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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY DAYAustrias Austrias offer of concessions to Italy made to win the neutrality of the Home government was as follows First part of Tvrol inluiliited by Italians was to bo ceded to Italy Second the western bank of Hie Isono in so far as the IMipiilation was purely Italian and the town of Gitidisca likewise was to be ceded to Italy Third Trieste was to be made an imperial free city receiving an administration which would in ¬ sure the Italian character of this city and to have an Italian university Fourth Italian sovereignty over AvJoiia a seapirt of Albania and a sphere of interest belonging thereto to be recognized Fifth AustriaHungary declared her political disinterested ¬ ness regarding Albania Sixtli the national inter ¬ ests of Italians in Austria to be particularly re ¬ spected Seventh AustriaHungary to grant am nisty to political military prisoners belonging to the ceded territory Eighth the further wishes of Italy regarding the general question to lie assured every consideration Ninth AustriaHungary after the conclusion of the agreement to give a solemn declaration concerning the concessions Tenth mixed committees for the regulation of the details of the concessions to be appointed Eleventh after the conclussion of the agreement AustroHungarlan soldiers natives of the occupied territories shall not further participate In the war warIndications Indications point to the entrance of Italy and Roumania In the big war before this week closes A dispatch of yesterday from Berlin says The Home correspondent of the Berliner Tageblatt today sends a pessimistic dispatch from the Italian capital declaring The short parliamentary inter ¬ lude is ended The street lias won Italian dis ¬ patches to other Berlin newspapers are of a similar tenor It appears to l e generally felt that only a miracle can now avert war between Italy and Austria An ominous statement from Komc of yesterday says A royal decree under which all railroad lines and stations in Italy are placed en ¬ tirely under the supervision of the military authori ¬ ties is published by the Oliicial Gazette Under the provisions of the decree military ollicials have the power to prohibit suspected persons from travel ¬ ing on the railroads or even approaching the lines All travelers are warned that at certain points they must not look from the carriage win ¬ dows but must keep the shutters closed Any person caught approaching a tunnel or bridge will be imprisoned for six months If war has been declared when the offense is committed the of ¬ fender will be courtmartialed Soldiers and the police are intrusted with the enforcement of the decree and are authorized to lire on persons who violate its provisions provisionsAs As the result of the latest German tactics says a dispatch to the London Mail from Petro grad all that had been accomplished by the Russians in the Carpathians has been undone and months have been added to the duration of the war If the German plans had succeeded com ¬ pletely if General Linsingens army had been as fortunate as General von Maekcnsens if the Aus trlans in Rukowina had been triumphant if the Hal tic invasion had resulted in the capture of Ulgi the blow would have been terrific Fortunately as matters now stand the enemy lias not ac ¬ complished anything really decisive The general idea of the German offensive was to advance upon Iemberg from three different directions Von Maekensen was to attack from the west breaking through the Uussian front Iinsingen was to force Tukhalka Pass and move swiftly up the Stry Val ¬ ley Archduke Eugene in Itukowina was to turn tlie Russian left Apparently General von Macken ¬ sen alone was successful in his attack Linsingcn lieing held back while the archdukes army was Houndly beaten beatenPremier Premier Asquith announced in the house of com ¬ mons yesterday that steps were in contemplation which involved a reconstruction of the government upon a broader personal and political basis Nothing lias been definitely arranged as yet the premier said but in order to avoid any pos ¬ sible misapprehension I wish to make clear here and now three things First any changes will not affect the position of the prime minister or of the foreign secretary Second there will be no change of any kind in the policy of the country as regards the continued prosecution of the war with all possible energy and b means of every available resource Third and last and of great importance to the honorable friends behind me and I have no doubt ti the oppositon is this Any reconstruction of the cabinet that may be made will l e for the purposes of the war alone and is not to IK taken in any quarter or for any reason as indicating anything in the nature of a sur ¬ render or a compromise on the part of any person or body of persons of their several political ideals This Is as far as I can go Nothing definite lias taken place but if any arrangement is made the house will have the fullest opportunity of express ¬ ing its views viewsThe The London Daily Chronicle lias received what purports to be an authoritative statement of casu ¬ alties in the German ranks from the beginning of the war till the end of March There is a total of 223 lists and the Chronicles estimate is that the German causualties aggregate 12050000 Fol ¬ lowing Is the classified loss up to February M says the Chronicle Dead 0 Ulcers 10151 non ¬ commissioned otlicers and men 237S7 wounded ollicers IfllKlO noncommissioned officers and men 728401 Missing ollicers 1S33 noncommissioned otlicers mul men 177144 Total 1175081 The probability is the paper adds that the grand total of German causualties cannot be far short of 1800000 and another 230000 must certainly be added for the fighting of the last six weeks As ¬ suming these figures to be approximately correct the losses on the other side may be greater indicat ¬ ing a total of between four and five millions of men already put out of action actionAll All reserve ollicers in the Uulgarian army have IKMMI called to the colors for a months training says a Times dispatch from Sofia to London The Turks are hurrying troops provisions and muni ¬ tions from Lule Hurgas and Keshau to the Gallipoli peninsula All siege guns and modern artillery have been removed from Adrianople and sent to the Aegean coast Keshan and Malagara are be ¬ ing hastily fortified fortifiedA A dispatch of yesterday from Bucharest says Koumanias entrance into the war will follow that of Italy The Uonmanian army will strike at Austria through Transylvania A ministerial council was held today at which the Premier pre ¬ sented the latest information received from Koine It is understood that this was to the effect that Italy has decided for war warIlenrv Ilenrv II Morgan American consul general at Hamburg has cabled the State Department that Germany has completely ignored the American note of April 2S and has placed the William P Frye case before a prize court The State Department immediately cabled Ambassador Gerard at Berlin to ask for an explanation of the action actionYesterdays Yesterdays baseball results National League New York 3 Chicago 1 St Louis Philadelphia 0 Brooklyn 2 Cincinnati 0 Pittsburgh 7 Bos ¬ ton 0 American League Cleveland 3 Boston 2 Detroit New York 1 Federal League Newark 7 Pittsburgh 3 3A A Cardiff Wales dispatch of yesterday says The British steamer Dnmcree has been torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine Its crew was saved The Dnmcree was a ship of 4032 tons be ¬ longing to the Astral Shipping Company She was built in 1903 mong the probable cabinet changes suggested by London morning papers yesterday is the selec ¬ tion of David LloydGeorge as secretary for war if Karl Kitchener goes to the front Otherwise it is suggested LloydGeorge may be minister of war supplies The Idea Nazionnlc of Rome reports a revolt at the Austrian arsenal at Pola on the Adriatic It is asserted that 10000 Italians employed there came into conflict with the troops and that fifty persons were killed and one hundred wounded
