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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY The German official report of yesterday on tho progress of hostilities as received from Berlin is as follows The fighting between the Mouse and the Moselle continued yesterday In the plain of the Woevre east and southeast of Verdun all French attacks failed In the Comhrcs hills forces of tho enemy which have at certain points pene ¬ trated into our outer trenches were driven back by a counter attack Battalions of tho enemy which advanced against our positions from the wood of Selouze north of St Mihiel were driven back into the forest with heavy losses Bitter fighting at short range is again going on iu the forest of Ailly In the forest west of Apremout our troops are in pursuit of the enemy who made an unsuccessful attack Their attacks on posi ¬ tions north of Flirey as well as two evening attacks west of the Lo Prctre forest broke down under our fire and they suffered heavy losses Three French advances in the night iu the Lo Pretre forest failed The total of French losses along the entire front again has been extraord ¬ inarily heavy without their gaining even the slightest Success An aeroplane of the enemy coining from Paris was forced to descend in the vicinity of Rcthcl The pilot said that no news concerning the French losses in the Champagne fighting liad been given out in Paris The fight ¬ ing at IlartmannsAVeilerkopf continues continuesThe The French war oliice yesterday afternoon gave out a report on the progress of tin lighting as follows In Belgium the day was marked by artillery engagements In the valley of the Aisnc and the district east of Helms our efforts in spite of the abnormally bad weather continued with great activity and we have maintained our gains between the Mouse and the Moselle in their en ¬ tirety while at the same time wo are proceed ¬ ing to make further progress In tiio Prulo forest we captured a German trench at the same time making a large uumlMr of prisoners on this sec ¬ tion of the front This was reported last nght The rains of the last fow days have soaked through tho clay soil of the Woevre to a great depth rendering ditlicult the movements of artillery and preventing tho explosion of shells Our troips hare consolidated the progress made on tho previous day We maintain all our advance in spite of counter attacks of extraordinary violence At Los Eparges especially the last Gorman counter at ¬ tack was carried out by a regiment and a half and was completely repulsed The enemy suffered enormous losses Bodies covered the field Three hundred men who momentarily wort able to ad ¬ vance from the German position wen mowed down by our machine guns Not one of them escaped escapedAn An earnest of the promised emancipation of Poland is to be found in a law just promulgated granting local municipal selfgovernment to all towns in Poland Of equal interest with the law itself is the care shown in its provisions to give a fair measure of representation to the Jewish population For the lirst time under the new law Polish committees enjoy a measure of selfgov ¬ ernment equal to that enjoyed by Russian in ¬ corporated town and districts All correspondence with state departments as also with public bodies or private persons outside Poland and replies to letters addressed to municipal authorities in Russia must IKJ iu Russian Municipal placards and public notices must lie in both languages in parallel columns Debate in public assemblies may IK in either language Minutes must be in both languages languagesThe The United States will have a big surplus or wheat again tho coming year to ship abroad i the present conditions are maintained until harvest The government report just issued showed an April 1 condition of 8SS or a little higher con ¬ dition than last December on an acreage sown of 412lh000 acres indicating a crop estimated from tilO000000 to Gi70KK bushels year ago the government estimated a yield of C09 000000 bushels winter wheat but raised the es ¬ timate each mouth until harvest and the final crop figures wore S4000000 bushels Wiiili the condition is much lower than a year ago when it was 95fi the acreage sown is 412UOi0 acres against sr S7000 acres harvested in 114 and the percentage of the crop abandoned is expected to be extremely small smallTho Tho relations of Italy to the war situation con ¬ tinue to bo reported in a variety of confusing and contradictory reports One dispatch from Homo says that tho correspondent learns on good authority that Austria is about to sue for peace and that its impending action foreshadows the end of the war A dispatcli from Paris says that Austria lias engaged to cede tho region of Trentinp to Italy and that Italy lias agreed to remain neutral This information is sharply contradictory in pur ¬ port to the report from Home Rotterdam hoars that German efforts to keep Italy from siding with the allies have failed From Italy comes news that the Italian fleet has concentrated within striking distance of the Adriatic AdriaticF F Hopkinson Smith artist author and engineer died at Now York Wednesday night at the ago of 77 Ho was best known to the general public as an entertaining author and a skillful artist but he was also one of the most eminent engineers in tho United States Born in Baltimore he 1 gan liis activities as clerk in a hardware store and was later educated as a mechanical engineer Going info the contracting business1 he built the governments seawalls at Governors island and at Tompkinsvilie Slaton island besides the founda ¬ tion for the Barlholdi Statue of Liberty on Bed loos island Xew York harlior Among his best known literary works were Col Carter of Cartor ville and Tom Grogan GroganLondon London scuds word that except in the Uzsok pass in the Carpathians whore the Austriaiis as ¬ sisted by Germans arc offering a most stuhlioru resistance tho Russians aro said to hare crossed the lirst range of mountains and from the heights which they have taken from the Austriaiis in bitter handtoliand fighting can look down the southern slopes toward the plains of Hungary It is as ¬ sorted that part of the army which has crossed the mountains is maneuvering to get behind the Austro Germans holding the Uzsok pass The Austrians admit that tilings are going bad with their armies and arc anxiously awaiting German reenforce ¬ ments which are being hurried to their aid aidThe The Russian war office announced decided gains for tho Russians by tho capture of the Rostok pass and the villages of Smolnik and Orosz Rnszka the latter town on tho Hungarian side of the mountains and midway between the Lupkow and Uszok passes Loading south from Orosz Huszka a good road follows the Ciroka river for ten miles to the town of Sztakesin at the northern terminus of another railway stretching south into the Hungarian plains The Slavs are now menac ¬ ing two important railway heads at Bart fold and at Sztakesiu at the same time battling for pos ¬ session of a trunk line leading south through Mczo Lahore LahoreGeneral General Ohrogon reports having inflicted a serious defeat on the Villa troops between Calaya and Irapuato on the Mexican Central railroad It was the first big engagement since the evacuation of Mexico Cijy General Obregon in his official re ¬ port says Villa was personally in command of his forces The fighting continued for some thirty hours according to the report and after the retreat of Villas men more than 1000 of Villas dead were found on tiio field Four hundred prisoners were taken takenOfficial Official announcement that Victoriano Ilnerta late Mexican dictator was on his way from Spain to the United States was received at tho state department from the American consul at Seville liucrta recently sailed on the steamer Antonio Ixpez duo to arrive at Now York on Saturday It will bo liis lirst visit to the United States liis defiance of which last year in tho stirring months before he voluntarily went into exile led to the 4merican occupation of Vera Cruz CruzThe The Gorman government has replied to the claim of the state department at Washington for compen ¬ sation for the sinking by the Prinz Kit el Friedrich of the American ship William P Frye assuming liability not only for destruction of the vessel but of the cargo under tho treaty of 182S Gcrniany requires however that tin case shall be taken be ¬ fore a prize court for tho establishment of facts concerning ownership of ship and cargo To this tho state department will assent assentI I am convinced that the Dardanelles cannot be forced The bravo conduct of the Turkish troops in the recent operations against tho straits permits mo to conclude that although the allies Und every effort and use every moans at their disposal they will be unable to achieve thoir purpose Tims spoke Molimed V tin sultan of Turkey and first caliph of the Moslem world today in tho course of an audience which he granted to newspaper coriesiKHideuts coriesiKHideutsRumors Rumors wore current in London yesterday of n declaration of Hostilities hot worn Germany and the Netherlands They were however absolutely with ¬ out confirmation and disnatchos from The Hague received late yesterday afternoon ignored any such development The minister of the Netherlands in I ndon when duestioned said lie hoard rumors to the same effect lie had no information on the subject himself but absolutely discredited the report reportThe The Russians who now are lighting on unfavor ¬ able ground in the Carpathians according to Buda ¬ pest newspapers are experiencing tho same diffi ¬ culty in bringing ammunition and supplies from tho rear lioeanso of Impassable roads that pre ¬ viously bosot tho Austrians The Russians arc suffering eiuiriiions losses lossesSeven Seven men captain and crew of the scliooner Lizzio B Willoy which sailed April 1 from Savan ¬ nah for Pawl ticket with lumber wore brought into Now York by the steamer Proteus from New Orleans which rescued them from their little craft waterlogod and adrift 250 miles south of Capo Hatteras April 0 0The The general in command of the army of the Vosges with the consent of General Joffre has forbidden the purchase or salo of spirituous liquors iu the territory occupied by his army Violators of tills order will bo court martialed and punished se ¬ verely verelyInternational International labor leaders at Now York are trying to arrange a strike throughout the world of 20000000 trades unionists as a means of stopping the European war according to Ernest Ioliin sec en tary of the Central Federated Union UnionThe The case against Raymoiid Swoboda accused of being responsible for the tiro alioard the steam ¬ ship La Tourainc lias been transferred from civilian to military jurisdiction in Franco He is charged with espionage as well as with arson arsonA A press dispatch from Petrograd reports that the Austrian army of General Boerovltch which is tight ing in the Carpathians has been pierced in two places by the Russians The Russians have cap ¬ tured Smolinsk east of Lupkow Pass PassThe The French government lias decided to buy the cargo of cotton carried by the American ship Dacia which was seized while on her way to Germany Tho Chamber of Deputies will bo asked for an ap ¬ propriation for this piiriiose piiriioseA A dispatch from Athens states that the Greek government has held a crown council to discuss the international situation Memlicrs of the Cabinet de ¬ cided by an unanimous rote to maintain tho strictest neutrality neutralityThat That Austria and Italy have at last reached an agreement which will assure the continued neutrality of the latter country was the tenor of private advices received in Paris from Rome RomeThe The German converted cruiser 1rinx Eitol Field rich lias interned at Newport News Va Tlie ship will remain in the custody of the United States until the end of the war North sea yesterday It Is feared that the nine men on the trawler were either killed by the explosion or drowned drownedA A Munich message telegraphed from the fron ¬ tier to tho Giornale dltalia says Germany has sent overland in sections throe submarines Ui Poli tho Austrian naval bast bastA A furious assault on tho Gorman positions Be ¬ tween the Mouse and the Moselle is being made by the French in continuation of their new of ¬ fensive movement movementThe The international horse show was yesterday added to the number of regular social fixtures in London that are being abandoned on account of the war
