Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1919 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

Personal Sidney t>rew, actor on the legitimate stage and famous as a movie star, died at his home in New York. • • • A man whose merchandising dreams produced many millions died near New York. Frank W. Woolworth, originator of the 5 and 10-cent stores, who was 111 for several months, passed away at his home tn Glen Cove, L. L, at the age of sixty-six years. • • • Peace Notes The responsibility of the German emperor for the war and the means for bringing him to trial by one of th<w allied governments, probably Belgium, have been definitely determined upon by the council of four at Purls, • • • The principle of proportionate representation was adopted as the foun-, datlon for electoral- reforms in the chamber of deputies at Paris, when a motion to that effect was carried by a vote of 235 to 201, • • • "Peace by Easter or bust" Is the current slogan at Paris, meaning that the allies must agree and summon the German delegates by April 20. Two weeks more are required for putting together and revising the eqtire treaty. • • * Foreign A Salonlkl dispatch says Bulgarian troops have been sent to Strumnltza to suppress an uprising of Irrldentist Greeks, • * • Thirty United States submarine chasers left Lisbon for Gibraltar. The Italian steamer Duca Degll Abruzzi sailed from Genoa for New York with 800 military members of the American Red Cross and 500 Italian reservists on board, says a Genoa message received at Paris. • • • The advance guard of the new British relief expedition into northern Russia sailed from Tilbury Tuesday night, the London Star stated. The troops are going to the Archangel front. • * • Storage sheds of the American Red Cross were among the food depots pillaged by armed crowds in Nuremberg, according to dispatches received at Basle. Goods to the value of $175,000 are said to*have been taken from various food depots. • • • .The cable message giving directions for the steamer George* Washington to be sent to France wfts held up in London for two days for "some unaccountable reason,” it was announced in American quarters at Paris. • • • A Berlin dispatch says a “state of war” exists in Nuremberg, northern BaA-aria, according to placards posted there. Parades and demonstrations are forbidden there and the public is forbidden to be on the streets between 11 p. m. and 5 a. m. « * * The Spartacans of Magdeburg, capital of Prussian Saxony, have occupied the railway, telegraph and post offices there, an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen reports. In the attack on the police headquarters a very large pumber of persons are said to have been killed or wounded. j|r ♦ » At a meeting of returned soldiers held in the exhibition grounds at Brisbane, Australia, 10,000 volunteers were enrolled as an army tosfight disloyalty. * * * , Premier Lloyd George is confined to his Paris home with a severe chill. ♦ * * Six hundred Irish-American soldiers arrived at Dublin from Holyhead. It was their first opportunity to visit Ireland during the war. ♦ • ♦ The German national government will not recognize the new soviet republic of Bavaria, a semi-official press bureau message received from Berlin declares. • • • Lieut. Jean Pierre Fontan started on a flight Tuesday to Casablanca, Morocco, from which town he will proceed to Dakar, In the French colony of Senegal, with the intention of attempting a flight across the Atlantic. « • • In disturbances in Delhi in the last few days eight persons were killed and twelve injured, a dispatch from Reuter’s correspondent at the Indian capital says. The city is now quiet. • • • H&'T Landsberg, minister of justice In the) national German government, Was arrested at Magdeburg, the capital Of Prussian Saxony, by members of regiments stationed there, a Magdeburg dispatch reports. General Kleist, In command of the Fourth army, and bis staff also were arrested. • • * The first hospital train conveying Invalid German prisoners from France to Germany by way of Switzerland panted Berne. Three thousand such Germans will, be transported in the •ext four days.

King Albert, returning from a conference with the allied peace delegatee tn Paris, arrived tn Brussels by airplane, according to advices at London. A Warsaw dispatch says 83 bolshevtats were executed at Pinsk, on the eastern frontier of Poland. Saturday, charged with plotting to overpower the weakened garrison and aelse the city. • • • The Ukrainian soviet troops have captured Odessa, according to advices from Kiev, tranamlttcd by wireless from Moscow under date of April 7. • • • The prince of Wales made a flight In an airplane over London. The trip lasted an hour. • • • A Paris dispatch says Thomas Nelson Page has sent his resignation as American ambassador to Italy to President Wilson, but as yet no action has been taken In the matter. • • • On the dispersal of the grand fleet Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty hauled down his flag as commander in chief. All the London newspapers published articles on the historic occasion. • • • Rioting has occurred at Delhi, making necessary Intervention by government tyoops, who charged into the rioting mobs, according to a Bombay dispatch. • • • "There is widespread agitation In Constantinople that If any country be given the mandatory of Turkey it must be the United States," says the Lon don Pall Mall Gazette. A Santiago, Chile, dispatch aayn Lieutenant Cortinez, in a British airplane, flew over the Andes mountains at a height of 18,000 feet Domestic Eighty-two lives was the toll of a storm which swept north Texas, southern Oklahoma and a section of Arkansas, according to reports received at Dallas, Tex. Many points still are Isolated and the number of fatalities may be increased when full details are available, as the tornado swept through thickly settled farming communities, A Chicago special says the United States government was permanently enjoined from fixing telephone rates tn Illinois. Returns received from every section of Michigan, while unofficial, show the state has voted to remain dry. Most of the counties of the state voted three to one against the wine and beer amendment to the constitution.

• • • Vice Admiral William S. Sims, who directed American war-time operations In European waters and who arrived in London two years ago. arrived at New York on the British liner Mauretania. The first of the three navy flying boats entered for the flight across the Atlantic Is scheduled to leave the air station at Rockaway, near New York, April 1. A nonstop flight will be attempted. Deportation of 40 men serving sentence in the federal prison nt Leavenworth, Including 12 of the 37 members of the I. W. W. recently admitted to bail pending rehearing of their cases, is called for in warrants served by an immigration official. • * • The heaviest snowstorm of the season swept over this section, says a Deadwood (S. D.) dispatch. Two and one-half feet of snow had fallen up to noon, tying up train traffic. • • • The vanguard of Admiral Mayo’s fleet arrived nt New York when the destroyers Ammen, Beale, Barrows, Drayton, Paulding and Terry, from southern waters, passed in nt quarantlne. ♦ ♦ * Washington Patients in army hospitals March 31 totaled 56,979. O? these 38,214 have been brought from overseas, the war department at Washington announced. ♦ ♦ * The largest crop of winter wheat ever grown was forecast for this year by the department of agriculture at Washington, basing its estimate on conditions existing April 1. The enormous yield of 837,000,000 bushels was announced. Large numbers of drafted men who have been looking forward to early demobilization are doomed to disappointment. Many are to be kept in service for the full period allowed by law, which is four months after peace has been declared. The war department at Washington desires to keep these men in service until a satisfactory number of enlistments have been obtained under the general staff plan of increasing the regular army, to 500,000-men. • * • A Washington dispatch says 5,000,000 Americans will pay Income taxes this year. , This is nearly two million more than last year. More than 10,000<000 persons will pay federal taxes of all kinds under the collections now being made. On April 1, the war department at Washington announced, the aggregate strength of the American army was 2,055,718, excluding the 17,73 a marines with the expeditionary forces. This total shows a net decrease of 44 per cent from November 11 last.