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■ I h; ; tl the c p si ; ; ii h c h " " V " .1 I1 ■ a s / i e n n I, t f t a I I t n t li ,] r j t v i t I ■ I | 1 I 1 I e ■ I ! « t * x I : . ■ i j ■ j j ] ! : GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. I i A dispatch of yesterday frein Home sa : "In t series of spectacular night battles tin- Italians . have captured one position after another around ; Joritz. hispat-lies received hete today repeated rumor that the Anstrians wen- preparing to evacuate the fortress city, though war office dis- s patches offered no conarmatioa. The Anstrians i still hold the beigbthK f Iodgora. dominating uitz from the west and are iMMiring down a heavy J tin- on BersagHell attempting to storm their trenches. The flghting here is of moat desperate character and dispatches agree that the Italians I have suffered heavy leases. Per more than a fort night the day flghting has oc cased under most oppressive weather conditions, the temperature rang lag al-ove ninety and often above one hundred , degrees. Both armies are becoming exhausted in , the territflc struggle. Several of the more i 111 - | portanl of tin- ridges of the Carso Plateau are , now held by the Italians. Monte S -i Hiisi and Monte San Michele have been captured, the Ih-r sa-ileri ami Alpinists combining in the attack and taking; several hundred prisoners." Another dispatch, giving other details, said: "On the Carao Plateau the battle continued yesterday. Our troops advanced along the whole front with great dash and boldness, conquering toward the left wing » strong position on San Michele. commanding the greater part of the plateau. After being suh-ii i ted. however, t i a violent crosslire from the enemyi artillery of all calibers our forces were chliued io fall hack below the crest, where they are maintaining their positions. on the center we progressed toward San Martina carrying with the hay c. net trenches and a redoubt covering it. On tin- right wing, by the perfect timing of uu infantry advance with the supporting tin- oi ar tlllery, we completed at nightfall tin- conquest of position on Monte Del. driving out Inch by inch the enemy, who was strongly Intrenched there. We made about 3.200 prisoners, including one lieutenant coioiul ami fort] me other -iltieers. We took Ave machine guns, two small cannon, trench mortars, quantities of titles, ammunition, war materials and food as trophies of a day of tierce flghtiag." Pram Pari An Prince. Haiti, a diapatcfa of yestef day .says: " mob of Infuriated Haitians today removed Vlbrna Uuillaume, president of Haiti. from the Preach legation, where he to-k refuge yesterday, and hot him to death in front of the building. This act of violence followed immediately the burial of the ICO political prisoners who were massacred in prison yesterday morning at the time of the revolutionary outbreak against Presideni .iiilluiiine. The inoh was composed ill very large part of relatives of the victims ,,f this wholesale execution. The crowd invaded the Ireinh legation and seined i.uill iiinn. M. tiirard. the French minister to Haiti, protested vigorously, put he was powerl-ss before the fury of the people, Uuillaame was dragged from the protection of the legation. Ones- in the street the crowd singed around him with Imprecations and he whs promptly shot tn death. Even then, the anger of the people was not appeased. The body of the presideni was mutilated, and. tied to the end of a rage, it w is dragged through the strei is of the city. The pea pie of l-rt an Prime are in a slate of intense excitement, and further violence is feared. The arrival of the American cruisc-r Washington, with Bear Admiral Uapertoa on hoard, is expected at any moment. The Washington has been oa the north coast of Haiti. M. Oiraril was counting on the coming ol a cruiser to afford protection to the lega i ion." London was Informed yesterday that although the Germans now hold a great line from the Gulf of Riga sweeping southwestward around Warsaw, thence encircling the city and stretching aw. iv to the Galician frontier, near Sokal, it fa estimated they have lost 001.001 men. perhaps mere, in this, the most ambitious movement of tin- war. and tic ltiissian front is not yet broken. On the Karen river, north of the Polish capital, the Russians have made a stubborn show of re sistance, liolding Field Marshal vim Hindenburg for the time being la check, while to the south tin- combined Anstro-German forces struggling to seize the I.iil.lin Chelin railway have lieen for days on the threshold of success without being aide actually io achieve their ganl. The German I irees in the Baltic provinces advancing along a front approximately eighty miles w hie toward Vilna. with a view to seizin;.- the railwas t r- -in Warsaw to Petrograd, an- dailj becomiag a more potent factor in tin- flghting. for. linked up with the I irees to the southwest, they give the iermaai a fronl ot :; mi miles with w inch to effect a vast turning Mineiii north -d Warsaw. The troops operating against Riga, from which rity they are only t went J miles distant, ai" considered in the nature of an Independent column, and it is these farces which have conn- under the lire of the Russian war ships. Belief funds for the victims ami families ,,f vie thus of i he Eastland were swelled by haps and hounds yesterday when miim-ibutiona.,.4j om man sources were reported to tin- committee appoliltw * ai tin- direction of Mayor Thompson and Acting Mayor William Moorbonse. At many s,r,.s ;lii,i pl.oes of amusement percentages of the gah receipt* were donated and employes gave of their sa ■-: bj by w m fi for fi yi v pi a si tl | ,| " of . ■ ., , ! of as V , n n I T. b - n 1 s o v I I I- I I t c I i t . ; s i J I , , | , salaries. At White City Friday, ZS per cent of the Ql -ate receipts, 25 per cent of the amount taken ill jj I the various concessions, ami nar half of the wages of each employe will go to the relief fund. With more- than 50,000 already collected by the mayors c ttittee, ami the Ml. MMl appropriated CH relief by the Western Electric Company, the fund was expected to pass the half-million mark yesterday. Meanwhile the American Bed Cross workers and employes of the Western Klectrie Company continued the distribution of funds in small . ■mounts to meet tin- Immediate needs in the ln stricken homes at Cicero, and the relief thus dis trihtileil amounted to over 0,600. A Paris dispatch of yesterday aaya: "The im portanl offensive of tin- French in Alsace is reaping results. The i ttieials report another success north Minister, which apparently is the French objective, and the repul-e of a series of Cerinan counter .|. this attacks. The Prencfa have concentrated much ar tUlery in that region, anil with high explosives the " have been tearing up German defensive works, m. which an- among tin- strongest along the arboie i hut line. Iii Alsace our hoops have achieved the con- SI quest of a Strongly organized position which Ihc ~" Germans occupied at an altitude of about 850 feet J.., above our initial trenches .on Hie crest of l.inge- on kopf. SVhrity.inaunele and P.an enkopf." savs the ,. the official battle statement; "that is to say. on a front A. . two kilometers about a mile and a third. These :*• heights dominate the principal valley of the lecht. J? th. well as the great road from Notre Paine des Trois Bob Epis. We took prisoners several otlicers ami more than Iimi men belonging to the regiments." ... Within the space, of a month, three- new rear ad- he niirals ale- lning commission.-,1! in the United Stales tin too mi. With tin- retirement of Bent Admiral C P.. ha has Moore, commandant at the Honolulu station. rick, ri« because f the age limit in active service. Captain d - Albert Cleaves, until recently in cnminaml of the Is-navy yard at New York, becomes a rear admiral, set tear Admiral Aagnstas I". Fechteler was rommln stoned oo Inly 11. on the retirement of Rear Ad w: was miial Walter C. Cow b-s. The third appointment no will come on August ti. when Hear Admiral C. .1. CO Badger retires at the age of f.". and Captain Her- ah ald bert o. Dunn, recently in command of the battleship Wyoming, is advanced to bis rank. Bear Admiral ■ Fechteler is of Gel maa birth, having been horn in s-i Paderborn, Prussia, September 1. ix." 7. He eaase to New cirk when be was six years oh| and entered "i tin naval academy from thai stale-. " no Fire hundred men. the last of the strikers trim the Standard oil plant in Bayonne, . .1.. have ., returned to work and ended the labor contlict which had heeu in progress lor ten days and had been accompanied by several fatal clashes between the strikers ami tin- authorities. Already the asajority ban . of those who quit tin- oil works had abandoned tin- J" strike in the expectation that the company would " for grant the increase- in wages they elemaiuh-.l. •" a an i The Swedish hark Madonna, hound from Halm la siad to Hartlepool, was stopped by a German -nlc- inaritie in the North Sea and set alire after the Crew ] had been given time to take to the boats, aceotding o to dispatches received at Copenhagen yesterday. |. The Madonna was a woodea vessel of lot; tons. t| the owned bj c. Joknnan ami registered at Kabnar, ,, Sweden. -y| The Nova Scotia Ste-i-1 and Coal Companv of w Halifax. N. S.. was aotifled by cable M lay of tin- sinking e.i tip. rtorwegian steaaser Pimreite, u utiih r i barter to the company, by a Ociiaan sub- tl marine off tin- coast of Scotland. The stenaper was bound from Wabuna, N. F . f-r Immingham, near oi of Grimsby, England, with 8.000 tons of iron ore. :l| at In tin- most racceasfaj raid on Turkish shippiag " the since the- war began, Russian Black Se.-a destroyers " on Sunday sank 190 Turkish sailing vessels in the sl spe harbors oi Samsun and Risa, along the coast of Tre- ■ hizouil.
