit with their 'questionnaires a detailed account of such experience, so that the government may know where to oth tain seamen when their services are required for the merchant marine. * * * The house nt Washington passed without a dissenting vote and sent to the senate the administration emergency power bill, providing for government acquisition and extension of electric power plants. It authorizes the expenditure of $175,001),000 for extending existing plants or building new ones. . “7", _..:£■ x President Wilson stepped Into th® 1 breach of the senate fight over th® woman suffrage resolution and In a personal address In the senate cham- 1 her at Washington asked for Its pa®j , sage as a war measure. ♦ ♦ ♦ Twenty patients, many of them al* ’ ready suffering from wounds received in battle, were killed when a German shell struck an American hospital sev* eral nights ago northwest of Verdun, • » ♦ ♦ It was reported in Paris that th® Germans had shelled the American field ! hospital at Bethlncourt and had Mt it on fire. The report Is unconfirmed. American troops co-operated with the Japanese in the occupation of Blagovyeshchensk, the capital of th® Amur province. The allied forces enr tered the city on the heels of the bol- 1 Ahevlkl. .•• • U The American bombardment of th® fortress of Metz is getting on th® nerves of the German people. This is emphasized by a correspondent ofi i the Rhenisch Westphalian Gazette of’ • Essen. ' ’

Scarcity of coal and wood In Franc*), has forced the general headquarters of; the American expeditionary forces to!, limit the amount of fuel for cooklnglj and heating purposes. t J\F European War New t Damascus, the capital of Syria, was ’ occupied by General Allenby’s force*: |. Tuesday inorningr according to an of* l flclal statement issued by the London war office. • * * Very heavy casualties were inflicted:' on the bolshevik troops by the entente'' forces when they .captured Ukhtlnskaya in northern European Russia, September 20, according to an official! statement Issued by the London wat' office. < • • • Twenty-five German airplanes were, destroyed by French aviators, th* Paris war office reports. Bombing, squadrons dropped 26 tons of bomb* on dbnvoys and concentration pointe 1 ' behind the enemy front. The Wolf bureau, the semi-official,, German news agency, says the Bulgarian premier MalinofTs peace offer' Is against the wishes of King Ferdinand and the Teutonic alliance. Gets man newspapers demand that Mallnott , be dismissed immediately and courts martialed for high treason. A? 5 * • • Fifty thousand prisoners have been, ■ taffen by General Allenby In the last seven days, according to estimates of £ the American diplomatic agents at[ Cairo. He also reported to the stat* department the German commander. General Von Sanders; narrowly e*-> ‘ caped capture. “—— ... ... f ... • • • During the month of September th* British Captured on the western front 66,300 prisoners and 700 guns. Du»Ing the months of August and Septate* ber the British captured 123,618 prite oners <mnd 1,400 guns. »._/