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GENERAL NEWS NOTES or THE PAY The destruction of tin British steamer Falaba by a German submarine causing the death of Loon C Thresher an American citizen born in Hardwick Mass brings the United States face to face with the gravest question yet presented to it by the European war If the circumstances of ti sinking of tho Falaba by it torpedo and the killing of more than 100 passengers are correctly reported in tlie dispatches they constitute from tho viewpoint of tho United States a violation nf the law of nations The United States will seek to determine the responsibilty for the sacrifice of the life of tiic American Thresher and to obtain redress therefor thereforKing King George has added his plea to that of tho ship owners ind in some cases that of the labor lies thcnselvo Ilia I sumo vigoniiN measures IH adopted tik cope wild the question of driinkeniuBis In England which it is urged is delaying the de ¬ livery of munitions of war The king has volun ¬ teered if it is considered advisable to give up the use of all alcoholic liquors and to issue an order against their use in the royal household householdTaking Taking fulxJintage of an apparent weakness in tlie German lines west of Warsaw the Slavs huve delivered swift smashes against General Mackenspns forces along a fifty mile front from the Vistula tf Oi oznr Almost hourly since Tuesday morninrr fresh Russian battalions have hurlod themselves on the Gorman trenches and reports indicat gains at several points according to reports from Petrosrad PetrosradThe The British cruiser Bristol has captured and laken to the Falkland islands the Norwegian steamer liangor which sailed from Baltimore Fob I and arrived at Miiitvhlo Maivh for KIMIKH Alrpft It U charged Hint tin Itangor ha vlo la led neutrality by carrying cml ami provisions destined for the German auxiliary cruiser ICron prlnz Wilhelm
