Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1918 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

U.S.—Teutonic War News A dispatch from the American army of occupation in Germany says the 'Germans of the Rhineland community, a strong industrial district, are beginning to oppose strongly the bolshevism of the soldiers and workmen's councils. * * • General Rhodes, member of the American armistice commission, was severely Injured in an airplane accident on the outskirts of Paris. His pilot, a British officer, was killed. A dispatch says Marshal Foch ordered further changes in the distribution of troops in the American zone of occupation, reducing the Third army to eight divisions. • • • Satisfactory arrangements have been perfected with the French authorities to cease canceling the charters of ships Intended to carry home American troops, according to a Paris dispatch. • • • A Coblenz dispatch says German propaganda and the tendency to critlclsm of conditions in the district occupied by the American forces have been abruptly checked by the establishment of a censorship by Major General Dickman upon the newspapers and the theaters. • ♦ • European War News A Mayence dispatch says the French threw a pontoon bridge across the Rhine at Nierstein on Friday. This bridge, which Is over 1,000 feet in length, was built in five hours. • • • The Flnanza Italian of Rome announced that It estimated Italy’s claims for damages in the Invaded provinces at more than 100,000,000,000 lire ($20,000,000,000). * • • Fifty additional large German U-boats will soon be surrendered the London Evening News learns. This will make the total of surrendered German submarines 164. • * • A Petrograd dispatch says Russia’s war casualties are authoritatively given at 9,150,000 as follows: Killed, 1,700,000; wounded, 4,950,000; prisoners, 2,500,000. • • • Foreign A Washington dispatch says Andrew Moraeewski, premier est the new Polish govern men , has announced it will carry out at once a series of measures to end 'he anti-Semitic movement, according cables received there.

♦♦• ' 8 . I)is«.rd<*rs occurred at Barcelona during the'nhxLt between groups representing the autonomy party and others from the Spanish unity party. A police lieutenant was shot and killed. V ■ ♦ . » A London dispatch says all England throbbed at the coming of President Wilson. The city whs profusely decorated with the flags of the allies and the buildings on the streets through Which the presidential party passed Were aflame with the red, white and blue. One of the biggest crowds London has ever seen —ti multitude reaching into millions —greeted President Wilson on his arrival. * • • Herbert Hoover announced at Paris the appointment of Colonel Wood. U. S. Ao as director of relief for Serbia, and Jugo-Slavia In behalf of the United States food administration. Colonel Wood and six aides will leave immediately for Belgrade. Representatives of the allies will participate in tlie relief work. Colonel Mclntosh, another army man, is leaving for Trieste to take charge of the supply bases where food is already arriving from the United States. A Rome dispatch says that immediately after the armistice was signed Italian aviation experts set themselves to the study of the best way to adapt their machines to commercial and traveling purposes. Their first effort met with the greatest success. Two Capronis, 35 yards along, with three motors, flew from Terrara to Rome in three hours, covering a distance of 640 miles. Each carried 20 passengers. • • • Bloody street fighting at Essen between the forces of the workmen and soldiers’ council and Sparticides was reported in a dispatch received at Zurich. There were many casualties. * • • Bulgarian troops fired on the Greek posts near Troussova and wounded three Greek soldiers, according to an official dispatch from Seres, in Greek Macedonia. The Greeks, the message adds, then attacked and captured two Bulgarian posts. Several Bulgarian soldiers were killed. The Bulgarians retired toward the slopes of Mont Beles. President Wilson will arrive in Rome on January 3, according to an nouncement made in the Italian newspapers at Rome. <_■

A Munich dispatch says all Bavarian industries employing more than ten persons have been ordered to shut down from December 28-untlJ January 2 for the purpose of saving coal. » • • Prof. T. Masaryk, president of the Czecho-Slovak republic, took the oath of office as president in the diet building at Prague. • • • Personal Walter Hines Page, former ambassador to Great Britain, died at Pinehurst, N. C., Mr. Page had been In failing health for more than a year, His resignation of the ambassadorship was due to this fact * • » • William G. Sharp, the American ambassador to France, who has been called home by the severe Illness of a brother, left Paris for Brest to sail for New York on a transport. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, the evangelist, died at Doctor Duma’s sanitarium at New York following an abdominal operation performed on Monday. Washington The treasury department at Washington issued instructions for the recall of all unsold War Savings stamps of the series of 1918. In their stead stamps of the 1919-series will be supplied. • • • In the nature of a Christmas announcement of greqt Interest to the farmers of the country, Secretary of Agriculture Houston at Washington said that during the coming seaSbn the government will offer for sale, at cost, quantities of nitrate of soda, one Of the much-needed fertilizers. ♦ ♦ • President Wilson ’ made possible a “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year’’ for the German alien enemies In the United States. From the American embassy in Paris he flashed by wireless to the department of Justice at Washington a message lifting the order establishing barred zones In various parts of the country. • • • Without even a roll call the senate at Washington passed the. war revenue bill, the largest tax measure in the history of the world, designed raise $6,000,000,(MX) in 1919 and $4,000.000,000 Tn 1920. * •

All regulations restricting the use of bread, meat of all kinds, sugar, butter, cream and cheese in public eating places, which have been in effect since last October 21, were ordered rescinded by the food administration at Washington. • • • A Paris xjlspatch says President Wilson made the following statement concerning his visit to the American hospital at Neuilly: “I went through the American hospital at NtMiilly with the greatest interest and with the greatest gratification, 1 found the men admirably taken care of and almost without exception in excellent spirits." A Washington dispatch says incomplete returns from all parts of the country indicate that 13,000,000 pejsons have answered the Christmas “roll call” of the American Red Cross. . • » • ■ Carl 11. Gray, who resigned last week as chief of the division of operations of the .United States railroad administration • may succeed Director General McAdoo, says a Washington dispatch. * • • At a mass meeting of citizens of Queenstown a resolution was unanimously carried inviting President W ilson to visit Ireland while he is in England next week. • • * More than $16,000,000,000 of cash appropriations and contract authorizations voted by congress for war purposes will be unexpended. Representative Sherley of Kentucky, chairman of the house appropriations committee at Washington announced. • * * Secretary Baker at Washington directed that each soldier honorably discharged be furnished with two scarlet chevrons to be worn on the left sleeve as a recognition of his service to the country. Domestic The transport Carrillo arrived at New York from Bordeaux with 24 officers and 12 men. Maj. W. A. Marden of the One Hundred and Twenty-sev-'enth infantry was aboard. After being entombed for 72 hours in the Cleveland-Cliffs mine at Negaunee, Mich., three men, caught by a slide of wet ore late last Thursday, Monday were apparently suffering serious effects therefrom. ♦* • * Posted as missing for three months, the supposed victim of a German submarine, her cSptain and crew of 22 given up as dead, and her cargo valuel at a million dollars, a total loss, the three-masted, square-rigged ship Brynhilda has turned up safe and sound in Algoa bay, Africa. A Columbus (O.) dispatch says appeals to Secretary Baker for the release at once of at least 200 Ohio physicians from the army to aid in combating the influenza epidemic in the rural sections was made.