Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1919 — Page 4

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WORLD'S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

•WEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. Arranged for busy people kiotaa Covering Moat Important Happenings of the World Compiled in Briefest and Moat Succinct Ferm for Quick Conaumption. Peace Notes The new high consistory of peace pt Paris has abandoned the plan of making immediate separate |>eace with Germany and substituted the project £f a general peace Including Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey. This would deEay the arrival of the enemy delegates it Versailles until about May 1, but it dll hasten the final conclusion of a general peace. . • • • An American amendment to protect [nations against the influx of foreign Dabor was adopted by the league of mations commission at Paris. It affirms nhe right of any country in the league [to control such matters as solely with[ln domestic Jurisdiction. Reports have reached the peace conference at Paris that interallied troops [will be landed at Spalato, on the Dalima tian coast, because of disorders Fthere and for fear graver troubles may ®rlse. • • • Washington

Prof. Philip Brown and Capt. Nicholas Roosevelt, American members of ■the Interallied mission in Budapest, have succeeded ip leaving the Hungarian capital in safety, ft was announced by the state department at Washington. * • • The state department at Washington was advised that the body of Oscar 'Wallace, an American citizen, who recently was kidnaped by Mexican bandits, had been found near Progreso, Coahuila. • • • There are 373,038 unemployed tn the United States. This is but a reduction of 1,792 over last week, according |to the reports made public by the States employment service at Washington. Cleveland with 60,000, (Detroit 22,500 and Buffalo 20,000 are the three cities reporting the greatest number out of work. • • • Foreign The Czecho-Slovak army which is Invading Hungary to stamp out the bolshevist uprising there has captured the Hungarian rail center of Raab, cutting communication between Vienna and Budapest, according to dispatches reaching London.

♦ * • A Cairo dispatch says the official reports of the riots in Egypt show that 2,000 houses in villages were sacked. On March 14 several British soldiers were murdered and a mob sacked and burned the stations at Ei-Rekkah and El-Wasta. On March 15 the express from Cairo was pillaged and several trains were sacked. * * * A Geneva dispatch says: From the headquarters of the Egyptian party In Switzerland large sums of German bolshevik money are being sent regularly to Egypt to spread the revolt there. t ♦ ♦ ♦ A Dublin dispatch says Father O’Flannagan of Roscommon, vice president of the Sinn Fein society, has been notified that the British office has declined to issue passports for him to proceed to America. • * « Defending the military service bill In the house of commons at London, Winston Spencer Churchill, secretary for war, declared that the whole of Egypt was in a virtual state of insurrection. ♦ • • Former Emperor Charles and his family have arrived in Switzerland. They will reside at the Chateau Mantegavtaed, near Rorschach, on Lake Constance. « • « Martial law was proclaimed at Madrid and constitutional guarantees have been suspended throughout Spain because of labor disturbances. • • * During February more than 113,000 persons, or about 11 per cent of the entire population, died in Petrograd, according to Russian police statistics just received in Paris. * * * The railway between Cairo and Alexandria, which had been cut owing to the Egyptian disorders, has been restored, It was announced in the house of commons at London. * • * , A Stockholm dispatch says Germany la to receive through the Swedish Red Cross; with the consent of the associated powers, 200,000 barrels of salted herring from Sweden. The cargo is already on the way- to Germany. * * * A Cairo (Egypt) dispatch says polliteal disturbances in Egypt continue. Nearly all railroad traffic has had to be suspended. Armed mobs have been burning railway stations and tearing up tracks. Ten thousand students, took part in the demonstration, shouting •Wive Wilson,” “Vive Egypt.” 7

The American steamer West Carnlfnx, carrying 6,000 tons of flour and 1,500 tons of other foodstuffs, has arrived at Hamburg. • • • For the first time since November. 1915, the dollar Is quoted above par in Norway. Consul General Letcher at Christiania reports to Washington. • • • A Copenhagen dispatch says In a report the German finance minister places war damages In Germany at 4,500,000,000 marks (11,125,000,000). • • • The troops of the Kolchak government, which pierced the bolshevik front on a 30-mlle sector March 11, continued their progress and the position of the bolshevik! Is precarious, according to a despatch from Omsk. The bolshevik! are abandoning large quantities of stores, while the Kolchak troops have taken a large number of prisoners and annihilated three bolshevik regiments. • • * The government at Madrid lias issued a decree establishing an eighthour day in the building trades there. • * • Boris Savlnkoff, acting minister of war In the Kerensky cabinet, deciares tn an interview given at Paris that 300,000 Russians are ready to fight against the bolshevlkl, but lack arms and equipment. • • • The Prussian national assembly has voted unanimously against the relinquishment, of any of the Rhine territory, especially the Sarre basin, according to German dispatches reaching Paris. • • • The new Hungarian communist government lias arrested Dr. Alexander Wekerle, former premier and finance minister, a dispatch from Budapest says. • • • Six bolshevist regiments on the northern Don front have been driven over the Donetz river by the Don Cossacks, according to an undated dispatch from Ekaterinodar. • • • President Wilson has postponed his trkp to Belgium until after the preliminary peace is signed, it was announced at Brussels. • • • A Czecho-Slovak army has been sent against Hungary, according to an official report received in Vienna and forwarded to Copenhagen. • • • A Vienna dispatch says it is learned from the Ukraine that negotiations have begun between Ukraine and Russian bolshevik delegates for the settlement of differences. • • • United States Supreme Court Justice Brandeis was proposed at London as the first president of Palestine by Israel Zangwill, the noted Hebrew author. • • •

Domestic Governor Lowden of Illinois signed the Hughes bill giving sailors and soldiers the right to vote in the April election, provided they were in military service 30 days prior to the election. * • • There are 900,(KM) gallons of whisky In the northern Illinois Internal revenue district, 1,400,000 gallons of wine, 125,000,000 cigars and 250.000,000 cigarettes, says a Chicago dispatch. Two men held up the lowm State bank in the heart of the businesf' district at Des Moines, la., shortly before 9 a. tn., and escaped with more than S2O,(MM) in cash. • • * United States warships Supply, Solace, Palmer and Allegheny arrived at Kingston, Jamaica, from Guantanamo to take on supplies. ♦ ♦ ♦

Heinrich von Eckhardt, former German minister to Mexico, to whom was sent the famous Zimmermann note in which Germany proposed an alliance with Mexico and Japan in case the United States entered the war, arrived at New York from Mexico City on his way to Germany. •* ♦ . The superdreadnaught Idaho, the largest fighting ship afloat, went into commission at Philadelphia as part of the United States navy. The Idaho’s crew of 1,407 stood at attention during the transfer of the fighter from the company to the navy. * * * Gen. Joaquin Amaro defeated a strong force believed to have been under command of Villa and Angeles at San Andres de Los Chacones. * • * European War News General Rosso, who was In command of a part of the Italian line along the Isonzo river in October, 1917; w'hen the great German-Austrian attack was launched, has been acquitted by a court-martial at Rome of a charge of having abandoned his position too soon before the enemy attack. This was the first trial arising from the Caporetto disaster. * • * A Zurich dispatch says the Bavarian minister of foreign affairs has informed the German government that Bavaria will disarm her soldiers and henceforth will not furnish troops for the empire. * * * U.S. —Teutonic War News Word was received at the hpadquarters of General Dickman at Coblenz, Germany, from general headquarters that the duchy of Luxemburg Will be included April 1 in the area under the control of the American Thlrd z army.

THE TWICE-A-W EEK DEMOCRAT

OVERHAUL THE LEAGUE ARTICLE

Major Problems Remain Undecided; Important Points Not Even Discussed. GUARDS DOCTRINE OF MONROE American Preaident Said to Be SafeI guarding Famous Policy With Amendment to Be Offered at the Proper Time. Paris. March 28.—Though the league of nations covenant now has been completely overhauled and partly recast, three major problems remain undecided which have not even been discussed nt the redrafting sessions of the league commission. The problems are: 1. The Monroe doctrine, for which President Wilson reserved a safeguarding amendment without actually offering one. 2. The racial equality clause, which the Japanese still have “up their sleeves,” but which they refrained from offering at the commission meeting. 3. The French pro|>osnl for a league of nations military staff, which would prepare plans, and which, the French hope, would act more quickly than the league Itself in the event of another invasion. The revised covenant now is in the hands of a redrafting committee which will Incorporate the adopted changes in suitable form. Thus modified, the draft will be subject to ratification by the full commission.

Amendments, whether expressly reserved or not, may arise at any future meeting, and the last chance to Introduce changes will not come until the covenant is submitted to the ratification of an open plenary session of the peace conference. Concession to Opposition. The greatest concession to the American Republican opposition is seen in the Insertion of an absolute clause affirming that all member shall have the right to withdraw from the league whenever they consider this to serve their respective national Interests. In the course of the debate on this clause, President Wilson told the committee that as far as the United States was concerned, it would not withdraw unlesA its reasons for withdrawing were sufficiently Justified in the eyes of the entire civilized world. The representatives of the majority of other nations made similar statements. What President Wilson has in mind with regard to the Monroe doctrine is a mystery. Whatever amendment he may offer will not be Introduced under that name, because it is regarded as too indefinite and subject to too many varied interpretations. Nor is It known exactly what the Japanese will offer in connection with the race-discrimination question. Here are the main decisions of the league commission which the redrafting committee will embody in the covenant :

1. Women may hold any office in the league. The proposal, made by Lord Robert Cecil, was unanimously and enthusiastically adopted without discussion. 2. Colonel House and Messrs Orlando, Smuts and Maklno were appointed to select a “capital” for the league. It may be said in parenthesis that judging from the composition of this committee Geneva, Switzerland, has the best chances to become the seat of the league. This committee will prepare the peg on which the league may hang its hat, and will, indeed, give the league a habitation before it has been legally ratified. It will select a building and even collect furniture and prepare stationery and the physical machinery for the league’s workings. Neutral for Secretary?

An important “job” in the league will be that of secretary, which means an executive officer. Probably a citizen of some neutral nation will be selected for this position, though no names have yet been mentioned. 3. It will be definitely stated in the covenant that no ipember nation can be forced to take a mandate for one or more colonies. This was implied by the original draft, but is now to be specifically stated. 4. A special group of clauses w ill be added referring to labor, commerce, traffic in war material, white slavery and drugs, explicit conventions regarding which will be left for future elaboration. It is perhaps worth mentioning that •nothing is said about prohibition. 5. Member nations desiring to withdraw must give two years’ notice. This is designed to forestall possible wars arising over the “secession of members.” When the drafting committee has finished its work the new covenant probably will be published so it may again be thoroughly discussed by the whole wojnd. But whatever happens, it is absolutely certain that the phrasing of the covenant will not delay the drafting of the treaty of peace. That, too, goes on apace under the new pub lie and bolshevist pressure. The reason why the “big four” didn’t get together and do before Christmas what they are doing now is that the allies were no more ready for peace than they were for war. In fact, peace came about a- year sooner than it had been really expected. Not Cause for Delay. \ London, March 28,—“1t is quite' un-

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MANGIN TO CURB REDS

Foch Aid to Restore Order in Hungary. • French General Recalled From Command to Undertake Special Mission in East. Paris, March 28.—General Mangin, one of the leading officers of the French army, will be recalled from his command at Mayence, the newspapers announce, to undertake a mission, the character and scope of which “is Indicated plainly by the events in Hungary.” According to the Gaulos, he would receive a very Important command tn eastern Europe, undoubtedly the Balkans, with a view to possible operations on the Hungarian frontier and southwestern Russia. Gen. J. M. G. Malleterre, the military critic, in an article fn the Matin apparently reflecting military opinion, suggests that as a means of checking the bolshevlkl and rendering definite the victory of the allies, allied armies should march through Germany and effect a junction with Poland. General Malleterre adds that the allies must finish the job by a thunderstroke, and declares that the sword of Marshal Foch is not yet Sheathed. General Mangin is one of the best offensive leaders produced in the French army during the war. It was the troops of Mangin’s Third army who stopped the enemy on the Solssons sector in the critical days after the beginning of the German offensive July 15, and it was the French, American and British troops under his command who began the allied counteroffensive which ended in the armistice November 11.

A great military campaign against Poland Is to be opened by the Russian soviet government this spring, it was declared by M. Joffe, the former bolslfevik ambassador at Berlin, at a recent meeting in Vilna, according to word received by the Polish national d>mmittee in Paris. The central executive committee of the soviet government, the Polish committee also has been informed, has voted unanimously an appropriation of $13,500,000 monthly for bolshevik propaganda in Poland.

true that the league of nations project hog been the cause of delay in the general work of the conference,” says the Paris correspondent of the Dally Chronicle. He continued: “Jt seems to» have been thought across the Atlantic that there was a stiff-necked objection to amending the covenant in a way to meet the criticism recently mooted in America. Except the need for rapN progress and the fact that the first draft was less faulty than some of its critics affected to believe, there is no ground for this Idea. “I have no doubt that the principle of the Monroe doctrine will be protected, although an appropriate form of words has not yet been drafted, and Americans here are optimistic as to the reception of the final text.”

ORGANIZE HUNGARIAN SOVIETS

Government Decree Places Factories In Hands of Workers. Copenhagen, March 28. —A Budapest dispatch received here outlines a decree issued by the new revolutionary government which places all Industrial enterprises employing more than twenty workers under the control of the workers themselves. The decree also (provides that these establishments are to be under the management of commissaries appointed by the ministry of social production. The government has issued an order making work compulsory.

GEN. ALLENBY NOW IN EGYPT

Conqueror of Palestine Takes Ckarge of Turbulent Province.* Cairo, March 28. —Gen. E. H. H. Allenby, the conqueror of Palestine, who recently was appointed high commissioner for Egypt and the Soudan, ha® arrived here from Paris.

MATINEE MUSICALE PROGRAM

To be given Bunday, March 20. at 2:30 p. «« at the Christian church. The public la moat cordially Invited. From the Cradle to the Grave Interpretative paper • • Mrs. Arthur H. Hopkins Quartet —’’Sleep, Little Baby of Mine,” Denee Mrs. Loren Sage, Miss Lenore Carr, Miss Maude Daugherty, Miss Catherine Watson. Organ "Berceuse,” Clarence DickensonMrs. M. D. Gwin Youth—" Little Boy Blue," Field —NevinMrs. George Reed Piano —"Praeludium,” Arne Oidberg. Scherzando —"I Stood Tip-Toe Upon a Little Hill," Carl Beecher.. . Miss Florence Allman The Soldier —"Marche. Triumphale,’’ Kroeger .. . , Miss Linnie Bird Raines, Miss Lenore Carr. Organ—" Liberty March," Frysinger... Miss Rosabel Daugherty The Lover —" ’Tls May, Love,” De Koven Miss Marjorie Loughridge Old Age—“ The Day Is Done” (Evening Song), Spross "Requiemi,” Homer Mrs. E. J. Randle'

FLAYERS OF AMERICAN TAKEN

State Department Asks Mexico to Insure Proper Punishment. Washington, March 28. —Three men are under arrest at Progreso, Mexico, charged with the murder of Oscar Wallace, the American, who was killed by bandits at the Hacienda Encinas. The state department received word of the arrests and Acting Secretary Phillips said representations had been made to the Mexican government to insure proper punishment.

GERMAN REDS ARE ACTIVE

General Von Luttwitz Warns of New Spartacan Outbreak. Berlin, March 28.—Alleged secret orders of General von Luttwitz to his regimental commanders informing them that the Spartacans are planting a new revolution for the purpose of introducing the soviet system not only among the troops, but among the rlvtl population, are printed by the radical newspaper Republlk.

DEMOCRACY.

War Secretary Baker said at a luncheon tn Washington: “Ours will be the most democratic army in the world, for ours is the most democratic country. "A millionaire, as he climbed into his limousine, snarled at a newsboy: “ ‘No, I don't want any paper! Get out.’ “ ’Well, keep yer shirt on, boss,' the newsboy answered. "The only difference between you and me is that you’re makin’ your second million, while I’m still workin’ on my first.’ ’’ — Washington Post.

What Was Wrong.

Woman Engineer —There's something wrong with this engine. Foreman of Car Shops —Impossible. It was all right when it left the shop this morning. Woman Engineer —Well there is. I haven't caught a cow with the cowcatcher yet. Maybe the thing isn’t baited properly. —Judge.

They Swear It Happened.

Little Jimmie —Say, pa, do those pages in the legislature have to take an oath of office? \ Jimmie’s Pa —No, my son; why do you ask? Little Jimmie —Well, one of ’em did; you ought to heard him when he stubbed his toe the other day.

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