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. " J 1 . J t I i I I 1 i i 1 I - ■ - 1 j . f t i- i I i ; 1 . I ,- I i i ! s I r j t f j i ■ : i GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. 5, An official statement issued at Petrograd yester- 7 7. day «ays: The Germans, having set lire to the bridges over the Dwina in the region of Friedioch- I i stadt. and with ie enforcements having started a g movement to force a crossing, the Russians, ac- cording to an official communication issued today. ." 5. have crossed to the right bank of the stream. At . the entrance to the Gulf of Riga enemy SCOUtS and seaplanes appeared several times above Vibes strait, t throwing bombs on our torpedo boats. They were | driven olT on each occasion by the gunrlre of our ; -hip-, on the left bank of the Dwina the Germans , roughl iii. ; ■ iiloi. -cinci.ts and directed their main i efforts to forcing a passage of the river in the , region of Friedrichstadt. Owing to the Inequality of the respective forces our troops who had crossed the left bank near Linden were obliged, after a [ stubborn tight, to recroas to the right bank. Ac- , cording to detailed reports of the lighting near -I Friedrichstadt on the same date the withdrawal of oar troops was due to the setting utile of flic bridges over the Dwina by the enemys artillery. In the region of Riga and .lacogstadt the Germans lave confined themselves to Impeding our advance. 1 Toward Vilna we held the enemy in his old [w si- I tion. In the region of Orany our troops drove tin1 ■ I Germans from the village of Sinalniki. capturing t over 20n prisoners, including some oflkren. On the ■ j lower Mer.tch.inka we sustained on the 3rd. in difli- I cult circumstances, an onslaught of the eoemj whose advance threatened to cut off retreat in the Grodno region, on the front of the Niemen above Grodno j to the Kiver Jasioolda. near Dere/a Kai lu-ka. our ] troops successfully repulsed in several sections on 1 the night of the 3rd and the following day nianx , enemy attacks. The enemy, nevertheless, succeeded I t in pressing us in the direction of Volkovysk. The Vllan Lille seam-hip Hesperian, westward l i bound from Liverpool to Montreal, either struck a mine or wa- torpedoed Sunday evening about lOU l miles southue-t ol Ia-tnet. She did no! sink then. bat a London dispatch of yesterday aays: The steamer • ] Hesperian sank at 0:15 clock this morning within 1 a few mile- of Ihieen-town. after Captain Main 1 ] and a volunteer rescue crew of twenty-five had made a brave tight to bring the crippled ship into port. During the night the Hesperian settled gradually by the head. Dayight showed the decks awa-h and the liner about to take Hie final plunge. I The captain and crew were taken off by rescue boats, and landed later in Queenstown by the steamer Empreaa. The sinking of the Hesperian in deep water probably will prevent an investigation to determine whether the disaster resulted from a submarines torpedo or from a mine. Passengers and crew as-ert positively thai the vessel was struck by a torpedo, but thus far no statement has beta obtained from anyone who saw a submarine or a torpedo. The list of identified survivors still leaves a considerable number of persona unaccounted for. The Allan Line is confident that the final checking up will show ie. loss of life, except for the death d one or two persons after reaching Queenstown. The Hesperian remained afloat virtually thirty-four hours after being struck and it was hoped she could be towed into Queenstown. Captain Main and twenty members of the crew had remained aboard. Several steamer- were standing by. The official casualty list publi-hed in London yesterday contains the names of 194 officers ami 4.600 men id the army and navy. The roll of privates Includes 851 missing, who are believed to have been drowned when the transport Koyal Edward was sank by a German submarine in the Aegean Sea. The greater number of casualties reported among officer* is still from those serving in the Dardanelles. Among the dead is Lieutenant Lister, heir of Lord Ribblesdale. officer casualty lists are again becoming heavy and during the period of July :a to August 15 the British army -I 2u7 officers killed. 4o4 wounded and forty-one missing -a total of 682. This brings the aggregate c.i-ualtics since the beginning of the war to 14.338, of which 4.:;v: have been killed or died of wounds, s.7.!9 wounded and 1,216 mi — ing. The most comprehensive traget practice ever planned by the navy department was begun yesterday by destroyer- of the Atlantic fleet Ml the southern drill grounds off the Virginia cape-. The battleship- themselves will begin target practice Sep Teinlier 13, Not only will the target practice be tnnsually thorough, but the war games which will follow will be longer and will more nearl afl preach actual war ConditOOS than ever before, tine of the features "f the drill will be movements by the tleet as a whole as distingiii-hed from division movements hitherto the largesr unit of maneuver ing on such occasions. The tleet drill is one which Admiral Fletcher himself has worked out. The details are not to be made public. I rasa San Antonio. Texas, a dispatch of yesterday says: "The Carransa commander at Matamoras. Mexico, today made overture- to the Ameticaa commander at BrownsvBIe looking toward the cessation • •I the guerilla raid- on American border ranches 1 alleged ana z.i -oldbrs and Mexican bandit-. Report of the overtures came to the southern department headquarters here by wireless from Col. Robert. L. Dullard, who stated he had received from the Mexican general. E. D. Nafarrate. through tin Carransa consul at Ifatamoras, a suggestion that i e pre sea tat Ives of the two forces meet in the middle of thi international bridge for a discussion ways mil means to piLl.jin end to the handll ictlrity alone, the lou er border."* ■ -• - - A Copenhagen report savs that the new type of aiant biplane lergoias. tests in German j i- -.u.i to hire a measurement "1 f°rtj two aud one-hall I I i I 5, 7 7. I i g ." 5. . t | ; , i , [ , 1 I ■ I t ■ j I j ] 1 , I t l i l • ] 1 1 ] iim iir- across the pilar The motors develop .100 horsepower, and each works three propellers. These biplanes are capable of carrying sufficient fuel for flights of eight hours. They are equipped with wireless and searchlights. Bach carries twelve bombs, weighing twenty-two itonds apiece, and five machine guns. Biplanes of this type will have crews of eight men and will be able to travel to London and hack in five hours. The engineers who constructed them obtained the idea from a Kussian machine. They say that the new craft will sup-er-ede the Zeppelin. Yesterdays baseball results — National League: St. Louis o. Chicago 2 i first game: Pittsburgh Cincinnati 2: New York 4. Koston 0: Brooklyn Philadelphia ■".. American League: Chicago 7. Cleveland 1 Hirst game.: Chicago s. Cleveland 0 1 sei ond game i : Washington 5. Philadelphia .! first g.imei: Washington 5. Philadelphia 0 second game: New York 5, Boston 2. Federal League: Chicago St. Louis I itir-t ganiei: Ituffalo ;;. Baltimore 2: Brooklyn 1, Newark 0. New York lost its place to Chicago last year as the leading American city in cost of building opera tions. Statistics made public by the United State-geological survey show Chicagos 191 1 building operation- t" have cost 683.201,710, while ...w Yorks total was 574,030,241. New Yorks decrease, compared with 191::. was 3,674,666. A Btessage late yesterday from Consul Frost to , the American embassy in London said the total I lo-s of life on the Hesperian might reach twenty. According to Information telegraphed by Mr. Frost. the Hesperian went down at 0:41 a. in., at a point j j not far from the scene of the explosion. All those on board at the time were rescued. Lxpeiinienls with live motor trucks now employed 1 by American naval forces in Haiti will determine • whether motors or horses will be provided in the • future for the marines for hauling their artillery equipment. Not long ago the marines dragged their r artillery about by hands, but increased size of the guns has made thai impracticable. All of the 868 conductors and niotorinen on the . Albany. N. Y.. city street car line went on strike today. Traffic ceased Immediately and Charles s Hewitt, general manager of the 1nited Traction x Company, order the car barns locked. A dispute . over the discharge and suspension of men caused the • trouble. : The three submarines of the "f* group remain- ing sine- the loss of the ill-fated F 4. were put t out of commission at Honolulu yesterday, when the . United Slates steamer Supply crashed into the flotilla, while ib eking. The vessels damaged were the . 1-1 F 2 and F-S. Governor Willis of Ohio, announced yesterday that he will join the camp of citizen soldiers of Cleve- land at Chagrin Falls as a ••private."
