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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. In Belgium the Germans are rapidly bringing their forces to the coast. They have occupied Bruges, about fourteen miles cast of Ostein!, and have appeared at Biaukenberglie on the North seu, some twelve miles northeast of Ostend. In tun meantime, however, the allies have thrown a strong line out to the southwest with the object ot shutting oft Calais and other French ports on th; English channel. The allies occupy Ypres and their lines is believed to extend almost directly northward to Nieuwpoort. Practically all Belgium is now German. The German advance column which moved from Ghent took possession of Blankenbergne on Thursday morning. They met with practically no resistance and immediately proceeded towards Ostend. Regular traffic on the railroad lines in Germany has been suspended for the last four days. fl according to a Copenhagen dispatch, to allow tlw I transportation, as quickly as possible, to the west- J ern tleld of an army of freshly trained men. The French war office made the following official announcement: "The progress indicated in the communication of yesterday has been eonlirmed. On our left wing the field of action of the allied forces extends at the present time from the region of Ypres to the sea. In Russia, on the left bank of the Vistula river, the Russian troops during Oct. 13 repulsed the German attacks on Warsaw and Ivaugorod. A battle is going on south of Przemysl." A cable from Copenhagen says: "Important German reinforcements, especially artillery, have been sent to the west front. My informant, who has just returned here, met at Brendenburg twenty-eight trains of reinforcements in one hour, all packed with men and horses. He estimates the number of troops to be between 300,000 and 400,000." The steady hammering of the allies on the German left wing of the French battle front has brought them almost within cannon rauge of the forts at Metz. In spite ot this menace part of the German crown princes army hangs on doggedly to the iKisitions it has taken on tlio Meuse near St. Mlliiel. The German embassy at Washingon received the following official wireless report from Berlin: "Official headquarters reports that near Antwerp between 4.000 and 5,000 prisoners were taken, that among the war booty are 500 cannon, 4,000 tons of grain and plenty of wool, metal and cattle. The harbor works are damaged. The French attacks near Albert have been repulsed. The Russian advance in East Prussia has failed. The Russian attacks. with eight army corps from WaiiaW and Ivaugorod have been repulsed." The British cruiser Ilawke has been sunk ln the North Sea by a German submarine in another daring raid from the German coast. The news of this latest German naval triumph was given out by the Admiralty. Only fifty members of the crew of 400 of the Ilawke escaped. Three officers and fifty of he crew have been landed. The Ilawke and the Theseus, a sister cruiser of the same class, were on patrol duty when the attack was launched. The German submarine aimed a torpedo at the Theseus, but the missile missed and the cruiser escaped. The British admiraltys announcement did not give the exact location of the disaster nor th. time. The Ilawke was of 7.350 tons, and her ordinary complement was 554 men. She was built in 1S91. Ihe first encounter between the rebellious Boers and the loyalists in South Africa lias resulted in a victory for the latter. A force of South African native troops under the command of Colonel Britz, sent against the rebels, defeated a band of them and took seventy prisoners. An official announcement from Tokio says Japanese and British warships bombarded the litis and Huicliu.in forts at Tsingtau on Oct. 14 and that an aeroplane destroyed part of the batteries of the forts. In the fighting one British seaman was killed and two seamen were injured. A dispatch from Amsterdam says that fugitives who have arrived at the Dutch frontier declare that Ostend has fallen into the hands of the Germans. Petrograd reports that fighting between German and Russian troops is. going on within eight miles of Warsaw, Russian Poland. The governor of AVarsaw officially announced that it had leen decided not to surrender the eity without a fight. All the military chieftains of Mexico, including Francisco Villa, Emiliano Zapata and Venustlaiix Carranza, are now subject to the orders of the Aguas Callentes convention, which after a stormy secret session, voted itself the supreme power of the land. The delegates took oath to abide by the majority vote on all questions, including the form of government and presidential succession. The question of the kind of government that shall prevail will be decided at a session to be held October 20. when a full Zapata delegation, numbering twenty-two, will be present. Evident preparations on the part of a small detachment of men under General Agnilar for an attack early today on the American outposts around Vera Cruz, have resulted In the strengthening of the American lines. Some 200 Mexicans are in a position about half a mile from the American outposts-and they have two mountain guns trained on the -W American soldiers. Their warlike activity is attrlbu- ted in Vera Cruz to overindulgence in liquor oh- 1 tained at a house just beyond the American lines. 1 Agnilar Is credited with having from 4,000 to G.00O men. The plot to murder Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, was hatched in Belgrade, and a Servian officer, Maj. Tankosio, was chief enginei-r of the plan. The murder of tlu Duchess of Hohenberg, wife of Ferdinand, was not a part of the plot. . The foregoing facts were brought out by the testimony of two of the men accused of the murder which threw the leading powers of Europe into armed conflict. Colonel Goethals cabled the war department that traffic through the Panama canal, blocked by a landslip into Culebra cut Tuesday night, would be reopened in about a week. President Poincairo has signed a decree admitting fresh meat to France free of duty until further notice. The Italian foreign minister, Marquis Antonio di San Giuliano died yesterday.
