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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY The big fleet of warships wliich has been at anchor in the Hudson Ilivcr for ten days steamed out to sea at eleven oclock yesterday with Presi ¬ dent Wilson reviewing the fivemile line as it passed the Mayflower off the Statue of Liberty Headed by the superdreaduoiight Wyoming Admiral Fletchers flagship the sixteen big battleships and their train of lesser fighting craft steamed past the presidential yacht at a speed of fourteen knots each ship with its sailors and marines standing at the rail at attention As each craft neared the Mayflower her sixpounders fore and aft let loose white puffs of smoke and over the harbor there roared the thunder of a presidential salute jf twentyone guns As each battleship passed the Mayflower with the crew lining rails and turrets with a fringe of blue the ships band played the national anthem In bidding goodby to the fleet the crowds seemed to be in a thoughtful mood Leaving New York the fleet made for Newport the rendezvous from which will be directed man ¬ euvers in the war game along the Atlantic coast The President and most of his party had arranged to return to Washington aboard the Mayflower MayflowerThe The latest announcement of yesterday afternoon from the French war office says On the terrain west of the Yser canal taken by us yesterday and the day before tho Germans left about 200 dead and a great number of rifles In the engage ¬ ments yesterday we made some further prisoners East of tlie canal we have consolidated the posi tlons recently taken by us In the night the Ger ¬ mans undertook a particularly violent counter at ¬ tack preceding this action by a bombardment with artillery and bombthrowers They were repulsed In the region north of Notre Dame de Lorette on the road from AixNoniette to Souchez we checked completely by our lire two other German counter attacks As for ourselves we captured as a result of a night advance a group of houses near tlie cemetery of Ablain Along all the front north of Arras the artillery fighting is continuing day and night The Germans have bombarded Arras with particular ferocity In the region of VilleauBois near BerryauBac the enemy yesterday under ¬ took a fresh attack but was easily repulsed repulsedItaly Italy appears to be on the imminent point Qf embarking in war on the side of the allies A Upme dispatch of yesterday says Prince Von Buelovv the German ambassador and Baron Von Macchio the Austrian ambassador are preparing to leave Borne according to the newspapers A special train is in readiness to take Prince Von Bnelow to Chlasso Switzerland and Baron Von Macchio to Ala in the Austrian Tyrol The Glor nale dltalia which has been a strong supporter of the Salaudra cabinet and was among the first to advocate military preparation publishes a sig ¬ nificant article today War says the paper is virtually declared by concord of the king tlie government and the nation The wonderful secret dream which for half a century has strengthened Italy in its long wait Is about to be transformed into radiant reality Corporation Council Folsom was directed by the city council Monday to proceed at one to forfeit the telephone rights and properties of tlie Chicago Tunnel company The stidden revival of the fight to confiscate the automatic system was launched by Aid John C Kennedy one of the two Socialists in the council and he was supported by a large majority of bis associates On a motion to sus ¬ pend the rules for the consideration of his ordor without its reference to a committee he won by a vote Of 40 to 1C and on the final roll call on the passage of the order by fiftyeight to eight By its action council rode rough shod over the opinion of former Corporation Counsel W II Sexton that the forfeiture clause of the franchise was in ¬ effective and likewise over the contention that forfeiture would be confiscation confiscationEdward Edward Addicks who won a national record by spending 3000000 and cloven years in trying to become a United States senator from Delaware spent Sunday night a prisoner in Ludlow street jail New York In a proceeding to punish him for contempt of court The suit out of whicli the contempt grew was begun in Deccbmer 1009 by Hiram M Burton who got a judgement against Mr Addicks for 1547251 due on a note The judgment was returned unsatisfied so siijiplcinentary proceedings were begun against Addicks His bail was fixed at 18000 Addicks Is 73 years old Once he was said to hVve property valued at 10000000 to 15000000 but he lost most of it through politics and unfortunate business Invest ¬ ments mentsFinancial Financial operations between France and Kpg laiid on an enormous scale are now being conducted with a view to eventually establishing n largo credit in the United States fur thV JmrcTiaiie of munitions and supplies according to information received in banking circles of New York yesterday The greatest secrecy is being thrown around these transactions but it is known that 100000000 in gold has been transferred from the Bank of France to the Buak of England and some shipments have been made direct to this country There has been re ¬ ceived in New York 7000000 for French account and 5000060 is now on the way from Paris though the name of the steamer has been cohQfalcd cohQfalcdThe The German government lias not published the text of President Wilsons note nor has it given the slightest intimation of what its reply will be Nevertheless German newspapers discuss the mat ¬ ter freely and one the Berliner Tagcblatt points out that since it has been established that there was an interior explosion aboard the Lusitania after it was torpedoed the United States should invoke the law enacted in 1S82 which provides one years imprisonment for any captain of a passenger ship to take out of an American port high explosives or gunpowder The newspaper declares this shows where the responsibility for the loss of life aboard the ship rests restsWar War Secretary Kitchener announced in the house of lords yesterday afternoon that the British and French governments felt that the allied troops must be adequately protected against poisonous gases by the employment of similar methods These he said would remove the enormous and unjustifiable advantage for Hie Germans whicli must otlierwise result Secretary Kitchener also said in the house of lords that he wanted 300000 more re ¬ cruits to form new armies He expressed his con ¬ fidence that in the near future tlie country would be in a satisfactory positon with regard to the supply of ammunition ammunitionUeports Ueports from Constantinople confirm the discovery of a plot organized by rmenliins and Turks op ¬ posed to the new regime to assassinate the sultan Enyer Pasha Field Marshal von der Goltz and General Lillian von Sanders telegraphs the Paris Journals Athens corres ondent Two Armenians were to have blown up the KaraKeui bridge con ¬ necting Stamboul and Galata on the sultans birth ¬ day while the ruler accompanied by his com ¬ manders was crossing to attend a ceremony at the Mosque of St Sophia Tlie plot is said to have been revealed by a son of Zograph Effendi an Armenian deputy deputyIn In London yesterday Thomas J MacNamara par ¬ liamentary secretary of the admiralty ann innc d in the house of commons that 450G2S tons of British shipping other than warships had been sunk or capture by the German navy since the war began The number of persons pC all nation ¬ alities killed Iii these sinkings he added is approximately 1550 The tonnage of German ship ¬ ping not warships sunk or captured by the British navy to May 15 is 314455 So far as known not one German or neutral subject has been killed iii connection therewith therewithJrwn Jrwn Vienna a message of yesterday says While Austrian artillery is pounding away at the Uussiaii front at Preinyzcl and along the River San combined AustroGermau forces have launched a drive in Southwestern Poland that has already carried them more than forty miles toward the northeast from the Nida river The Uussians have retreated to Opatow which is being shelled by the cannon of the Teutonic allies In their pursuit of the retiring Russians the AiistroCJerman troops captured more than 7000 prisoners and tweiitv two guns gunsIt It is stated that tlie United States government has tentatively reserved the right during the week cf taking over the entire unsold portion of this years metal production of at least two of the largest suiter producers in this country From emer ¬ gencies now being provided against it is likely that other1 producers shortly will be tied up on grades adaptable to the requirements of the government One producer acknowledged We will not sell another pound of spelter for export until we find out what Uncle Sam demands demandsA A dispatch of Tuesday from London says The causualtv lists Issued last night were again lieavv comprising i7 officers and 1300 men of whom 184 were soldiers and sailors engaged in the Dar ¬ danelles Ainniigthe killed was Huuorable Solwyn Erasmus Arnold Phillips elder son of Lord St Davids an officer in the Royal Horsn Guards and Captain de Tuyll also of the Horse Guards who was the second son of the Duchess of Bcaitfurd and the late Baron de Tuyll TuyllA A Berlin dispatch of yesterday afternoon says The official text of the American note to Ger manv was published here today It was said at the foreign ofliiv that St would be some days liefore tlu answer of the imperial government was ready This was because the note raises many points and consultation liotneen several departments of the government will be necessary in preparing a reply replyA A cablegram from Tokio Japan of yesterday says A brilliant court wedding took filace hen today wtieu Princess yasu the youngest sister of the emperor was united in marriage to Prince Naruhiko IIIgashlKuni attached to the second army division of the empire This was the first great court event since the close of the mourning period for the late Empress Haruko HarukoEmperor Emperor Nicholas birthday was celebrated throughout the Uussiaii Empire yesterday En ¬ thusiasm was added to the celebrations by the latest reports from the front which state that tli AusfroGernfan attack is being checked H along the battle line from the Baltic provinces and that at several points the Russians are gaining ground in a counter offensive offensiveIn In New York the commission for relief in Bel glum announced yesterday that arrangements have been made for sending a second steamship carrying contributions from the iicople of New York state to the Belgian Tho Ellland now discharging a cargo at Rotterdam has been selected for that pur ¬ pose and is to sail from New York about June 5 5The The American Ucd Cross shipped 4102 cases of supplies to Dr Uichard P Strong head of the American Ued Cross sanitary commission in Serbia on the steamship Tithlnai which sailed Monday for Paluiero and Piraeus it was announced yester ¬ day The weight of the shipment was 400350 pounds and was valued at 37302 37302A A London dispatch of late yesterday says It was intimated in authoritative circles late today that any differences which may have existed be ¬ tween Winston Churchill lord of the admiralty and Lord Fisher head of the fleet which threatened to disrupt the cabinet had been satisfactorily composed composedYesterdays Yesterdays baseball results National League Chicago 1 New York 0 St Louis 5 Philadelphia 2 Brooklyn 4 Cincinnati 0 Boston 3 Pftttjliiirgh 2 Federal League Newark 8 Pittsburgh 0
