Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1919 — WORLD'S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD'S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

PEST OF THE NEWB BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Motes Covering Most Important Ha> psnlngs of the World Compiled In Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. U.S.—Teutonic War News Ten million marks ($2,500,000) arrived nt Coblenz from Berlin by special train, this sum being the first payment by the German government of the $6,250,000 due in January for the jxpenses of the American army of ocjatlon. * * * Evidence that the bolshevlsts are mutilating allied wounded and dead came to headquarters at Dvina, in a report from Lieutenant Colonel Corberly, who was in command of American forces in the vicinity of Shenkursk on November 29. .* * * European War News

* Casualties in the French army, excluding colonial troops, up to November 1 were 4,702,800, according to official figures made public by the French high commission at Washington to correct conflicting reports. * * * Lieut. Arthur Sutton and Privates McCauley, Suess and Haston of the United States signal corps arrived in Berlin on Sunday from Coblenz. They will take photographs of happenings In Berlin. • • * A Paris dispatch says the first published engineering estimate of the total damage done in the French devastated regions is made by Maj. George B. Ford, head of the Red Cross housing research service, after a survey made since the signing of the armistice. It 1 places the total Dill which Germany ought to pay at something under $13,000,000,000. * * * A Copenhagen dispatch says 20,000 Ukrainians are besieging Lemberg, capital of Galicia. It is expected they will occupy the city soon. It is probable the population will be starved into surrender. • • *

Personal Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell, who succeeded Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood as coimfaander of the department of the East, died late Wednesday flight at the Presbyterian hospital in New York. The cause of death was reported to have been angina pectoris. *** , . Theodore Roosevelt, fqr seven years president of the United States, died at home at Sagamore Rill, Oyster Bay, N. X,.*. He passed away peacefully while asleep, .the victim of a blood clot in the lung, resulting from Inflammatory rheumatism traceable to an infected tooth, from wMch he suffered 20 years ago. *_ * * * The body of Theodore Roosevelt was laid to rest Wednesday. It was committed to earth at 1:43 p. m. in a family cemetery plot overlooking Long Island sound. * * * N Ex-Congressman David H. Mercer died of heart disease at Omaha, Neb. He served five terms in congress. * * * Mrs. Roosevelt, at Oyster Bay, N. Y:, received a cablegram of sympathy from President Wilson, dated Modane, which is on the Franco-Italian frontier, reading as follows: “Pray accept my heartfelt sympathy on the death of your distinguished husband, the news of which has shocked me very much.” * • •

Foreign A Berlin dispatch says rioters forced General Harris to haul down the American flag, which was raised over the Adlon hotel to protect entente officials. ' ' 1 • * • A Paris dispatch says a French destroyer struck a mine in the Black sea, but succeeded in reaching Constantinople. Four men were killed. • * • A London speciaj says a detachment of army service men, training in a London suburb, Jaroke camp, commandeered a dozen motor lorries and drove to Whitehall, where they sent a deputation of six men to visit the ministry of demobilization. Several thousand British soldiers stationed at Shoreham marched into Brighton to protest against the delays in the British . demobilization. * • • ' A Copenhagen dispatch says the Spartacides have occupied the whole German railway system, according to a' Berlin message. Government troops at the railway stations surrendered to the “reds.” •** * * “Long live America, our friend !“ jarose from thousands of throats as President Wilson and his wife stepped off the Special train on their arrival in Rome, and the same ehout, with the name fervor and enthusiasm, them Godspeed ns the train pulled oat, leaving the Eternal city behind. . >

All members of the bourgeolse have been arrested at Riga by the Lettish soviet, which has abolished the ownership of private .property in that city, according to a Riga dispatch received at Stockholm. si • » • A Copenhagen dispatch says 300 persons have been killed and many hundreds wounded in Berlin since Monday. In Munich a mob of 5,000 unemployed men and women was attacked by machine guns. Two were killed. In Dusseldorff (on the Rhine), a bolsheyik republic has been proclaimed. In Schwerin, a Junker stronghold, the bolshevlki were driven from the barracks and public buildings. * * * A Salonikl cablegram says several thousand old offenders have escaped from prisons in Constantinople and elsewhere In Turkey. * • * A London dispatch says it is learned that the Armenian committee now in London has received assurances from the allies that the claim for Armenian self-determination and for a republican form of government under protection will be admitted ut the peace conference. >• ♦ •

| Washington Figures made public at Washington show that tlie production of munitions had grown so rapidly in the lust months of the war the United States .was far ahead of Great Britain and France. * * * Conversion of insurance carried by 4,000,000 soldiers, sailors and marines Into permanent government risk will begin within 60 days, Col. Llndsley, director of war risk insurance at Washington, announced. * • * A Washington dispatch says cash requirements of the government now are at their maximum ordinary disbursements, having readied $125,000,000 last Monday, the largest amount In the nation’s history. * * * • «*• Complete lists of casualties among the American expeditionary forces have been sent to Washington and 1,000 additional clerks have been put to in the adjutant general’s office to get them out. * * . .* .» American forces operating in Siberia and northern Russia total 12,941 officers and men, the war department at Washington announced. In Siberia are 255 officers and 7,267 men and in northern Russia are 5,419 men. ♦ * * Total deaths among the American expeditionary forces in northern Russia to January 4 were given as six officers and 126 men in a cablegram received at the war department at Washington from Col. James A. Buggies, American military attache with Ambassador Francis at Archangel. *. * * President Wilson cabled a proclamation from Paris on the death of Theodore Roosevelt, in which he paid high tribute to the deceased leader and ordered flags on all public buildings to be put at half staff for 30 days. * • • Republican opposition to the SIOO,000,000 appropriation requested by President Wilson for European relief was manifested in botli branches of congress at Washington. * * * A Paris special says Wilson will return to the United States about February 12 to attend the closing sessions of the present congress, according to present plans. He arrived in Paris at eight o’clock Tuesday morning. There were no formalities over his arrival and he proceeded to the Murat residence for a series of conferences which will begin to give concrete form to the work of the peace congress. * * * A Washington dispatch says naval guns and gunners placed on American merchant ships to protect ( them against German submarines are being removed as rapidly as the vessels reach home ports.

* * * A Washington dispatch says a thorough Investigation of charges alleged to have been made by army officers and troops aboard the stranded transport Northern Pacific Jhat the vessel went ashore because of neglect of duty on the part of naval officers in charge on the boat, will be made. • • *> Domestic August Thiele of Buffalo, N. Y., an aviator in the government airplane mail service, died at Plainfield, N. J., from injuries received in being hit by propeller blades. * * • Herman Scheffauer, poet and author, a native of San Francisco, born of German parents, was Indicted at New York by the federal grand jury for treason. * - • * * r The battleships Georgia and Kansas, bringing 2,650 troops home from France, arrived at Newport News, Va. • * * The UnitetKStates transport Louisville arrived in« New York from France carrying 964 troops and 573 civilians. Of the troops 878 are negroes comprising casual companies. * * * * Victor L. Berger, Milwaukee polltl-citn-publisher, and the only Socialist elected last fall to the Sixty-sixth congress, and four other national leaders of the Socialist party, were found guilty of sedition and disloyalty under the espionage.net by a jury in Judge Landis’ court at Chicago. Berger’s conviction bars him from congress, X