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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY summarizes summarizestlie 1 tiMuruiiv i dispatch tlie situation as follows It Is universally conceded in England that Italy from today enters into full partnership with tlie entente powers and this means that tlie two Germanic nations assisted by the Turks find themselves facing seven European pow ¬ ers not counting Portugal witli Japan in the back ¬ ground How long the Balkan states will refrain from joining in the fray is not exactly known but it is held here that tills period of time must of necessity be coniparilivciy brief The demands Tor compensation territorial and otherwise of Ron mania Bulgaria and Greece are In process of ar ¬ rangement according to persons in London who are well informed Just at present the excessive claims first put forward by these states are being cut down Already reports are coming from Greece of more cordial relations between the court and former Premier Venizelos which can only point in one direction Gallipoll armies already urn in process of formation in some of the Balkan states and the title sufficiently indicates the pro fiosed scene of their activities activitiesIn In a statement of certain conditions a dispatch from Rome of May 20 says Martial law was proclaimed throughout all of the northern provinces and Gen Cadorna tlie chief of staff arrived at Vicenza to take full command of the 1700000 soldiers now in the north All art treasures were removed from galleries and churches in Venice because of the report from Milan that tlie Austrian fleet at Pola the Austrian naval base in tho Adriatic is under steam and ready to proceed to Venice and bombard the city The war ollice formally published a manifesto placing all railroads under military control King Emmanuel held a lengthy conference with Minister of Marine Viale Premier Salandra submitted for royal signature a decree suspending from diplomatic immunity the Austrian and German ambassadors to the Vatican Navigation in the northern Adriatic was ordered stopped in view of reports of tlie presence there of numerous AustroGerman under sea craft Orders were issued for all aliens to register with the police iuunediatly under heavy penalties penaltiesA A London dispatch of yesterday forenoon says The French steam trawler St Just of Arcachou was torpedoed and literally smashed to pieces near Dartmouth yesterday afternoon thirteen of hor crew beiug drowned The captain was the only survivor It is stated that no warning was given the vessel before she was torpedoed The British trawler Chrysolite was sunk by a German submarine thirty miles off IChmairds head in the North Sea yesterday The crew was saved The crew of the trawler Crimond which was sunk by H German sub ¬ marine yesterday was landed at Wick today The chief engineer of the Crimond said a German officer compelled him at the iwint of a revolver to cut the pipes on the trawler in order to facilitate the flooding of the vessel The engineer also said that before the trawler was captured he had seen tho same submarine blow up a steamer the name of which lie could not ascertain
