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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. The fourteenth day of the battle of West Flanders, which is being fought over an area hardly greater than a good sized farm in the state i Iowa, found the allies holding their ground to the west of the Yser and the Germans apparently briiigiug up more reinforcements to repeat their furious attempts to break through and reach the coast of, France. All dispatdhes seem to admit that there was a temporary lull in the lighting between Nieuport and Ypres. but the reports are far from unanimous as to whether this was due to an armistice to bury the dead and remove the wounded, which must thickly cover the Held, or whether it was caused by the exhaustion of the contending forces or the German lack of ammunition. Tile pause in the German attacks on the left wing of the allies, where the Germans have fought furiously in their efforts to march oil the French ports of Dunkerque and Calais, is considered to be ortly momentary. Reliable reports are to the effect that heavy reinforcements are on their way and that when the Germau lines are strengthened by these forces, said to aggregate more than 200,000 men, the. fighting will go on with renewed fierceness. The reinforcements, it is said, have been drawn from all the other battle lines, both in the east and in the west, as the result of the order of Emperor William that the French ports must be taken at all costs. The French official announce-, meiit given out in Paris follows: "During yesterday we made progress at several points along the Hue of battle, but particularly around Ypres, and to the south of Arras. There is nothing new on the front between Nieuport and Dixmude. Between the Aisnc and the Argonue we took possession of :muc trenches occupied by the enemy, and not one of the partial attacks undertaken by the Germans resulted successfully. We advanced also in the forest of Apreuiont." It is estimated that Germany has a quarter of a million men fighting for the road to Calais and probably another hundred thousand on the way to reinforce them. The British embassy at Tokio hears that the German cruiser Kmden, Hying a Japanese llag and disguised by the addition of a fourth smokestack, entered Penang, a British iossessIon in the Straits Settlement, ad fired torpedoes which sank the Russian cruiser Jemtcling and a French destroyer. The Emdens entrance into the waters of Penang - was audacious. She came under the guns of. the fort and after sinking the cruiser and the destroyer escaped through the Strait of -Malacca. Merchant vessels belonging to the belligerent nations are taking refuge at Colombo. Ceylon. Tlie German and Austrian troops in Poland, according to an official nunouueement issued In Berlin today, have been forced to withdraw before fresh Russian forces advancing from Ivangorod, Warsaw and Novogeor-gievsk after having repulsed all former Russian attacks. The Berlin Tageblatt says the total German casualties recorded iu the first fifty lists is more than a quarter million. The dead number :J0,C-il, including 2..Wr officers, the wounded 159,105 and the missing 55.522. This total does not include latest returns. German papers contain a fifty-sixth list. The number of Austrian prisoners taken by Hie Russian army and sent to Kiev military prisons now exceeds 100.000, Pntrograd announces. The Russians have transported an immense army across the Vistula on pontoons and deployed It aloug the entire front. The French minister of finance, in authorizing the opening of a special treasury account covering advances to foreign governments, revealed that France has already loaned 2TQ.000,000 francs to Belgium, 00,000.000 francs to Servia. and half a million francs to Montenegro. Great Britain has 1,500,000 men under arms in the , United Kingdom. Of these SOO.OOO belong to "Kitcheners nrmv." while 000,000 are on the territorial rolls. The following official statement was issued in London regarding, the rebellion in the Union of South Africa: "Gen. Botha reports that he lert Rustenburg a district in the wet part of the Transvaal Colony on Tuesday morning and proceeded iu the direction iu which Gen. Christian Bevcrs and bis commando were supposed to be. He came in touch with Gen. Beyers men in the forenoon and drove them in headlong rout the-whole of the day and captured eighty of them fully armed. When the report was made the pur- suit was still in progress." All the Austrians and Germans, except those of Slavish, French, or Italian nationality, have been ordered to leave Petrograd within a fortnight. President Poincare has left Bordeaux for Paris, where he will join Minister of War Millerand for a visit to the front. It is also expected that he will go to Havre to pay his respects to the Belgian government. Some of the ships sunk in the port of Antwerp by the troops of the allies have been raised and the river is navigable again. The Antwerp government has invited bids for the raising of the rest of the sunken ships. The Swedish steamer Ornen. from Portugal for Gothenburg, Sweden, hit a mine Monday in the North sea and sank off Cuxhaven. Five members of her crew were drowned. The British and Russian governments have agreed to a mutually- advantageous exchange of combatant and technical forces, the details of which will be announced later. The British government, after having consulted its allies aud neutral powers, has decided to disregard the declaration of London of 1009 This means the cancelation of permission for reservists of belligerent nations to travel unmolested in neutral ships. All the entrances to Cuxhaven. by land and by sea, have been closed by imperial command. .No civilians, are allowed in the vicinity of the harlior. which is crowded with floating batteries, Zeppelins and submarines. Representatives of four copper companies in New York have protested to the state department at Washington that two Italian steamers, tlie San Giovanni and the Regina dltalni, carrying several thousand tons of American copper to Italian ports, had been detained by the British authorities at Gibraltar. In making public the telegram of protest seat to Secretary Bryan, representatives of the four copper companies announced that they had also received advices of the seizure by British authorities of the steamship Prosper III., for Malmoe, Sweden, and the steamship Ascot, for Genoa, both carrying copper. At Sarajevo judgment was passed on the assassins oi Archduke Francis Ferdlnaud, heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne, -.and his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg. GavrioPrinzip, the actual assassin, escaped with a sentence to imprisonment for twenty years. Four of the conspirators were sentenced to death by hanging, one to life imprisonment two to twenty years, one to sixteen years, one to thirteen vears, two to ten years, one to seven vears, and two t6 three years. Tlie other defendants were acquitted. The rising of a portion of the garrison at Jalapa in behalf of Villa was checked, but only after the loss of 180 killed and wounded, according to estimates received by the American authorities at Vera Cruz. Jalapa is the capital of the state of Jalapa and is fifty-live miles northwest of Vera Cruz. The disaster at the mine of the Fraklin Coal and Coke company at Ruyalton, 111., iu which at least iiftv men lost their lives, was due to an explosion that resulted when a miners lamp came in contact with a pocket of gas that had been noted the night before by a mine examiner and marked dangerous. Gen. Carranza has issued a manifesto in which he gives the full history of differences between the constitutionalist government of Mexico and the division of the north and especially its commander. Francisco Villa. Carranza predicts bloody strife if Villa is permitted to rebel. A serious revolutionary outbreak has occurred In Port uu Prince as a result of the landing there of Charles .amor, a brother of the president of the republic. There was shooting in the streets cf the city and the members of the ministry have taken refuge in tlie foreign consulates. it is now expected that tlie interstate commerce commission will deny the request of railroads in eastern trunk line territory, for a 5 per cent horizontal increase in freight rates.
