Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1919 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

JPeace Notes Newspaper reports crediting Salvatore Burzllal, a member of the Italian (Peace delegation who left Paris with Premier Orlando, with saying that he did not intend to return to Purls, are denied in a statement issued from the Italian delegation at Paris. • • • Ambassador Page telegraphed to Paris from Rome that he had gathered from Premier Orlando, In long conference that the premier did not intend to return to Paris for the signing of the peace treaty. • • • A Paris dispatch says it has been virtually decided that the first meeting of the league of nations shall be held in Washington next October. • • • A delegation from the French labor federation at Paris presented President Wilson an open letter signed by Secretary Laurent, expressing on behalf of French workers an unreserved Indorsement and an expression of admiration for the president's action relative to the Flume question, which, the letter says, was “directed against Imperialism and annexatlonlsm.” • • • At a plenary session of the peace conference at Paris the council of four presented the text of a peace treaty provision for the prosecution of former Emperor William by a court of five judges “for a supreme offense against International morality and the sanctity of treaties.” • • • Washington Official advices reaching Washington through a neutral source aald that the bolshevik leaders LetHne and Trotzky were seeking a refuse outside Russia, fearing a possible overthrow ■of the soviet government. • * • The breaking up of the great American army passed the halfway mark, the war department at Washington announced on April 24, when the total discharges reached 1,836,883. • • • Forty persons were lulled, many were Injured and heavy property damage done by an earthquake which occurred In San Salvador at 1 a. m. Monday, the state department at Washington was advised. • • • An official report from the surgeon general, Issued by the war department at Washington, gives the total number of deaths reported in the army during the war to date as 111,179. • • • Either Charles Evans Hughes or William Howard Taft will be the American Judge in the International tribunal to try the former kaiser, It is believed at Washington. • * • Former Speaker, Champ Clark, In a statement at Washington, Indorsed the league of nations covenant as finally adopted and said he believed the amendments made to the original covenant strengthened it. * » » Herbert H. Asquith, former premier. Is likely to succeed the earl of Reading as ambassador to the United States, according to the London Evenldg News. • * * Postmaster General Burleson at Washington Issued an order returning the American cable systems to their owners, effective at midnight May 10. ♦ » * Postmaster General Burleson at Washington has recommended to President Wilson that all telephone and telegraph lines be returned to their private owners as soon as congress can enact legislation deemed necessary. • • * Foreign Demonstrations in Rome in support of the government’s stand on the Adriatic question culminated in great mass meeting, convoked by Prince Colonna, the mayor, on the Capltollne hill. The assemblage adopted unanimously a resolution asking the annexation of all territory given to Italy by the treaty of London, and also Fiuiqe. • * « Six hundred arrests have been made by the soviet authorities at Budapest, virtually every financier, publisher, editor, writer, manufacturer and minister of Hungary who could be reached being thrown into prison. * * * * An Archangel dispatch says American and British troops at Kurgoman, on the right bank of the Dvina, repulsed a strong bolshevik attack, taking 13 prisoners. .I* * * A Berlin dispatch says: “This Is the life,” or guttural words to that effect, Is one of the pet songs of the Bavarian “red” army. Reason —privates get $7 a day. Officers receive $750 bonus on Joining the army and $250 monthly. Enlistment Is brisk. * * ♦ Foreign Minister Sonnlno, who left Paris Saturday afternoon, has arrived in Rome. He received an enthusiastic reception. In a speedh at. Genoa the foreign minister asserted that the government is determined to obtain what i» due Italy.

A Coblenz dispatch says the average uniform ration for the 7,000,000 inhabitants of the occupied areas of Germany will be 930 grams a day for each person, according to the decision of the interallied military commission for food supply for the civilian population on the left bank of the Rhine. In weight, this la an Increase of 80 grams a day over that provided by the German war regulations. • • • An Athens dispatch sayw a proclamation has been Issued in the Dodecanese by which it Is declared that the Islands have become united with Greece. Italy has laid claims to these Islands. e • • A Berne dispatch says because of the increasing difficulties of provisioning Switzerland with meat, the federal council has decided to forbid the eating of meat from May 5 to May 19, throughout the fiation. • • • The Case International at Vienna, a resort of food speculators was wrecked by a bomb, sixteen persons being Injured. • • • The monetary loss In Monday's great fire at Yokohama is estimated at 15,000,000 yen, or approxlmatedy $7,470,000 under the prewar rate of exchange. Thousands of people are homeless. • • • Lieut Alllngton Jolly of Chicago was killed when he fell 150 feet In the “bullet” machine of Dr. George W. Christmas, which he was testing at Freeport L. I. • • • Secretary of War Baker arrived at Brest from Paris and went on board the transport George Washington, which sailed Monday. « • • Personal Jarpes K. Lynch, head of the San Francisco federal reserve bank, died at San Francisco. • • • Domestic An armistice has brought hostilities In the Linton (Ind.) telephone strike to a close. Eight companies of militia that have been on strike duty will be demobilized. Girl operators of the New Home Telephone company, who struck for higher wages, shorter hours nnd recognition of their union, agreed to return to work for one week, pending arbitration of their demands. • • • More than 75,000 persons crowded Into the New York navy yard to witness the launching of the most powerful battleship ever built, the United States superdreadnaught Tennessee, a 82,000-ton monster which will cost $15,000,000 when completed. • • • Announcement was made at Kansas City of the organization of the Southwestern Grain Dealers’ league, the membership of which Is to be drawn from Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado and Nebraska. • • • Post office Inspectors at New York city reported the discovery there of 17 Infernal machines put Into the mall, addressed to prominent men, including many public officials. • • • Fire completely wiped out the east end of Brighton Beach at Coney Island, N. Y„ destroying property valued at $1,000,000. The Brighton baths, the giant coaster, said to be the largest In the world, and a score of other buildings were razed. • « • Mayor Smith of Omaha forbade the holding of an advertised meeting of Socialists and. I. W. W. Thursday night, at which an “internationQl labor day” program was to be given. • • » Farmers and grain elevator men are urged by the department of agriculture at Washington to make every possible provision for the safe storage and handling of the prospective huge wheat crop. • • • Fifteen miners, employees of the Majestic Coal Mining company near Birmingham, Ala., are believed dead, and fourteen have been rescued, badly burned. • * • One of the eight-militia companies at Linton. Ind., opened fire upon a mob of citizens collected around the telephone exchange, and Casey Jones, a workman, was shot In the head. William L. Woodrow, president of the Old Dominion Steamship company, committed suicide at his home at West Orange, N. J., by shooting himself in the head. Milwaukee brewers have quit. They will make no further efforts to fight the prohibition law, regardless of what contests New York brewers may Institute. • • * The transport Pretoria arrived at Boston from Brest with more than 2,100 officers and men, including Brigadier General Fassett, commander of the First army corps. • • \ A cargo of corn from Argentina is on its way to the Mississippi river to Clinton, la., in the heart of the American belt, where it is consigned to a starch manufacturing concern. The corn was bought and delivered by water to lowa, cheaper than the grain could be bought In the fields where it was .grown a few miles out of Clinton. Two armed robbers held up the brokerage office of Charles Fishback, dealer in Russian exchange at New York, and escaped with about $13,000 in cash and $7,000 in Liberty bonds.