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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. "Provisional President Gutierrez will enter Mexico Citv today and be installed in the national palace there, according to oilicial telegrams to the state department at Washington. Villa is at Tacuba, a suburb of Mexico City, and it is believed he has conferred with Zapa-ta there. All reports to the state department indicate that the two chiefs are working in harmony iii support of Gutierrez. George C. Carothers, American consular agent with Villa, reported his arrival in Mexico City and will care for American interests with the Brazilian minister and Consul John R. Silliinan. Latest dispatches from Taihpico to the state department say the Car-ranza forces have re-occupied Pauuco, which had previously been in the hands or irresponsible bandits. The reports added that the Carranza garrison was maintaining order and had given guaranties to foreigners. President Wilson and Secretary McAdoo are considering a proposal made by certain individuals that the government loan them money enough to purchase the thirty or more merchant vessels belonging to the Hamburg-American line now interned in United States ports bceausu...of . the. .war. The proposition was submitted by Bernard Baker, of Baltimore", president of the Atlantic and Pacific Transport company. It is understood to have the sanction of Paul M. Warburg, member of the federal reserve board, who is the administrations expert on international commerce and finance. Gen. Carrnnzas determination to "end the present struggle by force of arms" was asserted in a te.e-gram from him made public by Raelael Znbaran Capmany, head of the Mexican Constitutionalist agency at Washington. The telegram denied the rumor that Gen. Blanco had been imprisoned, and sail further: "The report that Gen. Gonzales has declared himself president of the republic is untrue. Ho is at Pachuca witli part of his troops and remains steadfast in his loyalty to the first chief." John D. Rockefeller will waste no time in his 1 fight for relief from the tax assessment on 11,000,-000 against him at Cleveland, so Virgil P. Kline, his atfomev. announced. Within a few days Mr. Rockefeller will ask the federal court to enjoin the 1 collection of the tax. He will contend that the law was not meant to apply to such a case as his and 1 that if it was it is unconstitutional. Todav there are 1.U7S saving banks In the United States," in which 10,700,930 thrifty Americans have deposited ,727,403,950. It is a sum greater than 1 any other country in the world has on deposit, and it : exceeds the combined total that the French, the Austrians Italians, Japanese and British people have - on deposit in their communal, private, postal, corporate - and trustee savings batiKs. The National Security league, an organization , which will work toward causing a congressional investigation into the condition of the army, navy and I coast defenses of the United States as the first step in a proposed country-wide campaign to insure the enactment of national and state legislation necessary for maintaining national security, lias been organized 1 at New York. A large stock of lyddite exploded with a roar today - in a chemical works near Bradford, Eng. Six : men were killed and many others injured. Hundreds i of windows in Bradford and near-by villages were . broken. The people were in great alarm, some of f them believing that the noise was the roar of gnus of an invading German army. . Representative Gardner will discuss his movement c for congressional investigation of the military preparedness of the United States with President Wilson : Monday, accompanied by a small committee of 1 men interested in the subject. President Wilson, after discussing with Secretary Garrison the request of Governor Amnions, of Colorado, - that federal troops be withdrawn from some of C tlie Colorado strike districts, decided that nothing : should be done at this time. Another plea for uniforms of khaki and forestry green to replace the bullet-drawing white worn by j American seamen was made by Surgeon General Braisted of the navy in his annual report submitted 1 to Secretary Daniels. The Amoskeag Manufacturing company, which employs - 10,010 operatives in its textile mills at Manchester. - N. II., announced that it .would resume operations on a full time basis immediately. Foreign otlice dispatches to the Austro-Hungarlaii , embassy at Washington announce ratification of the renewal for five years of the arbitration treaty with I, the United States. Progressive party leaders representing about t thirty-four states in national conference at Chicago n yesterday voted to continue the party organization. The balance of trade in favor of this country for the eleven months ended with November Is approximately - .84,275,000. .More than 100,000 men were injured in American ,. mines last year, while 3,051 were ki led outright.
