Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1919 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Washington Figures made public by tiie war department at Washington show that from the signing of the armistice to March 26. 1,535.471 of the 3,670,888 officers and men under arms when the war ended had been discharged from the service. • * • It is announced nt Washington that Secretary Baker will sail from New York next Monday on the transport Leviathan for France to attend meetings of the American liquidation commission and to direct winding up the affairs of the American army tn France. • • • The Supreme court at Washington recessed until April 14, when arguments in pending cases will be resumed. • • • European War News The Germans are concentrating large forces in eastern Prussia under command of Field Marshal von Hindenburg, according to the Parts edition of the New York Herald. The blockade of Germany has not been and will not be lifted for the present, Cecil Harmsworth, undersecretary for foreign affairs announced in the house of commons at London. •• • i Hungarian revolutionists fired on three English monitors when they arrived at Budapest from Belgrade, several English officers and men being killed, according to advices received here from the Hungarian capital. • • • A small force of French troops stationed in the neutral zone between Hungary and Roumania has been attacked by the Hungarian troops, 350 of the French being taken prisoner, according to an official report received at Paris. On demand of the French general, the release of the prisoners has been promised by the Hungarians. Greatly disturbed conditions are reported to exist in Hungary. • • • Foreign The Finnish government has resigned in consequence of its defeat at the recent election, it is announced in a dispatch received from Helsingfors. • • • King Albert of Belgium, who arrived at Paris from Brussels by airplane, pal'd a visit to President Wilson. • • • The censorship of press telegrams will be raised April 30, it was officially announced at London. ' % * • • e A Stockholm dispatch says the populations of the Lithuanian towns of Smnilichais, Trakal and Landvarva re ited against the bolshevik! on March 23. The bolshevik troops were disarmed and many of them killed.

* • * The government has decided to proclaim a state of siege in the Ruhr industrial district, according to a Berlin dispatch. Troops are advancing to this region to protect the plants gnd their workers from the terrorists. * * • Several hundred persons were killed In further rioting at Frankfort-on-the-Maln Tuesday, according to a Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company. The hotels were plundered. • * * The newspaper Veteherni Listy of Agram, Jugo Slavia, according to a wireless dispatch from Rome, announces that the dynasty of Kirrageorgevitch has been deposed and a republic proclaimed. * « • An official communication issued by the Esthonian army says the Esthonians captured the town of Pechery, in the Pskoff sector, and the town of Hutnash, on the eastern shore of the Gulf of Riga, about thirty miles south of Pernan. Both battles were won after hard fighting. ♦ * * The kaiser has turned socialist, according to The Hague correspondent of the London Dally Mall. American troops refused to co-op-erate with the Japanese In fighting the bolshevik! near Blagovestchensk, War Minister Tanaka declared In answering questions put in the Japanese house of representatives Wednesday, a Tokyo dispatch says. * * * A Paris dispatch says King Albert of Belgium flew in an airplane from Brussels to Paris. Communist troops invaded German West Hungary, but were repulsed after several conflicts with the inhabitants, according to a dispatch from Berlin. • • • Lieut. C. Rlpperger of Moline, 111., was killed at Riverside, Cal., when the airplane in which he was flying .over Marcd field A Berlin dispatch says the diplomatic agent of the German government at Budapest has advised Germans to leave Hungary.

A Johannesburg (South Africa) dl»patch says a settlement has been reached between the worker* and employers and the general strike haa been called off. The men will return to work. • • • The red flag which had been flying from the tower of the city hall at Hamburg since the revolution last Novembei has he#i hauled down. • • • The attempt to Introduce bolshevism into Poland by means of a general strike has ended in complete failure, according to information received from Warsaw. • • • A Budapest dispatch says the Hungarian government has sent a delegation to Berlin to conclude a treaty of alliance against the entente allies. German officers formerly belonging to Field Marshal Mackensen’s array have arrived in Budapest to reorganize the Hungarian army along German lines. The army now numbers 100,000 men. • • • A Peking dispatch say* many persons were killed ahd wounded during another antl-Japanese demonstration In Seoul, Koreu. Hundreds of persons were arrested by Japanese soldiers. The situation is serious. • • • A Bilbao dispatch says all the great towns of Spain are In the throes of serious strikes. Fearing for the safety of their countrymen in Spain, the British and American embassies called upon Premier Romanones and had a long conference on the situation. • • • Domestic “Big Bill” Haywood, secretary of the Industrial Workers of the World, and 35 of his comrades for whom attorneys pleaded in the United States circuit court of appeals at Chicago, will be allowed their freedom on bonds ranging from SI,OOO to $15,000, pending the decision of their appeal by the court. They are prisoners in Leavenworth penitentiary. • • • Four masked men held up the Ack-erman-Quigley company, Chicago, printers, and escaped with $.>,000, made up for the firm’s pay roll. They escaped in an automobile. • • • Troop K and Troop M, Eightieth cavalry, dashed more than sixty miles into Mexico, near Marfa, Tex., in pursuit of Mexican bandits. The Americans, overtaking the bandits, recovered all stolen American property after a battle in which five of the outlaws were killed. All the troops returned to the Texas side without casualties. • • • • What is believed to be the severest penalty imposed in Illinois for illicit liquor traffic was given Frank Barney for his third offense at Belvidere. He was sentenced to four years and two months in Jail and fined $5,000. • • • Fire in warehouses at Darlington, S. C., destroyed over 1,000 bales of cotton, and, with other damage caused losses -estimated at more than $250,000.

* • * William Hale Thompson was reelected mayor of Chicago by a plurality of 17,600 votes. The city went “wet" by a majority of 247,228. • * • Eugene V. Debs, Socialist leader, threatened at Akron, O„ to call a general strike of his party throughout the country on the day he starts serving his ten-year sentence under the espionage act. • • • A Washington dispatch says the United States troops which fought with the allies on the Italian front will begin to arrive In New York about April 10, and the entire command will be home probably before April 20. * ♦ * The appeal of the war department; for 50,000 men for overseas service was answered at New York by more than 500 applicants. This number is said to be a record for peace-time enlistments. * • • The last hope of the thirsty in Sangamon county, wherein is located Springfield, HI., expired when Divernon township changed from the wet to the dry column by a majority of 90. ♦ » • A Manchester dispatch says the employers and operatives In that region have decided to close all mills using American cotton for a full fortnight from April 10. • • • Dissolution of the Corn Products Refining company, which Is required to sell to competitors before 1921 all but three of its manufacturing plants, was ordered by Federal Judge Learned Hand at New York. ♦ * * Eugene V. Debs’ application 1 , for a rehearing of his appeal from conviction and sentence to ten years* Imprisonment for violating the espionage act was denied by the Supreme court at Washington. • • • . A phenomenon was recorded in Wisconsin when every city which is so far recorded as voting on the wet and dry Issue went wet. Madison, the state capital, and Superior, the second city in the state, returned to the wet column, after being dry. • « ♦ Ensign W. C. Schullipg, assigned to the Great Lakes naval training station, was arrested by Waukegan (Ill.) authorities as a “fence” for automobile thieves. He was held in default of $2,000 bonds, fixed by Justice of the Peace ,Taylor.