Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1919 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

Washington Favorable report- on the resolution for immediate investigation of the Michigan Newberry-Ford senatorial campaign was ordered by the senate contingent expenses committee at Washington on a strict party vote. • * • Recognition of the provisional government of Poland lias been accorded by the American government, officials of the state department at Washington said in making public a ir.ess.ig' which Secretary Lansing at Paris has sent by direction of President Wilson to Ignaee Jan Paderewski, the new Polish premier. *• • * Final legislative action was taken by congress at Washington on the ad* ministration bill appropriating SIOO.(XMt.OOO requested by President Wilson for European famine relief. Ihe conferees’ report was adopted by both senate and house without debate. The food administration at Washington announced that President Wilson signed a proclamation in Paris on January 23 removing restrictions on the manufacture of so-called near beers. * • * Legislation prohibiting general immigration for a period of four years following the signing of the P e “^ e treaty was approved tentatively by the house immigration committee at Washington. The food administration at " ashington has applied to congress for the passage of a drastic and far-rea thing bill, appropriating $ 1.230,060 ,(W” for the purchase of the entire wheat crop of the United States at the present guaranteed price and placing the disposition and control of the crop absoiutely within the authority of the president.

Revocation of President Wilson’s power to return railroads under government control to their private owners at any time within 21 months after peace is declared was proposed in a bill introduced at Washington by Senator of lowa. * • * Rear Admiral Jiiblack, commanding American naval forces in the Adriatic, informed the navy department at Washington that the action of the Italian authorities In hauling down the American Hag on the steamer Dinara was due to a misunderstanding and that the Italian commander had apologized and ordered the Hag restored. The house at Washington passed and sent to the senate the bill approprating $10,500,000 for constructing hospitals for disabled soldiers and sailors. General March, chief of staff at Washington, informed the senate military committee that shipping arrangements had been made by which 300,000 men might be transported home monthly and that all of the American expeditionary force could be returned home and demobilized within six months. ♦ » »

Foreign The hospital ship Russ, with fully, armed and equipped Russian troops en route to Renal from the French front, called at Copenhagen. • * * The German and Austro-Hungarian banks at Constantinople have reopened under allied control. Only small sums of gold and silver were found in the vaults, the bulk of the, currency being paper. • * • The Frankfort Gazette gives as the definite results of the elections to the German assembly 165 social democrats, 91 centrists, 75 democrats, 38 conservatlsts, 22 national liberals and 22 Independents. » * • • A Copenhagen dispatch says Spartacan forces have overthrown the government in Wllhemshaven and have occupied the banks and public buildings. Court-martial of their opponents has been ordered. ' The worst labor riots since the outbreak of the war took place at Belfast. Squads of police charged into the riqting mobs of strikers nnd finalry dispersed them. The mobs were attacking and stoning the doors of newspaper offices. An Archangel dispatch says bolshevik forces failed at midnight to drive American and British troops from Tulgas, on the Dvina river, southwest of Archangel. Earlier they had bombarded the positions with artillery. • • * England has agreed to cede Gibraltar to Spain in exchange for Ceuta and Morocco, according cto the Paris LTntrannsigeant. Whatever ultimate decision is reached by the peace congress on their fate, one thing appears certain: .Germany will not be given back her colonies.

General Ludendorff, former quartermaster general of the German army,has returned to Berlin and is living in a small village in the Grunewald district under an assumed name, according to a dispatch from Amsterdam. • • • Peace Notes An Amsterdam dispatch says the men chosen as Germany's peace delegates find no favor with tbe German press. Count von Bernstorff, the papers fear, would only serve to antagonize the Americans, Dr. Mathias Erzberger advocated ruthlessness in 1915. and Hausemann is denounced as a kalserlte. • • • Personal , William H. Little, sixty-nine, retired business man of Pana. 111., was run down and killed by a Big Four train while attempting to cross the track in front of it. • • • Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of President Wilson, has arrived in Brussels. She is a guest at the American legation. U.S.—Teutonic War News A Laibach (Austria) dispatch says reports from Marburg state that quite a serious disturbance broke out there on the arrival of tin American “debarkation committee." which was under command of Colonel Allies. It is reported that live persons were killed and 30 injured. • » •

Aviation Lieutenant O’Neill of the American army was killed instantly near Chatillon-sur-Seine, In France, when his machine collapsed at a height of about 700 feet. ♦ * • General Pershing reports from Paris that by April he will be dispatching American troops homeward from France at the rate of 300,000 monthly. • • • European War News A Paris dispatch says that by virtue of the agreement made at Treves by the allied commissioners halt a million tons of German passenger shjps are put at tbe immediate disposal of the United States. * « • Tbe cost of the war to Great Britain was approximately $40,640,000,000, declared Sir E. 11. Holden at the annual meeting at the Lyndon City and Midland bank, of which he is manty'ing director, of this sum $5,535,000,000 was loaned to the allies. ♦ * * The British cabinet has decided, according to the London Daily Express, to maintain tin army of occupation numbering OOO.tMM) men. » » » An Amsterdam dispatch says British forces have advanced from Baku and occupied the Trans-Caucasian railway, also occupying Petrovsk and Astrakhan, tit the mouth of the Volga. 1 ♦ ♦ ♦ Gon. von Iloetzendorff, former Austrian chief of staff, said in an interview at Vienna that lie was forced to relinquish his command because he insisted that all military efforts be concentrated against Italy. “The defeat of Italy would have meant the collapse of'the entente,” he declared.

♦ * * Gen. D. von Winterfeldt, member ot the German armistice commission, has resigned, according to advices from Berlin. Domestic Organized opposition to the plan of the federal food administration for the government to buy and sell the ,1918 and 1919 wheat crops was put under way in Chicago under auspices of leaders of the board of trade. * » * Two thousand Baptists of Waco, Tex., held an all-day prayer service, praying that “Providence shall end the death toll from Influenza,” "* » • The newspaper La Patria of Montreal, Que., announced that $300,000 had been lost there by several local men who gambled on the American racetrack through a fraudulent scheme concocted in Montreal. By agreement of counsel argument in the circuit court at Detroit, Mich., on motion for change of venue in the libel suit brought by Henry Ford against the Chicago Dally Tribune was postponed for one week. » * • Aliens were chased about Winnipeg, Man., and forced to kiss the union jack, an employment agency smashed up and several companies forced to promise that all aliens would be discharged within three days by Canadian soldiers just returned from the front, who found their jobs filled by them. - • * »■ Emboldened by the success of.the national prohibition amendment, Prof. Frederick W. Roman of the department of.economics of Syracuse (N. Y.) university, started a general movement for a federal amendment prohibiting the use of tobacco-. ♦ • • Julius Barnes, president of the Food Administration Grain corporation, assured flour dealers and millers in a statement issued at New York that there would be no impairment during the present crop year of the govern-ment-fixed buying price of flour.