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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY Amendments to the prize rules governing the operation of tin German navy signed by Emperor William anil Admiral von Tirpilz and published In the Reichsanzeiger were designed as a reprisal for the decision made by England and its allies contravening the declaration of London on Ith 2 lf Under the new order Held glasses nautical instruments pig lead aeroplanes coal and coke an made absolute contraband Several other commodities1 are aililod to the list of condi ¬ tional eontraband including wool rubber iron and several oilier ores oresAlthough Although the passes and defdes leading down into the plains of Hungary are still deep with water anil the Russian advance is held up there appears to be plenty of lighting on the Car ¬ pathian front with the Russians on the defensive Two parallel flanking movements have IHCII launch1 by the Gernians and Austrians slmultaueonsly one in the Mezo Laborcz and LupkoW pass region and the other in the region of Gorllce with the object of getting to the rear of the Beskids and cutting ott Russian commuhieatiou Neither has been successful A Havas dispatch from Athens says advices received from Chios stated that heavy firing had been heard there which leads to the supposition that the bombardment of the Smyrna forts has been re ¬ sumed Four British warships entered the Dar ¬ danelles Thursday and bombarded the forts for three hours The Turkish fortifications also were subjected to an Indirect lire from the Gulf of Saros They replied vigorously to the attack of the warships French mine sweepers s re continuing their operations actively activelyRussian Russian dirigibles are now being used to harass General von Hindenburgs lines of communication An official statement Issued at Petrograd says one of them bombarded the German positons near Plock dropping iifteen bombs on the enemys trans ¬ ports badly damaging them Several German boats on tho Vistula also were sunk Two other dirigi ¬ bles dropped bombs on the railway station at Mluwa and tin the German aerodrome at Nanniky NannikyEmperor Emperor Yoshihito and the cider statesmen ac ¬ cording to the Japanese newspaper Jiji Shimpo have sanctioned the cabinets program with refer ¬ ence to the demands upon China and Minister Eki IHokl will make known his countrys posi ¬ tion at Peking at once If China declines to ac ¬ cede to the demands the Jiji intimates the situa ¬ tion will become grave graveMl Ml ic Panama canal shows a net loss of about 10 i er cent in tint comparison of tolls collected with the cost of operation and maintenance for the lirst eight months of its oiwration according to an otllcial statement Up to March 1 101 the cost of operation and maintenance was 25S5 1333 the total earnings 1233451524 The tolls arc steadily increasing increasingThat That the British government does not Intend to have recourse to prohibition in dealing with the drink question was inferred from Premier As qulths statement in the house of commons Tlie premier said that on Wednesday or Thursday next the chancellor of the exchequer David Lloyd George would bring forward proposals for deal ¬ ing with tlie limiting of facilities for drinking drinkingAll All steamboat communication with Holland has lieen stopped by nrtler of the British government Taken in connection with the news from Berlin that British submarines have been In the bight of Helgoland where the German admiralty lays claim to having sunk one and perhaps more this Is believed to foreshadow some naval movement in the North sea Tlie presence of an AngloFrench squadron in the waters to the north of Stavanger Norway is reported by vessels coming into Copenhagen A Norwegian coast steamer from these waters says it was stopped and inspected by a British war ¬ ship Rejwrts continue to IK received at Copen ¬ hagen of the presence of German warships in the North sea seaFloods Floods that swept down Waller and Shoal creeks at Austin Tex took a toll of fifteen lives Houses were jammed in masses against the bridges and the high water flooded many business houses Heroic work was done by citizen rescue parlies and by the fire and police departments I The Germans have captured and taken into Hamburg the Norwegian steamer Brilliant which left Fredrikstad Norway April 10 for London says the Morning Posts Cbrlstiania correspondent Tlie steamer was loaded with a cargo of granite deal planks and paper paperThe The German admiralty gave out a statement read ¬ ing as follows The German high sea lleet has recently cruised repeatedly In the North sea ad ¬ vancing into English waters without meeting the sea forces of Oreat Britain BritainAll All Danish women are to be allowed to vote under the provisions of a new constitution adopted by the Danish parliament yesterday
