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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY DAYTremendous Tremendous conflicts are in progress in northern France witli great forces engaged on both sides The latest official statement of the French war office describes intense activity along the French front the allied forces delivering powerful attacks and the Germans counter attacking furiously To the north of Arras tho French have carried several lines of German trenches and two hills and are making marked progress toward Souchez Heavy losses on both sides are reported The report says There lias been great activity on the front during the last two days The lighting to the north of Arras since yesterday has taken on a character of extreme intensity The infantry actions have been numerous and desperate the duel of artillery vio ¬ lent and continuous We have realized important progress almost all of which lias been maintained notwithstanding the furious counter attacks of the enemy some of which were markedly accentuated It is especially in tlieTnortli part of the sector that we have progressed carrying several lines of trenches on both sides of the road from Aix Hou lette to Souchez Further to the south we have taken foot in the park of the Chateau le Carleul the moats of which filled with water served as a base for the enemy defenses captured the cemetery of Souchez and gained ground on the slopes to tho southeast of Souchez thanks to several brilliant assaults Our infantry after having attacked with great spirit etliecaciously supported by a lire of nearly 300000 shells was obliged to make front against violent and repeated counter attacks carried out by large effectives We have evacuated only u small wood conquered yesterday morning to the south of hill No Ill which the enemys artillery lire rendered untenable The Germans brought into the engagement eleven divisions which suffered ex tremly heavy losses The number of prisoners taken by us exceeds COO Tiie grave check suffered by the nemy in his counter attacks at Queiinevieres is confirmed by the great number of German dead found in front of our trenches A longrange piece has twice bombarded VilhrsCotterets One person was wounded At Rheims an examination of the points where German projectiles fell establishes the fact that more than eighty shells several of which were of incendiary type have fallen on the town and more particularly on the cathedral cathedralLieutenant Lieutenant Reginald A J Warneford who gained fame recently by blowing to pieces a Zep ¬ pelin over Belgium was killed yesterday by the fall of an aeroplane at Buc France says a Paris dispatcli of yesterday Lieutenant Warneford was piloting the machine which had as a passenger Henry Beach Needham the American writer who also was killed Lieutenant Warneford and Need ham fell from a height of 000 feet The lieu ¬ tenant had been spending a few days in Paris where he came after his Zeppelin exploit to re ¬ ceive his decoration of the Legion of Honor Ac ¬ cording to a report received in Paris the accident resulted from an explosion in midair which caused Lieutenant Warneford to lose control the machue crashing to earth earthThe The kings physicians expect their patient to enter upon convale = ence in a day or two says Renters Athens correspondent to London They think he can be transferred to his country castle at Dekilia within a fortnight The kings mind is now entirely clear He has been informed of tin result of the elections and concerning the political situation In view of the kings improved condi ¬ tion the proiwsals for a regency are not likely to bo considered by the government governmentSays Says i Sofia dispatch of yesterday The Bul ¬ garian army is now far better prepared for war than it was for the Balkan war of 1912 It com ¬ prises four divisions of 120000 men ready for action with another ten divisions of 300000 men of first line reserves who could be mobilized in a few days If necessity should arise this force could be more than doubled doubledSwiss Swiss newspapers report the capture of an Aus ¬ trian armored train near Plava The train con ¬ sisting of six cars filled with machine guns and ammunition was allowed to enter one of the seventy small tunnels on the line The Italians then blew up the track and took the train intact intactYesterdays Yesterdays baseball results National League Pittsburgh 7 New York 5 American League Chicago 11 Philadelphia 4 Detroit 5 Washington 3 Boston 3 St Louis 1 Federal League Chi ¬ cago 8 Buffalo 0 Pittsburgh 0 Brooklyn 4 St Louis 12 Newark 2
