Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1919 — 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 Copenhagen special says a Fran-co-American squadron has passed the Skaw (nenr Skagerak) en route for Baltic waters. • • • An order has been Issued to the American soldiers at Coblenz that an officer or soldier who speaks to a German woman does so at the risk of court-martial. • • • German war mnterial to he formally turned over to the Americana by January 1 continues to arrive at Coblenz and at places in that vicinity. Among the arms surrendered are 100,000 rifles, 20.000 of which were captured from the allies. • * • In a warehouse in Coblenz-Lutzel, across the Moselle river from Coblenz, Americans have found 80,000 pounds of shoe leather and machinery for repairing shoes. * * • European War News Italian troops hnve been concentrated at Innsbruck to advance on Munl&h, capital of Bavaria, and enter southern Germany en masse in case of bolshevik disturbances, according to a message from Home by way of Switzerland.

• • • One hundred thousand Italian prisoners died of ill treatment, starvation and cold in Austria-Hungary, It wub revealed at Home by a committee making an official inquiry. * * • A Geneva dispatch says between 30,000 and 40,000 Polish infantrymen, well supported by artillery and envalry, are marching on Berlin, the Polish : News agency at Lausonne learns from ! Posen. Polish cavalry hnve entered j Frankfort-on-the-Oder nnd Posen, the report states. One dispatch says that Ignace Paderewski, the famous pianist, is leading his countrymen In street fighting in Posen. Polish Infantry hnve occupied the railway centers of Onesen, Beuthen and Browberg, capturing much railway stock and booty. * * • Japanese reservist troops on the Slberinn front will be recalled, the Tokyo war office announced. * * • Vilna has been captured by bolshevist forces, according to a Copenhagen dispatch to the London Mail, quoting Petrograd reports. • • • France does not desire any annexations ns a result of the war, but reserves to herself the right of discussion concerning the boundaries of Al-sace-Lorralne, according to a statement made in Paris by Stephen Pichon, minister of foreign affairs. • • • An appeal was made In Pnris chamber of deputies to have demobilization hastened, as there are only 4,000 nonmobllized doctors to care for the 35,000,000 civilian population, the death rate among whom has doubled olvlng to the Influenza. It was said that the army’s health was excellent nnd that It has 16,000 physicians with the colors. • • • A Pnris special says armistice conditions relative to the delivery of railroad rolling stock are being carried out satisfactorily by the Germans. In a single day 3,500 cars and 200 locomotives were turned over to the allies. I* * * Foreign^—'

Testimony at the court-martial of Gallagher, a bookkeeper at Dublin, disclosed that he organized a plot In Wicklow and Wexford to blow up the railway bridges, capture the police barracks and post offices, and overthrow the British military. Decision Is reserved. • * * Bolshevik troops have entered Riga and Vilna, aided by Germans, the London Dally Express learns from lta Geneva correspondent. The news is corroborated by Stockholm dispatches. • • • President Wilson wound up his visit to England at a brilliant private dinner in Buckingham palace. The president and his party departed for France via Dover at nine o’clock Tuesday morning. * <t • Striking miners in the Dusseldorf district have fought a pitched battle with the soldiers protecting the mine, according to advices received at Amsterdam. The encounter resulted In several persons being killed. • • * In addressing the chamber of deputies at Paris, Premier Clemenceau made it plain that it was his intention to support Great Britain in the peace negotiations on the question of the freedom of the seas, and he declared that his attitude in this matter was approved by President Wilson. • • * • Sinn Felners at Cork, after the announcement of the election results, blew up the monument erected by public subscription to the Cork soldiers who had fought in the South African I l 'war.

A London dispatch says two hundred and seventy sailors were drowned yj the result of the loss of the BrttlAi. steam yacht lolalre off Stornoway, Scotland. The yacht had 800 saflesW) on board. They were on New holiday leave. • • e Bolshevik troops captured Ufa, Itnl” of the White guards, according twj an official Russian wireless message tegLondon. Sterlltaraek also fell Mwi their hands. The Lithuanian ment has left Vilna for Kovno. • * • British forces have been landed Riga, according to advices received atiCopenhagen. Shortly after the land" ing there was an outbreak In which: several persons were killed andt wounded. . • • • Pillaging on a large scale Is betaft carried on by mobs in Frankfort, Ger- 1 many, and the authorities are power-1 less to prevent It, according to a die-* patch from Amsterdam. Troopa int the city refused to fire on the rioters.l • * • Disturbances at Constantinople contlnue and great fires have broken out in the Parmakkapol quarter of Pera, across the Golden Horn from the city proper, and In the suburb of Kadi Keul, according to advices from* Athens. j •• • ' A Paris dispatch says General Goo-' rood, who commanded the French, armies in the Champagne sector In thw* final days of thq,wur, has been awarded the grand cross of the Legion of Honor. • • • A Basie dispatch says burglars recently entered the former homo of Goethe and carried off a quantity of mementos of the poet. • • • aspiring by a German officer on an allied automobile carrying an American flag was the cause of street fighting In Posen, says a dispatch to London. The Germans were defeated. About 140 persons were killed. •• - * Washington By next summer the United State** navy will have been divided Into two fleets of equal strength, one on the Atlantic und one oh the Pacific coast* Secretary of the Navy Daniels announced when he reappeared besom the house nuvul affairs committee at Washington. • • • Many railroad telegraphers who received little or no wage advance under the recent order of Director General McAdoo have their pay raised by the amended order Issued by the director general at Washington. • • * A Washington dispatch says owe billion rubles ($500,000,000 face value) in bank notes printed In this country and sent to Itusslu aboard an American transport Is held at Vladivostok awaiting u decision by the Japanese, British, French and United States gov* ernments us to its disposition. • • • Secretury of the Nnvy Daniels bw fore the house naval committee at Washington declared the United States, having pledged Its support tw small nations, should build a navy second to none in the world If an International tribunal with power to enforce its rulings failed to become a reality. He was speuking In behalf stf the $600,OtX),000 navul building program. * • •

Domestic Announcement wns made at York by the Aero Club of America that Lieut. Commander P. N. L. Bellinger* a veteran naval nvlntor, made a none stop flight of 651 miles at Pensacola, carrying five passengers. * • • A new minimum wage scale of 08 % day, a flat increase of $1 a day for proxlmately 28,000 employees throughout the country, was announced by th* Ford Motor company at Detroit, Mich. ** • , The Cunard liner Carmanla arrtvad at New York from Liverpool with 10# passengers. She discharged 8,000 Canadian soldiers at Halifax befov* proceeding to this port. * • • An American food delegate la an route to Austria and Is due to arrive in a few days, a dispatch from Vienna reported. American foodstuffs are already being sent from France t* Austria. -•• • . The homes of Justice Robert von Moschzlsker of the state supremn court, Judge Frank, L. Gorman of the municipal court and Acting Superintendent of Police Mills, located ftn widely separated sections of Philadelphia, were damaged by bombs. * * • . • .A Toronto special states that with a*five-engined Handiey-Paige alrplana of about 2,000 horsepower, Lieut. OoL C. R. Colllshaw of Nanino, B. Cl* would attempt a flight early In April across the Atlantic. , • • • Twelve men were killed and twelve injured when an acetylene gas exploded in the cellar of the Lebanon (N. J.) post office, causing the collapse of the building. • * • In a thick mist which enveloped sea and blotted out the shore the United States transport Pacific, having on board 2,481 Amerl-* can troops, 1,671 of them ill ands wounded, went aground about a mll» off the New York shore on a sand barmidway between Point of Woods audit Fire island. »