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i 1 1 1 1 f " I • " II 0 • s 11 1 s ■ j .. 0 1 ,i „ in Z in " . . 1 . he . ., . h Il to o le i d . 1- g d t d d n of f »- e -*. n •t c V ;; a " " , " " • : • to " • c lie t. u ,. K is |r .. k . ,j. • ! .. i~ J J j . ;s .,- ir ,,. his js M m .J „ l_ of , • ,1 « ,j- J too .o m in r- ,i id i- t- e. •1 is the ic of .! in ,s . i 3 " 5 ! " " 2 _■ J *• ■d in in • v id is i- the ie id r. li. id iy "• x "- l% " ", n. i,. •u „ .•, GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. A dispatch of yesterday from Bonie says: The fate of Uls. passengers and seamen unaccounted for amonj; tiiose on the Italian Line steamship Ancona. sunk by a submarine Hying the Austrian flag, was still uncertain here today. The government is making ev.rv eliort t- learn full particulars. It has not y.-t lM-.it possible to learn whether there were Americans among the To survivors landed at the Ireneh naval station of Bizetta on the African coast. The figures arc approximate, but are believed to lie ncarlv correct. That tjje passengers number 4S-J1 is known definitely from the Italian line"s rec- or.ls in Naples. The crews full com piemen I is 1«0. but it is lielicvod only sixiy were carried on this voyage. Two of the Anemia ■ boats, with fifty-four nnnibers of the crew, have landed near Tape Bon. Seme of the men w.iv injured. The passengers on board the liner included eighty-three first cahin. sixty second cabin and :!".il steerage. Tlrfs makes 42. which, with sixty of the crew, gives a total of .".42 on board the ship. Cape Bon. where two of the Ancona-- boats landed, with fifty-four mem- bers of the crew, is the northeastern extremity of Tunis. alK.ut seventv miles east of Bizerta. where. according to advic. m last niglit. 270 survivors were landed. This makes I total of ."24 survivors thus far accounted for. Prince Cassano Zuuica was aboard the Ancona. An otlicial reiHit from Rome via Paris yesterdray say-: ••Continually increasing activity of artillerv and aeroplane- on both sides is rei»orted along the Treiitino frontier. Dn the night of Xovemlier S in the upper Cordevole the enemy trie.1 with str."ng forces to recapture the summit of Col di I.ana After repulsing a violent attack our men assuumed the offensive and. harrying the fleeing enemy. reached and stormed the summit of Monte Seis. which rises T.7» Icet north of Col di Lana. In Carnia there was ati intense artillery action. Our gnus dis|.ersed enemy groups in the Koder Gail all.-v and on Monte Lo iin and bombarded the Saif- nitz railroad station at the head of the Kalla valley. On a height west of ;»rizia on the night of No- vetnber 7. after an intense artillery preparation and volleys of liombs. strong infantry columns attacked our positions, but were repulsed, leaving the ground cover.sl with corpses. One of our uirigibles on the night of NovenilM-r S. after rising above a dense bank of clouds, crossed the Isonzo zone and Vipacco i and then ls.mbar.ied intreiichnionts j„ the vicinity of Savogna. The dirigible was discovered by the enemys searchlights but eluded the fire of the anti- aircraft guns and returned unscathed to our lines." . A London dispatch or yesterday says: Serbians .pirating in the defiles of Kutehanik against the Buiu-ars advancing from lskop to Irissenr report . an important suece-s. according to advices from Saloniki. says an Athens dispatch to the Exchange , Telegraph company. In the region of Strumitsa. British " troops have received re-enforcenients and j replaced the Krcrich north of Doiran. with the ob- ject of harassing the flank of the Bulgarians, who iire a.teniptin to f-aeh Doiran and iuevgheli in order to compel the allies to retreat. The Ireneh are extending their line along the railway from Krivolak toward Veles. A Bulgarian attack upon Krivolak yesterday was eompb tely repulsed. An Amslerdaiii dispatch to the Central News says the official Gazette of Constantinople publishes an act, voted by parlian.. nt authorizing the government to , make arrangements with the German government ! for an advance of $::o.UOO..i00. Dispatches from Montenegro describe the economic situation in that country as most serious. It is stated that 1.000.000 , Serbian refugees already have reached Montenegro , and that many more are expected shortly. The food supply is said to be short. A late dispatch of yesterday from Athens says: The l-rench recaptured the southern Serbian town of Veles from the Bulgarians today, reports stated here loday. Veles. on the Nish-Saloniki railroad, is fifty-five miles northwest from the point where the railroad crosses the Greko-Serbian frontier. It was to its vicinity Ihat the Franco-British forces lr .ve the Bulgars after the latters defeat at Bn- buna Pass, in the Irilep region. It has been the scene of hard fighting for several days. A message from the front NMttai continued fighting at Babun Bass, northeast of Irilep. It was lMdieve.l here this was in connection with Serbo-Franco-Brilish o|iera- lions to clear that part of Serbia completely from the Bulgars. The latter were badly defeated in the Babuua Bass district several days ago and their main body retreated to the eastward. British troops moving to re-enforce the Trench at Veles. have captured the Bulgar i ositions in the Doiran district, eight miles north of the Creko-Serbian frontier, at the jioint where it is crossed by the railroad and eighteen miles south of the southwestern Bulgarian town of Strumitsa. The American steamer Zeelandia. was forcibly searched by a party from a British cruiser last week when lying in the port of Brogreso, Mexico. The American consul there reports the cruiser now is lying outside, presumably waiting to seize the ship. On the face of such a report as the consul sent, i v.n though it is incomplete, the official conclusion at Washington is that the British naval authorities not only violated Mexican neutrality. but far exceeded their rights in forcibly search- ing an American ship in a neutral port. Forcible searching of an American ship in a neutral port probably would constitute one of the most serious ssues to arise lietween the Initcd States and Great Britain in the controversy now in the channels of diplomacy over the British navys conduct toward American shipping. While awaiting further details officials were silent. A thorough investigation will he made. The correspondent at Rotterdam of the London Daily Telegraph claims to have learned from an absolutely reliable sources that in a sere or more widely separated places in Cermany the construc- tion of Zepiielin dirigible balloons is being carried 1 out and that in no department of construction work in Germany is greater activity shown. Dirigibles i of all ty|KS — Zeppelin. Barseval and Sclmtte — are beinu turned out the corresix.mlent understands, with i feverish haste. New sheds are being built, not of wool, but of iron, including roofs of the same ma- terial. as a protection against air-craft attacks. The Krupps also are said to lie engaged in build- inu portable sheds. From all the correspondent was i able to learn the idea is to bring the war home to the English people, who hitherto "have not felt its effects, so that they shall be more anxious for pea.-e." Admiral Tseng .In Cheng, governor of the Shang- hai district, was assissinated at Shanghai yester- day. His secretary, who was with him at the time, was seriously wounded. Tseng Ju Cheng, who was a member of the monarchistlc party, with his pri- vate secretary was motoring to the Japanese cousu- late to attend the coronotion reception, when, at the Carden bridge, two revolutionari. s tired eighteen i shots at them from automatic pistols. Tseng Ju I Cheng was immediately takeii to a hospital, but died shortly afterward. Tseng Ju Cheng was ; former commander of the Chinese navy, and during • the revolution in 1813 was active against the revo- lilt ion. An unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the admiral by means of a bomb was made last August. An otlicial order of the Carranza government. which will mean the ultimate reran to legal owners ; of all coal mii.es in the northeast Coahuila district, except those owned by i»ersons antagonistic to the • Constitutionalist government, was issued at ller- inanas Tuesday by Gen. Venustiano Carranza. the first announced step to settle a question which recently caused in.|iiiries by foreign governments in- terest.Ml in protecting the proixTty of their liation- als. Final action in the return of the coal mines and als.. the question of indemnity for their seizure by representatives of the Constitutionalists will be d. ci.l.d when o-neral Carranza goes to Mexico City. II was said the other mines will remain in the possession of the government authorities, An injunction was granted by the Federal Judge Carpenter Tuesday re-training customs officials and j others from ren ..vitig from the Rock Island yards at Blue Island nine carloads of gold, silver, copper and j lead bullion. The value of ilic metal is estiinat.nl at M0.4M. It is alleged to have lieeii stolen from ■ mine in Chihuahua by agents of Gen. Francisco Villas revolutionary forces. Judge Carpenter . granted a temporary restraining order and set the . ca-e f..r hearing M November 10. when the ques- tion of ownership will be determined and a p.iina- in nt injunction issued. On the eastern battle front the Russians are main tabling iheir offensive on both wings, while in the center there is no activity of note, in the north all 1 along the Dvina river front from Riga to Dvinsk. IVtrogra.l reports the Oermans are being forced j turther back, while Berlin ass. rts Russian attacks have been repul-ed. In the s..|ilh in Oalicja Potio- " grad also reports minor successes and advances. while Berlin and Vienna state that Slav attacks w.re without success. A dispatch to the UnJM Times fr.mi Cape Town i asserts that Henry Burton, minister of railways of [ Gie Iniou of South Africa, declared ju a speech i ut Natal that huge quantities of ammunition had 1 been discovered hidden in Damaralan.l. Southwest Africa, llie minister said dure was sufficient ammunition lo equip CO.lillO men. ami that I he Germans had hoped to oveilhrow the -ovcrumciit of Ihe I nion of South Africa with the aid of a rebellion. Fire jestcrday almost completely destroyed the No. 4 machine shop of the Bethlehem Steel company. Only the skeleton of the big building is now standing. The machinery and war material in the huihlim. were said to lie worth millions of dollars. How the fire started is not known. It was discovered in what is known as the boring-mill section of the plaut among a quantity of oil. Premier Asquith asked the house of commons yesterday for a vote of credit of .fS2.00n.O i0.i»iJO. This will make the total amount voted for war purposes in the current year .300.0110.000. With the amount voted in the financial year of 1!I14-1." . the sum allotted for the war. including the new vote of credit, will reach the aggregate of .:S10.00 .00o The reorganization and extensive changes which are lieing introduced in the Russian army says the London Morning Posts Petrograd correspondent, plainly indicate that the Russians contemplate a long struggle. They are making preparations for a war lasting five years more. A telegram to Ix.mlon from Buchatest states that fighting broke out lietw.cn Orrmans and Bulgarians for possession of Negotin. in northeastern Serbia, and that IPO Bulgarians were killed. This is the first news of a breach between the Balkan allies. The French steamer Vser, formerly known as the Dacia. which was seized by a French cruiser last February while carrying a cargo of cotton from the Initcd States to Germany, has been torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. A defeat for the French and British troops in southern Serbia, with losses which are described as enormous, is reported to Berlin in a dispatch from Sc.fiia by way of Budapest. Telegrams receivers in London from Algeciras. Morocco, by way of Madrid report a British cruiser has sunk two German submarines in the Straits of Gibraltar.
