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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. A dispatch from Salonica said: "A big battle rages about Strumitsa tmlay. Strong Bulgarian forces are engaged with a formidable body of British and French. The allies have lieen inside the southwestern Bulgarian frontier for a week. Strumitsa is the first objective. Preliminary skirmishing began the moment the allies crossed the border. For several days only scattering small encounters occurred. The country, mountainous, cut up by nianv torrents and ravines, is terribly difficult for military operations. The allies had to pnx-eed with •nurh caution. For the most part their forces consist of British infantry and French artillery. With the big guns shelling the Bulgars out of their positions in advance of the infantrys movements, tlie invaders occupied height after height, extending a concave front around Strumitsa. west, south and east. Meantime the Bulgars. evidently determined to prevent the allies from gaining even a small permanent foothold on their soil, have been strengthening Struni-itsas defenses and bringing up heavy re-enforcements. In the last twenty-four hours the opposing main liodies have come in contact and the skirmishes merged into a great general battle, perhaps the fiercest thus far in the Balkan campaign. The outcome is yet in doubt. The Bulgars are strongly situated and in heavy force, with reserves readily available. Their artillery at this point is equal ti the allies. The British are bringing up fresh men rapidly from Saloniki. If Strumitsa is carried, the Bulgar line of communications between their forces in Serbia and Sofia will be endangered and their Macedonia campaign plans will be upset completely. The allies curving front extends from the Seil. IxMindary. where it is in t"iich with the Frano. British main line, to the eastward about twenty miles, with the right Hank resting on the Strumitsa river." Ureat Britain has refused to permit the America:: Red Cross to include in its shipments of hospital supplies to Jermany and Austria rubber goods in eluding gloves ami blankets, presumably on the ground that they might be used for military pur-|toses. Miss Mabel T. Board man of the Bed Cross stabil that this matter had been taken up with the lyondon foreign office, through the British embassy here, with a cabled assurance from Ambassador Gerard at Berlin that he jiersonally would see that the rubber articles were used only in the hospitals Miss Boardnian said she hoped for favorable actio-i by the British authorities, but that if the right to send these supplies to Germany and Austria con tinned to lie denied, the American Red Cross naturally would have to suspend such shipments to all countries. A dispatch to the Tribune from John T. MrCutch-eon at Monastir. Serbia, says: F.dward Stuart, of Boston, director of the American Red Cross, and his wife and Dr. Trlpeevileh. of Fresno. Cal., hay., arrived here safety after a terrorizing leu day trip from Nish through western Serbia and Albania His. Memlelson. of I.a Junta. Colo.. Bateinau „f Boslon. Cage of Boston. Schooliuaker of Haiti more. Buck of Chkiiso, QsjfSSSJ of Lafayette, lud... Latih- liu 01 Boise. Idaho, and Bales ..f Pl. iicnlli. Ma are -ale and will arrive bo row. Ma. Fa*. II borne. Cornelius. PJacher ami Plot/ naaslniil m I skull until a lew hours before the Billirian- i rived. They saw Dr. Wieie. whs had just reter—l Iroin Saloniki. where s|„. had peae Is PH Ml Firiirii troops quirkly to Uskub. She got back to I skub and found the BSSpstal personnel ready to lie,.. S|,. induced them to stay, and they celWS tarily r.inain.-d to ear.- far the hundreds ofwamded in tin- hospitals. The Serb- all, wed M0 An-lrian IJis rs to remain in help ihe pliysiriaiis. In- Fox and Osborne re Malawi in ITskak in an endoavor I" say the *2...iNiii woitb ..1 haHfdtal sapplii n. Hr. Stuart was unable . • U I -1.11b. The citizens af the laws are in a at .tod are tbeing to Bie-lina. Dr. Stuail .-..lleried .,11 ||« ,„,.|i,an work.,- ii IBS Nish district and I. 1 1 aa Novemlier 3 fur Pre* • ilia. They arrived I,.,. »fter ten day- of travi-l by automobiles. iM.rses, .,- eitrls and on foot, slot -ing in own halls, rlmn In-, and tents in Serbia niil ** Albania. A dispatch li .m Pari- ,, yesterday says: The first in.etiiig of the joiat Anglo French war .o.inril was held here this at torn. ..n. Those taking parr were Iremier Asquith. A. .1. |:.i|f.,iir. lirsf lord af the admiralty: David Lloyd -Gears. . minister ..f munitions, and Sir Edward Grey, secretary of for eign affairs of the MiMst csaiai t, while tsa Frearli participants were Premier Briaml. Cen. C.tlli. ni. minister of war: Admiral Lacaar. minister ..r marine and Ceneral .1 .111 e. the liemli commandcr-in-. hi. r. The four British ministers on arriving in Paris were met by Iremier Briaml. who gave a lum-hcm and reception in their honor before the holding of ihe war council. This aftern.M.n the British aatobiters had a conference at the admiralty. Tonight tfcry will dine with Bresideiit Poiuraire ami will return n. F.iigluml probably tomorrow morning. The en i too Shjrrt of the visit to Paris of members or the British war council, whose arrival wis announced last night, has not been disclosed. It is generally assumed, however, that Ihe preseur,- in Frame of the men who are charged with the re sponsibility of c Iu ting the war for Croat Rritaia marks an important development in the poli.-v of co-ordination ai :g the entente |H.wers as annoiitireit by Premier Asquith in his recent speech before Ihe house of commons. John Iurroy Mitchel. Mayor sf Crealrr ,.w .«rk. was taken from his home to Roosevelt Hospital lale Monday and operated on for ip pendicitis. His i ilition is regarded as -,-rious but a statement issued by Ids physicians ahnrtlv lietore midnight said that he had rallied fr.ni the shock of the operation and was doin- weir Mayor Mitchel has been ailing for some time but it has only b« eii within the last lew days that his condition incapacitated him so that he could not attend to bis official duties. Monday his condition was such that his physician iksided that an immediate operation was necessary. Mr Mitchel is still a young man. being in ids thirty-seventh year. He is of slender physique ami his arduous duties in connection with directing the affairs of the nietr. polis have severely taxed is strength. That the allied armies contemplate a forward movement at Lens is indicatcl in the latest official statement from Berlin, which tells of preparations that usually precede infantry assaults. Repeated bombardments of Lens by artillery ..r the enemy between October 22 and November 12. says theUer man statement, have resulted in the death or thirlv-three inhabitants ami the injury to tiftv-liw No military damage was done. Three attempts ,f th-French to recapture trenches w.- took troui Ihe-i northeast r Kcurie November 14 tailed. The Frearli war office nii-ht re|iort says: "The day was character ized only by artillery actions, which were na ialv intense in Champagne, the Argonne. the W • , e the forest of Apprettiout and Alsace." Former Batted States Seuator Julius Caesar Bur rows died at his home Tuesday night KxS.natir Burrows was born in Northeast. Krie county PS ft I*-"7- "" sl"»1 ■■•« "■ is life in kalaina-.o,. Mich, where he died. With the except i f |„ ., shore periods he was in the national hoii-e of ivorc sentativ, s until l.MC. when he was appointed to ill out the unexpired term of Inited States Senator Stockbridge. deceased. In MM he was elected b lh- regular term and served in the senate until p.iti He was temporary chairman of the iiaanllj. * national convention of Bios. When ho retired from the senate he was appointed to the national monetary commission. The Creek government appears to be Sahpthas a less uncompromising attitude, savs the Uheiis 7. r- res|Kiident of Renters Telegran iipany It is believed to Im- seeking a satisfactory solution „f the question as to its attitude toward allied IroofM which might take refuge in the Creek territory although it hesitates to make a declaration in the form demanded by the entente powers. The cor-respond-nt says King Constantino has expressed i desire to see Earl Kitchener and discuss the situ, lion with him from a military standpoint. Because of ill health Mme. Man .1 la Sembrich has res-gned as president of the American IVIlsh relief committee and vice president of the Itrflsh victims relief fund. All her professional essmsjr-ineiits have been cancelled until the lieginniir , ,r January. Mine. Sembrich has worked nn.-e .-• , fe ■. for Poland since the lieginning ,,r the war She is suffering from a nervous breakdown and a bronchial affection and has lieen advised by her phs|,i-.| to go south. Sixty Creek ships in British waters have lieen warned not to sail until the status ,.! Creece is offirially determined. Reports that the Crock ships ami their IJMJ Creek sailors had been soiz.-d were officially denied yesterday. It was admitted however, thut a warning has been given to th- ships not to sail until it is seen whether Cre.ee intends to remain neutral or go to war. Italian troops have joined the British and are on deavoring to reach the scent: of battle in noutl Serbia, according to a dispatch from Vienna b •• way ..r Zurich. Rome announced a lew days ig. that Italy would send an army to the Balkans "worthy of her standing as a great power " hnj there has never been any official continuation of this, A dispatch received in London yesterday says that the Serbians have- been compelled to retrejt from the Babuna pass owing to the dancer of their position being turned. The Bulgarian" hare captured Krushevo and arc now six miles east ,,. Prilep and near Monastir. Ceiieral Sarrail. i-omniander in-chief of the Frenc i army in the Balkans. i„ announcing the result «.r a thirty six I rs battle on the C.-rna river it southern Serbia, declares that .M.OiiO Bulgarians were repulsed along the whole line with heavv casualties Not a French gun was lost. Over ::.0O0.OO0 persons in Belgium and northern France, mostly w..i i and young children, must lie clothed and shod by Christmas. If the gam. ems ami shoes for these destitute people are not forth. coming af once their suffering during the winter will become desperate. Anti-dynastic demonstrations are reported . n giM»| authority to have occurred at Patras one of lb* strongholds of former Premier Venizelos .-md a|sa the home of former Premier Couuaris. who now represents it in the chamber of deputies. Following reports of heavy cannonading off the-Sardinian coast, it is reported at Rome that an Italian torpedo-boat flotilla has chased and sunk an Austrian submarine. The Athens newspapers say K;irl Kitchener.-British war secretary, has left Minlr.s for the Callipoli Peninsula.
