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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OE THE DAY In the first naval battle of tin war between Turkish and liritish warcraft part of the crew of Hie Itritish transport Manitou were drowned ami a Turkish torpedo boat destroyed The battle was fought olf the island of Chios near the gulf of Smyrna and about 101 miles south of the entrance to MM Dardanelles The Manitou was attacked by a Turkish torpedo boat in the Aegean sea Twcnty four men were drowned ami twentyseven others are missing The transport itse lf was not damaged The loss of life was due to the capsizing of one boat in the water and another while being lowered owing te the breaking of a davit The British as asset set te their success in destroying the Turkish iiirinilo Iniat which atacked the Manitim lost the submarine E15 which while carrying out a dif ¬ ficult reconnaissance in the Dardanelles mine Held ran aground on Kephez Point the crew being made tilers In Egypt liritish airmen have been clrcm clrcmboiubs boiubs on the Turkish encampment near tho iMireler while a French cruiser the tire of which was directed by an aeroplane has been throwing shells on the Turks near El Arish where the army for the invasion of Kgypt lias its headquarters Those operations were undertaken presumably to harass the Turks as they have not shown any intention of attacking the Itritish since their last repulse along the canal The following Turkish ollicial statement regarding recent operations at the Dardanelles was iven out On the afternoon of April 14 the Eng ish battleship Majestic liombarded a laud position near Gnba Tcpeli on Saros bay The tire was re ¬ turned and the Majestic was forceel te retire On the following afternoon the Majestic attacked our advanced batteries but was struck three times Tbe warship retired and was replaced by the Bri lish battleship Swiftsure which continued the bom bardiuciit without result On the nights between HIM ith and lth of April enemy torpedo boats tried to pcnitrate the Dardanelles They were easily lopulsed German aviators dropped bombs which struck and txploded on enemy coal steamers Main headqiiarters reiortcd that yesterday an enemy hy ¬ droplane was damaged by Turkish tire ami fell into the sea A second hydroplane attempted to save it mid was sunk by our fire An Lnglish armored miser which towed away the damaged machine was struck by our shells The cmiser with the hydroplane withdrew withdrewSeventy Seventy thousand prisoners mining thorn 000 olli fers anil encirinoiis ninnliors of killed was the toll aid by the AustroGerman forces defending the Carpathian mountains against the onslaughts of the Uussian army during the last month according to an otlicinl statement issucil by the Unssian war uuice Thirty heavy guns aud 200 machine guns also were captured by the czars men While no mention is made of Kussian losses it is be ¬ lieved they were heavy as the report tells of the stubborn defense of the enemy ami his bitter but futile efforts to regain lost ground Hardly a day passed from the liegiuniiig of the offensive without sanguinary lighting Attacks and counter attacks marked each twentyfour hours All told the Kus sians won and now control about seventylive miles along the principal chain of the Carpathians CarpathiansLeo Leo M Frank the Brooklyn man under death sentence for the murder of Mary Phagan an At ¬ lanta factory girl lost another step in his light feu life in the Supreme Court of the United States In a decision from which Justices Holmes and Hughes dissented the court dismissed Franks ap ¬ peal from the Federal Court of Georgia which re ¬ fused to release him on a writ of habeas corpus Franks attorneys when informed of the decision said they believed that every means in Franks behalf liefeire the courts had Ixcn exhausted They added that they probably would prepare a iMtition for presentation hefore the Georgia prison commis ¬ sion asking for commutation of Franks sentence sentenceVustrian Vustrian attacks on the hcighths of the Mea Laborcz district of Hungary where the Austrians feu six days have IKCII furiously attempting to re ¬ gain positions recently taken by the Unssiaus ap ¬ pear to have definitely subsided Petrogrnd re ¬ ports The attacks which exceeded in violence any action on this fremt reached their greatest in ¬ tensity April 17 when sixteen assaults are reported to have been made in one day The encounters ended in the evening in a desperate bayonet charge nel sustained ImndtoImnd encounters which left the Russians according tei reports received by the Kussian officials firmly ensconced on the height of Telepotch TelepotchWhat What iwrturbation existed in certain quarters over published reports that the Japanese were establishing a naval base at Turtle bay Lower California was put at rest with the receipt at the navy department of a report from Commander Irwin of the cruiser New Orleans that all the operations being carried on by the Japanese at Turtle bay were connected witli the salving of tin wrecked cruiser Asama which went on the rocks there nearly two months ago The Japanese otli cers teild Commander Irwin that they expected to have the sama floated about May 1 The repair ship sent from Japan arrived there about March ol olA A cablegram received at Berlin from Athens says that unusual activity prevails at the port of Mudros on Lemnos island in the Aegean sea off the en ¬ trance to the Dardanelles straits All the French troops on the island with the exception of a few battalions have been sent away em transports A total of 5COO British and French soldiers were landed at Mudros Wednesday and Thursday of last week It is reported the Athens dispatch says iji conclusion that the oiwrations against the Dardenelles are about to be resumed resumedDisturbances Disturbances due tn the food problem are re ¬ ported from several places in Trent and Bohemia In Trent last Friday a mob attacked the military storehouse and stoned the police several of whom were injured It is said that n state of siege probably will be proclaimed in Trent At Leit nieritz Bohemia a mob is said to have destroyed 100 wagouloaels eif Hour destined for the military A general exodus from Triest is said to be on Ixjth Italians and wealthy Austrian families taking refuge in Italy ItalyOilicial Oilicial communications received by the Italian cabinet anil statements made by Germans in ollicial circles at Koine have given the impression that the German general staff has abandoned plans for a general offensive movement on the French front and has decided simply to maintain the defensive This information has caused a deep impression in the Italian capital because it is believed to signiry that Germany has no hope of penetrating farther into French territory territoryThe The Itritish trawler Vanilla was sunk by a tor ¬ pedo from u German submarine in the North sea Sunday according to a report made by Captain Hill skipper of the trawler Fermo Captain Hill said he was within 00 yards of the Vanilla when it was struck He maele an attempt to pick up the crew but lie says the submarine attacked him in his efforts at rescue It fired a tropodo at the Fermo and forced it to seek safety in flight flightTurkish Turkish efforts to reach tho Persian Gulf have received a setback it was officially admitted at Constantinople The Turkish war ollice issued a statement that the arrival of British reinfeireeinents in the Basra district had forced the Ottoman troops to retire A Salonika dispatch states that the British are making plans to hold the islands jf Tenedos ami Lemnos and it is believed the Allies will land troops on Mytilcne MytilcneAn An Amsterdam dispatch states five German tor pedo boats were sighted near North Hinder light ¬ ship by the captain of a London steamer em Snnelay while a Newcastle vessel sighted several torpedo be ats and four submarines twentylive miles north ¬ west of Yinuidcn steaming west Trawlers just returned to English ports report that a flotilla of small warships believed to IK Germans is cruising in the North Sea SeaJapan Japan lias ordered nil her warships in Pacific waters near the American coast except these sal ¬ vaging the wrecked cruiser sama in Turtle bay to return to their home stations Aelviees to that effect were received from Tokyo at the Japanese embassy at Washington The embassy also received word tbat the cruiser Chitase was the only vessel accompanying the repair ship working on the Asama AsamaThat That cotton is being kept out of Germany and Austria just as effectively as if it were declared absolute contraband is the tenor of a reply addressed by Attorney General Simon to a conference of Kug Jish chemists ami engineers who raised the question whether the action taken by the government was siiflicicnt te make it certain that no cotton reaches those countries countriesThe The Turks are erecting wire entanglements and making preparations on both sides of the Bosporus against a land attack in case the Russians renew their assault upon the Bosporus says the London Daily Mails Odessa correspondent A railway is being pushed along the coast for the purpose of carrying guns from place te place as they are needed neededA A reliable person who has just arrived from Austria and Hungary says the London Times Bucharest correspondent declares that Vienna and Budapest be th are strongly fortified On the left bank of the Danube Vienna is protected by long lines ot trenches barricades and barbedwire entanglements Fourteen million dollars has lieen spent on formica ¬ tions tionsFrom From an authoritative source at Komo it iS learned that notwithstanding Germanys efforts Italy and Austria have failed to reach an agree ¬ ment with reference to territorial concessions The latest proposal according to these rc orts was that Trent be ceded to the nope and that the pontiff turn the territory over to Hal after the war warDespite Despite the iieeel of troops to oppose the Knssiaus all traffic on the AustriaHungarian state railway has again been stopped because of troop movements This is declared tei meaii that another attempt to capture Serbia is to commence It is stated that among the troops headed for the Serbian frontier are 100000 Germans GermansRenters Renters Pekin correspondent is authority for the statement that the United States has sent a note to China which bears upon the negotiations be ¬ tween Pekin and Tokio It is said the Uniteel States pointeel out that it had certain rights in China conferred by treaties and that it did not intend to recede freun them themA A Vienna dispatch to the Geneva Tribune says that at a council eif war presided over by Field Marshal von Ilindeiiburg it was decided that the Austrian heaw artillery before Verdun in France should be transferred to Poland and that the Hun ¬ garian cavalry on the western front be sent hack to Cracow CracowFrank Frank Abarno anel Carmine Carbolic anarchists whe made anel set a bomb in St Patricks cathedral at New York March when hundreds were wor ¬ shiping in the edifice were sentenced to serve not less than six years nor more than twelve in Sing Sing prison prisonThe The London Daily Mails Berne correspondent tel ¬ egraphs that Germany is to effect a closer submarine blockade of Great Britain beginning at once Ger ¬ man submarines of a new type are being launched at the rate of two a week weekThe The captain and nineteen members of the crew of the Dutch steamer Olauda were landed at Grims by Kngland by a trawler The Olanda struck a mine in the North Sea Sunday and sank She car ¬ ried a cargo of coal coalThe The Greok steamer Kllisponto a vessel of lij terns which left Yinuidcn Holland Saturday for Montevideo was torpedoed in the North sea Her crew of twentyone with a Dutch pilot were rescued by the North Hinder lightship ami taken o Holland HollandThe The Yukon river iee is breaKIng up the earliest in its history The river is already open from White Horse the head of navigation te Lake La barge sixteen days earlier than last year yearThe The report on the progress of hostilities given emt by German headquarters says that Lieut Kolanet G Garros famous French aviator has been made a prisoner l y the Germans at Gelmuuster GelmuusterRear Rear Ailmiral Cameron MeRae Winshiw n nephew of tin Wiiisliw who ceimmamlcd flic famous eihl Kearsarge iu her battle with the Alabama will be the uew chief of American naval operations operationsRichard Richard Lydckker famous naturalist is dead in England lie was bora in ISlJ He had traveled extensively and written many volumes on animal life in various countries countriesGerman German and Austrian claims that the Russians lost r00000 men in the Carpathian campaign and were defeated were emphatically denied at the Russian war ollice olliceThe The Girhalc dltalia of Komo in a review ot the financial situation in Europe expresses anxiety at the exodus of golel from the old to the new conti ¬ nent nentFielel Fielel Marshal Baron Kolmer von der Geiitz has been appointed commander in chief of the first Turkish army
