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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY An official announcement given out In Berlin say a i that the German attacks in Flanders are progress- i 1ug slowly, but tliat in the Argomie the Germans i hav3e obtained further important successes. Tho I statement further says: The lighting in the east continues. Yesterday our troops, operating in East Prussia, repulsed the enemy in the region south of . Stallnpoenen. Troops from West Trussla success- , fully resisted the avauce of Kussian forces at Sol- , dau, and after a successful battle at Lipno, drove them back in the direction of Ilock. Strong Russian forces are advancing along the right bank of 1 the Vistula river. In this lighting we made ."00 prisoners and captured ten machine guns up to yes- ! terday. A decision has been arrived at in the bat-tln which has been going on for the last few days in continuation of our successes at Wloelawek. in Kussian Poland on the Vistula, thirty miles northwest of Plock, where several Russian army corps In opposition to us were driven back beyond Kutuo. According to the present reports we made 2:5.000 prisoners and captured over twenty machine guns, as well as some cannon, the number of which lias not yet been ascertained." The following official communication was issued from Russian headquarters: "On the East Prussian front, at Stalluponeii. around Angerburg and near Johannishurg, our troops are making successful progress in the lighting. The action continues in tho region of Soldau and Ileidenburg, where we have progressed, notwithstanding the desperate resistance of the enemy. On the left bank of the Vistula the battle proceeds, developing along a front from Plock to the river Warta, in Russian Poland. On the front between Kalisz and Wlelun the enemy has withdrawn. In the neighborhood of Czenstoxhowa and towards the south the enemy has attempted an offensive, but this lias failed. Our march on Cracow continues. In Galicia the Austrian are seeking to organize a defense on the San river, in the Dounaietz region, west of the front battle proceeds, developing along a front comprising Zabuo and Tarnow, and on the Wisioka oil the Jasle front. In the region to the south of the Galieian front our troops are advancing towards the passes across the Carpathians." A raging blizzard and Hoods are sweeping th.j battlefield in West Flanders, where the allies and the Germans are engaged in their mighty struggle for mastery. Heavv rains, coupled witli the waters released bv the dike cutting oicrutions of the Ilelgiaus. have inundated more than 1,200 square miles of lowlviug country north and south of tho Yscr river and the Yser canal. It is reported that the Hoods have cut off a iKjrtion of the Germau nrmv around Dixmude, which place is now officially admitted bv the allies to be in the hands of the inVaders. One of the most spectacular features of this gigantic battle is a series of artillery duels being fought over the Hooded area of Belgium. Heavy guns, mantled by French and Germans, arc tiring at each other across this great inland sea. The cold weather, which adds its rigors to the terror of battle, has increased the suffering among the soldiers until the limit of endurance seems near at hand. The French official announcement says that on Snndav along the ser canal, between Nieuport and Dlxurudc, the lighting was limited to artillery exchanges. The Germans, who endeavored to cross thi Yser canal, between Dixmude and Bixschoote, were driven back and a German regimeut was destroyed south of Bixschoote. according to the statement. Two German attacks near Ypres were repulsed and the French have taken the offensive and driven the enemy from positions taken by them several days ago. On the remainder of the line there have been artillery exchanges and engagements of relatively minor importance. The following official statement of the Austrian operations against the Servians was issued: "The Austrian invasion of Servia has been checked northwest of Valtevo. owing to the resistance offered by the Servians and the muddy roads, which are making tile transportation of artillery impossible. Austrian advance guards have gained ground between the Save and the Driua. The Servians are concentrated at Valievo in strongly fortitied positions, which the Austriaus are attacking, aided by Hanking fire from three monitors on the Save." Wiuston Silencer Churchill, first lord of the ad-miraltv, nnuouueed in the house of commons that he had everv reason to believe the British battleship Canopus was safe. There has been anxiety concerning this vessel, as nothing had been heard of her since the admiralty announced that she had been ordered to join the squadron in the PaciUc Under Bear Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock previous to the engagement off the Chilean coast, in y which "the cruisers Good Hope and Monmouth were lost. ; Premier Asquith stated in the house of commons vesterdav that the war already was costing Great-Britain from SU.5C0.000 to ,000,000 daily. The greatest single demand ever made upon the material resources of Great Britain as voiced by Premier Asquith,. when he moved an additional credit for war purposes of ,120,000,000, which, in addition to the millions already voted in August, is equivalent to an increase of more than ."0 per cent in the national debt. Tlie London Daily Mails Petrograd correspondent warns the British people of the enormous task still facing the allies and declares that England will need all the troops that it is possible for her to raise. The correspondent points out that it will take months for the Russians to reach Berlin, saying that even if the Germans are driven from the positions ther now are holding they can fall hack on equally strong lines of defenses they have prepared. Speaking in the house of commons. Reginald Me Kouiia, home secretary, save the information that 14,500 alien enemies of Great Britain are interned in concentration camps in the British Isles. These are in addition to the prisoners taken in action and the men removed from the merchant ships of the eneniv. Mr. McKenna added that there were about 29.000 alien enemies still at large in England. The pope caused to lie published his announced encyclical urging peace among the warring nations of Europe. In this document the iiontiff attributes the war to four causes lael: of mutual and sincere love among men, contempt of authority, injustice on the part of one class of the people against another and the consideration of material welfare as the sole object of human activity. A dispatch from Vienna gives the following Austrian official communication: "The defense of Przemvs! is being conducted with the same activity as during the lirst siege. A strong sortie on tho north side of the fortress forced back the enemy to the heights of Rokietnica. with small Austrian losses. In the Carpathians sjKiradic attacks by hostile detachments were easily repulsed." A dispatch to the London Daily Mail says the Germans are concentrating great armies at Thorn. Poscii and Breslau and plan to light desperately to prevent the Russian occupation of the important parts of Silesia and Posen. Only the utmost need will persuade the Germans to send any troops hack to the western front at present. The British house of commons, by a unanimous vote, sanctioned the new vote of credit of ,125,000. 000 and the new army of 1,000.000 men requested bv Premier Asquith. The supplementary estimate which was submitted by the war office stated that a million more soldiers would bring Englands total or all ranks to 2,180.-100 men. The secretary of the British admiralty announces the success of operations against the Turkish garrison at Sheikh-Said on the Strait of Bab-El-Mau-ileb, at the entrance of the Gulf of Aden, and of the occupation of the Turkish fort at Turba by Indian troops assisted by-the- British cruiser Duk-of Edinburgh. A vessel at Honolulu reports sighting the Japanese battleship Hizen, of 12.700 tons, and armored cruiser Azaina. 8,750 tons. 500 miles southeast of there steaming apparently toward the coast of Chile to join other warships of the allies in a search for the German cruisers in those waters. Lord Roberts, retired field marshal and hero of several Britisli wars, died on the battlefield iu France. He contracted a cold and developed pneumonia, from which he died. He was born in 1S32 at Cawiioore. India, the son of a famed Indian lighter. Gen. Sir Abraham Roberts, G. C. B. A dispatch from Berlin says that the Austrian general staff has ordered an offensive movement with ail possible force against the Servians in the. hope of ending the Balkan phase of the war before winter sets In and so releasing further Austrian-trooos for service against the Russians. Field Marshall Potiorek. commander of the Austrian troops operating in the southern war theater, reported under date of Sunday that the Servians first line of defense west of Valjevo has been successfully stormed by his troops and that the Servians have retreated to their second line. According to information give officially to the press In- the German war office, reports reaching Berlin from Geneva set forth that the Britisli tor-iK-do boat destroyer Falcon, the cruiser. Brilliant and the sloop of war Rinaldo have lKen disabled by German guns on the Belgian coast. Dispatches from Cuislantinople describe the promulgation or the holy war as arousing great enthu-. slii Hiii. Huge processions paraded the streets in jubilant spirits and made sympathetic demontra-t!ons -before" the "German and Austrian embassies. dispatches from Constantinople set forth that i i i I . , , 1 ! the British seaport of Aden, iu Arabia, at the southern entrance to the Red Sea. is in danger because tlie leader of the local Bedouins is calling on his people to rise against the British. According to reports from Constantinople the khedive ot Egypt will leave the Turkish capital soon to assume command of the Turkish operations against Egypt. He will be accompanied by a suite of titty persons. An official Turkish bulletin, made public in Berlin, reports further successful Ottoman operations against the Russians, who, it is asserted, suffered severe losses In men, ammunition and provisions. The Chilean hospital ship, Valdivia, has arrived at Taloahuana and reports that she has found neither survivors nor wreckage of the British cruisers sunk by the Germans off tlie Chilean coast. Tlie Britisli authorities are adopting stringent measures to prevent the leakage of military news to Germany. Charing Crors station has been closed for continental traffic until further notice. A statcmeut given out by the Russian army staff in the Caucasus, dated at Tittis. announces the retirement of the Russian advance guard in the legion of Koprukcui, east of Erzerum. French warships bombarded Foggia Nova Phokial and Devebournos, Turkish towns, ou tlie coast of Asia Minor, northwest of Smyrna, on Sunday. Both towns were set on fire. Advices received from Turkish sources report that several Britisli vessels have been sunk at Basrah, iu the Persian Gulf, by Turkish river boats. General Obregon, who is in command at Mexico City, lias received a dispatch from Cordoba saying that General Carranza had made an offer to General Eulalio Guiterrez to turn over the military forces to General Gonzales and leave, for Havana to arrive there not later than Nov. 25". if General Francisco Villa would turn over his command to General Guiterrez and be in Havana the same date. The Aguas Calientes convention must meet iu Mexico City the day Generals Villa and Carranza arrive in Havaua, according to General Carranzas offer. The convention in .Mexico City then Ujust ratify the election of General Guiterrez or choose another provisional president who would hold power until the calling of general elections.. lf Nov. 30 these conditions are not met General Carranza, according to General Obregon, will resume power as first chief of the constitutionalists. Hostilities between the warring factons in Mexico have ceased, pending the outcome of further peace parleys, according to a dispatch from American Consul Sillimau in Mexico City. Eulalio Gutierrez formally notified the United States of his assumption of power as provisional president of Mexico and guaranteed protection for Americans and all other foreigners. Two communications from. Gutierrez were laid before President Wilson. The formal notification of his assumption of office added tliat he soon would set up his government in Mexico City and seel; to bring about peace. Tlie other, guaranteeing protection for foreigners, made no request for recognition by the United States. Westminster abbey has been offered as . a burial place for Field Marshal Earl Roberts, subject to the usual condition that the body must be cremated. Lady Roberts, it is announced, Is unable to accept the offer. Tlie body of the distinguished soldier will be transferred to England in a few days. It is understood that Earl Roberts wished to ho buried at All Saints church at Ascot, near his home. A definite announcement regarding the burial place is expected shortly. More than ,000,000 worth of dyestuffs frpm Germany was brought into New York by the American steamer Matanzas. The cargo was taken from Germany by rail to Rotterdam, where it was1 received by the Matanzas. The arrival bf tlie; material will result iu a renewal of .activity in branches of the textile industry, and the consequent employment of a large number of operatives who have been idle. Severe winter weather has reached England. Snow a foot deep is reported from: Bakewcll, county of Derby. Tlie highways are blocked and. -snow-plows are being used. The mountain roads in North Wales are impassable owing to the- blizzard, , .which has drifted the snow. Reserve banks were opened yesterday at- New York, Chicago, Philadelphia. Bostoil, Cleveland, Richmond. Atlanta, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Dallas. Kansas City and San Francisco. These institutions are designed to lie banks for bankers. , Secretary of State Bryan announced yesterdayAfi at he had received official infbruiatlou-thiit Genbrar Carrapza is ready to retire in favor of Senor Gutierrez, recently named provisional president of. Mexico. It was announced in the Greek chamber of deputies that Great Britain had advanced the Greek .government ,000,000 to pay for warships jfor Greece to be constructed iu English shipyards. Total collections of tolls for passage through the Panama canal from the date of Its opening : to Nov. 1 amount to 40,792. The cost of thd: cabal to date is over 33,000,000. With 0,000 cattle, 15.000 hogs and 1S,000 sheen on hand, the Chicago Union Stcckyards were ire-opened yesterday. Phoenix. Arizona, had a disastrous fire in the business section.
