Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1920 — WORLD'S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD'S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Notes Covering Most Important Happenings of the World Compiled In Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. Washington The murder of three American relief workers in Syria was reported to the state department at Washington. The Americans were part of a convoy for American relief supplies and were killed by brigands on February 1. see Sale of the former German passenger liners seized at the outbreak of the war was forced op the shipping board by the operation of the national prohibition law. Chairman Payne told President Wilson at Washington. • * * Half 8,000 American soldiers in Siberia have been withdrawn. The war department at Washington announced that on January 27 there remained 271 officers, 4,910 enlisted men and 500 civilian welfare workers. / ♦ * * In the last five months the total public debt has shown a decrease of about $930,000,000 and the floating debt about $730,000,000, Secretary Houston announced at Washington. e e e Beginning Memorial day, an Amerl- ' flag will fly American graves

in France, the war department ar 'Washington announced. * » * • The heavy demand for pennies, nickels and dimes is keeping Uncle Sam's money mills running at top speed. Director of the Mint Baker at Washington reports an unprecedented demand for pennies. • ♦ • President Wilson contracted a cold at Washington several days ago, and had a narrow escape from influeiiza, his physician. Doctor Grayson, said. The Russian bolshevik army has been put to work, according to a press report of a decree issued by Lenine January 15, received by the state department at Washington. » * • The death rate in the United States for 1918 was the highest on record, according to the Washington census bureau’s annual mortality statistics, which shows 1,471,867 deaths for the year. • • e Approximately 940 warships. Including 16 dreadnaughts, 13 pre-dread-naughts, 8 armored* cruisers and 17 light cruisers, will be the peace-time strength of the American navy after July 1, the house naval committee at Washington was told by Rear Admiral Taylor, chief of the bureau of construction and repair.

• .♦ e Approximately 5,000 acres of public land on the Shoshone (Wyo.) Irrigation project will be opened to entry March 13, Secretary Lane announced. • • * Enumeration of the nation’s industries, including manufacturing plants, mines, quarries, oil and gas wells, forestry and forest products, will start March 1, It was announced by Sam L. Bogers, director of the census at Washington. _ _ Foreign Peaiianta at Ribera, province'of W

I ganti, lying to the south of Palermo, . attacked the residence of the duke Of Blvona, disarmed the soldiers, • ed a carbineer and invaded the ducal palace and sacked It. The duke was compelled to sign a paper ceding his land to the peasants. A wireless dispatch from Odessa reports a great victory of the Russiah volunteer army over the bolshevik forces, which have been driven back over the Don. The volunteers captured 60 guns, 150 machine guns and 8,000 prisoners. * t • Miners in the” Ruhr district have abandoned their fight for a six-hour day and are returning to work on a seven-hour basis, according to the Berlin Gazette. The list of Germans accused by the allies of war crimes and whose extradition is to be demanded is headed by former Crown Prince Frederick William and several other sons of the former German emperor. The total number of names on the list Is about 900, says a Paris dispatch. • • • A slashing slump in foreign exchange and a fall in stocks were the sensational features on the New York market. The English pound fell to 3.33, the French franc to 14.60, the Italian lire to 17.52, the lowest recorded figures in these foreign moneys. • • • Russian soviet cavalry commanded by General Dumenko ha'S forded the rivers In the Manych valley of the lower Don region and captured 5,00 C prisoners after a two-day battle, the red forces then continuing to advance, says a Moscow communication. The British government, it is stated by the London Evening Standard, has taken steps to reduce the paper money in circulation by $100,000,000. • • • Measures to prevent undue absorption of German properties through foreign capital are provided in a bill now before the Prussian national council at Berlin.

• • • Serious rioting occurred at Limerick, according to a dispatch to the London Star. The military fired on the crowd of demonstrators and one man was killed. • • • Gabriele d’Annunzio, Italian insurgent leader at Flume, has seized the torpedo boat Orsini and the auxiliary ship Cltta dl Roma, bound from Ancona to Pola with munitions and foodstuffs for tile Italian naval forces. • • • A Coblenz dispatch says the rate of exchange for the pay of American soldiers in the occupied territory has been fixed at 100 marks to the dollar, giving the doughboys 3,000 marks monthly. « • • The only sure cure of the influenza exists at the famous Pasteur institute at Paris, where doctors are now perfecting a vaccine called ‘‘type B,” whicii is expected definitely to rid the world of influenza epidemics. * • • Fifty rebels were killed and 25 taken prisoner at Oaxaca, in the Mexican state of that name, when a rebel band, commanded by Albino Carrillo, a former federal officer, attacked that city.

• * • When the new municipal council at Dublin, composed mostly of Sinn Feiners, met for the first time, it was greeted with the greatest enthusiasm by huge crowds as the flag of the republic was hoisted. • » • Concentration of large numbers of bolshevist troops north of the Duna river has been prevented by attacks by Polish units, acording to an official statement issued by the war office at Warsaw.