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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. An important dispatch of yesterday from Paris ■U: For.-igi Minister DelejMe r.-signt d 1o:!ay. His resignation was accepted. Prcini-r Yiviani made this announcement at a meeting of the cabinet mmmB today preaMed over by President Patentee. It was IkIM that the premier should take over the iMtrt folio of foreign affairs with the presidency of the como-il of ministers. Tile desire to olitain united support of all elements in parliament In upholding iBa Lands of the government in Mattel with foreign affairs, particularly the critical conditions in Bhf Balkans, has brought about the situation nhich in all prohaMility will result in changes in the ministry. The question of reorganizing the l ersouuel of the cabinet is receiving the attention of that body at a council in session today. The continued ill-health of Minister Pelcasse is giving serious concern to his friends, raising the question whether his strength would permit him longer t carry the burdens of his position. The chief intent in reorganizing the cabinet would lie to insure direction of f.. reign affairs in such a manner as to make certain harmonious co-aperettea of all groups in parliament in the foreign aaMry of the government. M. Holoflsscs resignation aroused widespread comment in diplomatic and parliamentary quart, rs in Prance, owing to tin- prominent part lie had taken in shaping the foreign | oliey of the government sine" the first months of the war. when he P-suine.] his old place at the head of the foreign office. His retirement at this particular moment when the Balkan crisis lias become acute caused some surprise, though those closely identified with governmental affairs were not entirely unprepared for the change. In some quarters the Balkan situation was thought to he the MM of the cjMtinel changes. After an exciting s-.-ue in the chamber of deputies. Premier Yiviani demanded a vote of confidence. A dispatch of yesterday from Potrograd says: Another striking victory has been won by the Russians on the southern front, in eastern Caliche They have pierced the last line of Austrian de- Ictisos on the Stripa river and stormed one of th 1 strongest point* en the Austro Oeiman right Hank. • Kuss.iin tor.es smashed the German ami Austro-i.erman lines in four places anil gained minor r successes aiong the entire 1.000-mile lf.nl. accord ing to an official statement issued lire today. - I,ie army ot Kranz Josef along the Stripa has s been hurled back for the second fine within I two days, and is reported lo be retiring in complete disorder. Kussian forces are pursuing. At t the southern ,-nd of Lake Dcmiiicn. Kussian troops, • .•liter a heavy bombanlment. charged the Ccrman 1 trenches .-ind forced the Prussians to evacuate the ■ Inst .■iiitlsfn.ii,! lino of works. After the infantry retired they b-iuhariled the third trench, to which J 1 the kaisers men had retired. This was followed J by another eh.-n go. and in hand to-hand lighting I v it. i bayonets the enemy was also forced to quit » tli" third lino of trenches. The oflicn! statement of the Trench war office e yesterday says: In the V-isges the Hermans succeeded in ejatefaej possession of a French trench. At the conclusion of the bombardment reported 1 yesterday the enemy last evening delivered an in tantry attack against our positions to the northeast 1 ot Souchez. These attacks, like the preceding ones, were everywhere e.-mpleloly repulsed. There has s been fair.y intense righting with trench machines s in the Meter of Plirey and more violent fighting, accompanied by artillery exchanges, in which both i sides to ,1; part, in the suburbs of Reillmi. A squadron of nineteen French aeroplanes has thrown , down 110 shells in the railroad station at Bazean-tourt. . whence movements of the enemy have been -, reported. Another air squadron, composed of f eighteen machines, has bombarded the railroad junction at Achiet-Lo-Oraiiil. near Bapannie. Other r machines have bombarded the railroad tracks at a i point near Warmorivillo. A dispatch from London of yesterday said: Developments in he Balkan situation came fast today. Chief points in the days news were: Bulgaria has declared war on Serbia, said a Central News dispatch from Paris. Serbians repulsed a Bulgarian , attempt to take their positions south of Ealtebar , on the railroad between Ni.sh and Prochovo. BBM I Athens dispatches. Cerman invasion or Serbia is making pr gi-.-ss. the Berlin war office announced. although the Serbians by their resistance are interfering . witli I he advance. A village and other r IMisitions south of Belgrade have been captnred. _ Serbian temporary capitals transfer from Nisli te , Monastic was expeded today within forty eight I hours. The formers oaplur- bv the Bulgarians was looked for before the Cermans. who have the « same objective, can reach it. That the kaiser is already on the Serbian front has l oc.i repeatedly J rum-. iv,. bet verification was slill lacking today. A dispatch fr.m Budapest to the London Post says: It is ii,, enumeration to say that there is s practically a state of famine in Hungary, especially , in Biilaoest. where the civil population is on the brink of starvation. Prices are rising by leaps s and bounds, so much so in the last four weeks s as to show an increase of forty to seventy par r cent. Even with this rise the people cannot get I certain necessaries. Newspapers, even subsidized 1 government organs like Az Est. are openly accusing " the government of gross neglect. Only the " veil to da can afford to have meat. Bread is three times as dear as in Oermany. where Hungarian 1 Hour is used in making it. It developed Monday that a German-American so ciety has asked the Department of Justice to Bfoae cute J. Pierpont Morgan, the New York financier, • under the neutrality statute forbidding any American from accepting a commission from a foreign govern ment. The Department of Justice promptly held that Mr. Morgan had violated no law iu placing war , c -ntracls for the British and allied governments. • The statute, when originally framed, it was declared, was intended to apply only to citizens accepting • commissions to serve in the armies and navies of belligerents with the enemies of which the j United States was at peace. The Austrian city of Oorizia. twenty-two miles 5 northwest of Trieste, is about to full, according to a telegram received at Geneva from BroM-ia. The ItaPaus. the dispatch says, have brought up a large numlM-r of heavy guns and I are bombarding the town from five different BOtafta. . At the same time the Italians are attacking the inner defenses of Tolmino. while on the Carso the Austrians are said to have been forced to abandon , several miles of trenches. Heavy snows In the • Carafe Alps are reported to have buried the Austrian gun positions in deep drifts. Kenneth G. Triest. a Princeton student, who is under arrest in England on a charge of being a Ccrmau spy, will escape the punishment of death. His fath-r has expressed willingness to have him ; -entenccti to prison, and such action undoubtedly will 1k taken by the British authorities. Mgr. Dobi. the a|xistolic delegate at Constantinople, having reported to the holy see on the . sufferings of the Armenians. Pope Benedict has written an autograph letter to the sultan of Turkey interceding for the unfortunate people.
