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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. German troops hare occeupied the fortress of o-sowetz. erscnated by the Rassiaus. The .■m-oouncemenl was made at Geraaaa army headquarters yesterday. Uasosseta i- on the Bohr river about thirty miles northeast of L-ouiza ami about n,! mile- souihwesi of Grodno. For months it has withstood most determined German attacks, hut the recent advances of Teuton armies "u its Banks made It untenable. More than 2,600,000 Austrp-Ceratan* are being burled against the Russian lines from Biga to Gs liiu jj an attempt to crush the grand dukes armies. A semi ..iii. ill «i. i-nit-ci »t , lrUrfjT" yesterday estimated that 1211 . i i i ~ ■ . . 1 — .."1 infarttrj ami 21 lont of cavalrj are mwHrating agaiiist the Bn slans. Tiii liK-lmles shout 10 per cent . German forces and 7 per cent of the Ktrength ■ Austria. The Berlin v*aas4seke Eritsssg says thi bathing places on the rivers near Berlin have been closed by tiau police, owiug to several cases ol clwkra aasong nhipworkers in Brandenburg province. The waters, il i- added, have been contaminated. A correspondent of the I ondiai Times, who re cently has been in Bcandaaavia, --ends the following: Germas rahmarlnes lately have adopted tbe practiee of Rtoppbjg neutral ships in the North Sea and demanding that ciiem passengers of a military agi ■ ball be banded v. v to them. A dispatch fr Paris yesterday says: Two French torpedo boat encountered and sank a let man torpedo boat destroyer 08 Ostend Belgium last night. An ai incemenl made here yester- iavy says: our boats were undamaged.
