Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1919 — WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHOOT FORK [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHOOT FORK

PKtT OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. [arranged for busy people Notai Covering Moat Important Happenings of the World Compiled In Briefeet and Moat Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. Washington Advices to the state department st Washington from Vladivostok state that the Korean national council at Nlkolskoe, on tiie Ussuri river. Siberia, has transmitted to all consulates the 'declaration of Independence of Korea, a , a a A Washington dispatch says troops returning from France during the .week ended-March 14 numbered 59,« 454, the largest total for any week. ■Up to March 14. 414,278 had been brought home. • • • Increase of 42 to 44 per cent In coal prices since 1913 were reported In the March issue of the labor review of the bureau of labor statistics at Washington. A Washington dispatch says exports of foodstuffs from the United States to the allies, neutrals, Belgian relief. Red Cross and American expeditionary forces during the calendar year 1918 were 5,005,010,000 pounds. • • •

The war department at Washington announces that the strength of the American army on March 15 was 2,268,527, a decrease of 1,402,351 since the signing of the armistice. • • • • A Washington dispatch says claims for indemnity for all victims of the Lusitania have been included in the general claims of the United States for dafnage against Germany submitted to the peace conference. • • • The battleship North Dakota is the first warship of the dreadnaught class to go through the Panama canal. Governor Harding reported to the secretary of war at Washington that the North Dakota had passed across the isthmus without accident. • • • Minister Relnsch of Peking advised the state department at Washington that all was quiet at Tientsin, where there was trouble last week between American soldiers and Japanese. • • • The 4yar department at Washington reports the total number of casualties among the American forces up to the middle of March as follows: Killed in action, including 381 at sea, 81,835; died of wounds, 13,313; died of disease, 21,158; died of accident and other causes, 3,202; wounded in action, 191,726; missing in action, not including prisoners, released and returned to duty, 5,707; total to date, 267,001. * « •

Peace Notes The American delegation at Paris, It Is said, plans to accept a limited number of amendments to the league of nations covenant. • * * The commission on international labor legislation Held probably its last meeting at Paris when It reached an agreement on all points at issue. The American contention that each country should settle* its internal labor problems without invoking the power of the league of nations prevailed. ... The fortifications on the Island of Helgoland, Germany’s formidable base in the North sea, must be dismantled. This decision was reached by the supreme war council at Paris. Andrew Bonar Law told the house of commons In London there was no foundation for reports of a hitch .In the presentation to Germany of peace terms because of divergence on the league of nations. *«• • • A Paris dispatch says, although no final decision has. been reached, it is said, the present plan of a majority of the big five nations contemplates attaching the league of nations compact to the pea.ee treaty as an appendix. This would enable Germany to sign the treaty without securing admission to the league, although at the same time she would accept the declaratory principles. i * • • Foreign Greek troops have defeated the Russian bolshevikl at Kherson, northeast of Odessa, and advanced about ■ twelve according to an official announcement made by Greek headquarters at Salonikl. The Greeks captured prisoners and war material. . » * ♦ In the recent rioting at Cairo, Egypt, believed to be due to the nationalist agitation, six persons were killed and 31 wounded, according to a Cairo dispatch. • * * The establishment of wireless telephony between Ireland and Canada was announced by the Marconi company *at Condon. -r - ■ - , . z Jv’wt • •' * . T A bill abolishing the nobility of Bavaria was adopted at Munich, as also was a measure prohibiting the rights of Inheritance. ■

Five persona alleged to have made endeavors to carry on Hpartacan propaganda among civilians within the tone occupied by American troops have lieen arrested by American military authorities at Coblenz within the last few days. see A Paris disjiatch says the republic of Czecho-Slovakla plans to send a commission to- the United States In April to study American methods in Industry, social welfare and sanitation. • • • American troops In Siberia will be withdrawn in the spring. Secretary of War Baker declared nt Loa Angeles, Cal. The exact date is dependent upon weather conditions, he said. • • • • There are unconfirmed reports that a revolution of the menshevik, or moderate element of the Social Democratic party, against the soviet government has broken out in Petrograd, according to a German government wireless dispatch. • • • A Berlin dispatch says President Elbert ordered War Minister Noske to abolish the standing order for execution of all persons opposing the government by force of arms. • • • A Stockholm dispatch says fighting has been resumed against the bolshevik! alo'ng the entire Lithuanian front, according to an official statement issued at Lithuanian headquarters at Kovno. • • • European War News Lieut. W. Laidlaw, commander of five British gunboats on their way to Cologne, called ujion General Dickman at Coblenz. The squadron came across France by way of the Seine and Marne rivers. • • • British and French forces, according to reports received at Berlin, have their outposts from the limits of their present bridgeheads at Cologne and Mayence, respectively. • • • U.S. —Teutonic War News The men of the Third division of the American army who fought against the Germans on the Marne in the last great German drive were inspected, reviewed and presented with decorations by Gen. John J. Pershing at Coblenz. • • •

Personal , Kenyon Cox, noted artist, die rat his home in New York, aged sixty-two years. ’ • • • Domestic The Jacob Hoffman Brewing company of New York, bringing a test suit in the interest of the United States Brewers’ association, applied to the federal district court for an injunction restraining the collector of internal revenue and the United States district attorney from beginning any proceedings to interfere with its.contemplated production of beer of 2% per cent alcoholic content. • • • Returned and discharged soldiers at a meeting at Chicago organized a council of soldiers, sailors and marines, and adopted resolutions calling upon I’resident Wilson and members of congress to take immediate steps to relieve present unemployment. • • • Dr. Walter Keene Wilkins, aged six-ty-seven, was arrested at New York upon his arrival from Baltimore and was immediately locked up on a charge of homicide in connection with the death of his wife. • • • Demanding recognition of the union and shorter work' hours, 4,000 men’s garment workers ’of Cleveland, 0., went on strike. The workers paraded through the principal streets of the city. » '* * * More than 2,000 shoe workers employed in ten of Chicago’s largest shoe manufacturing plants went on strike over the question of a 44-hour working week. ♦ » * • Reports published by the Swiss press of revolutions in Spalate and Fium, are without foundation, it was announced by the Italian bureau of Information at New York.

• * * Ten'thousand acres of farm> land near Rome, 111., were Inundated when an Illinois river dike broke. Refusing to be vaccinated under an order of the state health board, 1,200 pupils and 20 teachers of the public schools at Peoria, 111., are out of school. • • * The Lager Beer Brewers’ Board of Trade of New York, representing 42 brewing concerns in New York and New Jersey, announced that on advice of counsel its members would resume at once sale of beer containing 2% per cent alcoholic content. ♦ r • Thirty-five parsons lost their lives in the storm that swept central and northern Mississippi, according to reports reaching Memphis, Tenn. The strike of 4,500 employees of the Public Service Railway company in northern New Jersey was formally called off. The terms were suggested by the war labor board. • • * Ruling on a test case originally brought in SloOx City, the lowa supreme court held the state antitipping law unconstitutional.