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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. There has been a great increase in recruiting throughout England during the last week. The Manchester Guardian says recruiting is now going on al a higher rate than any reaehed since the early months of th» war. King Georges proclamation and the execution of Miss Edith Cavell in Belgium having been cause of bringing many into the ranks. Manchester and Birmingham are included among the centers showimr the best results. One of the chief obstacles confronting the authorities is the attitude of many employers, who. instead of urging their men to join the colors, are not only refusing to grant them allowances, as was doue in the earlier stages of the war. but will not guarantee that employes who enlist shall be reinstated in their positions on their return. Arthur Henderson, president of the board of education, has addressed a circular appeal 1.1 teachers throughout the country urging all those who can to enlist. The London Dailv l.xoii ss says thai the treasury is considering the advisability of a taeei loan with the object of curbing private expenditure and conserving the national resources for the purposes of war. Mr. Montague" itinancial secretary to the treasure 1. savs the Express, slated a few days ago in the house of commons that every citizen ought to he prepared to put half his annual income at th- disposal of lln- nation. We are able to state that the treasure is considering the advisability of acting in accordance with this warning, and if the nation will m, 1 save voluntarily it will he made la do so. Not half, but a third, of every mans present income will be commandeered. Part will be taken as a tax. while for the remainder an equivalent in interest bearing paper will be issued." Agents of the Russian government are seeking o establish a credit loan in this country, somewhat similar to the recent 00,000,000 Auglo-Frew-h credit loan — although no laind issue is contemplated— of from 0,000,000 to 00.4M0.000 and more, if it can be obtained. Details of the proposed loan were lacking in New York, but in one quarter it was reported that the Russian government was willing to pay as high as nine per cent interest for a loan of this size. This report added that the loan probably would be for eighteen months, and would be in the neighborhood of 1915.sh0.41110.1111 The sum said to lie sought by Russia would be speni entirely in this country in the payment for supplies shipped to Russia by American exiwrters. The Saloniki eorresiioiident of Ihe Paris Petit Journal says Rouimmia has mobilized 450.000 men. 200,000 en the Bulgarian frontier and tlie rest on the Hungarian frontier.
