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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. I From Taris vestor.lay a dispatch said: Soldiers § wounded at the capture of Tahure are of the opinion that th.- French are gaining the upp.-r hand, not , . ,,;-, through their artillery, hut because of the gal- f iantrv and dash of the intautry. At the rate thin.- [ . ••re £oing. said a wounded sergeant major, it will J i*. a long time before the Germans M. m a po- sitien to think of a counter offensive, lur Iteavy s artillery spravs quick their rear formalion. itaralyr. , ins the bringing up of reinforcement- and sup- , ; nlHs The last prisoners captured :it Tahnre lino ■K t eaten in forty-eight hours and had no cart continued last night. rift-es Tlie caunomiding ; Wli sides taking part to the north of Arras: in J , • i... .lirectioii of Souchcz and its environs, as well . V- in the sector of l.a Folie and near hill No. : ijii There was eoisiderahle activity on the part of the artil.e.v of th,- enemy, together with answer-ins lire from our guns in the region of Roye and , J Jo the north " of the River Aisne in the direction .Vf Tr-uv Val and at the forest of St. Mard. district the Germans violently • Im the OMMH the roads running . nil inled our |K.siti«,n- between - fr St. llilaire to St. Souplct. and from Souain t. Soniiielv. Our batteries everywhere replied 1 t. this tiie with great energy. Active lighting the connecting trendies to the south-;.,-, oL- idace in of Tahure in the .lirectioii of the Lutte de ,. ,, Vl.snil Letw «n the Argonnc ami the Mm one mines in tl.e forest of Mnluncoart t l-.eiich .." t e tiered some sapping works of the enemy. the e -h, iiiglit passe l in relative quiet on the remainder r of the front. . .tisualch of vest .rda v from KUk, Serbia, said: ii v-Trf-ic l.etw.-en th - allies ami Teutonic armies in Blikats is actually under way today. The dip-he ,- H,e 7;.lk-1", . »,et»:ceii Serbia and Bnlgaria is Stete.mT?r foreign office has handed his pass-JL ;- tTtiie Ilulgarian minisier. Fo!h,wing the in-,Kr i- ., of serhi" vesterdav bv German and Ausfo-lltiuana" .- 1 . „,,.,,.,, the fray. 5eriuau aviators ■s Ua "fern, dr.. homhs on Belgrade and a Bii-Vi-i: ,«■-! £«t from »«Wfnt"wo ,nrstMls „,.,.,. kmed and live o - -el»H With the opening of the offensive hy Bul-Hj;i 1- Russia also joined in th.- Balkan fray. Two o ?,ari.., cruisers h-gai. actively h.niharding the 1, n is ." Li ,- th- l landing •• - f "llit-.l troups at Snlontki. i. ,„,t opposing. Ut ,.,.,.,...,. J d.Misi,,, lias 1S or ,mir J.;,:. ti„. Ci.-.k government to issue a ■l Wu tJSrf -h.nevolcnt neutrality"" UB a titudof "Se entente powers, according to a .lis;.,,::, : !°USl Iteers The objective l-iet of ls.th the allied n.TTe.toiic fotves at presea. is the Saloniki-Nish :l1 and i«",n 1. , 1,-,.. bv which the Serbians can ial,M?,n;iied h -nunit ions of war. Ihe Anglo- °- . forces -ire rushing northward to prevent the " Bulgarians, supported by the Teuton-, from captnr-;.,., •- this road. m Hie war in Eurojie starred more thin 2.000.- ... S"" . lev l.e.1. killed: the wounded number ir n- s " ... - s ,,.,ts made in "« , f ,,.„„ gathered ! "ther table follows: i" The from other sour s mr e- BatUe Killed. Womidrd. Missing. Tital. ;r. Britain. ~|- 7,Mmmm» .Thi..ki.i l.t i! . X:o M 1 ! IlilS- .-■- Z-Iutk NoO KM» PIKI.IMKI 2,200.000 !! r J«r tnorto 40O0t L.. Kct 80.000 Vt V Igium - 5j- , 4ft.i0i 10.000 70.000 ; • •"■•!» »» .•riuc-Kt 1 C0O.O00 riiMl.otHl l.!MXI.HH» S ..eiiuail.v .- • w Tl ti ToO.tKHI l.KOO.000 A.-tria ... 4"-0l0 so.ooo 20.000 LOI.OOO * I urkey . ■•• ,y- Z; :;.« ;.0 «« 2.::0. .0:XI T/.HiT.OoO Total .2,0«6.000 Court has admitted John R. R. /• clerado i„-K p supreme upr eu .„ Lawson 5,000. was to "* ™ 2 bail to l.nvaon ;r,m -enlenced sc me t in u a.o i ,if ,mprisonment ri„ ,.-, fr1 *W of iV.iotnea- in October. 1913. low strtk. « lot n . L.id i- ■; ■Bert in a .,u..lti .,,„, writ a I our 8 ; ;,„. Supreme nwje ,„, ,.„..,„„ ,"rr,"i- "then left und-cWetl. The ...don lahor I,," V •"« .wfl.s "V I Tr nidad. where he «a- im „, •n,Ur J- Granhv llillyer er r,.,", nii er a ter Judge .iehis mothm icr a uew trial. Judge llillyer er ,. ,, t e r . in ii ,- is ;- i- .- 1 ■s a o 1- o 1, n is i. 1S a ■l : :l1 °- the " •- ... ir n- s " ... - s ! M !! r Vt ; S * Z; R. R. was 2 ,.-, fr1 ■; writ ; I,," im „, er er has since been barred by the Supreme Court from presiding at further strike trials. It is believed that the Supreme Court will reverse the ca-e on appeal and that Lawson ultimately will go free under the governors amnesty plan affecting participants in the strike. A second trial is not ex- pected. Terrific hammering by French artillery has worn down the German powers of resistance in the Cham-s pagne region, say dispatches received Thursday from 1 the front. The Cerinan second line trenches are crumbling under the heavy pounding of shells and there are indications that the enemys line is about to give wav along a wide front. In one of their latest infantry charges the French virtually reached the coveted railwav behind the German lines. The Cermans concede that a French attack west of the Soiuinc-Pv-Si.uain highroad penetrated their Hat in the direction of Ste. Marie, which is a* that rail-u. wav the i/iiaileranze-Bazancourt line, but declare the French were driven back. It is known, how -;i ev. r. that the French are within two miles of the railwav north of Tahure and experts predict they will reach it and cut off this Jerniau means of communication within a fortnight. . well-defined earthquake shock was felt at San Francis.-.. at 0-2I. oclock Thursday night. There were two distinct tremors, both sharp enough to sway buildin-s slightlv and rattle doors and win-,! dows. t p-M another disturbance, much milder. was experienced. Considerable excitement, espe-1,1 cially to sti-Hi"ers. was caused by the quakes, but tin alarm quickly subsided. Four shirks were felt in Berkeley across the bay from San Francisco. the first registering on the seismograph at the Iniversitv of California an intensity of "• . Ihe big earthquake of IMC was classed as an "*.• The distrubaiiies. the university observatory authori-i-s ties said, was purely local. chic ,"s big new municipal pier at the foot of Jrand avenue has been named m honor of Commodore James A. Pngh. According to action taken bv the harlior commission at a recent meet-lie ing the official title of the structure in the future will be the Pugh municipal pier. Construction of the pier was first suggested by Commodore Iugh. and be had plans all drawn for private const ruction of it when the city decided to make it a municipal enterprise. He turned over a permit he had obtained from the secretary of war and co-M operated with the city in getting the pier under way. the decision of Secre President Wilson approves tarv MrX.loo to rocomend that Congress retain the pie-ent duty on sugar until normal conditons are lestored and that the deficiency tax measure. »„i,h expires automatically December :i1 . be ex-tended cntil the end of the European war. ihe Lresdont Ys known to beleve that the European effect on industrial condi- war has I such an Hon* that dith measures will be necessary to help build vp the revenues of the government. The Anglo-French troops, which were landed at Saloniki with the tao it consent «t tt» Ore* tm-■V — hurried northward to Tint are being assist Bulgarians from the ,..,1.. „,„, if oos-ible. keep .. . aril ■ tie Saloniki-Nish Railroad, the on v Serbians can be led with s.nrce bv which the munitions of war. tJenoral Edouardc de ■ French Three -on- of the Curieres 2 Casteluau have lost their lives at the I 1 front. Two of them were killed some time ago 1 . and the death of the other. Second Lieutenant Hu- . gues de "astlenau, who was wounded in the recent fighting in Artois. was announced yesterday. . The Empress of Britain, former Canadian Pa- . cifie liner, but commandeered by the British gov- . I eminent as a troopship at the outbreak of the war, ■ was towed back to port at Liverimol yesterday, hadlv damaged by a fire of unknown origin that t broke out as she was passing out of the Mersey. Two masked men early yesterday held up and a roblied a Baltimlore and Ohio "xpress tra:n troni New York to St. Louis, two miles west of Central Station. W. Va. Their booty was taken from mail 1 ! ears, according to reports received at Wheeling, anil was lielieved to be large. Twenty-three inhabitants of La Colorado, a mining town in the Herniosillo. Sonora. district, were e massacred by Vaqui Indians, who captured the town a this week, according to reports received at Douglas. Arizona. Women and children were beaten to death, • it was said. That allied airmen have rilded Liege was reported d yesterday when five heavy explosions were heard d from that direction, said a dispatch from Gem-minich. l- north of the Belgian city. For opposing Bulgarias entrance into the war. r- leaders of the Agrarian party are being arrested 1 wholesale, Sofia dispatches to Budapest said yesterday. r_
