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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY DAYA A dispatch from Rome late yesterday said War is the word which thrills all Italy today War will be a fact before another sun has risen ac ¬ cording to the belief of diplomats and populace alike Italys parliament convoked to give formal expression to the will of the people and the gov arnment for an attack on Austria to regain the lost provinces met today and granted full power to act to the minister of war The vote was to 54 The news was immediately flashed to the great crowd awaiting the deputies decision and massed about the chamber Roars of cheers sped through the clt and the message went rushing n to the Italian frontier towns Everywhere the people greeted the action of parliament as a cer ¬ tain forerunner of war The government measure was introduced shortly after parliament went into session With scarcely any debate it was hurried to a vote many socialist deputies voting against it Parliament thus gave formal approval to the war program of the Salandra cabinet The decision now rests with the ministrv Definite announce ¬ ment perhaps an ultimatum to Austria is ex ¬ pected within twentyfour hours The procedure today was identical with that nsed in 18i9 when the government after first receiving power to act from parliament declared war against Austria AustriaThe The following statement was issued at Berlin yesterday by the general staff In the south ¬ eastern theater Our troops which penetrated across the San river north of Przemysl again were attacked yesterday by the Russians in a desperate assault The enemy everywhere was repulsed with considerable losses This morning we opched a counter atack on one of his wings and stormed the enemy positions He is fleeing as quickly as possible In the eastern theater We had no engagement with the strong forces of the enemy reported to be advancing on the line of Shadora Fraiienlmrg Russian attacks on the Dubysa were repulsed Nine hundred prisoners and two machine guns remained in our hands Yesterday wo at ¬ tacked to the north of Hodubis We captured a llill and took nOO more prisoners Russian forces advancing south of the Niemen were completely defeated at Gryeszkabnda Symtwoty and Szuki Remnants of the enemys forces are fleeing In an easterly direction into the forest Minor divisions still are holding Sutki The losses of the Russians in killed were heavy and the number of prisoners for this reason increases by only 2000 Two hundred and four more machine gnus were cap ¬ tured turedA A message from Mytilene forwarded from Athens to the Exchange Telegraph Company of London says the allies have silenced the Turkish forti ¬ fications at Kilid Bnhr on the European side of the Dardanelles at the end of the narrows nearest Constantinople The fall of Niagara on the Asiatic side across from Kilid Bahr is said to be imminent The Turks are sending reenforcements to their positions along the Gulf of Smyrna It is also re ¬ ported at Mytilene that the allies disembarked fresh troops Monday night near Kimi Kale on the Asiatic coast of the Dardanelles It has been learned there that the Turks on the Gallipoll pen ¬ insula who for weeks have lacked artillery am ¬ munition have obtained an abundant supply of shells in the last few days daysA A statement of yesterday from Geneva Switzer ¬ land says the German Emperor and his staff had a narrow escape on Sunday while watching the operations in a village near the River San in Galicia according to a dispatch from Budapest which arrived here by indirect route A heavy shell burst five hundred yeards away It fell among some automobiles destroying several machines in ¬ cluding the Kmperors and killing his chauffeur The Kmperor had left his car only fifteen minutes before As more Russian shells were falling In the neigh ¬ borhood the Emperor and his staff left hastily in machines which they commandeered commandeeredAmbassador Ambassador Gerard has notified the State De ¬ partment that the German note would not bn ready for at least a week It probably will be ten days therefore before the note Is made public in Washington though it is possible that Berlin may make it public before it reaches here The news of the sinking of the British ship Drumcree off Cardiff by a German submarine and the un ¬ favorable comments of the German press on the note of the United States caused a pessimistic feel ¬ ing at Washington as to the nature of the reply which Germany will make to the demands oC the United States StatesA A dispatch of yesterday from Redding Cal says that Mount Lassen is spitting fire today for the first time Commencing at 930 last night the whole top of the mountain was aglow the circular jngged sheet of flame receding full size of the crater to a height of 500 feet Lava in chunks red hot and glowing like balls of fire rolled down the western slope for a few minutes hut the glow f the tlame was still visible early today todaySimultantously Simultantously with the warning voiced by Pre ¬ mier Asquith that England was in danger of at ¬ tack it was announced by the war otlice yester ¬ day that new recruits for the British army will be accepted up to the age of forty years The announcement follows the statement of Lord Kitch ¬ ener Secretary for War in the House of Lords yesterday that the British army must have 300000 more soldiers soldiersAn An Athens dispatch of Wednesday says At yesterdays bombardment of Alexandretta a French warship destroyed the German consulate Three hundred Christians whom the Turks had obliged to work on the fortifications were killed the day before yesterday in the course of the bombardment of Smyrna forts fortsFrom From Rome yesterday a dispatch says It is assured that the King has manifested his intention to assume the effective command of tin Italian army and intrust the regency to tlie Dnke of Aosta In this action King Victor will follow the example of his grandfather King Victor Emmanuel EmmanuelOfficial Official adyices received by the State Depart ¬ ment at Washington show that Italy and Austria are aliont to engage in war AVashington believes that Italys example will be followed by Roumania and Greece It is even said that Bulgaria will cast in her lot with the allies alliesFiftytwo Fiftytwo members of the crew of the steamer Dumfries have been landed at llfracomlKj Devon ¬ shire They were picked np half an hour after the steamer wns torpedoed Two of tho crew were drowned and two others badly injured injuredWith With the exception of a troublesome cough the condition of King Constantine who is suffering from pleurisy was said on Wednesday to be favor ¬ able His temperature was given as 101 101It It is reported that German guns are getting the range of the western forts of Peremysl It is believed that the Teutons plan the recapture of this stronghold at all hazards hazardsA A Petrograd dispatch to the Geneva Switzer ¬ land Tribima states that an English submarine l euetrated the Baltic Sea and sank a German transport off Lilian LilianA A London dispatch says that arrangements arc almost completed to close five Clyde shipyards so that the workers may be transferred to munitions factories factoriesThe The Aberdeen trawler Lucerne was sunk by a German submarine forty miles off Rattray Head Wednesday The crew was saved
