Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1918 — WORLD'S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD'S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

>EBT 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 Ferm for Quick Consumption. European War News A London dispatch say s the allies* high command has sent to the German high command by French wireless a message that there can be no modification of the conditions of the armistice, including the annexes, at tins time. It is added that a supplementary period Of 24 hours for the evacuation of Belgium, Luxemburg and Alsace-Lorraine has been added to the 14 days stipulated in the original text, so as to permit the text to reach German headquarters at the desired time. * * » The German command has asked the French government at Paris by wireless to request the population of Alsace-Lorraine to remain calm during the German retirement. « * » It was stated at the Paris war office that no further official statements detailing events'on the battle front will be issued. From time to time, however, there , may be official reports regarding troop movements. • * » A Paris dispatch says Holland has consented to carry on the work of repatriating allied prisoners of war now held in Germany. • • • A Melbourne special says the latest figures on Australia’s casualties show that the dead number 54,890 and the wounded 158,190. The significance of these figures will be realized when it is remembered that the whole population of Australia is only about 5,000,000. * ♦ • German guard vessels in the mine fit-ids of the great belt anti the little belt have left their stations. The crews forced the officers to leave the vessels ami then hoisted the red flag, according to a Copenhagen dispatch. » » * The correspondent of the London Morning Post in Berne reports that Roumania has declared war against Germany. Thousands of Germans are reported fleeing Into Hungary from Rbumania. • • • Canada's casualties in lhe war up to eleven days before the capture of Mons on the final morning of the conflict totaled 211,358 men, it was announced at Ottawa. These are classified as follows: Killed in action, 34,877; died of womyls or disease, 15,457; wounded, 152,779; presumed dead, missing in action and known prisoners of war, 8,245. ♦ » » ; French general headquarters will he transferred to Metz within ten (lays, was the general belief expressed at Paris. • • * Foreign An Amsterdam dispatch says the German training ship Schlesien has been torpedoed by revolutionary war-, ships, according to the Weser Zeitung nf Berlin. * * • A London dispatch says representatives of the bolshevist government are reported to have been expelled from Holland and diplomatic relations broken off, following the discovery that a revolution was brewing. * » * Albert Ballin, general director of the Hamburg-AmerisaH Steamship company, died suddenly Saturday, according to an announcement made in Berlin. * * » The Vienna state council (the recently formed Austrian government) proclaimed a “republic of Germanic Austria” to be a part of the German republic. * * • The abdication of Emperor Charles of Austria is officially announced at Vienna. A republic was proclaimed at Berlin on Saturday according to advices received from Munich. * * * The crews of the German battleships Posen, Ostfriesland, Nassau and Oldenburg have joined the revolutionary movement, according to a dispatch from Brunsbuttel, Prussian Holstein. The four battleships named are among the largest tn the German navy. The Posen and the Nassau are sister ships of 18,600 tons each, while the Ostfriesland and Oldenburg measure 22,400 tons each. -• * • The Rhenish Westphalian Zeitung of Essen announces that Eutin, the capital of the principality of Luebeck, is in the hands of the soldiers’ counciL Many persons, both civilians and military, have been shot. • • • Both the former German emperor and his eldest son, Frederick William, crossed the Dutch frontier Sunday morning, according to advices from The Hague. • • • Strikes and riots have broken out at Copenhagen. . _

Fresh fighting broke out In Berlin, according to messages received at Copenhagen from the German capital. Royalist officers opened fire from the royal stables and attacked the revolutionaries with machine guns on the Unter den Linden. Several persons were killed. Telegrams found in the palace of the former German croyvn prince, according to a Berlin telegram to the National Tidentde, show that it had been planned to send loyal troops from the front to Berlin in an attempt to crush the revolution. • • • William Hohenzollern, former German emperor, arrived Sunday at Count Bentinck’s chateau of Mlddachten at Velp, near Arnhem, according to a dispatch to the London Dally Express dated Sunday at Velp, Holland. • * • Announcement of Germany’s capitulation resulted in general rejoicing throughout the Japanese empire. In Tokyo, American Ambassador Morris addressed a mass meeting, while in Yokohama there were fireworks and parades. Premier Hara issued a statement in which he paid special tribute to the American people, “whose unselfish and well-timed intervention, so iirilliantly performed, must have convinced tlie enemy that the struggle was hopeless.” • • • Washington Government financial needs for many years are almost certain to run about $4,000,000,000 annually, Washington treasury experts estimate, and most o' the money will be raised by taxation. Consequently students of government finances think the taxes imposed last year and paid in June probably will not be lightened materially by the advent of peace. » • » Regulations requiring householders and bakers to purchase 20 per cent of substitutes with each purchase of wheat flour were withdrawn by the food administration at Washington! effective immediately. Sugar allowances for households and eating places were raised from three to four pounds for each person. • • • The navy department at Washington issued an order discontinuing until further notice all Sunday work in navy and other shore stations of the navy. The order becomes effective at once. « • * How many of Uncle Sam’s boys have fallen in the fighting in France? The list is not complete; casualty lists are understood to be several weeks behind. The best record to date is the summary by the committee on public information at Washington. It showed the total overseas casualties to be 68,451 as follows: Killed in action, 12,128; died of wounds, 4,719; died of disease, 4.739; died of accidents, etc., 1.423; wounded in action, 38,768; missing and prisoners, 6,674. This list embraces the casualties since America entered the war in the spring of 1917. * • • Secretary Daniels announced at Washington that no immediate step would be’taken toward demobilizing any part of the naval forces of the United States. It was hinted at the navy department that the United States, the world’s richest nation and the least sufferer from the war of all the great powers, might be called upon to do the greatest share of navy work for enforcement of armistice terms.

Germany has requested President Wilson, according to a wireless message from Berlin. to arrange immediately for the opening of peace negotiations. there being a pressing danger of famine. The message was sent by Foreign Secretary Sols to Secretary of State Lansing. • • • Treasury advisers at Washington recommended to Secretary McAdoo that war risk insurance rates on hulls, cargoes and seamen’s lives be reduced 75 per cent. » * * The Belgian legation in an official statement announced that Belgium will no longer submit to a status of “guaranteed neutrality” like that which existed before the war. It aspires to “complete independence; to the rights common to all free peoples.” « • • Domestic Fire of undetermined origin destroyed two warehouses of the Chicago & Alton railroad at East St. Louis, 111. Officials of the railroad estimated the damage at SIOO,OOO. ♦ • • The steamer Vauban, which docked at New York Wednesday, was the first steamship to enter New York harbor since the removal of the ban by the navy department on revealing the arrival and departure of vessels. • * * All persons known to have been on board the Saetia. sunk off the Maryland coast, have been saved. Additional survivors landed at Cape May brought the number to 85, accounting for everybody on the ship’s lists. • t • Two British liners arrived at an Atlantic port Saturday from England with passengers and mails after passing through the German submarine zone unescorted for the first time in more than three years. « • « Four men are known to have been killed in an explosion at the Western Powder company’s plant at Edwards, 81. They were Kech Schrader and John Stewart, both employed in the powder department; Charles Franks, night watchman, and Henry Goodwin, night engineer