Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1919 — WORLD'S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

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.