Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1918 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

U.S. —Teutonic War News A number of American submarine chasers, accompanied by the parent ship Bucknell, left Queenstown Monday for the United States. * • * The German frontier was crossed at several places by American signal corps units and ambulance workers. Short trips were made Into Rhenish Prussia, where the inhabitants are reported to have shown the Americans every consideration. * « * With General Pershing, the American commander In chief, at her side, the youthful grand duchess of Luxemburg, from the balcony of her palace in Luxemberg, watched the Americans march into her capital. • * ♦ American engineers laid the last rail connecting the standard gauge railroad between Verdun and Metz, having virtually rebuilt nine miles of the track. It is over this line" principally that the forces of occupation will be supplied during their advance. ’ » • * European War News The French trl-color now flutters from the citadel of the ancient fortress of Strassburg, dating from the time of the Romans. At the head of the French Fourth army, amid a furore of enthusiasm on the part of the populace, Marshal Foch, King Albert of the Belgians and General Gouraud and Marshal Petain entered the historic town on the Rhine, through the famous Schlrmeck gate amid the tremendous enthusiasm of 300,000 people. Never did an army have such a triumphal greeting. ... r r ♦ ’ ' An Amsterdam dispatch says eleven German torpedo boats and mine layers that were left in the Antwerp harbor have been Interned In a Dutch port. » * * An Edinburgh dispatch says that Admiral Beatty’s historic signal after the German fleet had been moored at the appointed place was: “The German flag is to be hauled down at 3:57 and Is not to be hoisted again without permission.” Germany as a naval power, ceased Jo exist Thursday. The heart of her mighty fleet —14 ships of line, seven light cruisers and 50 destroyers —surrendered to an armada of British, American and French vessels, the greatest fighting force that ever stood out to sea. * * • The historic event accomplished when Marshal Petain, commander In chief of the French armies, made his entry into Metz, the great stronghold of Lorraine and the pivot of Germany s effort to crush France, may be said more than any other happening to consecrate the victory of the allies in this war.

* * * Foreign • American control of the Turkish gendarmerie and finances is being urged by a group of nine newspapers —seven' Turkish and two French—ln Constantinople. ♦ ♦ ♦ “The kaiser took with him all the government gold and silver securities and used fraud to get them past the customs authorities,” says the Neue Leipsinger Zeitung. ♦ * * Russian bolshevik troops have crossed the River* Narva on a broad front and have entered Esthonla, between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Peipus, says a dispatch from Stockholm. • * ♦ Germany’s war debt, not counting any indemnities the allies may demand, is $50,000,000,000, according to a Munich dispatch to the London Dally Mail, quoting the Bavarian minister of finance. e ♦ ♦ ♦ A Brussels special says the program of the new Belgian government includes universal suffrage for all males over twenty-one years of age and a general election as soon as possible, probably next May, » » ♦

An Amsterdam dispatch says Liebknecht, the radical, has emerged victor over Ebert, the moderate, in a three-days’ struggle at Berlin. The affairs of all Germany rest for the moment in the hands of the Berlin workmen and soldiers’ council, which has wrested all power from the Ebert government. The chancellor and his ministers are reduced to figureheads. * » ♦ A dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Copenhagen states that an antibolshevist revolution has broken out in Russia. Moscow is reported in a state of siege and the Black sea fleet is reported to have raised the imperial flag. * * » A says German newspapers report that the united wotkers’ and soldiers’ council have proclaimed Oldenburg, Oestfrlesland, Bremen, Hamburg and Schleswig-Hdl-stein a republic. The capital Will be at

It Is officially announced at Lima that Peru has withdrawn her consuls from Chile as a result of the renewal of anti-Peruvian rioting in Iquique and Antofagasta. • • • A London dispatch says King Albert and the Belgian government entered Brussels at two o’clock Friday. * ♦ * ♦ King Albert of Belgium will visit Paris December 5, it Is announced. He will leave for Brussels early in the evening. * * * A plot to swamp Spain with bolshevist agitators has been nipped in the bud by the Spanish authorities, according to Madrid advices. Domestic • Of the 59 officers and men who have remained with the United States gunboat Scorpion In the Golden Horn, near Constantinople, since diplomatic relations were severed, 25 have married Levantine women. ♦ ♦ • Difficulties between Peru and Chile,, which resulted in recall of consular representatives by each nation from principal cities of its neighbor, have been overcome by an apology on the part of the Peruvian government, Consul Castro Buis, consul general of Chile, announced in New York. ♦ * ♦ Three masked bandits held up the Commonwealth Savings bank of Chicago in typical wild West style. Nearly a dozen shots were fired. The amount taken was $2,900. * ♦ ♦ Total subscriptions to the United War Work campaign were $203,179,038, or $32,679,038 in excess of the amount originally asked by the seven war relief organization for their work during demobilization of the army.and navy, according to an official announcement at New York. * ♦ “• A thousand soldiers, sailors and marines broke through a cordon of police surrounding Madison Square Garden al New York and attacked international socialists who had attended a mass meeting at which bolshevik doctrines were expounded. • ♦ ♦

A New Vork dispatch say? fifteen steamships aggregating 206,769 gross tons, were lost by the Cunard line during the war. Of these, all except two were classed as war losses, having been sunk by torpedoes or mines. ♦ * * A million • letters from “our boys" overseas that will gladden the hearts of “the folks at home” reached New York on the French liner Rochambeau. ♦ * » Railroad employees representing the entire western system will recommend permanent government control of all railroads. They will also ask Director General McAdoo to reconsider his resignation. Business agents of western railroad eirtfrloyees’ unions will hold a conference at Chicago to work out a definite program. ♦ ♦ •

Sult against the government is planned by Clarence H. Mackay, president of the Postal Telegraph company at New York, If a merger bf the Western Union and the Postal is attempted, he announced. ♦ ♦ » Influenza has broken out at the state colony for epileptics, near Dixon, 111. August Weiss of Chicago and Edward Gill, Ashmore, Hl., are dead and five others In dangerous condition. ♦♦- ♦ * Washington No active division of the American expeditionary forces can be landed in the United States before Christmas, Secretary Baker at Washington said. The policy of returning first the thousands of casuals and the auxiliary troops from England will postpone the movement of first-line troops who have been designated for release by General Pershing. • « • Deaths in the navy from “war causes” totaled 1,233, Surgeon General Braisted told the house naval committee at Washington, which is framing the 1920 naval appropriation bill. No figures were given as to deaths from disease. In further revision of the war revenue bill the senate finance committee at Washington struck out entirely the proposed federal license tax on use of automobiles and motorcycles, which ranged from $lO to SSO annually in the house bill, according to horsepower, and from $5 to $25 under the plan previously adopted by the senate committee. • » * Levies aggregating $1,000,000,006 wjere cut from the speeial miscellaneous tax schedules of the war revenue bill by the senate finance committee at Washington in accordance with its decision to make the 1919 levy about $6,000,000,000. » • * The Supreme court at Washington recessed for 'Thanksgiving until December 9. ~ ♦ - * • First units of the American expeditionary forces to return from overseas are expected .to arrive in New York about the end of the present week. General March, chief of staff, announced at Washington that 382 officers and 6.614 men of the air service and other detachments training in England now are homeward bound on the Minnehaha, Lapland and Drca, British liners.