Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1918 — KID’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

KID’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

|PE ST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. (arranged for busy people I ■Votes Covering Most Important HapF penfngs of the World Complied \ In Briefest and Most Succinct ' ... Form for Quick Consumption. V.S. — Teutonic War News Eighteen enemy airplanes were Shot down during the day northwest of Verdun by American aviators. Five American machines were lost in carrying out important reconnaisance missions. • • • k A dispatch from The Hague says three American prisoners of war have (succeeded in escaping from Germany Into Holland. They are Flight I-ieuts. b\ E. Tiliinghast of Westerly. It- L: Bohn O. Donaldson of W asfaington and ptobert Anderson of Honolulu. * * • The United States fuel adnisnistraftion at Washington has issued orders jto 13 coal mines prohibiting them from shipping or mining any coal, jpiaking a total of 90 mines closed ,by (the administration. • * ■ • Surgeon General Braisted at Washington announced that the influenza (Bpidemic Is over in ten naval districts Snd that it is on the wane in all other laces except Paris Island. S. G, and ilfare Island, Cal.

War excess profits taxes Imposed t>nly upon corporations in the war rev- ! jenno bill as it passed the bouse at Washington were extended by the sen* kte finance contpiittee to indixidE:;?- 5 '•ud partnerships in trade or bafoess. Jf he amendment will restore estimated revenue returns from war excess prof'its to about xt.'xiCMXCi. • * .* An official dispatch received at ’Washington from Switzerland said sevEral hundred German officials had ar-, Ived at Vienna in the last few days (from occupied Ilouniania, and reported jthat not a German civilian remained in Bucharest- The German military an* s ithorities in the city are sending to Germany as rapidly as posable all the stores and army material collected by their troops. • • • S European War News j The Austrian fleet has been hastily concentrated at Flume. according to a Uispatch from Rome, under date of October 27. A few vessels remain at tola. • • • The Austrians are withdrawing from (Albania in the Balkans and have already evacuated Alessia, a town in . northern Albania near the M »ntene- , pin frontier, the war office of \ iennfi Announced. • • * • • . <.•> • _ ■'./ According to a Constantinople dispatch, reports are current that Turkey, Under peace negotiations. Iras Invited the allied fh-«-t to enter the Dardanelles. Troops sire not to be Sa&iel it ts said, with the exception of a small detachment to supervise the dtmobiiixation of the Ottoman army. * * * Private Andrew Stackdale, a Canadian soldier who lost a leg in Prance, was found by a searching party in a lonely wood, where he had lain for a week, unable to move, and subsisting on the roots, says a Frederiekton (X., B.) dispatch.

* • • \ Vladivostok says It is reported from Omsk that the all-Russian government there will soon address a note to President Wilson regarding allied support to Russia against Germany. ... ] Accumulating indications point to an early re-entry of Roumania into the war. Private advices received at London from Bucharest state that ex-Pre-mier Bratlanu, forced out by the Germans, is about to return to power. He will demand a renewal of war. » • * Twenty-six German, airplanes were brought down by the British. Field Marshal Haig says In his report to London. The British lost eleven machines. * • • The Paris newspaper L"lnformation says since August 9 the following captures have been made: By the British. 220,000 ; by the Americans. 25,000; by the French, 285,000; total, 530,000. • • • Announcement was made In the London house of commons that since the beginning of the! war British troops have taken 327,416 enemy combatant prisoners, including 264242 Germans. There are 97,000 German combatant prisoners in the United Kingdom at the present time. • ■ • * German losses in their unavailing offensive Into the Lys river salient last summer were 14.000 killed. 6.000 prisoners and about 80,000 wounded and missing, according to an author!tattrs calculation given out at Loadoau

“The Serbian cavalry has reached the Danube east of Semendria and PoJarevatz has been occupied,” says the Paris war office statement on the Balkan war operations, • • • Foreign The kaiser Is willing to abdicate — bat not yet. In an address before members of the reichstag, an excerpt of which was telegraphed from Berlin to Amsterdam, the emperor is Quoted as saying: “The time is not yet ripe for any abdication. Should the nation require It later, I shall abdicate without hesitation, in favor of Prince William (the crown prince’s oldest son), under the regency of the chancellor.” • * • The people of Australia will not be satisfied unless Germany surrenders uncdnditionaliiv it is declared in a resolution unanimously adopted by the Melbourne city council. • * * In Paris during the week ending October 31 there were deaths, the greatest total since the beginning of the grip epidemic there. • * * Japanese newspapers generally comment favorably on President Wilson’s reply to the German peace note. The Osaki Jiji believes that the reply Is tantamount to a demand for a revolution in Germany. * • * Erup ror William has no intention of abdicating, but is willing, if it is for the good of the people, to ordain that his rights shall be refrained, according to a statement attributed to German court circles, says a London dispatch. The emperor is said to have remarked: “I will not abandon my sorely tried people, but, if necessary, I am readv to become something like hereditary president of a German republic. like the kings of England, Belgium and Italy.” • • • The Spanish influenza epidemic continues to spread in Paris. Municipal statistics «*f the last week show 1,944 deaths in the Paris region, of Which >'• t were officially attributed to influenza, • • • King George was given the sword and badge of a field marshal sos the -lapanc-e army by Prince Yerihito on behalf of the emperor of Japan at Buckingham palace. Acknowledging the honor. King George paid high tribnte to the Japanese forces on land and sea. • • • Sitting as hi ah court the French senate at Paris began its sittings for the trial of exfPremier Joseph Caillaux, Deputy Louis I.oustnlot and Paul Cop»by. The accused persons were not present, as the proceedings are only preliminary. * * * Cable dispatches telling of the removal of the seat of the All-Russian government from Ufa to Omsk, and preparations for the formation of an array of more than 200,000 men, were received at the Russian embassy at Washington. • • . • In the first speech in the reichstag since his release from prison, Herr Dttnnsn, socialist, demanded a German republic, it became known at The Hague. Independent socialists echoed the demand. • • • Domestic Friends ofCapt. Eddie at Columbus, 0., learned that the former auto nicer has downed Mis twentysecohd German plane on the American front in France. Flying Cadets Howard Burnett of Dodge City , Kan., and Howell Williams of Tippston, Pa., were killed when their planes collided above the aviation field near Fort Worth, Tex. • •- *■ . John C. Kleist, a well-known attorney and prominent Socialist of Milwaukee. was arrested on a federal indictment charging seditious utterances. Kleist arranged to furnish bail.

• • • Leslie Krueger, draft evader, arrested at Brainertl, Minn., and brought to La Crosse, Wlsl, on a charge of resisting arrest with force of arms at his former home at Owen, Wls., where the four Krueger brothers fought a posse, will be turned over to the military authorities to be tried for desertion. ' • • • Spanish influenza has been driven from Great Lakes naval training station. Health authorities here announced that conditions could not be better than at present and that the last signs of the epidemic have disappeared. • •“ * Donn M. Roberts, former mayor of Terre Haute, Ind., has been paroled after three years of a six-year sentence In the federal prison at Leavenworth. Kan., for election frauds. • • • * Eighteen new ships of 98,900 deadweight tons were added to the American fleet during the week ended October 25. , * * « Victor L. Berger and four others prominent in the Socialist party were included in more than fifty indictments recently returned by the federal grand Jury, it was announced at Milwaukee. Besides Berger, others included are: E» T. Melms, Oscar Almeringer, Louis A. Arnold and Miss Elizabeth Thomas. * * * Hanover, a village In Columbiana county, southwest of Alliance, 0., was practically wiped out by fire with a loss estimated at between $150,000 and 5200,000. The fire Is believed to have been incendiary, _ _