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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. The battle along the Aisue continues without decisive result. Au official Uerlin statement says: The hostile forces advancing to the north and south of Albert a town of France eighteen miles northeast of Amiens have been repulsed. The front battle line is without news. In Argoune our attack is progressing steadily, though slowly. At the outer forts on the Meuse the line is without change. Tuesday the enemy advanced in Alsace and Lorraine, in the central Vosges. His attacks were energetically repulsed. Tho eastern theater is without news." Surrender of the Antwerp forts and the Belgian army has been demanded by the Germans. King Albert has rejected the demand and the bombardment of the southern forts has been resumed. The Germans, are pouriug a rain of shells upon Forts Waelhem. Lierre and Wavre-Ste. Catherine from big guns stationed ten miles away. The German infantry is also attacking the Belgian army. The town of Lierre has been tired in several places. Heavy damage has been done to the fort at Waelhem, but it is officially stated that all the forts are still holding out. Seventy thousand Indian troops are reported to have reinforced the allied armies in France and are now taking part iu the battle of the Aisue. The Indian soldiers who were taken to the Avar zone through the port of Marseilles, comprise the flower of the forces of the Uritish Empires great colonial possession. Four gigantic battles and two fort bombardments, involving fully 0,000.000 men. are in progress in tho eastern theater of war. At no point has there been any decisive result, and it will be several days before the fighting will reach a crisis. A severe engagement, has been opened by the German . warships, which .cannonaded the Japanese positions near Tsingtao, east of the government of Khwchow. the German leased territory in China. Two officeis were killed. German aeroplanes assisted the warships. The Japanese war office announces that an artillery duel at Tsingtao continues. Archduke Frederick of Austria, couimander-in-chief of the Austrian army, has issued a proclamation to the troops in which he claims that the Russian offensive is breaking down. Work on the Vienna fortifications is being hastened. Russia announces that her forces continue to sweep through Galicia. The Hungarians claim to have recaptured the Vzsok pass in the Carpathians.. The Uritish cruiser Cumberland captured a Hamburg-American liner and nine German merchantmen olf the West African coast. The following official communication was given out at Paris: "There, has been no uioditica-tion in the general situation. We have, nevertheless, made progress on our left, to the north of the Somme. aud on our right, iu the southern Wocvre district." The Kosmos steamer Marie arrived at Callao with the crew nf the Uritish Steamer Bank-fields, which was sunk by the German cruiser Lciii-slg. off the Peruvian coast. According to dispatches received at London, within a week a new Russian army. 1.000,000 strong, will join the present primes in Poland and Galicia for "Russias principal attack on Gennanv," When this army is mobilized it will mean a force of 3,000,000 men to invade Germany. The Uritish government, notified the state department at Washington that Great Britain would not interfere with shipments of foodstuffs from the United States to the Netherlands. Democrats of the senate subcommittee on finance voted to sidStitute for the tax of two cents a gallon on gafoliiie in the war revenue bill, a tax on owners of twenty-live cents, per horsppower .u automobiles and per horsejiower on automobile sales by manufacturers. For the first half of the fiscal year, ending yes-terdav. the Uritish natioual revenue amounted ap-proxlinatelv to SO,000.000. a decrease of 3,500.-000 as compared with last year, while the expenditures aggregated 1914.sh70.000,000. showing an increase of nearly 30,000,000 due to the war. A suspension of hostilities nnd all troop movements was agreed upon yesterday at the preliminary conference held at Aguas Calientes between committees appointed by Generals Carranza and Villa. Alaskas mineral output last year had a valiie of 0,413,094. Of this .amount the gold production was valued at 5, 020, SI. J. Onlv 22.0C0 aliens entered New York In Septenir ber -lis against 10S.504 hi. the corresponding month of 1013. Villas force? nrp reported, 3 lJive attacked
