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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Troni loud. m yesterday :i cablegram said: The foreign office asserted today thai no Creek ships are lieiiig seized or held iii ill the ports of the Tinted Kingdom, ami that no blockade of Creek ports has l-eeu instil uteil or is in force. No amplification of the foreign office statement is obtainable in official .piarters. The universal deduction is that the •Jreck government has satisfied the British demands, submitted by Karl kitchener, secrelarv for war. who was in Athens last week. It "is assumed ;rccce has furnished guarantees of the safety in the Anglo-French e| edit iouarv dates. It is !«•-lieved the auiiouicemeiits from Athens concerning a commercial blockade of Greece were premature, in that they presented the provisional intention* of the entente allies as accomplished facts. Aiiolhcr cnufereiice has been arranged between King fonstan-tine and Ileuys Cochin, special Krench emissary in Greece, it was announced at Athens yesterday. to-ehlu has personally looked over the military sanation at Salouiki. conferred there willi the Serb war minister, ami is armed with fresh arguments whv it will be hopeless for Constantino to attempt to resist the allies demands. || has been made clear lo the Creek government again that the entente powers do n.it insist on armed aid from Crcecc in their Balkan campaign, but that they peremptorily ieo,uire assurances of a hands-on" policy bv the • Jreeks. no matter how the Balkan fighting mav develop. James B. Forgan. president of he First National Bank of Chicago and one of the best known financiers in the world, will resign his office as president of the institution on Iteccnilier :!1 and l.e..,ine chairman of the board of directors. Mr. ■ organs decision was made known in a letter to the directorate in which Mr. Forgan said he in tended to quit hard work and assume an advisory attitude toward the institution whose name and his own have become synonymous. Mr. Korgans intentions are said to have Iteen kn.iwn to bankers of Chicago for some months. No inkling had lieeu permitted to get out. however, until discussion as lo whether Howard II. Hitchcock or Frank ». Wctmore. first and secotid vice presidents, would succeed the retiring president, f.uinil its echo in financial circles. According to the gossip, these appears every likclih. h that the honor will go to Mr. Hitchcock, whose theories of banking arc said to 1m- checlv in accord with I bone of the retiring officer, with whom he has licen associated tor many years. Kdward If. Noyes, a veteran member of the hoard of tra.le. drop|icd dead of heart disease hi the office of the secretary of the lioard yesterday. Mr. Noyes was busy in the secretarys office at work on a statistical chart for O. A. Slaughter At Co.. with whom he was connected, when he succumbed. Mr. Noyes came to Chicago at the close of the civil war. in which he fought in the union army. He beanie a member of the lioard "f trade in ImBi. and was one of the members of the old firm of Chandler. Iotneroy and N.vcs. which ratted in 1*72. following the attempt to run an oat corner. Mr. Noyes. however, had previously withdrawn fr. in the firm and had formed the K. II. Noves A- Co. house, which has been doing business almost cniiniioiisly since. Me was seventy one years old and had tilled many iuiixtrtant |tositiolis in the Imards affairs. An unceasing watch has lieen kept for the last twenty four hours on the railwav tunnel under Capitol Hill, leading to Washingtons *ls.0O0..no union station, used bv all railways entering and leaving the national capital. The tunnel is being guarded as a precaution against Itomh plotters. It is rumored that a letter supi«.sed kt have been written by a Cornian sympathizer was receiv.il by officials of the Baltimore an,| Ohio Kailwav Company in Baltimore and that the contents of this hi ill; i.-.f t i. it were made known to the officials of I be Washington Teriiiin.il Company. The tunnel is fen Id.M-ks long ami skirts the foundations of thro.-important federal buildings the Library of Con gn ss. tlie Seiiale office Building and the House Office Building. A dis].atch to the London Daily Mail fiom Roiter-d.-un says: One of Germanys newest dreadnoughts struck a mine Friday in the Baltic sea and went to the bottom. All the inonibeis of the crew were -aved except thirty three, who were drowned. Three 30.00O ton dreadnoughts, the larg.-t fighting ships in the Gorman navy, were under construction when the war broke out. two at Kiel and the other at the Danzig shipyards. Two of them were to have been ciinipbted early in 1910. hut fhe building was rushed because of the war. and il was understood tiiat at least one of I hem was ready for service. Aside from these vessels, ihc newest German dread » . I : . . . : • . , . _ , • . 1 ight is Hie Kraars Weaweakatrs, of 33,9m ions completed in July of this year. It was formally announced Monday at the stale department that the action of a British cruiser in Marching the American steamer Zoalnndia at Pro-greso. Mexico, several weeks ago will be made the Mibject of a vigorous note to Creat Britain. More man a formal apology will be demanded from Creni Brttain. The tnited States, according to officials of the department, will make use of the Zealandia case to reiterate to Croat Britain what it said 10 Cei-niam in the case of the Arabic. Ocnnanv apo- 0 .zed for fhe Arabic incident on the ground tint the submarine commander made a mistake. Great Britain is expected to apologia- f«I Hie Zealandia incident on the same ground. A defeat of Bulgarians by the Serbians in a bat- tie at Mount Zetovatz in central Serbia is an nounced in an official communication given out at the Serbian legation jn Paris vesterdav. This opens the way to I.eskovac. Five Bulgarian cannon were captured. The communication gives par- tial confirmation of recent reports that the Serbians had assumed tin- offensive and defeated the Bulgarians. Mount Zetovatz js twenty-live miles west of Nish and thirty-five miles northwest of I.eskovac. in the region of which an ini]M rta.it Serbian victory has been reported unofficially. The state lioard of equalization adjourned sine . die yesterday after reporting to Slate Auditor Bradv a decrease in the assessed valuations of farm prop- crty in six counties: a decrease on town and city lots in one county, and an increase in one county. The total assessed valuation of all property — real and jiersonal — in Illinois for 1915 was reported to , Auditor Brady as .492.SS1.SS«. This sum is presumed to include everything of value in the state. This is an increase of 0,919,537 over the assessed valuation for Mi The total increase over the ; final assessed valuation made by the last lioard in 1912 was 47,037,902. Notable progress for the Germans in the region southeast of Iristina. in Serbia, with the capture of .s.lKMf Serbians, forty-four cannon and twenty-two , machine guns, was announced by German army headiiuarters yesterday. The Teutonic troops have taken 1.500 additional Serbian prisoners and captured six cannon. Northeast of Pristina and north of Mitrovitza the Austro-Cernian forces are advancing, throwing back tiie Serbians, who are resisting in rear-guard actions. Tin- Ancona case supposedly was the topic of a 1 nig conference between Foreign Minister Sbiinino arid American Ambassador Cage in Home yesterday. All information the Italian government has gathered concerning the torpedoing of the liner is tindcr- stood to have been placed at I he ambassadors disposal. No .statement has lieen given out. but Italian popular opinion inclines more and more to hold Germany responsible for the attack. execution at Beirut of eleven members of an Egyptian secret society, which, it is claimed, had for its object the dismemberment of Turkey and the creation of an indenpendent Arabian state under the protectorate of Creat Britaiti. was announced at Washington yesterday by the Turkish embassy. The members of the society. I he embassy alleges. planned to assassinate high officials and many other prominent people. F.mil Miehlke and Herman Krausse of Chicago. naturalized Americans of Cerman birth, who were taken by the British authorities from the steamship Kristianiafjord at Kirkwall recently, were released jesterday at the resjaeafl of the American embassy. The men were held in accordance with the British practice of detaining naturalized citizens who are unable to prodtiee heir naturalization papers. Ten thousand Bulgars have been killed and wounded in lighting for Monastir. The Bulgar forces attacked the town Saturday. Salouiki advices say. It was learned in London yesterday * for the first time that the assault was repulsed. Repeated earlier ro|iorts were to the effect that the tout-had fallen. Vienna in an official war statement roc. itntinc the oiM-rations in the battle for Coritz announces that Austrian troops have driven the Italians from all the ixisi lions they captured November 2f» on too Oslavia sector. Koine, on the other hand, declares the Italians have made im- itant advances in this region. The Norwegian steamship Libra and Hie greater part of its cargo were destroyed by a lire which followed an explosion, while inflammable golds wore lieiug discharged from J he hold at Cadiz. Spain, yesterday. Several seamen were injured. The Libra arrived Saturday from New York. A ro|K rt has reached London that Creek ships laden with coal and grain from the Inited States have been held up at Gibraltar. This is part of the allies blockade to force Greece to accept their demands. Athens complains that grain ships are lieing held up. bringing a peril of famine. Forty fortresses have been captured by the armies of the central pow« rs to date, according to a compilation made by the Overseas news agency of Berlin. Five of those fortresses were in Belgium. twelve were in Franco, fifteen were in Russia ami eight were in Serbia. The Vossiche Zoitung of Berlin announces the arrival there of the first consignment of cereals from flu- Balkans. A Constantinople dispatch says regular shipments of foodstuffs, es| eeially grain, to Cermaiiv and Austria, from the Balkans, will begin tomorrow. According to diplomatic advices received at Athens yesterday, the Serbian government has boon removed from Mitrovitsa to Irisreiul. in western Serbia, near file Albanian border. The diplomatic corps has gone to Fetch. Montenegro. Canadas first domestic loan of 0,000,000 for w-ir purposes was subscribed on tl polling day.
