Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1918 — MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD [ARTICLE]

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD

BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS Kernels Culled From Events of Moment In All Parts of the Worlds Of Interest to All th® # People Everywhere. / U.S.—Teutonic War News In the present drive on the American front, which started on Friday morning, American airmen shot down 124 German machines in three days, it is officially announced at army headquarters north of Verdun* * * * The crowds which paraded the streets <if Rome in celebrating the great victory, carried American as well as Italian flags. American officers met on the streets were greeted by shouts of “Viva America! Viva Wilson !” A torchlight procession met a number of American sailors and carried them through the streets on their shoulders. Celebrations of the victory over Austria-Hungary were continued all through the night. • ♦ * European War News Diplomatic relations between Russia and Germany have been broken, it is reliably reported at Stockholm. Ihe Russian ambassador to Germany, M. Joffe, has left Berlin. An Amsterdam dispatch says Count Michael Karolyl, with several members of the national council and the workmen’s and soldiers’ councils, will leave shortly for Padua for the purpose of opening peace negotiations with General Diaz. * • * In accordance with its amnesty proclamation, the German government has released all Belgian civilian prisoners In German, according to a telegram received at Amsterdam from Berlin. ♦ ♦ ♦ The delegation has reached the allied lines. ’This information reached the lobby of the house of commons at London. The Daily News says the German peace delegates have arrived at the western front and been permitted to pass through the allied lines. The delegates were received by Marshal Foch. * ♦ Austrian prisoners captured by the Italians before the armistice took effect are estimated now at 500,000 and the booty taken includes 250,000 horses. An official dispatch from Rome telling results of the final Austrian defeat says that on the Trentino front alone over 150,000 prisoners fell Into the hands of the Italians. * * * . Emperor Charles of Austria refused to sign the armistice, considering the conditions “too hard,” the Berlin Tageblatt learns from its Vienna correspondent. ■ The armistice was signed for Austria by Gen. Arz von Straussenburg, Austrian commander in the field. ♦ * ♦ Railways and airplane hangars in the region east of Metz were attacked by the British independent air forces, says a London official statement. ♦ ♦ ♦ The new Hungarian government has ordered all soldiers to* eturn to their homes, said a Basle dispatch. * ♦ ♦ Three batteries of German guns drove at breakneck speed into the American lines south of Beaumont. When captured, they said they were on their way to re-enforce the German front line. • • * Five thousand civilians had remained behind in Valenciennes throughout the fighting; the remainder, about 20,000, were evacuated by the Genuans during the week. • • * An Amsterdam dispatch says Warsaw newspapers say that hostilities have broken out between Polish and Ruthenian-Ukrainlan troops. The latter, supported by German and Aus- " trlan regiments, captured Lemberg, in Galicia, on November 1. Przemysl Is In the hands of the Ruthenlans. • * • A large number of persons were killed a"nd many wounded at Bonn by bombs dropped by British airmen, who carried out a raid on the railway station in the center of the town, according to the Cologne Volks Zeltung. • • * Foreign The Austrians are evacuating Odessa, according to a dispatch to the Paris Matin from Moscow. • * ♦ The great gun plant of Austria-Hun-gary at Skoda has been taken possession of by the Czech national committee, according to a Pilsen telegram forwarded by the correspondent of the Paris Matin at Zurich. • « « The indications are that Russia will refuse to make any further Indemnity payments to Germany, according to the Frankfort Gazette. The newspaper gays that Russia, which had paid two installments of the war indemnity, haC stopped the transport of gold and bank notes to Germany.

The conference at Geneva of CzechSlovak leaders framed a constitution for the new republic patterned after that of the United States. Dr. Karl Kramarz, former leader of the Hungarian Czech party, who was several years in prison on charge of treason prior to July, 1917, was chosen first president. ♦ • • After a discussion lasting all day, the house of commons at London rejected by a vote of 196 to 115, the motion of John Dillon, chairman of the Nationalist party, that the Irish question should be settled without delay on President Wilson’s principle of selfdetermination. * • • E. M. House Ims been the recipient of numeroas congratulations over the agreement reached by- the interallied conference at Versailles on the important questions before it, notably the armistice terms for Germany and the peace conditions. • • * A demonstration was held before the Bismarck monument in Berlin in favor of continuing the war and a resolution was passed protesting against the acceptance of a humiliating peace, according to a Copenhagen dispatch, quoting the Tageblatt of Berlin. » » • A seat in the French academy at Paris lias been offered to Marshal Foch, it is learned. ♦ * ♦ Troops have been ordered to Budapest to suppress the activities of revolutionaries Who are threatening to overthrow the Karolyl cabinet and to proclaim a republic, according to advices received at Copenhagen. * ♦ » Emperor Karl has Informed the members of his cabinet and party leaders that he intends to abdicate and reside in Switzerland, says a Vienna dispatch. » » * Russian government gold valued at 800,000,000 rubles (.$400,000,000) taken from Petrograd by die bolshevik!, has been saved at Kazan by the Omsk government, generally recognized as a foundation for the reorganization of Russia, A. J. Sack, director of the Russian information bureau at New York, announced. ♦ * ♦ M. Stamhuliwsky, who is reported to be the head of the new government in Bulgaria, is said to be in command of a republican army of 40,000 men, according to a—Zurich dispatch to the Central News at London. * * * Washington Republican control of the senate as well as the house of representatives appears assured by the latest returns from the congressional election, which gives the G. O. P. rule of the house by 37 and the senate by two votes.

All shipbuilding records for any country In the world were broken by the total deliveries of completed new ships to the United States shipping board in October. Ttils official announcement was made by Chairman Edward N. Hurley. Seventy-nine completed new ships of 415,908 deadweight tons'were added to the American merchant marine in October. * ♦ * The fact that ifoupinnia always has hoped for a reunion with its people of Transylvania, held within the boundaries of the Austro-Hungarian empire was referred to, and the assurances of sympathy ami support from the United States were given In a message from Secretary tanslng at Washington to the American legation at Jassy, cabled for transmission to the Roumanian government. » • ♦ Four Democrats and two Republicans' attended a one-minute session of the senate at Washington rhade necessary by failure of party leaders to agree upon an election day recess. ♦ * » The Supreme court at Washington refused to review the case of Maurice Sugar, publisher of the Michigan Socialist, convicted of refusing to register under the selective service. * * • The Polish army, under the supreme political authority of the Polish national committee, was recognized at Washington by the United States government as autonomous and co-beb llgerent. Secretary Lansing so announced in a letter sent to Roman Dmowski, president of the Polish national committee, who is now in, Washington. • * • Domestic A New Orleans dispatch says Louisiana refused to grant suffrage to women, the constitutional amendment being defeated by a large majority. • • • Five youths were killed when a Chicago & Northwestern train crashed into an automobile at Milwaukee. The dead are Harry and Sam Cohen, Israel and Louis Goldberg and an unidentified boy. t : Oscar Anderson and Herman Johnson, both of DeKalb, 111., were killed when an Illinois Central train hit their motortruck near Colvin Park, m. •• ♦ X A Detroit dispatch says the suffrage amendment has carried In Michigan by a majority of 15,000. » » * A large French transatlantic steamship which arrived at an Atlantic port during night time came into port with all lights ctiblaze, the first time In months that this has taken place. 4MM