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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY DAYIntelligence Intelligence that the great Cunard liner LnsI tanla had been torpedoed by a German submarine off Kinsale Ireland at 233 p m yesterday after ¬ noon was the one outstanding feature of the day She Is reported to hive had on board a total of 1900 persons of wh ch something over 1300 one report says 1388 were passengers One re ¬ port said the vessel was beached after lieing struck but Ambassador Page cabled from London Lusi tanla torpedoed and sunk within thirty minutes Many Chieagoans were on the big ship among those reported to have sailed on her being Mr and Mrs Charles A Plamondon 1344 Astor street Mr and Mrs Montague T Grant 1412 East 51st street Mr E B Thompson secretary f Blish Mill ¬ ing Company Seymour 111 and wife Mrs Cathe ¬ rine B Wllley Lake Forest mother of Mr Robert I Thorne C Dingwall William Mounsey ex ¬ pressman 4420 Laporte avenue Mr and Mrs C C Lunin 4420 Laporte avenue II Boltou Jr Mrs Leslie Faber wife of leading man at Princess theater Charles T Jeffrey president of Thomas B Jeffrey Co Keriosha Wis E M Cdllls Riverside employe of Commonwealth Edison Com ¬ pany Patrick Callan 3028 West Taylor street The Lusitaniii steamed out of New York harbor Saturday May 1 The tonnage of the Lusitanla is 33000 and the ship has a displacement of 45000 tons Accommodations for COO first class 400 second class and about 1000 third class passengers are on board In length the ship over all measures 800 feet and its Iteam Is eightyeight feet as is that of its sister ship the Mauretanin MauretaninAt At 525 p in yesterday Lloyds threw some doubt on the torpedoing by issuing a statement saying that the Lusitania was believed to have been blown up by an Infernal machine on board the vessel We have no details said the Lloyds statement as to the passengers arid crow but It is considered probable that they are safe At 459 p m a Queenstown dispatch reported the receipt of a message from Kinsale saying About twenty l oats of the sort lioloiiging to the Lusi ¬ tania are lit the vicinity where she was sunk About fifteen boats arc making for the spot to render assistance The following dispatch from Galley Heart about twenty miles westsohthwest of Kinsale Head timed 425 p m was later re ¬ ceived by the admiralty Several boats appar ¬ ently filled with survivors of the Lnsitnhla sighted nine miles southeast A Greek steamer Is pro ¬ ceeding to assist In addition to the boats dis ¬ patched from southern Irish ports fast steamers verc hurried from Liverpool Waterford and Cork British destroyers which have been patrolling the southern coast of Ireland and St Georges Chan ¬ nel were sent at full speed toward Kinsilc Head Thursday night the administration made public at Washington the following statement of UK iit itude in regard to the controversy between Japan and China In order that there may be no mis ¬ understanding of the position of the United States n reference to the negotiations pending between Fapan and China this announcement is made At the iKjglnning of negotiations the Japanese gov ¬ ernment confidentially informed tills government of the matters which were under discussion and accompanied the information by the assurance that Japan had no intention of interfering with either the political independence or territorial integrity of China and that nothing that she proposed would discriminate against other powers having treaties with China or interfere with the open door policy to which all the leading nations are com ¬ mitted This government lias not only had no thought of surrendering any of its treaty rights with China but it has never been asked by either Japan or China to riiake aliy surrender of these rights There is no abatement of its interest in the welfare and progress of China and its sole Interest in the present negotiations is that they may be concluded in a manner satisfactory to both nations and that the terms of the agreement wil not only contribute to the prosperity of both ol these great oriental empires but maintain thai cordial relationship so essential to the future o both and to the peace of the world worldCertain Certain portions of the army corps stationed at Hiroshima and Okayama Japan already have pre ¬ pared for eventualities Dispatches from Manchuria say tha many Japanese are leaving Japanese Da rlen Manchuria and that the volunteer defense corps of Japanese and Chinese troops IfaVe clashei at Tslnan All the troops In Shantung province and Manchuria are preparing for possible trouble It Is said in unofficial quarters at Tokio that the elder statesmen at first wore strongly opposed to the ultimatum to China They even discuss the feasi ¬ bility of dispatching a special plenipotentiary to President Yuan ShiKai to settle the controversy It is said Morc than forty Japanese warships including the battleship Hlzen and the battle cruiser Kongo are preparing at Sasebo for possible operations against China A second squadron under Admiral Nawa has arrived and Is hastily embarking sup ¬ plies Rear Admiral Kamimuras fleet including the battleships Snganii and Suwo lias been ordem to the Gulf of Pechili to be in readiness to take aboard Minister Hloki In case of necessity The police are protecting Professor Ariga Japanese adviser to President Yuan ShiKai who speakers have denounced as a Chinese soy and arc arranging ample nrotection for Chinese residents of Japan JapanThe The French ministry of war Thursday night made public a statement in which all German claims of successes in the west were denied The state ¬ ment summed up the results of the latest German offensive as follows During tlie last lit teen days the enemy has attempted a heavy offensive which we speedily broke down The total of the German losses in the heights of the Meuse In the Woevre and the Vosges has been more than 35000 A no part have they broken through our lines They have taken no important position from us They have allowed half a dozen of their finest regiments to be decimated decimatedThe The Italian government continues its war prep ¬ arations The army is concentrated at strategic points The Ileet is ready for action and the first thing to be done after war is declared will be the gazetting of the Duke of the Abruzzi as commander in chief of the royal fleet The government has Issued a royal decree authorizing the suspension o telegraph and telephone service without notice Premier Sallandra and Prince von Buelow were In almost constant conference yesterday The German ambassador is trying to persuade Italy to remain neutral but it is admitted that he considers the at ¬ tempt a serious one oneItaly Italy has been warned of the consequences o entering the war on the side of the allies Tel ¬ egraphing from Berlin to which he had returned after an inspection of both battle fronts the kaisor notified Prince von Buelow that the English troops In the west are useless and that within a fort ¬ night the Russians will be driven out of Galicia Italy was warned under direct Instructions from the kaiser that Austrias cause is Germanys and that Austrias enemies must be Germanys Be ¬ cause of this should Italy come into the war she will lie opposed by a groat German army armyA A dispatch from Havre to the London Daily Telegraph of May 7 says that Prince de Ligne president of tliQ Belgian Red Cross reports tha General von Bissing the Gorman governor cf Belgium has dispossessed the Red Cross from its power and seized funds amounting to 10000 The dispatch states that Prince de Lignp has filed protests with Brand Whltloct United States Inin Ister to Belgium and the international headquar ¬ ters of the Red Cross at Geneva GenevaA A dispatch from Peking of May 7 says there is good reason to believe that China is proparet to concede everything demanded by Japan realizing that the situation Js hopeless This possible out ¬ come to the present tense situation is not gen ¬ erally comprehended in Peking consequently a nuih her of foreign residents as well as Chinese thorn selves are packing their personal belongings am otherwise preparing for eventualities eventualitiesA A Homo dispatch says that a state of siege has been declared at Flume the AustroHiingariau seaport on the Adriatic and It is to be extended shortly throughout the southern provinces o AustriaHungary Upon receipt of a dispatch from Berlin the German school in Rome suddenly closp Thursday afternoon Tho teachers with a mimhc of German newspaper correspondents and seveni German families left almost Immediately for Germany GermanyAn An Athens dispatch of May 7 says that three Russian aviators operating from the Russian Blacl Sea llept Hew over Constantinople bombarding the city from the air According to dispatches re ¬ ceived great damage Is believed to have boon done Shells fired from Russian warships against the Turkish forts upon tho Bosporus fell within ten miles of the Turkish capital capitalFifteen Fifteen perrons were killed and more than tw score injured by a tornado late on Thursday which passed through the western part of Acadla Paris In southern Louisiana Much damage was done in Oklahoma by heavy windstorms At Wilson forty live buildings were blown down Snow fell a several places In western Kansas eastern Colorado and north Into Nebraska NebraskaThe The Xieuw Rotterdamsche Courant says it learns from Berlin that Emperor William arrived In Berlin yesterday nt noon from headquarters and that ho was enthusiastically cheered by the populace From this station to the palace tlie newspaper adds the emperors motor car could proceed only slow ¬ ly through the dense crowds The emperor was looking fresh and well One hundred young men from Venezuela wi Htart III as students of seventyodd colleges in the United States next fall These young men will cntvr tho American volleges and universities MI scholarships which have been given by the Insti ¬ tutions fqr the piiriwse of promoting friendly re ¬ lations and commerce between the South American republic and this country countryThe The Pcilt Parisien of May 7 says it has been informed the French government will introduce a bill prohibiting absolutely the manufacture sale and transport of all alcoholic drinks during the progress of the war Even beverages containing a slight proportion of alcohol it Is understood will be prohibited prohibitedThe The Italian railway administration on Friday announced the suspension of forty passenger trains on tlie main linos While no information is forth ¬ coming it Is understood this action was taken to facilitate the movement of troops and munitions of war to the concentration bases basesYesterdays Yesterdays baseball results National League Cincinnati 9 Chicago 2 Pittsburgh St Louis 4 Boston 11 New York 7 American League Phila ¬ delphia 4 Washington 1 Boston 5 New York 3 Federal League Newark 3 Chicago 4 Brooklyn 4 Kansas City 1 1A A dispatch to the Geneva Tribune of May 7 from Vienna Says an army corps under Archduke Eugene has arrived at Moravitz ten miles from the Serbian frontier advancing against Serbia
