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GENEBAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. From I ndon ■ dispatch of Monday said: French troops routed three divisions of Bulgarians on Saturday on the front of Gradek-Volandovo Rabrovo. in southeastern Serbia, according to a dispatch from Saloniki t tlie llavas News Agency. The Bulgarian forces, the dispatch adds, were decimated. French troops are following up their victory and are now tiuva toning Strumitsa. Bulgaria, to which place the, Bulgarians retired in disorder. The French are now holding a line running from Barakli to Rahrovo. The Bulgarians suffered heavily in the recent engagement from the fire of the French three-i::eh guns. A dispatch from Athens saws tbe Austro-German offensive in Serbia has been brought t » a standstill on the entire northern front, according to advices received from Nish. South of Pozarovac the Serbians retired a few miles t. stronger positions. All Bulgarian attacks on the limok and lirot fronts are said to have been repulsed so effectively that the invaders were compelled to fill in gaps in their ranks and reform their mils. The dispatch adds thai on this northern part of the front, which the Serbians considered I j invulnerable, the iterations of the Bulgarians have I I lteen suspended. The. Bulgarians are now making the!r principal efforts in Serbian Macedonia, where their impetus is said to have lteen checked by the combined movement of the French anil Serbians. Othere telegrams from tlie Balkans tell of the increasing gravity of the Serbias position. To the I | i , : . ; ?.!, M,.tL,V",fSIlan aud Aiistro-German forces are W within tlnrty-tive miles of joining hands. f o1".!! of ___ "Ioitant success was mad.- in the I ,V- mowing official statement issued at Paris Men la . lu the Champagne district our troops yesterday • won an important success. The eneniv" occupied. „. »n rront of their second position, a salient strongly organized, which had resisted all our previous e- attacks. in its southwestern part, on the 1P northern slopes of Hill No. iflc. at a point two ~ kilometers one and one quarter miles to the north ... ol .Mcslin les Herlus. this salient included a highly ! j important position called "La Courtine." which we n j tare captured alter lieavv fighting. "La Courtine" I-- ■ extended for a distance of 1.200 vards. with an " I average deptli of 25 yards, and including three or "■ Tour lines of trenches connected up with underground 11 luniieis and the customary communicating trenches, - all or which were organized for defense. In spite te . r the thoroughness of the German defensive works and the ferocity shown by the German soldiers, our J UU,"nWcr« J*6***"**! after a vigorous preparatory artillery tire and as a result of violent fighting, in z taking complete possession of this position at the j, end of the day. The Josses of the eneniv wen* "* serious, and they left in our hands 200 prisoners n belonging to three different regiments. A telegram from London of Sunday says: An a oroer-m-coniicil was gazetted today abrogating from m " Wednesday last observance of article fifty-seven of * tn» declaration of London, which provides that the neutral cr enemy character of a vessel is determined by the flag it is entitled to fly. In lieu of this 2 article British prize courts heneceforth will apply ly the rules and principles formerly observed bv them, • the r-ason given in the order for this change is is said that "it is no longer expedient to adopt said U article. A German official statement of Mondav says: The Russians who landed at C-ipe Dome Ness "at i the entrance to the Gulf of Riga, withdrew on shipboard when the Germans approached. West of Dvinaburg the Russians were thrown from their 1 positions. Storming llloukst we took 2.05S prisoners. " Russian attacks soutli of VvganoTskovc Lake-were e repulsed. We took positions west of Czurtor-ysk r and near Komarovow.
