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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Off tlie Chilean coast Sunday evening a squadron of live German warships, under command of Admiral Graf von Snee, met a British tlotilla of four ships, sunk one, set tire to another, badly damaged a third, and, due to darkness, was unable to prevent the escape of the fourth. The Gneiscnau. Scliarnhorst, Nurnberg, Leipsic, and Dresden, which have been scouring the seas for merchantmen belonging to the allied nations, formed a junction when they learned the British warships were pursuing them. The rival warships ihet oil Caronel on Sunday just before dusk. For half an hour the rival squadrons fought. The German marksmanship wis deadly, and the cruiser Monmouth, with all cn board, went down. The cruiser Good Hope was badly damaged and get oh Are, but is reported to have escaped. The cruiser Glasgow, which was partially wrecked, took refuge in Caronel harbor and is now bottled up with the cruiser Otranto, which also escaped. None of the German warships was damaged and only two men were wounded. The British submarine D-5 was sunk iii the North sea by a mine thrown out by a German cruiser retreating before British cruisers. Two officers and two men of the sixty on board were saved. The reiwrt is being circulated at Dover, Eng.. that the German North sea tleet has come out from its base. It is also reported from Dunkirk that four battleships and four cruisers have put to sea from Kiel. A dispatch from Sofia says Turkish warships have simk the Russian battleship Sinop. The Japanese navy department says it is believed that the Germans at Tsingtau have sunk the Austrian cruiser Kaiserin Elizabeth, to prevent her capture by the Japanese. The cruiser took refuge in that harbor soon after Japan declared war on Germany. It Is also, thought the Germans have destroyed the floating docks. A fleet of German warships lias gathered olT the Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea, northeast of Stockholm and opposite the entrance to the Gulf of Finland. They evidently were proceeding north, and have stopped to await orders. Bulgarias entrance into the war as an ally of Germany and Austria Is foreshadowed by advices that railroad communication between the Bulsar kingdom and Servia has been broken off. Bulgarian troos are reported to be already uimhi the Servian frontier ready to invade Serb territory. The Germans resumed their bombardment of Reims with great violence on Sunday and Monday. The secretary of the British admiralty announces that an Anglo-French fleet bombarded the Dardanelles forts Tuesday morning. The forts replied, but no ships were hit. The damage to the forts cannot be estimated, but a great explosion was heard at the Holies fort. Reports reaching Berlin from Athens declare that 15,000 Turkish troops already are in Egypt, and that the Turkish soldiers marching against Russia are alleged to number 300,000. News received at London from the eastern areua of war indicates that the Russian right wing, which rests on the frontier of East Prussia, 1ms been sus tabling determined attacks from the Germans. Servia lias severed diplomatic relations with Turkey. The ambassador at Constantinople has asked for his passorts and will leave for his home country immediately. An official communication given out at German army headquarters is as follows "Our attacks on Ypres, to the north or Arras and to the east of Soissons, are progressing slowly, but successfully. South of Verduu and In the Vosges French attacks have been repulsed. In the eastern arena of the war there have been no material developments." The French war office gave out an official announcement as follows: "On our left wing to the north the situation shows no change as compared to yesterday. The enemy has drawn back on the right bank of the Yser. We have recaptured Lonibaertzydo. The Germans occupy on the left bank of the Yser nothing more than the head of a bridge, half way between Dixmude and Nieiw port. They have abandoned, in addition to prisoners and wouiiiled men, a considerable quantity of war material, including pieces of artillery which were held immovable in the mud. Between Dixmude and the Lys the lighting has continued with alternate advances and withdrawals, but with the general result that the allied forces have made perceptible progress. Between the Lys and the region of Arras there lias been cannonading and minor engagements. Between the region of Arras and the Olse we have made an advance to the east of Le Quesuoy-En-Snnterre, as far as the heights of Par-villers." Tuesdays elections throughout the United States were marked by the return or the Republican party to power in many of the states and the dwindling of the Progressive party vote to small proportions. The indications are that the Democratic party has gained slightly in the senate, but lost to such an extent in the lower house of congress that its control hangs by a slender margin. Prohibition was an issue in Ohio. Colorado, Arizona, California. Oregon and Washington and appears to have been beaten in all. with the iossible exception of Colorado. Returns are fragmentary, however. The female suffrage movement received setbacks in Ohio; Nebraska, Missouri, Nevada, Montana and the Dakotns, according to indications. Returns from every section of the coutry indicate that the Progressives, who cast a larger vote than the Republicans in 1012, has been absorbed in large part by that party. In almost every case there was a decisive falling off in the Progressive vote, with the conspicuous exception of California, which has re-elected Hiram Johnson, its Progressive governor. Advices from Aguas Calientes, where the Mexican peace convention Is being held, say General Villa has begun moving his forces south. A vanguard of cavalry regiments is now on its way toward the city of Leon, where a large force of Carranza followers is supposed to be under th.2 command of General Pablo Gonzalez. It is explained that the move is not for the purpose jf making an attack, but is a protective measure to insure the guarding of the railway. The British government has notified the American State Department that the cargo of the steamship Kroonland lias been removed at Gibraltar, and that the steamer will be allowed to proceed. The copper will go to a prize court for adjudication.
