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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY In the judicial election of Monday revised and completed returns from the city and country dis ¬ tricts of Cook County show the reelection of twelve sitting judges Edwin O Brown being the only one defeated The Republican party made a clean sweep of tho remaining vacancies on the Circuit bench electing seven new judges fto that court Orrni N Carter Supreme Court judge from the seventh district is also reelected He is a Republican Theodore Brentanu Superior Court judge and a Re ¬ publican is reelected Where the party scored another signal victory is in the election of Robert K Turney to the oneyear vacancy on the Superior Court bench He is a Republican who was opposed by a formidable Democratic candidate John W Bcckwltli Turney carried Chicago and went out into the country precincts of Cook County and in ¬ creased his lead leadAs As nn explanation in part of recent Russian reverses a Washington dispatch of yesterday says Reports from various sources have convinced mili ¬ tary experts of the truth of claims that recent Russian reverses have been due in a large measure to shortage of ammunition Until the harbor at Archangel was opened by ice breakers late in May Russia was without a nort through which ammunition could reach her shores Russian fac ¬ tories are limited and unimportant so the only avenue through which munitions were reaching the country in quantity was the transSiberian Railway Jananeso ammunition factories supplied practically all their output to the Russians early in the war But the disagreement between China and Japan over the Japanese demands and the prospect of war in the far East caused Japan to hold its war supplies in reserve temporarily temporarilyFrom From London yesterday a report said Reports of the sinking of two neutral ships both of Nor ¬ wegian nationality by German submarines were received here today The victims were the bark Superb and the steamship Trudvang The Trud vang was attacked and sunk just south of St Georges Channel off St Annes Head Wales All the members of the crew were saved The bark Superb was sent to the bottom in the Atlantic off Fnstnet an island at the extreme southwestern point of Ireland She was bound from Itiipno Ay res to Qiipcnslown with a cargo of grain The Belgian steamer Memetier has been sent to the bottom by a German torpedo near the North Foreland Of twcntythrco persons on board only six were saved The captain his wife and his daughter the first mate the pilot and twelve members of the crew lost their lives dispatch of yesterday from Milan Italy says King Victor Emmanuel narrowly escaped deatli while visiting Mlie Italian battle front it was learned here today An Austrian shell burst within lifty yards of tho king showering a large area with bits of inelnl The army has made a popular hero of the king While visiting his troops in the Treiitino he lived the simple life of an ordinary soldier and was frequently at the firing line lineAn An Athens dispatch of yesterday says that 10000 Turkish soldiers wounded in the Dardanelles light ¬ ing and 25 German ulllcers are in pitiful need of medical attention at Constantinople Dispatches received here today said hospital facilities in the Ottoman capital are entirely inadequate and there is a great shortage of doctors Hundreds arc re ¬ ported to be dying daily for lack of proper care careAn An Austrian official report claims the capture of Frlekofel on the Carinthian frontier a tre ¬ mendous battle is dcvolpiug at the north end of Lake Garda and the Italians arc advancing on a fortymile front on the River Isonzo These are the chief ixiints in a summary of the days strug ¬ gle lictween Italy and Austria AustriaA A Pritish casualty list issued in London last night again shows heavy losses in killed wounded and missing It contains the names of twenty otlirors and 8500 noncommissioned ollicers and men Thirtythree of the men aro suffering from gas IKiisouing suffered on the western front
