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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY Latest reports in regard to the vicious lighting near Ypres are conflicting The Berlin claim yes ¬ terday says The statement Issued today at army headquarters relates that the British continue their retreat with heavy losses east of Ypres and that a strong French attack delivered yesterday north ¬ west of PontaMousson broke down under the Ger ¬ man fire with heavy losses to the attackers The text of the communication is as follows The British continue their retreat with heavy losses in the direction of the bridge head situated sharply east of Yprea The Van lleule and Eksternest farms the castle ground of Uereutlmgo and the Set Pap potjo farm were taken by us No British state ¬ ment Is made but the French war office gave out the following statement North of Ypres the Germans yesterday evening delivered an attack against the left sector of the British front They were repulsed and taken in the flank by the French artillery and suffered serious losses lossesA A London statement of yesterday touching oper atlons in Flanders says A dispatch from Rotter ¬ dam to the London Daily Telegraph says that there was furious fighting northeast of Ypres all day yesterday where the Germans are making tre ¬ mendous efforts to advance from Gravcnstafel and straighten their line from St Jullen to Zonnebeke The British forces are clinging tenaciously to the villages in this corner although they have been subjected to a flanking lire at several points The military critics of the London papers interpret Sir John Frenchs announcement of the readjustment of his line to the necessity of avoiding the cross ¬ fire to which tlie Britlshs salient had been exposed It is supposed that the line now curves about three miles east of Ypres The abandonment of the salient is not regarded as endangering the position or as being In any way serious seriousLondon London advices say that Smyrna is ready to surrender to tlie allied fleet which has lieen bom ¬ barding the city and fortifications intermittently since the early part of March According to a dis ¬ patch from Athens the declaration is made that tho Vail has entered Into fresh negotiations witli the allies for the hoisting of the white flag That there is truth in this report was not denied at the war office News was given out that a squad ¬ ron of British battleships is pounding away at the land forts in the gulf of Smyrna and that t e response is feeble Allied troops landed thirty five miles southsoutheast of Smyrna It is l e licved that they will cooperate with the warships iu the capture of Smyrila in the cveilt that the Vali docs not surrender surrenderSerious Serious trouble seems to be developing between China and Japan A Pckin dispatch of yesterday says One hundred thousand troops by order of President Yuan Sbl K ii have been mobilized and within a day or txvo will be concentrated in tlie environs jf Pckin These military preparations are being made for the defense of the capital as an ultimatum from Japan regarding the refusal by the republic of its demands is momentarily ex ¬ pected According to Chinese officials whose state ¬ ments have been corroborated in other circles the government is making no preparations elsewhere than at the capital for defense considering that the Chinese will be unable to oppose tlie Japanese should they make an attack attackIn In further description of the alleged Russian reverse In western Galicia a Berlin dispatch of yesterday says The southern wing of the Rus ¬ sian army in West Galicia has been broken along a front of twentyfour miles according to a dis ¬ patch to the Tagehlatt The Russians were forced to abandon not only their first lines but also the Tillages back of tlie front which served as quarters Only in Gorlice did the Russians make a stand This town was destroyed by an artillery bombard ¬ ment and a bitter street fight preceded its capture by the Germans All the staff officers of one Russian division were killed or wounded including several generals generalsA A considerable minority of tlie socialist party in the German reichstag opposed the voting of the full war credit demanded by the government according to the Berlin Vossische Xeitung a copy of which has been received in London At a meet ¬ ing of the socialist party before tlie session of the reichstag which voted the credits a series of votes were taken In these twentythree socialists are declared to bave opposed voting the credit of 2f 00000OCO but it was decided by sixtynine votes to thirty that the party should support the budget as a whole wholeA A dispatch from London yesterday says The British trawlers lolantbe Hero and Northward JIo were torpedoed and sunk by German submarines in the North Sea off Hull today Tho trawler Ux bridge was caught in a mine net off Grimsby and destroyed by the resultant explosion Advices from Hull state that it Is feared there that other trawlers have been destroyed In the last twenty four hours at least seven have been lost lostFrom From Paris comes tlie statement that two Turkish aeroplanes have been brought down by shells from allied warships according to n dispatch from Sa loniki Setting out from ScddaulBalir the aero ¬ planes flew qver the fleet dropping several Iwuibs all of which however fell harmlessly in tlie water They had put out to sea to reconuulter Lemnos and Tenedos when they were brought down The Ger ¬ man aviator were rescued and made prisoners prisonersYesterdays Yesterdays Baseball Results National League Chicago 5 Cincinnati 0 Boston 0 Brooklyn 1 New York 4 Philadelphia 2 American League Cleveland 1 Chicago 0 Philadelphia 2 New York 1 Boston 1 Washington 0 Federal League Bal ¬ timore 4 Chicago 3 St Louis 3 Brooklyn 0 0Walter Walter Runciman president of the Board of Trade announced in tlie House of Commons yester ¬ day that the British government bad requisitioned all supplies of meat from Australia and New Zea ¬ land The supplies not needed for the army will be marketed to prevent price increases increasesA A dispatch from Petrograd of May 4 states that the Russian forces in tlie KhoriDalmon region of tlie Caucasus have administered a crushing de ¬ feat to the Turkish troops under Khali Bey Turk ¬ ish losses were heavy 35110 dead being found on the field after the battle battleSome Some evidence of tlie advance of the allies on the north side of the Dardanelles is given by a Haras dispatch from Athens which says the In ¬ habitants of Gallipoli and other parts of the pen ¬ insula are crossing in large numbers to the Asiatic shore shoreThe The casualty lists published in London May 5 contain the names of more than 170 officers killed wffunded or missing These make a total of over 570 reported within four days
