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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY Tln French war oftice gave out the following statement yesterday afternoon Near Ia lioiselle luiir heavy artillery completely wrecked Carman shelters and trenches In the Argmne near F m taiiieaiixllKirles u local engagement look iilace from trench to treiifh hi which we gained tiie advantage Our ascendancy over the Germans at this point is becoming more and more pronounced April 14 the day following the repulse hy our artillery of the counter at tad at Ies ICparges made y the enemy debouching from ombres the Ccrnuins bombarded our positions but did not at ¬ tack The extension of our front at the Ailly wood already reported was maintained against a counter attack Our progress rendered us masters of a portion of the principal Cerman trench and north of this trench also gained for ils a section of ground 40 yards long and 1110 yards deep The new trench gained hy tis near the Fs eyFlirey high road remains in our posses ¬ sion Near FeyunIIaye a iHinibanlnient was car ¬ ried on but not followed up by an infantry at ¬ tack In the forest of Ie Pretre after having won in the course of the thirteenth part of the Cerman lines we maintained our gains yesterday and stopped a counter attack with machine guns In Isace north of Ia lauche we made progress amounting to JfiOO vards in the direction of Schncp fenUiethkopf fenUiethkopfAn An otlicial communication issued by the llussian war otlice says Fighting continues in the region of1 the rzsok pass During the night of April 15 our troops made slight progress and repulsed with success repeated ciiinter attacks of the enemy in heights south of the line of Volosatelukoweez We captured about lntlO prisoners and two ina eliine guns Mtempts of the enemy to assume the offensive on the heights south of Kozioiiwla and in JJukowina u the right bank of the lliver Pinth in the reigion of Czernowitz failed Com ¬ plete calm reigns on the other sectors along our trout Kvcrywhere the spring thaw is making tho roMils very bad badTho Tho Cerman wnr ollice gave out the following report The Russian attempt with the army thai was before 1ryzeniysl to force the invasion of Hun ¬ gary has resulted in failure The endeavors to get through the Inpkow and Fast lnlli passes were not successful and the Kussian attacks at Scxtropko and Felsorzeheurz have definitely come to an end The Unssians consequently are at ¬ tacking further to the east hut here also they were iVpulsed rear Koziowa with heavy losses The attacking strength of the Russians has visibly lessened The French have renewed their ferocious at ¬ tack against both sides of the Cerman wedge in Use St Mihicl region Cerman genera hcad ipiarters announces The enemys onslaughts have been mist violent on the north side of the wedge lietween Maierey and Marelievillo cast of Ver ilnn It is admitted that the French infantry penetrated tho Cerman positions along a narrow front near Marcheville but reinforcements were brought up and the Commits recaptured the posi ¬ tions by an equally violent assault assaultThe The part the Inited States in playing in the far eastern situation is taking on more imixirtant proportions This lias been indicated in the last lew days by frequent conferences between Sec ¬ retary Ilrynn and the Japanese ambassador and the Chinese minister The silence which Japan has ini osed upon all whom she has made cog ¬ nizant if the negotiations has not been lifted ami consequently Secretary Itryan and all the nler parties to the recent conferences are ad ¬ hering to the strictest secrecy secrecyA A message from iFouterey says that from au ¬ thentic sources it is given out there that lluertas return to the Fnitcd States is the outcome of a conference of prominent Mexicans in San Antonio a few weeks ago It means another revolution or strictly speaking a new party in the field sancliiined by Cen Felix Diaz and many men identified with the peace conference recenty or uunixeil in San ntonio according to the report Ivhleh says that Huerta has been selected as the Ifader IfaderA A Cerman Zeppelin passed over at least nine towns in Northumberland and Durham counties yi northeast Knglund and dropped bombs Inquiry shows that no loss of life or serious personal injury resulted from the Zeppelin raid and that although several small houses were damaged the material loss was not heavy After the raid the XepiKlin passed out over the North sea from the nionih of the Tyne It was pursued by coast guard ireoplines but escaped escapedTen Ten masked and annrul men held up a New York Central freight train bound for Chicago at Sanliorn abouti tiften miles fnun Buffalo at 1 oclock yesterday morning uncoupled and looted tho cars Ten automobile trucks were tilled with oods Fngincer Cos of Syracuse es ¬ caped from the rohbeis and ran his engine eight miles to Suspension Bridge for help Tlie rob liers had disappeared when a posse arrived on the scene sceneApparently Apparently the only losers by tho prolonged detention of the American fowl snip Villielmina with her cargo at Falmouth England will be the owners of the ship and the loss will lie the amount of the demurrage charges Tin lritisi government lias taken the ground that the Wil helmina was frco to sail at any moment after she bad arrived at Falmouth February l last if she cared to discharge her cargo of foodstuffs which the captain declined to do doLieut Lieut apt Thlerfelder of the Cerman con ¬ verted cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelm declares that he will not intein the vessel voluntarily Author ¬ ization to take the cruiser into drydnck was given to Commander Thlerfeldcr by Collector Ham ¬ ilton and the cruiser will be moved into drydock n Friday Ils condition is stttri that it will re ¬ quire thriv weeks it is said to complete repairs lor which the commander has asked askedCencral Cencral Villa appears to have gained the upper band in the first day of the battle witli the in ne r Celaya and the vi consular advices to the state statedepartment department from San hills Iotosi From other points also it was reported that in the struggle in which officials estimate 45001 men are en ¬ gaged the first fruits of victory are with the army of Villa VillaThe The Itritish government has consented to allow two cargoes of dyestuffs which the American tex ¬ tile alliance obtained in Cermanv in payment fu it iafmv the allies order in council placing go on exports from Cermany came into IPHV u pass the blockade These cargoes how ¬ ever must be sent to a neutral port and then shipped on neutral vessels vesselsThe The Kritish steamship Ptarmigan has been tor ¬ pedoed and sunk bv a Cerman submarine near the North Hinder light ship in the North SIM Kleven sailors of the Ptarmigans crew of twentytwo men were saved Tiie Ptarmigan had a tonnage of 47ii net and was built at Dundee in 1S1I1 It was liiS feet long and vvned by the Cencral Steam Navigation company companyThe The Cerman war otlico gave out a report on the progress of hostilities as follows Between the Mcuxe and the Moselle there was yesterday nothing more than isolated engagements French attacks neir Marcheville in and around the forest of Ie Pretre northeast of Maimnvillcr and south of Hart maims Weilerkopf resulted in failure failureSupreme Supreme Court Justice Newburger refused to con ¬ sider the motion of lawyers for Harry K Thaw that he be granted a iurv trial to determine bis sanity He held that the writ in the cuse was returnable Monday next and should IH entertained by the judge sitting at that time who will he Justice Hendricks HendricksThe The Russian staff has railed to the colors ad ¬ ditional classes of reserves which will almost double the present army strenglh The Hungarian civil authorities have evacuated Ingvar the immediate objective of a Russian column which has crossed the ridge westward of the 1zsok pass Pelrograd reports reportsTiie Tiie British government lias announced its de ¬ cision to make no further purchases of wheat for the reason that representations have been made by the trade that such action prevents tiie resump ¬ tion of normal trailing It has just completed the purchase of KW 0000 worth from Argentina ArgentinaCider Cider censes to become a soft driul three weeks after it has been made according to a ruling just made by Prohibition Commissioner Fred O Plue in West Virginia He holds that the sale of cider after that time is a violation of the stales prohibition laws lawsThirteen Thirteen persons ten of them women were in ¬ stantly killed arid twentyseven others were in ¬ jured in a collision between a Detroit citv street car and a freight train in the Detroit Toledo ami Ironton railroad Three of the injured are ex ¬ pected to die dieThe The trial of three alleged Cerman spies Knep ferle Halm and Mueller charged with sending military information to Cermany has been definitely lixed for April Uti at London The proceedings will be in secret before the lord chief justice justiceThe The total of British casualties in the war from the hcginiPg of hostilities to April 11 is lHl47 men according to an announcement made in the house of commons by Harold 7 Tennant under ¬ secretary of war warField Field Marshall Sir John jKrcnclr commaniter of the British forces on the continent reports the British losses in the three lays lighting at Neuve Chapelle to have been llill in killed wounded and missing An official ilsnial of reports from Berlin that public buildings in Paris were being used as mili ¬ tary observation posts was cabled to the French embassy at Washington by Foreign Minister Del casse casseMuiden Muiden owners of the steam trawling fleet have been notified that four of their trawlers flying fhe flag of Holland have liecn seized by Cer ¬ man warships and taken into Ciixhaven CiixhavenMount Mount Ktna again is showing signs of activity Part if the crater has fallen in loud rumblings are being heard and a large column of smoke is rising from the volcano volcanoPremier Premier Asquith and Lord Kitchener will make personal visits to Newcastle to assist in the cam ¬ paign for hurrying up tho production of munitions of war warA A dispatch from Salmiiki says the intervention of Itoiinmnla in the war seems imminent The army splendidly equipped is ready for instant action actionMrs Mrs Theodore Roosevelt wife of former Presi ¬ dent Uoosevelt underwent an operation at Roose ¬ velt Hospital in New Vorl yesterday yesterdayThe The Turks are dally massing troops in the Cal liopli peninsula A great number of Cerman areo planes have arrived
