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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY DAYGerman German and Austrian claims in regard to the campaign In Galicia are in part controverted by a statement from Petrograd which says The Russian general staff explaining the change in the Galician campaign from a successful advance to a retreat gave out the following From mid ¬ dle of April news began to reach us of the trans ¬ port of great numliers of Germans from the western front and their concentration in western Galicia The state of affairs thus created forced us to stop the development of our advance in the direction of Mezo l nl orcz and Izsok In order to Insure ourselves facilities for sending reserves to the threatened sectors of our front However the forces which the enemy threw against our front were so considerable that our third army was unable to check the pressure on the Cenjuovltzs Gorlitza sector The result was desperate and uiir interrupted fighting with Impetuous counter at ¬ tacks which prevented the enemy from break ¬ ing our front The enemys action was re ¬ duced to frontal attacks on the positions ot the third army which he occupied in succession On May 14 the whole third army deployed on the San and in conformity with this fact we were obliged to make rearrangements which are already near completion to enable the adjacent armies to unite their fronts Although we were obliged to fall back In the Carpathians we simultaneously madp a decisive offensive in eastern Galicia whereby we gained results essential to our left wing and in lllcted a severe defeat on the Austrians on the Dneistcr front of over 150 versts about 100 miles Within five days beginning May 9 we captured in tills region about 30000 prisoners and forced the enemy to retreat in disorder across the Prutli The French war office yesterday afternoon issued the following statement on the progress of hos ¬ tilities In the region of Het Sas we have cou timiod to make progress Yesterday evening we occupied a house strongly defended by the enemy and on the east bank of the Yser canal we too os ession of the first German line making at the same time 115 prisoner and capturing four machine guns A counter attack by the enemy was a com Jete failure Theru Is nothing north of Arras where it is again raining with the exception of an extremely violent artillery engagement In the re ¬ gion of Lorette and the sanguinary chucking in his same vicinity of four counter attacks of the jJcrmans who suffered heavy losses On the Oise at a point near Dallly the Germans undoubtedly n an effort to influence our sharpshooters displayed In front of our lines a Turkish flag a green back ¬ ground with the crescent Our African troops esponded to this provocation at once by rifle fire which brought tills Hag to the ground A sharp ¬ shooter subsequently went out and brought the Hag to our lines British troops continuing their drive at the German line near La Bassee have capturci another series of trenches at RIchebourgLAvoue They took 450 prisoners prisonersPortugal Portugal has a new government Elsewhere than at Lisbon the revolution succeeded comparatively leacefully but at the capital there was consider ¬ able bloodshed A dispatch from there of yester ¬ day says The success of the revolutionary forces ias been confirmed The new government which will lie presided over by Joac Chagas was pro ¬ claimed last night from the windows of the city tall and the announcement was received with en ¬ thusiastic manifestations The casualties in Fri ¬ days fighting numbered sixtyseven killed and 300 wounded Saturdays list is not yet obtainable but there were many victims on both sides during assaults on police headquarters the military col ¬ lege and the cavalry barracks the defenders of which delivered determined counter attacks before they were overcome One hundred prisoners were taken to warships News from Oporto indicates that the disturbances there were similar to those at Lisbon but that there were fewer casualties All the regiments in Lisbon and in the provinces now have surrendered surrenderedThe The Russian forces In Russian Poland continue In full retreat according to the ofiicial Austrian war statement issued Sunday night It is asserted that the district south of the Pelica has been cleared of the enemy Iu the region of Rud nlcl and Pramysl Russian rear guards were re jselled from the west of the river bank and many prisone were taken by the Austrians Covering other points along the front the communication says In the mountain region from Kiclce to the upper Kamicnka we advanced along the Vistula to the heights north of Kllmbnbow Our armies continue to advance from the woodod Carpathians A strong Russian rear guard was dispersed yester ¬ day ju the region of Maglera height We took seven guns and eleven machine guns and captured more than 1000 prisoners In the forenoon our tropps entered Sambor enthusiastically cheered by the population In southeastern Galicia fresh Rus ¬ sian attacks were repulsed North of Kolomca we captured a Russian point of support supportA A Buffalo N Y dispatch of Sunday says British naval officers who have been here teri days closed a contract yesterday with the Curtiss Aeroplane Company whereby the latter entire output of aerial craft for the next three months comprising something like 00 machines will be sold to tlio allies It also is learned that most of the aeroplanes will be shipped to London for use there to combat tlm threatened Zeppelin raid All the machines made under the European con ¬ tract will be biplanes of the most powerful type They will be equipped with pontoons for rising aud landing in the sea will have ICO horsepower motors of eight cylinders and the specifications require the machines to be capable of remain ¬ ing at least eight hours in the air Bodies of the machines will lie armored underneath with threccighthsInch nickel steel plate warranted to resist machine gun tire Aeroplane rapidtire guns are being manufactured In England to equip these machines declare the British officers From London yesterday afternoon came the follow ¬ ing statement Field Marshall Sir John French has broken his silence in regard to the movements of the British army northwest of La Bassee with the announcement of an advance of nearly a mile into the German Hue This with the continuance of the French thrusts Iwth north of Ypres and southwest of La Bassee constitutes the out ¬ standing feature o the military situation today Military commentators here regard the Britisli ad ¬ vance as a genuine break of the German line which it maintained must mean a retreat for a considerable section of the invaders forces Re ¬ cap tijrc of the bridge over the Yser canal at Steen straate by the French deprives the Germans of their last connection with the west side of the waterway German assaults on the Britisli position at Ypres seem to have spent themselves at least for the moment as Field Marshal French reports all has been quiet there for fortyeight hours hoursThe The Anchor Liner Transylvania which sailed from New York ten days ago with more than eight hundred passengers including several Americans has evaded the German submarines The Cnnanl Steamship Company today announced the arrival of the Transylvania at Grecnock Scotland at three oclock this morning It was stated that the Transylvania would proceed to Glasgow on the tide The Transylvania was many hours late in reaching port and this caused great anxiety hut the fears for her safety were removed by the Cil nard announcement The liner avoided the waters where the Lusitniia met her fate and took the course to the north of Ireland It was reported here at noon that she had stopped en route at Gal way on the west coast of Ireland but the Cuimrd officials stated that they had no definite information at that time as to the exact course she had followed The story of a recent dual between a Zeppelin and a squadron of twentyseven British aeroplanes has reached the London Dally Mall by way of Rotterdam This Zeppelin says the account hail been seen frequently cruising In the neigh ¬ borhood of Brussels About eight oclock in the evening it was suddenly surrounded and attacked by twentyseven aeroplanes The Zeppelin put up a spirited fight with machine guns and tried to escape by rising to a high altitude But the aero ¬ planes maneuvered skillfully and gave the bulky airship no chance Within a few minutes the Zcp pilin had received several mortal wounds and fell All the drew of sixty were killed Two aeroplanes were destroyed by the Zeppelin guns gunsA A dispatcli from Geneva Switzerland says infor ¬ mation lias been received from a Swiss town near the Italian border that Italy now Itas 1700000 soldiers mobilized and equipped It also is said that the Austrian government has confiscated the property of the Rothschilds as well as that of various English French and Russian families Should the expected action of Italy materialize the allies will be in a better position than ever to launch their big offensive movement against Austria aud Germany which is being preceded on the western front by a series of attacks furnishing a foretaste of what is to come comeAnother Another Zeppelin raid on England was reported Monday morning A dispatch from Ramsgate tells of the appearance there of an air machine which dropped forty bomb The most serious damase done was mi the Bull and George hotel A bomb went through the roof and struck a bed The bed and a woman occupying it fell Into the cellar through the hole made by the bomb and the woman was severely injured All the windows of tiie hotel were shattered It is reported that three other persons were injured in Ramsgate There also is a report that the airship dropped Itombs on Dover Fortyseven women aro reported to have been killed and more than 300 wounded in a revolt which broke out In Trieste Sunday Crowds of citizens women predominating assaulted the gov crnors palace shouting Death to Francis Joseph and tore up arid burned the Austrian Hag and pictures of the emperor Forces of gendarmes were called out to suppress the riots but the crowds stoned them and erected barricades in the streets Finally troops charged and dispersed the rioters riotersThe The weekend casualty list Including those in the Dardanelles as well as in France which was Issued in London Monday night shows the heaviest casual ¬ ties yet published since the war lifgan The list contains the names of more tlmn 400 officers and nearly 2000 men of botli brandies of the services The casualties among the officers bring the total published in the last sixteen days to more than 2000 Complete victory for the Russians in southeastern Galicia and Bukowina is announced by the war office in an official statement issued at Petrograd yesterday The Austrians have been routed along the entire Dniester trout of 100 miles It states The Russians have taken 20000 prisoners prisonersAn An Athens dispatch of yesterday says King Constantine who is suffering from pleurisy experi ¬ enced a relapse today His fever increased during the night and his pulse was 112
