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GENEHAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY in iV iii iL to crush the German wedge between the Meuse and Moselle has liten defeated with enormous 1 rsses according to dis pat li s leceived at lierlin While tlie onslanrhts cnntinue with great iierconcss the French liave filtered a deiinite clieck on b ti sides ef the wedge it is claimed The Frencli losses in the last woiks lighting in this region are variously estimated at between ir00 and 4000 Tluiugh lare bodies of troops have been thrown against the St MihielKtain line i nortiiorn side of the Cermnii wedge the gains made by the French liave been of no military importance Ierlln claims In the center after sulTering the loss of more tlian an entire regiment the French succeeded in advancing a few hundred yards but has been unable to make further progress brCiuso of the dominant posillon if the Ccrman artillery around Coinbros Tie Krench gain in this locality lias sec by lossei on the southern extending from St MihUl cast ward t PontaMoiisson Iy sliar 00111 ter at ¬ tacks the Germans have advanced their lines nt several points notably in the Allly and Le Prctre forest at the same time repelling the most furi ¬ ous French attacks The plans of the allies to conduct such a vigorous offensive in this region as tn interfere with the German Carpathian strat ¬ egy has met with utter failure it i assorted N t onlv have the Germans maintained their posi ¬ tions between the Meuse and the Moselle without the aid of reen forceinents but they have at the same tinio taken the offensive at several other points notably in the Argonne and around Hart ma nnsweilerkopf The nnsweilerkopfThe German converted cruiser Krnnprinz Wil helin tlie elusive raider of eonnnerco in th South Atlantic slipped into Newport News and asked for fuel and provisions Should it intern Gorman v will not liave a lighting ship left on the high KHS Many limes rcjHirted destroyed the former North German Lloyd liner has evaded hort le warshins for eight months while it wnt fourteen merchantmen to the bottom Its oliicers siiid tho vessel was forced to steal its way past four allied cruisers off the Virginia capes to reach Newixirt News We got in without being seen by the enemy find we can get out the sim wav declared its commander Lieut Cap Paul Thiedfelder formerly navigating ollicer of the i rinaii cruiser Karlsrulie in a statement to ¬ night W i the rnider drnpiMd amiiop tin K iiiiii7 Willxlm had lo s than twentylive tons of coal and scanty provisions for the crew cf 00 men and sixtyone prisoners from British mer ¬ chant ships sunk in the South Atlantic Of the fourteen ships that the 15000 ton cruiser sank nine were British four French and one Norwe ¬ gian The value of these ships and their cirgops oliicers of the Wilhelm estimated at 7000000 In its raids of the seas since it slipped out of Xew York harbor on August last as a Ger ¬ man merchant and passenger steamer the Ivron prinz Wilhelni nover touched land and took prisoners from various vessels destroyed Most of these were Mnt to South American ports at different times on German ships which nnt the raider in response to wireless calls The sixty one still on hoaid arc British sailors from the steamshins Tamar destroyed March tij and Coleby destroyed Alarcli 7 last lastThe The German note criticizing adversely President Wilsons policy in dealing with tlie Rritish and Frencli blockade of Germany and also censuring tlie continued exportation of American arms and other munitions of war to the allies was made public by Count von liernstorff the German em liassaior The communication which was sent to the state department several days ago pre ¬ sents tlie views of the German embassy with the approval of the German government although it was not sent from Ierlin but was prepared by the ambassador The most important utter ¬ ances in the note and one which is regarded as disclosing the chief innnose f the ambassador in addressing tho Wilson administration is tho proposal that the United States either shut off the exportation of rms which are obtainable hv tho allies only or else use the continuance cf this privilege as a club to force Great Rritain to lift the enihario on shipment of foodstuffs to Ger ¬ many It is expected that tlu administration will docine to adopt Count von RcrnstorfTs suggestion that the continued privilege of buying arms in this country be made conditional upon the raising by the allies of the food Idockadv of Germany The administration has formally assumed the attitude that it would lie unneiitral to place an embargo upon the exportation of arms merely be ¬ cause tin fortunes f war through no faillt of the United States nlace it in the imwer n the allies but not of Germany to obtain such sup ¬ plies pliesThe The Potrogrnd correspondent of the Times savs The Russians hav ciptnred the last Austrlin osilioii on lln main Carpathian rinijo along the line of the Russian advance London lu ars that the Russians are now on the southern slope of the Carpathians defending their recently gained positions against persistent and violent attempts by the Germans and Austrians to throw tlie Rus ¬ sian invaders hack upon the summits of the range The passing of the crest and the beginning of the present actions on tho Hungarian slope was marked by the capture of Hill No 00l at Woliamichova The Austrians and their German reinforcements at once began a series of counter attacks in an effort to stom the onrush of the Czars forces from tlie crest of the ridge but this effort lias been unavailing The Russians captured one bat ¬ talion of the troops which were engaged in these attacks ICngagements of the last day or two have bionght the Russians several steps nearer to the taking of tlie Uszok pass the only one of the important Carpathian passes which so far has remained out of their reach Several more of the heights defendiii the pass have now fallen to tlie Russian troops ofter severe lighting in which the Russians took 1000 prisoners Northeast of the pass the Anstrians are continuing their count ¬ er offensive in the direction of Stryj Little ac ¬ tivity is reported in Poland Isolated encounters have occured in the region west of tho Nieineu but no general movement movementArticle Article live of group V of the Japanese de ¬ mands made on China au article which it is pointed out in Pekin may be regarded by the ISritish as transgressing on their railway con ¬ cessions and railway pledges received from Cnina was reached in tlie discussion at the confer ¬ ence held between the Japanese minister to China Mr Hioki and the Peking government otlicials Article live of group V cads China agrees to Jaimns right to build a railway connecting with KiuKiang and NanChang also a line between WnCIiaiiK and HangChow and a line between XinCliang and KiauCluui The Rritish press in the orient is unsparing in its criticism of Japan The North China Daily News one of the most prominent Rritish newspapers in the far east recntly styled Japans demands on China as a dirty trick Those foreign advisers who be ¬ lieve that Japan dare not employ force especially after China has conceded in iie form or another all hut one article tf tlie lirst four groups of la ills demands are prevailing with President Yuan Sill Kai for the time being Tlie stiffer attitude which the Chinese began to display at the conference held on Thursday was continued at Sundays meeting Foreign Minister Lu Cheng Hsiang refusing to discuss articles 4 i and of group V despite it is said by Chinese ollicials definite threats on tlie part of Japan JapanReplying Replying to the Dutch note protesting against the sinking of the Dutch steamer Medea by a German submarine and the seizure by a subma ¬ rine of the Dutch steamers Ratavier V and Xaan stroom Germany has expressed the opinion that the action of her submarines was in accordance witli the terms of the declaration of London Germany announces however that she has de ¬ cided to submit the question of justification to a prize court as soon as possible Assurances are given in the German reply that there is no ques ¬ tion of any change in the political attitude of Germany toward Holland Holland in her protest had said that international law did not recognize tlie destruction of neutral prizes as in the case of tlie Medea and that moreover the destruc ¬ tion of this ship was not proiKirtionate to the strategic aim of preventii her cargo of oranges reaching a hostile country countryOliicers Oliicers of the American steamer Navajo and Joseph W Fordney both under detention by the Rritish marine authorities at Kirkwall have ap ¬ pealed to the American embassy at Louden to obtain tlseir release The captain of the Ford ¬ ney has advised the embassy that a Rritisli prize crew took charge of his ship off the Norwegian coast The Fordney left Xew iork March 20 for Malmo Sweden It was taken into Kirkwall April S Tlie Navajo from Galveston to ISremon lias on liounl a cargo of cotton It lias been ordered to a prize court under tlie order in council cutting oil all trade to and from Germany It was taken into Kirkwall April 7 Oliicers of the American tank steamer Llama from New York March 111 for Copenhagen also have ap ¬ pealed to the American embassy to obtain this release of their vessel from detention at Kirk ¬ wall wallThe The Harrison line steamer Wayfarer has boon torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine ac cmding to a message received In London by a news agency Another message from Liverpool says the Wayfarer has not gone down but is making for Qiirenstown in tow Tlie vessel was torpedoed of the Scilly islands according to this report The owners of the Wayfarer say they have us information of tlie disaster The Way ¬ farer was ri0 feet long and registered 5222 tons It was built in Rcifast in 10 and was owned in Liverpool It left Galveston Jan 7 for Liver ¬ pool where it arrived February 17 17If If the war lasts only eighteen months the cost will be 1 4000000 00 in the opinion of J Annan Rryce member f the Rritish parliament and brother of Viscount James Hryce former am ¬ bassador to the United States Kit present ex ¬ penditure of this belligerents explains Mr Rrvce will reach 92r000OOO000 in eighteen months The expenditure by neutrals adds at least Jialf a bil lio the destruction of property onoOOl OO the loss of the labor of IJOUOCOO lighting men the remainder of the tutal It will take the world a eneration to recover and its purchasing power will he vastly lessoned for the immediate future futureTho Tho Russian armies according to dependable information reaching Lemberg have made suc ¬ cessful advances along the wide front from Hart feld to Uzsok the greatest gain being in tin direction of Gummoiio At this pwnt tin Rus ¬ sians descended the southern slope of the Car ¬ pathians forcing the Austrians back with heavy losses to tins line between Mezolaborez and Smol nik At the same time this Russians advanced between Dukla and Syednik where the Austrians unable to make a serious defense abandoned their stores and transports in their retreat retreatThe The American steamer Minnesota plying be ¬ tween Japanese ports and Seattle struck a rock off Iwajima near the southwestern entrance to tins Inland Sea of Japan One of her holds was pierced by the obstruction in the channel The passengers and mails were removed by a steamer which responded to a wireless call for help and probably were landed at Shimonoseki In a wire ¬ less message Captain Garlick lias asked for a salvage steamer He says all the passengers and crew are safe safeAn An oflieial statement on the war situation given out In Vienna reads In Russian Poland and in western Galicia there have been artillery engage ¬ ments In the Carpathians especially in the dis ¬ trict east of tho Uzsok pass several Russian at ¬ tacks have iKon repulsed with heavy losses to the enemy We took KM prisoners In southeast Galicia and in Rukowina there have been some heavy artillery engagements engagementsThe The ISritisn and French Governments are send ¬ ing large numbers of military surgeons into Ser ¬ bia to tight the epidemic of typhus Thirty Eng ¬ lish surgeons already have arrived Fifty Frencli physicians arrived yesterday and fifty more are expected shortly ns well as a party sent hy the Rockefeller foundation foundationGen Gen Villa telegraphed his agency at Washing ¬ ton that he had sent a communication through foreijii consuls to Gen Obrogon inviting him to come intv ojien country north of Celaya to light or else permit the noncombatants of that city to withdraw before he begins tlie bombardment bombardmentMaj Maj Gen William C Gorgas surgeifn general of the itrd States army has boon invited by tho Rockefeller foundation to bccomi a perma ¬ nent member of its staff in the capacity of gen ¬ eral adviser in matters relating to public sani ¬ tation and the control of epidemics epidemicsThe The Rritish steamer Guernsey was wrecked Fri ¬ day with a loss of seven lives while attempting to escape from a German submarine Tho steam ¬ er hit a submerged rock while running at full speed and was dashed to pieces piecesAlmost Almost all the Rritish vessels that have taken part In bombardments of the German positions on the Rolginn coast have been damaged by the return tire of the Gorman artillery it is admitted in a Rritish admiralty statement statementThe The French steamer Frederic Franck was tor ¬ pedoed off Start iminr in the English channel on Sunday hut was towed into Plymouth by govern ¬ ment tugs No lives were lost The Franck was a small steamer steamerGovernor Governor Carlson of Colorado announced that he would veto ti bill designed to transfer the duties of the juvenile court at Denver to the district court This will keep Judge Ren Lindsay on the bench benchA A telegram to tho Rourse Gazette of Petrograd front Tillis Transcaucasia says that the Turks have occupied Hamadan a city of Persia 153 miles southwest of Teheran TeheranThe The Cuban senate has uassod a bill prohibiting any kind of bcrxing in Cuba Agitation over the WillardJolinson tight brought the bill many sup ¬ porters portersDr Dr Ryan American Red Cross physician lias contracted typhoid fever and is in a critical con I dition in a hospital at RclgraeV Serbia
