Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1918 — WORLD'S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD'S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE u Notea Covering Most Important Hap> penlnga of the World Compiled In Briefest anA Most Succinct Farm for Quick Consumption. U.S.—Teutonic War News The behavior of American troops aboard the steamship Tersic when she was torpedoed last September 7, Is commended in a letter from the British admiralty addressed to Admiral Sims. 3 • • • A correspondent with the Americans tn Prussia says the Third army now occupies about 400 square miles of German territory, including scores of towns and villages. The Americans encountered little hostilities from the inhabitants. While hundreds lined the streets in Treves there was absolute silence. • • • A dispatch from the headquarters of the American army of occupation says no demonstrations, either friendly or hostile, marked the entry of Major General Dickman’s finny IntQ Germany. The frontier was crossed early In the day and by nightfall the Americans had moved forward 12 miles, reaching Radgeu OU the left and Saarholzbach on the right. The line extended along the Saar river and through Saarburg and Treves. * • * News reaching London from Amsterdam indicates that the kaiser's abdication decree was published at the request’of the Dutch government. • * * American troops crossed the frontier into Prussia at daylight Sunday, behind the German rear guards. Treves is the most important city thus far occupied. Four American soldiers dispersed a mob of thousands at Esch after it had wrecked 28 shops in revenge for the overcharging of Americans. • * •

European War News The Russian government has refused to admit 1,500,000 Russian soldiers who have been prisoners In Germany and has turned them back at the frontier, according to a Berlin dispatch to the London Express. ♦ * ♦ ' The government has taken all necessary measures to insure the demo bilizatlon of all classes of the territorial reserve before the end of I ebruary, according to the Paris L’Oeurve. • • • Vehement protests against Italy’s claim to the eastern shore of the Adriatic as part of her share of the war spoils were entered at the national congress of Serbians at Chicago. • * * The vanguard of the American party which will be in Paris during the sessions of the peace conference sailed froip New York on the new American steamship Orizaba. The members of the party included more than a hundred newspaper correspondents aud those who will act in a secretarial and clerical capacity to members of the peace mission. The Christiania Aftenposten says the bolshevlki have raided the Norwegian legation at Petrograd and stolen confidential papers belonging to the Norwegian and Swiss governments. • • • Foreign Polish forces have occupied BrestLltovsk, according to reports reaching Paris from Geneva. • * • King Albert of Belgium intends to create a new military order to be known as the Order of Yser, the Echo de Paris says. The first .man to be decorated with the new order will be Marshal Foch. • • • It is announced officially in Berlin that the executive committee for greater Berlin has reached an understanding with the Bavarian executive committee to demand that the resignation of Doctor Sols, foreign secretary, be given and accepted Immediately. • • • Bucharest was burning Sunday, according to reports from Berlin received at Copenhagen. Peasant revolts are said, to have broken out In all parts of Roumanla. The giant British liner Aqultanla reached Halifax with- 4,000 returned Canadian soldiers on board. • * a A British fleet arrived at the port of Libau, in Courland, on the Baltic, says a Wolff bureau dispatch from Berlin. a a a A Vienna dispatch says that on all sides In the former Austrian empire pleas are heard that American troops be sent to keep order. • a a - 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 Daily Mall, quoting the Bavarian minister of finance.

The soldiers’ and worker*’ council of Leipsic has decided that German, general headquarters shall be die* solved and Field Marshal Hindetiborß arrested, according to the Lokal An> zeiger of Berlin. • • • Personal RL Rev. James Bowen Funsten, Aral Protestant Episcopal bishop of IdalMi died suddenly at his home in Boiab ’ Idaho. • • • Edmond Rostand, the poet and playwright, died at Paris. He had been till from grippe. j • • • Washington The question of permanent tion of the army has been deferred fori consideration after the close of th*' peace conference, says Secretary Ba- 1 ker, in his annual report at Washing ton. a a a Increased charges for parlor andl sleeping cars on all railroads under federal control were abolished, effect tlve Immediately by the railroad ad- 4 ministration at Washington. * • • Belgium was given another credit; of $12,000,000 by the treasury at Washington, making her total loans from the United States $210,120,000 and the} total of the allies’ loans $8,196,576,668.1 • • • Cancellations of war contracts sine*; the armistice was signed were estl-i mated by Secretary Baker at Washington to aggregate $2,600,000,000. | • • • It was announced at the executive, offices, said a White House statement, that United States Fuel Administrator Harry Garfield has tendered his resignation to take effect at the pleasure of the president and that the president! has accepted the resignation. • • • Secretary Baker announced ati Washington he had postponed his trip to Europe. He said Edward R. Stettinius, assistant secretary and his personal representative in France,’ would return for Christmas and that they would go together, probably in Janu-> ary, on war department busineaai wholly. All restrictions of sugar for houa*-j hold and restaurant use were removedi by the food administration at Wash-f ington. With the earlier removal off the wheat flour substitute rule, the or-> der relieves the householder of all| compulsion In food conservation. Vol-' pntary conservation of all foodstuffs! continues necessary. Secretary McAdoo says It will require a total of $7,443,415,858.07 toconduct tlie United States government, during the fiscal year of 1920. The total estimates for the fiscal year ot 1919 was $29,879,821,548.74. ** * 1 Domestic The trust-forged shackles of capitalism must be tossed aside and labor must be given fair share of the prosperity of tlie country, for the “gefr-nnd-grab" policy of so-called big business has been shelved forever in th*, world-wide upheaval of autocracy, was t the warning that Charles M. Schwabs delivered at Atlantic Gity, N. J., to th*business men of America.

a • • Congressman-elect Victor L. Berger.< Milwaukee Socialist, was served with' a notice of protest to being seated by Joseph P. Carny, Democrat, on th* ground of ineligibility. Carney was* second in the race. a a a Trench Mortar Battery No. 27, at Camp Bowie, near Forth Worth, made up of drafted men from Kansas, Colorado, Kentucky, lowa and! New York state, was mustered out. a a a John Peres, an Austrian, twenty-af< years old, is being held for the murder of two men in the paraffin departmehti of the Standard Oil company plant atl Whiting, Ind. Peres, with a laxgai knife used for cutting paraffin, beheaded a foreman, David McCloud, and John Winswork, the assistant foreman, and wounded five special polie* men before he was subdued. Pera* resented an order given him by McCloud. • Dr. Edward A. Rumely of New who bought the New York Evening Mall with money said to have beoa, furnished by the German was indicted by a federal grand jwj» at Washington for falling to report! German ownership of the property t* the alien property custodian. ( \ The British steamship Mauretanian-f which returned to the United State* the first large body of American overseas troops, docked at New York Moi* day. The bulk of the returning soldiers are men from the airplane trail* \ ing camps In England, but there «m. also several men from the American} construction and radio units and about 800 civilian passengers aboard. t • • • Steps to obtain a recount of the ballots cast at the senatorial election last month are under contemplation by> Henry Ford and his advisers, it wa* said at Detroit on reliable authority. • j Increase of 10 per cent in piee* work pay for men employed at rivet-i Ing, chipping and caulking, drilling*and reaming, in steel shipyards of the Atlantic coast, Delaware river, Gulf coast and Great Lakes steel shipyards} is given in an award by the shlpbuild-> • Ing labor adjustment board at Wash-j —