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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Tleam of aaJariea af I8.0M elty rmployea re- -ull/-d .-er.lav because of the refusal of Charles I- lergel. • it» treaaarer. to honor the pay vouchers of -even exaii, i i.-rs of elli.i.-n.y in the civil service division. B. H. Davenport, one of the men affected i,v the citv treasarera ruling, preaaoted his voucher for two weeks salary at the cashiers office tbi- morning. Payment was refused. lm mediatelv after Percy B. Coffin, president of the commission, was notified of Mr. Sergeis action, be annnouiiccd 1! at the commission would not certify t.. the pav roll ot any cit separtment. He re-fnaed to certify the foUawiag pay rolls which were on bis de-k: Civil servi.-e employes of the public library; a in.rtion of the police department: the vacation pav roll in the comptrollers office; ;. part of the pay i-• • 1 1 in the board of education. Without the certiflcatloa of the commission to a i.-iv roll it is imp. BBiMe for uu employe to obtain bis salary Mr. Coffin said that lie t.xik this action mi "the ground that the citv treasurer has no right to go behind the civil service commission | /ertificution of a pay roll. Of the situation on the kmg Baaalaa battle front * dispatch from London says: The fact that the Ctrviana are abb- to advance with comparative iioid .In.-.list from Warsaw, while being checked ,,, the ilf ■•"l l,,n nanlw. has given rise to the liniiressvm in Kngland an. I m Uussia that the stout i.-i-tince offered bv the Russiaa win«- will Insure the safu withdrawal ol the iuaiu body of troops from the Warsaw salient. Contrary to many report- the main line of communication between the Polish capital and Petrograd has not been cut through, ii would be cut if tlie Hermann were to . take Dviiisk. On the southern front iu Poland there ■ baa been bitter lighting. Bertia reports tin- Russians falling back, while Petrograd ass.-rts thai yesterday Herman attacks between the Wlepra and the Bag were repulsed with extremely heavy losses. Offsetting the Germaa anceanaaa in central Poland. the Russians Claim to 1 e steadily driving back the ib :n. ans on the Kovno-Uimi front, the most important sector of the Whole long battle line. In the Riga region Petrograd reports that the Russians have retaken several villages and are advancing westward. Thus it would seem that the Herman 1 plan to outtiank Kovao aad Vilna. the chief northern points of the liussian secondary Bate of defenae. i-meeting ! with failure. Continued iierman attacks ] on the fortress of KoVnO and the front west of the Nieinen river also have been repulsed. Of the lighting on Ibis whole front. Berlin merely sa.vs that the ■ situation is unchanged. A Bertia dispatch of yesterday says: The Polish 1 city of fttrdlaa. tifty-live miles southeast of Wat-saw, has been captured by the lierinans. Announcement to this effect was made today at army headquarters. Herman military authorities, on tlie suggestion ol the citizens committee of Warsaw. have declared a general amnesty of political prisoner- there and set them free. Among these was the widely known Kussian labor loader, Meden. War correspondents report that Warsaw was not damaged by the struggle around it. and that only the ..in storehouses in Iraga were burned. Lublin i likewise was only slightly damaged. Some factories • in tlie barrack district were burned. The iirst : real Uus-ian. not Polish, town of some Importance, i entered by the iermans was Vladniir Hdynski. Retiring tossacks set lire to tlie buildings. As i the tossacks galloped away. Cerman cavalry arrived - at the other end of tlie town. Tlie Incoming ; troops tried to slop the tire, hut with small success, ami the central part of the city was entirely destroyed, the burned buildings including : -lores, restaurants and hotels. The suburbs and surrounding rural districts, the Officers ivsidome-. barracks, messes, schools and churches were spared. The Herman cavalry commander restored order and i established a military and also a civil government, the latter by appointing three administrative presi dents, one of whom was a lole, another a Kus-.an ! and the third a Jew. A Leaden dispatch of yesterday says: Official j announcement was made today of an airship raid 1 last night on the east coast of England. Six persons were killed, twenty three were injured and fourteen houses were damaged seriously by bombs. The text of Hie .ninounceiiienl follows: Two Zeppelins visited the east cast last night between 6:30 ti p. in. and 11:43 p. m.. dropping incendiary and d explosive bombs in various places, resulting in the e following rasaalties: Killed. 4 men. J women: in i jured. :t men. 11 women. .I children, all civilian-. .. Fourteen houses were seriously damaged. The Zep . pelills were engaged at sollle points, but sll.ee. lie. .1 I iii getting away wh i aircraft patrols. one t .1 tin- Zeppelin- wa- probablj damaged by the mobile e anti-aircraft s.-ctton. The hud ortiier on the active list of the United I Slates Army, who saw service In Hie Civil War, • was placed on the retired list yesterday when ." Colonel John I.. Clem, ujoarteraustera department. reached l be age •■! -ixl.v four years and wound up bis ..tibial duties at the War llepai 1 iiieut . where he lias been stationed lor many years. He retires with the additional rank of brigadier general, in _ j! accordance with uii act of Congress. Colonel Clem is conitiionh known as "the drummer !••• of In. ka _ manga." because as a lad of ten he r in ava.v from borne and attached himself to the Tw i-ut.v -second ,1 Michigan Infantry Regiment and lieat the drum in some of the bloodiest battles in which that organiaa , tion participated, notably at Shiloh and thicka-m.iiig.i. . New uprisings by the Bono and laaaor factions J have broken on a Cape Haitien and have toned d Rear Admiral Caperton to eatablUh military rule in 11 the city. This -tiiiemeni was issued at the navy department - yesterday. Admiral Caparhyn reports that it on account of disturbed condltiona In and around d tape Haitien. due to tin- Bono and Zuiuor faction-. It lr lias become accessary to take military control of the if town and conduct affairs in tlie same manner i- at it Port an Prince. Civil offichtla are employed where ,e it la possible and -uitable men can be obtained. Commander Olmsted, commanding officer of the te , Nashville, has been placed in charge and ha- a bat taUon of bluejacfcsti from the Connecticut ashore e to a--i-t in niiilntHltilna- i»tder.. . - . Datvld I.lovii Qeorge, tragi a ads minister of munitions, i- announces that S4S plants have been de dared "controlled establishments" under tin- munitions |. of war act. As a result of this control the ,. profits of employers lire limited. Any excess .,er r such a limit becomes payable to the national ex t- chequer. "By this provision.," *uys Mr. Lloyd- l- . ■ 1 ! ] ■ 1 i • : i i - ; : i ! j 1 George, "parliament has assured that sacrifices made by workmen are made for the nation as a whole and not for the advantage of individuals. tin the other hand, during the period of the war. any rules or shop customs which may have the effect of limiting tlie output of inanitions are suspended in controlled establishments." 1 livers entered the rising hull of tlie death ship , Baal la ml at 4 p. m. resterday and began exploring the cabins and other rooms in search ot bodies they are supposed to contain. Tlie tilted vessel had been , gradually rising since the actual work of righting , I her began at noon, and was expected to right iself before nightfall. Tlie monster wrecking tug Favorite, witii its great crane: the auxiliary crane and | two other tugs were hard at work pumping out the hull and tugging at its lower side to raise it to , an even keel. Mayor Thompson and Mrs. Tliomp son witnessed the work. A Rucharcst dispatch to the Vossische Zeitung sa.vs a badly damaged Busslan warship, presumably the battleship Sldbpe, is lying in tlie outer roadstead at Mangelia. Roiiinania. The warship is ro- ported to have been one of thos: which attacked the Tarnish coast on July 20-30. It struck a mine and barely waa able to reach Mangelia. The vessel has not interned and presumably is making repairs. The Slnope is a ve-s.1 of 11,033 tons, built at Se-bastopol in 1887. Paroa von Bbrichroeder, son of the famous Her- man banker, was killed while tighling on the War saw front August 1. according to an Amsterdam dispatch. He was a I one tine secretly engaged to Prince as Sophia ..r Saxe-Weimar, who committed suicide ill 1913 because her father. Irince William. refused to permit their marriage. Karon VOU Welch loeiier was laid to have been the heir to 840,000,000. The Portngaeae cruiser Bepnbttea foundered en the rock ..IT Kriceira. twenty-two mile* northwest of l.isb.n yesterday, anil is a total loss. Her crew-has been taken oil ami her larger guns salvaged. The Republica had a displacement of 1.63S tons and carried a crew of 2." u men. She was built in IS.mi. lb.- While Star liner Adriatic docked at I.iver-pOOl Thursday afternoon, according to a message to its agents. Tlie Adriatic left New York August 4 with a large cargo of war munitions. Consequently it was feared it would lie attacked by ier- man submarines. General Baron Beinhard O. von BcheaTer-Beyadel has been appointed Bovemae of Warsaw, according t.. a Iosen dispatch to the Vasriehe Zeitung. a copy of which has been received at Amsterdam.
