Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1919 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

Washington Letters read at the senate agricultural committee’s hearing on meat Industry legislation disclosed that President Wilson made a personal Investigation last February of protests against the federal trade commission’s conduct of Its packing Inquiry und Informed Louis F. Swift that he was convinced that ‘‘there would be no warrant for his interfering with the Judgment and uctlon of the commission." # • • Urging the house rules committee to gi-r the right of way for passage of legislation prohibiting Immigration for four years, Frank Morrison, secretary *>f the American Federation of I>abor, said that 500,000 men In the United Ftates now were without employment. ♦ • * “Every soldier who put on the uniform of the United States, who fought, or trained to tight, will havo a Job If he wants one,” Secretary Baker declared In delivering the opening address at the fourteenth annual convention of the national, rivers and harbors congress at Washington. • i* * * A London dispatch says sweeping orders providing for the evacuation within two months of all Amertcau soldiers from base 3, which Includes the whole of England, were received by Oeneral Biddle from General Pershing. * , * • Democrats and Republicans In the senate at Washington Joined In criticizing the new British embargo on imports and calling attention to the effect it would have on American industry. • • • The total strength of the United .States army on November 11, when the armistice was signed and when the American was effort was at its peak, was 3,703,273 officers and men. Including the marine corps on duty with the army in Europe. A statistical tuble made public by the war department at Washington gives this figure. » • • A resolution criticizing tlie new’ British import embargo order and asking the state department to inform the senate as to steps toward Its nuxlification that have been taken was introduced at Washington by Senator Weeks of Mussuchusetts. • • • Insistence by President Wilson upon the administration’s policy of navul expansion led to the ' unanimous np- • proval given by the house naval committee ut Washington to another three-year construction program. i • • • After extended and vigorous criticism by several senators of alleged lawless propaganda the senate at Washington adopted a resolution extending the powers of the senate committee Investigating German propaganda to Inquire into other activities which It was charged sought the overthrow of the government, t* * • i Secretary Wilson of the department ’ of labor ut Washington urged the immediate enactment of legislation by congress to forestall any danger of un- s employment. • • •

Foreign , A Copenhagen dispatch says Bremen is completely in the hands of government troops. Many people were killed by the bombardment. The anarchists have proclaimed a republic in Duesseldorff. Kiotinj: and plundering are rampant in IVblstein and throughout the industrial* region of the Hlver Ruhr. *, • • An armistice between the Polish and Czecho-Slovak forces which have been fighting on the Silesian front was signed on February 2, according to advices received at Basle. • * * The great strike which has affected 86 cotton factories in India during the last three weeks has been declared off. The employers. In the advice of the governor of Bombay, granted a tU per cent increase in wages and a bonus of 20 rupees to the men. • • * A London dispatch says the national strike of railway clerks, which had been scheduled for Tuesday evening, was averted at the eleventh hour by government recognition of the union. • • * The first train from Paris arrived at Brussels by way of Mons and Maubeuge. • • • A Geneva dispatch says huge crowds of emaciated men, women and children greeted the arrival In Vienna of the first American food train, according to a dispatch from the Austrian captital. * * * For refusing to obey an order to protect the front of the Siberian army against the bolshevik! in the region . of Kungur, southeast of Perm, 250 soldiers aud ten oflieers have been tried by court-martial and shot for insubordination, according to a report received at Omsk, Siberia, from Kunder.

The German war submarine*, which were surrendered and taken to British ports, are meeting a sorry end, according to the London Dally* Mall. The vessels, the paper says, are being sold for Junk. * * * . A Stockholm dispatch says an exhortation from Premier Lenlne, addressed to all anarchist committees In Germany, Austria, Poland and Baltic provinces and Finland to convoke s communist conference Intended to eclipse both the peace conference at Paris and the socialist conference at Bern Is published by the Petrogrnd newspapers. Lenlne declares that the anarchy alone will have the right to take the Initiative In the proposed conference. Two divisions of bolshevlsts have been virtually annihilated by Serbian troops under General Galda at Kungur, 80 miles southeast of Perm, according to an official statement issued at Omsk. The city of Perm Is now declared to be safe from bolshevlst attack. Heavy losses were Inflicted on the bolshevlkl by the American forces nnd the enemy was driven back In disorder from the village of Vlstavka, on the Vaga, says a dispatch from Archangel, Russia. The American casualties were five killed and several wounded. Many bolshevik soldiers were prisoners by the Americans. * • • Four British and American cruisers have entered the Elbe, en route to Hamburg, to protect steamers loaded with foodstuffs, It was reported at Berlin. Several large steamers have left Koenlgsburg. * • * Former Queen Maria Theresa of Bavaria died at the Chateau Wlldenhard, according to a dispatch from Munich. • • • A Purls dispatch says Portuguese {nonarclilst troops ure retiring toward Estarreja, with the Intention of falling back to Oporto, following their defeat at Agueda, In the province of Belra. * • •

An Amsterdam dispatch says societies to “save the kaiser” from being hauded over to the allies are being organized In Germany, according to the Volkszeituug of Osnabruck. • » • Peace Notes President Wilson presided over the commission of (he Society of Nations st Paris which had before It the completed project for constituting the league, discussing It article by article. * * • President Wll,son, In an address In the chamber of deputies at Paris ou the society of nutions, said France is still the frontier of freedom, because eastern Europe Is full of menacing questions, front the Rhine across Siberia to the Pacific. He said the sacrifices of independent action which nations must make to establish a society are Incomparable to the sacrifices necessary if u league is not established. • * * The Paris correspondent of the London Dally Mail says that Japan lias formally accepted the theory of internationalization of colonies and that it was understood South Africa had abandoned its opposition. "President Wilson,” the correspondent adds, ‘undoubtedly has won an immense diplomatic victory, but has had to modify his original proposals to some extent.” • * * A Pnrls dispatch says the British and Frencli governments have accepted in principle President Wilson’s plan concerning mandatories from the league of nutions for the administration of cuptured territory, it was stated by Capt. Andre Tnrdieu of the French peace conference delegation.

• * * u. S.—Teutonic War News A Paris dispatch says Marshal Foch estimates that 400,000 American troops are required to keep the “Watch on the Rhine” until peace Is signed. The French army is prepared to furnish a contingent double that number/ while the British army, considering the continuance of its service elsewhere, will be let off with 200,000. Belgium Is asked 100,000 men mobilized along the Rhine. • • • According to a dispatch from Am.er lean headquarters In Germany, 219 Germans have been arrested and tried by American courts-martial during the two months of American occupation, according to figures made public. • • • Personal * The Turkish terror is a thing of the past. “Turkey in Europe” will be no more, the “near East” will be divided into several independent states and the outlook for “uo more wars in the world” Is good, in the opinion of Dr. Harry Pratt .Tudson, president of the University of Chicago, who arrived lu Chicago after an absence of several months in Turkey. « • • Domestic Exclusion of German emigrants from the United States for 50 years was urged in a resolution introduced in the lower house of the legislature at Austin, Tex. The Texas delegation in congress is urged to lend support- ** ■ * Federal Judge Landis, at Chicago, refused to set-aside the verdict against Congresman-Elect Victor Berger and four Qther Socialists recently convicted of violating the espionage act.