Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1919 — WORLD'S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD'S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

•Krr OF THB NIWt DOILCD DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Nrtse Covering Mort Important Happenings of the World Complied In Briefest and Mort • wool net Ferm for Quick Cenoumptloa. U.S.—Teutonic War New J American troops to the number of 275,000 are returning to the United States from Europe during the present month, Newton D. Baker, secretary of war, said on his arrival In Harla from Brest. In May. he added, tile number will fall to 250,000 because of lack of transports, but In June the number probably will rise to 300,000, which will l>e maintained as the monthly rate until all of the 1,400,000 men still there are returned. Word has been received at Third aimy headquarters at Coblenz that Lieut. Gen. Hunter L. Liggett's First army will be dissolved on April 20. • • * Personal A Paris dispatch says Hugh S. Gibson, secretary of the American embassy In Paris, has been appointed as the first minister of the United States to Poland. • • • ' Robert 8. McCormick, former ambassador to Russia and France and the first ambassador of the United States to Austria-Hungary, died at his home in Hinsdale, 11L, from pneumonia, after a short Illness. Newton D. Baker and Warren, the nine-year-old son of General Pershing, arrived in Brest on board the American * transport Leviathan. General Pershing was at the quay. • • •

Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst, mother of William Randolph Hearst, died at her home, the Hacienda, Pleasanton, near San Francisco. "Mrs. Hearst was the widow of former Senator George Hearst of California, She was sev-enty-six years old. • • • Washington President Wilson Is not expected to coupler the subject of war-time prohibition until after peace is signed and “something is done regarding demobilization.” it was learned at Paris. • • • Viscount Ishii, Japanese ambassador to the United States, will return to Japan shortly “for a conference with his government,” it was stated tyithoritatively at Washington. Militant suffragists added their voice to demands for immediate calling of >an extra session of congress when they announced at Washington that they will picket the White House. A Washington dispatcn says the Victory Liberty loan to be offered to the public April 21 will consist of two classes of short-term' notes bearing 4% ■fend 3% per cent Interest, respectively, and issued in the total amount of $4,500,000,000. Foreign Complete anarchy reigns in Munich, according to a Copenhagen dispatch to the London Exchange Telegraph company. All work has ceased, trains are not running and robbers are looting houses and threatening the banks, the dispatch states. The First infantry regiment is said to have Joined the Spartacans.

Nikolai Lenine has telegraphed to Bela Kun, the Hungarian foreign commissary at Budapest, announcing that he will visit Budapest at the conclusion of the Hungarian elections and will preside over a new international communist congress. A London dispatch says Russian soviet troops, after heavy fighting, have compelled the Roumanians to begin a general retreat. Vice Admiral Moreau, governor of Brest, reviewed the American Fortysecond (Rainbow) division there and read a letter to the assembled troops from Premier Clemenceau, in which the achievements of the division were eulogized. ✓ * • • A London dispatch says the demands of the wireless operators on mercantile vessels for an increase in wages have been conceded and the strike notices have been withdrawn. ♦ ♦ * A retreat of ten, miles in the Murmansk region is admitted by the Russian soviet government in a wireless message received at London. * ♦ * A New York report that the British government had acquired control of the Cowdray oil Interests in Mexico is met with a denial issued by Reuters, Ltd. • * * The bolshevik forces on the Murmansk front have retreated from.the Urod district, a Moscow wireless message picked up at London admits.

A London dispatch says prompt measures taken by the Indian authorities to deal with the disturbances thut occurred at Bombay. Aiunedabad and other polnta recently have resulted In the restoration of order everywhere. • • • Many persona were killed or wounded in the center of Berlin during a colllatoa between troops and street vendors. The troops fired on the vendors. This district was strongly cordoned by the Alexander regiment with a view to supposing traffic*in stolen goods and the vendors forcibly opposed their removal. s • a Peace Notes The budget committee of the chamber of deputies at Paris unanimously adopted a resolution demanding that complete reimbursement for all damages due to the war be exacted of enemy countries, with priority for reparation claims. • • • \An agreement was reached at Paris by the associate!} powers to send food to Russia under neutral control. The agreement stipulates that the bolshevik! must cease hostilities. • • • President Wilson Intends to sail sos the United States April 27 or 28 after being present at the opening meeting of the peace congress ut Versailles, Echo Ae Paris says. After his departure E. M. House will act for him, the newspaper adds. ,• * • A Paris dispatch says one hundred billion gold marks ($25,000,000,000) is the amount Germany must pay the allies and associated governments for losses and damage caused tn the war, plus other billions to be determined by a special commission on which Germany is to be represented. • • • A statement by President Wilson at Paris in behalf of the Council of Four says the questions of peace are so near complete solution that they will be quickly and finally drafted. The announcement was contained in an official bulletin, whlsti added that the German plenipotentiaries had been invited to meet at Versailles on April 25. • •

Domestic One thousand pigeons with war records formed a unique part of the cargo of steamer Ohioan, arriving at New York. They were message-bear-ers of pigeon company No. 1, attached to General Pershing's headquarters, and had carried word through the smoke and fire of battle on several American fronts.’ • * • Lifting of the federal government’s restriction against the use of private cable codes by American business firms, to take effect April 18, was announced here by the Central and South American Cable company at New York. • • • Stephen county is the first county in Indiana and possibly in the entire United States to “go over the top” in Hie Victory Liberty loan. Its quota of $356,000 has been subscribed. A Pikeville (Ky.) dispatch says persons believed to be moonshiners ambushed a party of four Internal revenue officers near the Virginia state line, shot and probably fatally wounded Deputy C. C. Smith of Louisville and slightly wounded Deputy A. J. Potter of Pikeville. • « • Transports will be operated in and out of New York harbor “if it requires the entire United States navy,” it was stated officially at Washington in connection with plans of harbor workers to start a strike, with the announced Intention of tying up traffic completely. ! • • •

Daniel C. Roper, commissioner of Internal revenue, believes that congress will pass an enabling act for the enforcement of war-time prohibition, effective July 1, acocrdlng to a statement made at Louisville, Ky. * *- *, Rear Admiral Sims, who commanded the American fleet dprlng its wartime activities In European waters, said in a speech at New York that he believeij there were “205 German submarines at the bottom of the sea.” ♦ * * A Millen (Ga.) dispatch says seven fatalities were reported in race riots at Buckhead Church. • • • Sixty American elm trees were planted in Central park, NeW York, as a memorial to the city’s heroic dead of the army, navy and marine corps. • • • Heavy hogs brought s2l a hundred pounds at Kansas City, Mo., when Brown & Gant of Jamesport, Mo., disposed of two carloads at that figure. • • • On the transport Plattsburg, the first of a number of soldier-carrying ships to arrive at New York Monday were 47 English wives and five babies of American soldiers and sailors. The army claimed 37 of the brides. • * * The French liner Rochambeau and the American transport Floridian arrived at New York with 2,461 troops. • ♦ • Four American missionaries in Seoul, Capital of Korea, have been arrested by the Japanese in connection with the Korean revolution, according to Information received at San Francisco. • * • Two bandits held up the messenger of the Bank of California at San' Francisco and fobbed him of $34,000 In currency.