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■ . , . • - O o I 0 o - at of 11 J " , • . " d d l- II - _ _ r i- - n j . ~ m • ■ . • • 3 • , , i , , , , • ! J « $ t t I I ■ I | , | 1 I r " S. ■ y I ■ I1 ■ at o ,, to .„ „ ,, ", ■ g A A hi I1 l: h: a a by j„ a .," -, -: .,. ,., 5 it ■ "; ] the ■ !" ha "" n »1 ..! ll In tl the di ,., fa w to ,,, |„ by E " the H " sli P» M GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. A strong intimation of compulsion at an carlv y . dale was contained in a statement Thuisdav nig.it it 1 the Earl ot Derby, director ot recruiting. This is statement was made. Lord Derbv declared, with ■ the authority of the prime minister. Hie state nu-nt is accepted in London as a reply bv the ministry , to the attacks made in the commons on tku 1 conduct of the war. These attacks show that dis- ;. i satisfaction among the people is growing dailv. I .rd Derby s statement was as follows: "If voung « men physically lit and not indispensable in any * business ol national importance or auv business ndncted for the general good of the community do not come forward voluntarily before November £ 3o the government will after that date take the necessary steps to redeem the pledge made on n : November 2. hether a man is indispensable or not ti his business will lie decided not by the man •1 I or his employer, but by competent authorities and d I tribunals which are being set up to consider such h I cases. On November 2 Premier Asqiiith announced d ! in the house or commons that if young men did not A ■ come forward voluntarily and enlist "other and ! I compulsory means would be taken before married I men were called upon to till their engagements to 0 serve." A dispatch to the Loudon Daily Express fro:n , : Geneva says a message received there from Bu-_ 1- -barest states that the Russians have ascended the e Danube river and landed a small force of men and d guns near Silistria. which is on the southern bank of •f the Danube, in Roumanian territory, some thirty v miles east of where the river reaches Bulgarian II soil. The London Times correspondent, telegraphing , from Bucharest, expresses the opinion that if Russia a . could send into the Serbian campaign a force of 2UU.000 men while the French and British troops s are landing on the Aegean coast the hesitation ■ which prevails in certain quarters in Roumania ■ wuld be dissipated and both Roumania and Greece would throw in their lots with the entente allies. "In this event." says the correspondent. "Roumania !; could fall on Bulgaria in the rear with 200,000 V , men and simultaneously attack the German front , with 400,000 men. Roumania feels safe in the Car- - , pathian passes, which she regards as impregnable. , The scene of action in such a case would probably v I be eastern Bulgaria or Thrace, where Field Marshal J , von der Coltzs army is assembled, but lacks ! munitions." j The difficulties of the army besieging Dvinsk be- - cause of the nature of the fortress, which is built * J of sand, are pictured by Captain von Kueschuetzky, correspondent of the Berlin Vossiche Zeitung. Had d lJ • it been of rock, he says, experts declare it would j have been knocked to pieces long ago. but an ar- tillery bombardment is of little avail against a » 1 sand fortress. It was captured fifteen times between September 15 and October 20 and still is not j in the Germans possession. It has been reduced in ■ . size one-half without affecting the strength of the remainder. Every rod of land is covered with per • manient trendies roofed securely against shrapnel and shell fragments and connected with so-called fox holes — small shelters where the garrisons are e | secure against the heaviest shells. Exploding pro- - - jectiles are smothered in the sand trenches skillfully f j a laid out so they are mutually out think ing. An ap- , pareufly successful attack otten means the destruc- - « lion ot the assailants by the flanking tire of machine 1 guns. One company thus lost fifty -one dead on : October 2:j. Warren M. Peabody. the 21-year-old son of the • late Hiram B. Peabody. a millionaire real estate ■ dealer, committed suicide by taking cyanide of potassium Thursday evening in his room at the Peabody mansion. 29CS Michigan avenue. The I boys mother found his liody when she went to his s room on some trivial errand. Servants hurriedly Y summoned a physician, but young Peabody was dead J I before he reached the house. Peabody came into 0 i possession of more than half of ,000,000. left by his father, when he became of age, two montus s i ago. He had three automobiles and spent money r as lavishly as he desired on equipment and apparatus used in inventions and researches, which were his 1 I hobby. An intimate friend of the family, whose name was not revealed, told representatives of the » 3 coroners office that the boy had been in poor « health for more than a year and that this was 5 believed to be the cause of his act. I It is reported from Vienna that Germany has sin.- • ceeded in inducing the Austrian chamber of com- , ? merce at a plenary meetiug to agree virtually to all 1 her demands regarding a future economic and coin- * mercial union between the Austrian and German 1 . empires. Tlie treaty is to have a long duration 1 " and is to contain a clause providing that the Austro- German commercial policy shall be based on a uni- d Bed plan, and both countries shall negotiate and j conclude in common all commercial treaties with outside states. Preferential tariffs between Austria I " and Germany are also provided for. and these are eventually to pave the way for complete fre-; I trade between the two empires. The two con- j tracting jiarties have power to add to their number. * that is, to inconwrate other states into the alliance. ■ On the eastern battle front the German campaign , o to capture Higa from the west appears to have a collapsed. Berlin admits a retirement, ascribing it a to rains, which have made this region a swamp, ; while Petrograd asserts that the Germanss were driven buck. The Russian land forces were sup- «■ ported by the fleet in the Gulf of Riga. The result p is that the Russians by slow advances have streng- r «r thened their front all along the Dwina river from Riga to Dvinsk. In the center there is no noteworthy activity. In the south, in Volhynia and Ga- t| licia. the Russians report l H-al successes ot some a a ini|Kirtance. while Berlin records slight gains and ij the repulse ot Russian attacks. ,, Chicagos jioor will have to get used to a Thanks- G giving day without a Thanksgiving day dinner, tor the county lioard lias decided there shall be no dis- _ tribution this year of Thanksgiving dinner baskets. = Iick of funds is said by various officials of the £ county to be resiionsihle for the termination of the custom which has been operative in Chicago for tne last four years. "Thanksgiving and Christmas _ come so close together the drain on the county has proved t o heavy." said Henry A. Zender. superin- I tendeut ot public servic -. "What the poor lose at Thanksgiving time, however, will be made up on J Christinas." 2i Kaiser William has decorated Mrs. James W. tier- 2J ard. wile r the American ambassador, with Red 25 Criss gold medals r the first and second class. SK This is the tirst time the kaiser has ever given a 2i decoration of the first class to a woman not of 2J roval bhod. The kaiser also awarded Red Cross 23 medals „f the second and third classes to the Rev. 2J Barkley r Cohham. Va.. and John B. Jackson of New Jersey. Both have been active in investigating prison camps and suggesting improvements. O Henri Robert, president of the Paris Bar Asso-ciation. speaking at tlie American Club in Paris J Wednesday. aii|iealed to the American ambassador and the American government to endeavor by dplo-matice means to secure the release of the eminent ■ Belgian lawyer. M. Theodore, president of the ilt an Brussels Bar Association, from the German prison Jj1 Ingolstadt. where he said he was confined with- : out any specific charge against him. _ ~ The British government has closed the Suez canal merchant ships for military reasons, it was re- W 2 ported in Loudon Thursday. According to one re- A INirt. warships have entered the canal, and several points along the waterway are being fortified. A — months delay in the transportation of cargoes from j| India. Ceylon and the Straits settlements would be — the immediate consequence of a closing of the Suez 23 canal. j3 The London Daily Mails correspondent at Petro- 23 erad telegraphed to his paper yesterday as follows: 2 success re|Mirted today in the Volhynia province 2 brings the number of prisoners captured by General 23; Ivanoffs armies during the last ten weeks to over 23: 12-1. 000. This is the third time that the Russians have broken through the enemys front and inflicted damaging an. I costly blow. pj. Agreement between Germany and Russia to permit American din-tors to attend war prisoners was sought J. .1. T United Stales Ambassador Gerard Wednesday at conference with Prince Max of Baden and Drs. Caldwell and Fisher. American physicians. The ♦ ♦ 1 • Czars approval will also be asked for a camp.iigii in; nig against the typhus in Siberia by Ilr. Caldwell, tlie an and. experl who wiped out the epidemic in Serbia. ■» A considerable portion or the Swiss army will be sent home tassa the Swiss rrontier Novomlier 13 as == appears that the government is convinced no danger of a larg,. scale or territorial violations by %J lielligeieiits now exists. Tlie expense of main- Jm laining upward of 2IMUHHI men under arms has been a Irving burden. However, ample rorces will — retainiil at strategic jioiiits. Ir S.mc indication ..r the rapidity with which ship ~ construction can be accomplished under the pressure 231 wars necessities is round in the announcement 231 that the British destroyers Mitrrav and Manlv have 231 been in service f„r some time. These are two of 231 latest type or destroyers and both were laid 231 down after the beginning of the war. 201 The Berliner Tageblall learns from its Budapest ffj corres|K .nd. 111 that the first and second French in- if. lantry regiments and the tenth British have been 4a withdrawn from tlie QattsjMtl peninsula, preparatory the abandonment of the l ardancllcs campaign , the allies. ■ Advices have reached the Vatican that through the ,71 -r g.KNl offices of the |m.|h- the death sentences again t Countess de BelU-ville. Mine. Thuller and Louis Severin have In-i-h commuted by the German author n ities to imprisonment tor lire at hard lalior. ,.,., The |Ndi.e department census ..r Manhattan I si* ill foi shows a iM.pulati.li of 2.295.8X1. The health d. ..1h» parfmeiit estimates that the population of Create New Vork is 5,4US,9b2.
