Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1919 — MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD [ARTICLE]

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD

PIQ HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK OUT TO LABT ANALYSIS. ' • DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS Kernels Culled From Events of Mo» ment In All Parte of the World— Of Intereat to All the People Everywhere. Peace Notes * A Paris dispatch says the number of representatives allowed each nation In the peace congress, as given out unofficially and subject to revision, although practically determined, Is as follows: United States, 5; Great Britain, 5; France, 5; Italy, 5; Japan, 5; Brazil, 3; Belgium, 2; Serbia, 2; Greece, 2; Poland, 2; Czechoslovaks, 2; Roumania, 2; China, 2; Canada, 2; Australia, 2; South Africa, 2; India, 2; New Zealand, 1; Portugal, 1. * • * A Paris special says the first question to come up before the actual peace conference next Saturday will be that of the proposed league of nations, and It was made known that It had been planned for the conference to devote 12 hours dally to this work If necessary, until It Is on the way to completion. • • • At Monday’s session of the allied military advisers in Paris, presided over by Marshal Foch, the suggestion was made that the allies occupy some of the German ports, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Paris. • * • So pressing are the questions, such as the Russian problem, which must be settled before the actual peace conference gets to work that the armistice, which expires January 17, will have to be extended, says a Paris dispatch. * * *

European War News Fifteen hundred Canadian soldiers who were previously thought to be dead, have been found since the armistice to be alive as prisoners in Germany, according to Ottawa reports. * * * The cabinet at Paris decided that German war prisoners henceforth should be employed in reconstruction vyork in the liberated districts. The measures adopted provide that a minimum of 200,000 will be put to work. * * * British troops have occupied Dusseldorf, which has been in the hands of the Spartacans, according to a report from Berlin, says a Copenhagen dispatch. * • • A London dispatch says that Ijj air raids on the United Kingdom by the Germans during the war, 5,511 persons were killed or Injured, of whom 4,750 were civilians. * * * A London dispatch says the allies have notified Turkey that unless the Turkish force at Medina lays down its arms immediately the forts at the Dardanelles will be destroyed. * * • Foreign A cordon of troops has been thrown around the suburb of Moabit, one of the molt important industrial sections in Greater Berlin, for the“purpose of carrying out the work of disarming civilians and such Spartacan fighters as are still at liberty. Peace negotiations have begun between the Spartacans and the German government.

• * * A Rerlin dispatch says Fie’ld Marshal von Hindenburg soon will take command of the German troops opposing Polish forces in eastern Germany, according to advices from Bromberg, quoting newspapers printed In the province of Posen. * * • Property losses in Berlin during the .past week of terror amount to tens of millions of marks. In addition to the damage to newspaper plants and government buildings, merchants’ losses through looting are very high, one youth being captured with 60,000 marks’ worth of Jewels which he had stolen. * * * “Our hands are now free to take up the great task upon the accomplishment of which the fate of the young "German republic depends,” said Friedrich Ebert, at the end of a week's terrific struggle at Berlin. * * • Dr. Karl Liebknecht, the Spartacan leader, Is reported to have fled from Berlin to Liepzig, according to advices received at Copenhagen. Chiefat Police Eichhorn, according to Vorwaerts of Berlin, has fled to Denmark. *, * * A Berne dispatch says Count Michael Karolyi has been named provisional president of Hungary. He also takes the portfolio of foreign affairs. * * * A London dispatch says private advices from Germany via Holland assert that parts of Berlin already resemble the shattered zones of Reims, Cambrai and other cities on the French front. Children and women are killed In their homes, yards or gardens, so fiercely has the zone of the machl»e gunfire been swept over and over again.

Hunger riot* took place In Petrograd on Saturday and Sunday, according to advices received at Stockholm. Ten thousand people paraded through the streets shouting fo* bread and were fired upon by bolshevik troops, who are said to_have been Letts. Desperate from hunger, the crowds are reported to have asked the soldiers to fire upon them. • • • Wholesale executions of the defeated Spartacans are being carried out by the victorious government troops, according to dispatches from the German capital. • • • The German garrison at Constance, Baden, has joined the Spartacans and obtained complete control of the town. * • * Domestic Mrs. Mark Lukes of Sycamore, Ga., given birth to nine children in four years—triplets in 1915, twins in lflfl7 and quadruplets in 1919. * * * The legislatures of 30 states have ratified the prohibition amendment to ehe United States Constitution. This ratification puts the nation on the.water wagon, giving the necessary threefourths vote. * • •' Seven more states have ratified the federal prohibition amendment, making 31 all told. Thirty-six are needed to make the amendment effective. * * * Seven persons were killed and 12 injured in a rear-end collision on the Reading railroad 15 miles north ot Philadelphia. • • • Twenty-one passengers were killed and 15 injured on the Wolverine express of the New York Central when the Southwestern Limited of the same road crashed into it In a rear-end collision at South Byron, 35 miles east ot Buffalo. • • • Washington

A vote by the senate at Washington on the woman suffrage resolution will be indefinitely delayed in view of the rejection by the New Hampshire legislature of a resolution to instruct its senators to support it. • • * Federal ownership, operation or regulation of public and semipublic utilities was recommended in the report of the committee on reconstruction ot the American Federation of Labor at Washington. * • * A Washington dispatch says conferees on the war revenue bill agreed to eliminate the house provision levying horsepower license taxes on automobiles, and the house tax of 1 per cent on mail-order establishments. - ** * 1 Resolutions protesting against the annexation of Korea by Japan, and asking President Wilson to apply the principle of self-determination to that country, have been received at Washington. * * * Bolshevik agitation in the United Slates shows no promise of reaching a stage of open disorder, according to department of justice officials at Washington, who have been observing the movement. • * * The senate at Washington adopted a resolution authorizing payment of $5,000 a year and extension of mall franking privileges to Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. The resolution now goes to the house. i * * * A Washington says an agreement for control of the TransSiberian and Chinese Eastern railroads by an inter-allied committee virtually has been concluded. * • *

Demobilization of the American army, General March, chief of staff at Washington, said, is proceeding at a rate which comparative figures show to be more than twice as fast as the British demobilization. Actual figures up to January 10 of men discharged from the American army showed a total of 693,889. British discharges to January 7 numbered 352,658. American troops -scheduled for demobilization now- number 1,151,000. * * • The house at Washington passed, 228 to 91, the annual river and harbor bill, carrying $26,000,000. ** * * A Washington dispatch says Attorney General Thomas W. Gregory has resigned, to take effect March 4. President WllsOfi has accepted and will announce his successor soon after his return from abroad. In his letter of resignation Mr. Gregory says that for pecuniary reasons It is essential he leave the public service. Also for some months his health has not been of the best. • • • The housd at Washington passed the administratioq bill appropriating SIOO,000,000 for the relief of the starving peoples of Europe. The vote was 242 for and 73 against. The bill now goes to the senate. • • * Establishment of motortruck routes to reduce the cost of living by transporting farm produce to the cities is advocated by Fourth Assistant Postmhster Blakeslee at Washington. He asks the seunte post office committee to appropriate $8,975,000 in the post office bill for that purpose. * * * A Washington dispatch/says naval demobilization. plans are in abeyance, and recruiting for the permanent service is being pressed now' so that the navy may be prepared to man big'Qerjpan merchant ships. (