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1 1 1 I I I 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 : 1 1 I I » 1 I 1 IM | j , , j , f " * I I ;i 1 e i I i c a at * „ J , 0 « I A •] k on t ■ • " „ !l v I 5 £ „ 5 £ „ ,, f T u • d rj f tl e ti o on ii in n a a „ " of , j. in *l I f, a a „ ,, _ Z l J tl ■ B si ■ ■ p ti GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. » A dispatch of yesterday from Berlin says:" Dr. ernoii C. Kellogg, director of the commission for , the relief of Belgium, has arrived here after a trip through Poland, taken at the instance of the German governrment. to study the relief problem, ne conferred yesterday with United States Ambassa- , dor Gerard, and will leave this morning for Brus sets for a further conference with chairman Hoover of the American commission regarding the ■issdnllllj of Americans undertaking relief work in Poland". 1 Several months ago the Rockefeller foundation in- I vestigated the relief problem, with the result that an agreement was reached to start the work under supervision of the Rockefeller foundation. The agreement was signed by the German and Austrian governments and representatives of the foundation. The foundation then agreed to provide 0,000 a month for the expenses of administering reli -f funds raised by the Austrian and Cerman govern- ments and by popular subscription. For various rea- sons the jdan fell through ultimately, so far as Cermany was concerned. Its revival under the auspices of the Belgian commission is proposed ! under an agreement which probably will provide a pledge by Germany to requisition no food supplies and to levy no taxes ou the population. Now that Roumanian grain is available, it is believed it would lie. easier to obtain supplies there than in the ! United Statfs." . - . j A dispatch from London concerning. tneVresk sit- nation says: King Contrtan tines action fft dtssolv- J a ing parliament and calling for an election on - De- 1 cember 19, has stirred all Greece. The step taken « by the king is a direct slap at Venizelos and his pro-war followers and gives Premier Skouloudis an 1 opportunity to continue the armed neutrality pro- grain. When Premier Skouloudis took office he be- gan negotiations with Venizelos with a view to in- dming the pro-war group at least to tolerate his | ministry. This was necessary because the war party, being in a majority, could have forced his 1 retirement by a vote of lack of confidence whenever 1 they pleased. Venizelos evidently refusHl. In « dissolving parliament for a fresh referendum of the « senee or war question. Constantiue deliberately i did what Venizelos declared he had no right to do. 1 the question having been settled, in Venizelos opin- ? ion. in favor of war by an election six months ago. I Constantiue named an election date much earlier « than was expected. He chose a time when a genu- 1 ine ballot is im|M ssilde, inasmuch as all the trained s men of military age are with the colors and cannot 1 vote. To tie matters up still more completely, it I is stated in Athens dispatches that even the ireeks I who have never received military training are also I to be mobilized immediately, increasing the armv I from 400.000 to 500,000 men. I Concerning the Ancona matter a dispatch from J Rome says: It now appears that the submarine which sank the Ancona also intended to eases tlie * homeward-hound Italian liner America, which was saved by its wireless operator. The operators sits- , picions were aroused during the communications ex- i changed with a supposed wireless station. He sus- pected that the submarine had picked up his message and was sending sham replies. The captain there- c tt|»on ordered the operator to cease communicating. J changed his course, and made straight for Naples. ! United States Ambassador Page called at the foreign . office Friday and had a long talk with Baron Sonniuo. The Italian government has ordered a rigid c investigation of the disaster. The inquiry is pro- D ceeding under the direction of the Italian consul a Tunis, assisted by Italian naval officers. a a From London a dispatch of yesterday says: With t the loss in five weeks of 130,000 men taken prison- r ers by the Russians and perhaps as many more in a killed and wounded, the Germans today continued to y fall back from the Dvina river, which was their | objective in the drive against Riga and Dvinsk, ac- n cording to dispatches from St. Petersburg. The ii in Russians in the Riga region are attempting an out- f flanking movement and their recent successes have -brought them within striking distance of the Tu- kum-Mitau Railway, which connects the German C fighting front with the fortress of Wiudau. The a a Germans also are falling back before Dvinsk as the 1, result of the Russian offensive near Lake Swenton. while in the south General IvanotY has continued to ■ harass the invaders by repeated thrusts. - The state department at Washington is still J unenlightened regarding the Ancona. the Italian l liner sunk by a submarine in the Mediterranean " with a loss of many lives. The department has no official information to show whether the Ancona - was attacked without warning or whether It was * signalled to stop, tried to escape, and was shelled ■ before lieing torpedoed. Neither does it know how ™ many Americans were on board and what ones were n saved and lost. From a perusal of all unofficial re- ■ ports, it is believed that the numlier of Ancona 1 victims is approximately 100. Until information is • re *eived on Ihese points, officials say, it will lie ■ impossible to determine what the course of the i United States will be. tl A11 official statement issued at Petrograd yester- w day says: In the region of Shlok our troops have advanced to the west of Raggatze. After eleven r days of almost uninterrupted fighting in the marsh " region, our troops captured Kammern and Anting. The Germans, who suffeerd heavy losses, were " thrown back to the west. Fierce fighting near ■ the Borsemuende farm, in the district of Ixkull. J continues. We repulsed in the course of the dav ■ ten tierce German attacks, inflicting heavy losses " the enemy. Heaps of German liodies are lying :l front of our trenches. In the region of Dvinsk. ■ near the villages of Pristant and Illukst. we made ? little progress. " in tl Winston Spencer Churchill, cancellor of the Durhy Lancaster, has resigned from the cabinet and 1. will join his regiment, the Queens Own Oxford Hussars, of which he is major and which is now a 5 France. Although it had often been reported ,, that Mr. Churchill would retire from the cabinet. J his resignation came as a surprise. It appears from Mr. Churchills letter of resignation to Premier Asquith that the former previously had been offered !, place on the war committee, an offer which the premier was compelled to withdraw when the time • came to select the inemtiers of it. " in Captain Catinchi of the French steamer Calvados, j, in sunk by a Cerman submarine Novemlier 4 in the ., vicinity of the Straits of Gibraltar was killed on the bridge of bis ship, according to an Algeria dis- j, patch. Survivors who were taken to hospitals in 1. In Algeria state that eighty persons who were aboard vv the Calvados sought refuge on a raft, but were ,■ engulfed when the raft was overturned in an eddy j ceases by the submarine circling aliout it. Six .. sailors and the second mate, who wore life ln-lts. ,. were saved after being in the water twenty-four ..; hours. y In Tee bill providing for a new French loan was « passed bv the chamber of deputies after aU explaua- •; lion by Finance Minister Itibot, who said the object m 1 1 1 1 j I 1 , , . - , » , , 1 I was to av id iiiorea-.iug indetinitely the hoit tei nr debt. The rate of interest is ti.d at five set rent, and I he government renounces the right of pavim-nt until after January 7. MM. A report on additional credits to in- asked of the chamber of deputies for 1915. the budget committee estimates that the military expenses for the first seventeen months of the year from August 1. 1914. to December ::i 1915. will be ,287,712,200. The Italian steamer Firenze. :.,97:. tons gross, has been sunk by a submarine. Twenty -seven passen gers and ninety-six members of the crew were saved. Six passengers and fifteen of the crew are missing. The Firenze was last r -|x rted to have sailed from Cenoa on October 12 to Alexandria. The dispatch fails to state whether it was sunk in the Mediterranean. The steamer was owned bv the Socicta Nazionale di Servisa and the port of registry-was Genoa. It was 344 feet long. with a beam of_ forty-four feet and was built in 1912. £ The Ancona case as yet belongs to the categorv of submarine incidents regarding which Cermaii naval circles have 1 res except that which comes from hostile sources. Even the semi-official announcement made that the Ancona was sunk while trying to escape was derived from accounts s».nt out by the Havas and Stefani news agencies. Nothing has been published in Berlin from the Austrian side and it was stated at the admiralty that so far as known the Austrian government has received no report of the incident. An official statement given out at London yesterday by the admiralty announces that the British submarine E-20 lias probably l een sunk by the Turks in the Sea of Marmora. The statement says: Submarine E-20. which was on detached service iii the Sea of Marmora, has not lieen communicated with since October 30. and it is feared it has been sunk. The enemy has announced that three of its officers and six men of the crew have lieen taken prisoners. Constantinople re|M rts received in Berlin give details of Italian disasters in I.yhia. northern Africa. say the Overseas News Agency. Arabs have conquered Dshefra. Hum. Radan. Zallein. Urfele. MN rata. Turga and Tarhuna. The Italian losses were heavy. The Italian troops which attempted to assist Tarhuna must retreat to Tripoli after having suffered heavy losses. Dr. Bernhard Dernberg. discussing in the Berl 11 Tageblatt the American note to Creat Britain. sav the note prepares the way for securing the freedom of the seas and thereby opens a new era of discussion with Creat Britain, the result of which will undoubtedly be favorable to the rigbt. An agreement was reached at a meeting of the Italian cabinet Friday night regarding the course Italy should take in the Balkan ex|tedition. The ministers reccgnized it was an urgent question and the number of men Italy will send to the Balkans shortly will be made known. The British steamship Rbineland has been sunk. Up to the present only one survivor has been landed. The war office also announced that the small British steamer Moorside has been sunk by ,., Cm-. man submarine with the loss of all but one of its crew. A Genoa dispatch to the Milan Secolo say« the Italian government has decided to fit out and us. Cerman liners which are interned in Italian |» rts. Three or four of the vessels at Genoa alone have a total tonnage of 32.000. It is rc|K rted in London that General Joffre is to lie commander in chief of all the allied armies and that he may Is- acting as such already.
