Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1919 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Washington Additional organizations assigned to 'early convoy home comprising 270 officers and 4,927 men were announced by the war department. • * * Postponement of “Health Sunday” from February 9 to February 23, so as not to conflict with Theodore (Roosevelt memorial services arranged for the former date, was announced by Surgeon General Blue of the United States public health service. • * * Speaker Champ Clark declared in fche. house during debate on the diplomatic appropriation bill in favor of ’‘every American soldier being withdrawn from Russia and the rest of Europe.” He answered criticism of the course of Ambassador Francis in Russia by saying it came from members Ignorant of conditions there. * ♦ • The senate foreign relations committee at a special meeting considered resolutions offered by Senator Johnson of California (Rep.) asking for an official statement of the Amerlean policy in Russia, by Senator Knox of Pennsylvania (Rep.), expressing the view that action looking toward formation of a league of nations be postponed until after the peace conference, and Senator King of Utah (Dem.) proposing settlement of the Mexican depredation claims. • * * Speaker Champ Clark declared in the house at Washington during debate on the diplomatic appropriation bill in favor of “every American soldier being withdrawn from Russia and the rest of Europe.” • * • Testimony tending to establish a direct connection between radical elements In the United States and the bolshevikl of Europe was given to the Overman subcommittee of the senate Judiciary committee, which is investigating German propaganda at Washington. * * * Secretary Baker at Waslyngton 6rdered the'release of 113 conscientious objectors held at Fort Leavenworth, the remission of the unexecuted portions of their sentences, their, “honorable restoration to duty” and immediate discharge from the army.

* ♦ ♦ A Washington dispatch says tnxA on amusement admissions will not be increased by the war revenue bill. The conferees agreed to rescind their previous decision to increase the rate from 10 to 20 per cent. I» ♦ ♦ v The post office department at Washington will stand pat on its new telephone rates. Furthermore, it will enforce the payment of the new tolls, despite conflicting orders of state public utilities commissions throughout the' country, said William 11. Lamar, solicitor of the department. • » * Live stock on farms and ranges of the country on January 1 was valued at $8,830,204,000 in an estimate made publie by the department of agriculture at Washington. This is an increase of $546,006,000 over their value a year ago. President Wilson cabled to Secretary Tumulty at Washington his approval of the proposal to hold Roosevelt memorial meetings throughout the country on February 9, simultaneously with the joint memorial services in congress. • • • The senate bill to make Grand canyon a national park was passed by the house and sent to conference at Washington. In the area set aside are 996 square miles of public land, now parts of two national forests and a game refuge. The proposal has been before congress for 33 years. • • • Foreign Swedish military missions which have just returned to Stockholm from Lithuania and Esthonla have reported favorably regarding the sending of a voluntary military expedition into Lithuania. see A Berne dispatch says the German military command, in announcing the ■capture of Mitau l>y the boisheviki, said that the advancing Russians also had occupied Bqheljani, Schaulan, Tukkum and Golduz, In the region west and southwest of Riga. • • « The London stock exchange committee on the treatment of alien enemies approved the rule barring all enemyborn members and assistants after the ■war. The rule will go into effect March 25. \ , ♦ * ♦ An Amsterdam dispatch says Berlin Is again in t6tal darkness. The employees of the General Electric company, which controls the municipal lighting plant, we«t on strike at five o’clock Wednesday afternoon. Street ear motortnen and conductors also walked out. a

A- Dublin dispatch says the British government has decided to proclaim the Tipperary district a military area In consequence of the killing of two policemen and the seizure of blasting explosives which they were guarding. • • • According to the Svenska Dagbladet of Stockholm, Trotzky has telegraphed that the bolshevikl probably will have to evacuate Petrograd without a fight. He says the bolshevikl were heavily defeated in the north. • • • The whole bolshevlst army on the northern theater of war has turned against its masters and is joining the ranks of the anti-bolshevik forces, it is reliably reported to Copenhagen from Petrograd. • * • The Irish republic has been proclaimed. The Sinn Fein parliament, meeting in the Mansion house in Dublin, rose to its feet as the historic declaration of Independence demanding the evacuation of Ireland by the British garrisons was read. The declaration of independence, read to the assemblage amid thunderous and constant cheers, asserts that “the Irish people ajpne have the pow’er to make laws binding on the Irish people.” • * • A Stockholm dispatch says the Esthonhins have recaptured Dorpat, about twenty-five miles west of Lake Peipus, from the bolshevlst forces. They captured three guns, a locomotive and more than one hundred cars. • • • A London dispatch says an outbreak of cholera in Hamburg is reported by the Exchange Telegraph correspondent. Seventy fatal cases have occurred. • • • Peace Notes President Wilson was the guest of the French senate at a luncheon at Paris. He was greeted by Antonin Dubost, president of the senate, who made an eulogistic address, in which he said that the senate welcomed the American president and his ideas. * * • U.S. —Teutonic War News An Archangel dispatch says bolshevik forces on the northern Russian front attacked American and Russian positions on Sunday last. The defensive outposts were withdrawn but the bolshevik attack on the main position was repulsed. • * • A Coblenz dispatch says the Krupp plant at Essen began working for the United States government Tuesday. The task undertaken by the Krupps consists of making •parts for 72 incomplete cannon, rejected by the American authorities as part of the war material offered by the Germans under the terms of the armistice. ♦ * »

Domestic Post-war problems, especially price revision, formed the topic of discussion at the convention of the National Association of Clothiers at New York. Opinion on the prospect of lower costs was divided, but it was generally believed that next season’s fall and winter clothing would be lower than those of 1918, and still further reductions for the spring and summer of 1920. • * * The transport Manchuria arrived at Nqw York from France with the One Hundred and Sixteenth and One Hundred and Seventeenth Held artillery, headquarters Fifty-sixth artilbeny brigade, One Hundred and Sixth ammunition train, headquarters Sixty-sec-ond infantry brigade, training cadres from the Thirty-second division, and 966 sick ami wounded. * • • Returning troops and hospital units on the troopship Melisa found a real welcome awaiting tljiem when the transport made her way to Commonwealth pier at Boston after being anchored in midstream over night. ♦ ♦ ♦ lowa’s house of representatives at Des Moines refused to Indorse a resolution approving President Wilson’s league of nations plan, tabling it by a vote of 83 to 18, with seven members absent. * * * The Nassau county grand jury failed to indtet Mrs. Marie Augustine Lebaudy, who shot and killed her husband, the eccentric Jacques Lebaudy, at their honae in Westbury, N. Y., early this month. * * • Twenty-five prisoners, mostly Joliet convicts, who had been paroled to work in the government arsenal, escaped from the county jail at Rock Island and were reported to be headed for Chicago in automobiles, e • • A continued labor shortage with resultant high wages, for at least the period of 1919, was forecast at a conference at Chicago between some 75 men representing the various railroads centering in Chicago and government and state employment bureau officials. * * * Patrolman Charles Carney of Chicago killed a-burglar believed to be George Hart. Hart was shot through* the heart and through the jugular vein after he had-Jired upon the policeman. • ♦ ♦ Approximately . 30,000 shipyard workers in Seattle and 16,000 in Ta-, coma are on strike. The three months’ invasion of Kansas by the influenza epidemic cost 5,517 lives, says an official statement issued by the state health department at Topeka. - '