Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 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 Mo* ment in All Parts of the World—* Of Interest to All th* i People Everywhere. Washington Extension-of the time of federal control over railroads to five years or very early return of the properties to their owners was declared necessary by Director General of Railroads McAdoo at Washington. * ♦ » Charles Piez, vice president and general manager of the Emergency Fleet corporation, is to succeed Charles M. Schwab as director general of the corporation, it was said at headquarters at Washington. ♦ ♦ ♦ Legislation providing for the coloni’zation and farming of the public lands of America by the millions of soldiers released from the army is strongly ,urged by Secretary of Labor William 'B. Wilson, in his annual report to President Wilson, made public at (Washington. « • » » Abandonment of 19 war construe[tlon projects, Including a number of (nitrate and other chemical plants, was announced by the war departfcnent at Washington. « * • More than 30,000 Armenians have been massacred in renewed outrages by evacuating Turkish soldiers,, diplomatic advices to Washington stated. * • • A Washington dispatch says only 44 vessels of the navy, Including army and cargo transports manned by naval crews, were lost from the declaration of war, April 0, 1917, until hostilities ceased November 11. And only 12 of these were destroyed by enemy submarines. • * •

Twenty-nine battleships, manned by 40,000 men, will be maintained In active service after next March 1, according to the plans of the navy department at Washington. • • * Vice President Marshall took the chair when the cabinet assembled at Washington Tuesday, explaining as he did so, that he was acting out of deference to the deal re of the president. So far as anyone there knows a yice president never before has presided at a cabinet meeting. • • • Restoration of normal • passenger service has now been undertaken by the railroad administration at Washington, said Director General McAdoo In a statement addressed to the American people withdrawing his plea made last January for curtailment of passenger travel for the war emergency. • * •

A Washington dispatch says that of the 2,079.880 men taken over the statistics show 46%. per cent were carried in American ships, 48% in British and the balance in French and Italian vessels, according to official figures. • • • Germany spent more than $7,500,000 for the dissemination of propaganda in this country from the beginning of the war, according to the testimony of A. Bruce Bielaski, chief of the bureau of investigation of the department of justice, on the stand at Washington, in the senate investigation of German and brewery propaganda. Some of this, he said, was used in purchasing controlling Interests in newspapers, some for the printing and dis-' tribution of pamphlets and some was sent to the German consulates in principal cities. • * • A Washington dispatch says congress will be asked to provide for another large Increase in the permanent personnel of the navy. In his annual report to Secretary Daniels the chief of the bureau of navigation strongly recommends further expansion. • • • Foreign Viscount Milner will retire shortly as war minister, the London Dally Express says It learns. • The directors of the Krupp munition works, according to the Cologne Gazette, have announced their intention to transform the plant into a factory devoted to the arts of peace. ~ ♦ k A Copenhagen dispatch says the Nobel committee has decided not t« award any Nobel peace prize this year. • » » ! A decree relieving Polo de Bernabe, the Spanish ambassador at Berlin, from the functions of his office is published in the Official Gazette at Madrid. * ♦ ♦ The British steamer Canopic, bringing home approximately 2,000, arrived at Boston. ♦ * * Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of the former German emperor, has proclaimed the establishment of a royalM party in Germany, according to report* from Holland..

Premier Lloyd George of Great Britain has sent Instructions to have his headquarters in Paris changed, it ie now being moved to a villa which is but five minutes' walk from Mr. Wilson’s Parisian “White House.” • * * According to reports from Berlin, the entente governments will refuse tc send foodstuffs to Germany until an order for the dissolution of the soldiers’ and workers’ council is made. * * • A Constantinople dispatch says Doctor Rachid, former governor of the province of Diarbekr, and Lieuten ants of Gendarmerie Chakrl .and Haroun have been arrested for their part in the Armenian massacres of 1915 by the Turkish government. Their guilt has been established and sentences of death are expected to follow. • • * William Hohenzoliern, former German emperor,-lias attempted suicide, following mental depression, according to the Leipsic Tageblatt, tfhfch is quoted in a Copenhagen dispatch to the London Exchange Telegraph company. A member of the former emperor’s retinue who prevented Herr Hohenzoliern from carrying out his intention was wounded, it Is said. • ♦ A London dispatch says the general election campaign entered its final week. The number of contests with more than two candidates is unprecedented. Three-cornered fights are the rule. * ♦ »

U.S. —Teutonic War News A Washington dispatch says six firemen and a water tender were killed and 31 other members of the crew of the U. S. S. Brooklyn were injured in an explosion on the berth deck and in the bunkers of gafS from coal dust while the ship was being coaled at Yokohama, Japan, shortly after midday December 9. * ♦ • An Amsterdam dispatch says that the commander of the American forces in Coblenz has announced that public life there is much as usual and no hampering measures will be taken by /the American forces. » * • A Berlin dispatch says twenty-six hundred American prisoners of war interned at Camp Rastatt left there for Switzerland. Two hundred other Americans who have been scattered in various camps in Germany are leaving by way of Holland and Denmark. k Is expected that the last of the Americans will be out of German camps by the middle of this week.

♦ * * Coblenz Is under the complete military control of the Americans, with the municipal authorities co-operating. At the Coblenz end of the three bridges across tlie Rhine American sentries were posted. The American forces took charge of the barracks and other buildings evacuated by the German troops. » • » After giving hearty greetings to the French troops three weeks ago, Metz received President and representatives of every branch ot-the French government. The American • troops had the honor of leading the line during the review and “The StarSpangled Banner” was wildly, cheered as the regiment marched by in columns of eight in faultless style.

European War News “If you want peace, you want a permanent peace,” said Premier Lloyd George, in a speech at Bristol. “If you want to prevent the horrors of war being repeated, you must put an end to conscript armies on the continent of Europe.” * ♦ ♦ The Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin says it learns from competent sources that Marshal Foch has agreed to postpone the date for the surrender of all German locomotives until February 1. * * * Polish-American divisions, says the Warsaw correspondent of the Amsterdam Weser Zeitung, have embarked at Havre for Danzig to occupy the provinces of Posen and Silesia. The headquarters of the Polish-American troops, according to this information, will be at the town of Posen. ♦ » * Domestic One of the French mine sweepers reported lost in a stonn a week ago was seen in Richardson’s bay by officers of the Midland Prince, which has arrived at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. * * * The troopship Kroonland, from Brest, France, with 83 officers and 1,180 men (Including 704 wounded) on board arrived at New York. • * • The steamship Sierre arrived at New York, carrying 1,411 American troops from training camps In England. The men lined the rails cheering and waving, as the vessel went into her berth. , ♦ ♦ • The Empress of Britain, carrying 76 officers and 2,330 men, including sick, wounded, casuals, aero squadrons and construction companies, arrived at her Mock at New York from Liverpool. • * • The influenza-pneumonia epidemic, from September 28 to November 16 resulted in 8,198 deaths in Chicago. • * * Sir Charles Gordon will be appointed head of the Canadian trade commission to secure trade for Canada in the United States, it was learned at Montreal. ■=-