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, . GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Count von Rprnstorff yesterday presented to the state department a communication asking for the leasons for the request for the withdrawal of Capt. Roy-Ed and Capt. von Iapeii. the German naval ami military attaches, respectively. It was stated authoritatively, though not in the communication, that tlie ambassador would under no consideration ask the United States to get safe conducts ..r the attaches. The German government was represented ag considering it incumbent upon the United States to return the attaches in safety to Gorman territory and bring their successors here. If it level ops from the state departments answer that other incidents than the Archibald case and the testimony at the trial of the conspirators of the Ilamburg-Amcricaii line were considered by the United States in asking that the attaches be withdrawn, icrmaiiv will contest the withdrawals. If the department replies that those two incidents alone were responsible the withdrawals w ill take place without further inquiry or protest. Even then, however. Germany will consider that under the circumstances the United States must open the way for the attaches to leave the country. The embassy was represented as considering that it and the attaches stand 1m--fore the liar of public opinion. In such circumstances the understanding is that the embassy will deny that the attaches have in ai- way been connected with anything under attack other than the Archibald incident and the testimony in the federal court in New York. Says an Athens dispatch of yesterday: The 105th German division lias been rushed to Rustchuck. presumably to meet Roumanian concentration near that point and repel an expected movement of Russian troops. Greek military authorities received word today that Germany is sending heavy artillery to tlie Roumanian border from the western front. The Roumanian order commandeering all foreign shipping in Roumanian ports, "in the interests of the national defense," was scheduled to go into effect today. It was expected to give rise to trouble at once along the Danube if Roumanian authorities seize A ustro-Hungarian or Bulgarian cargo boats carrying munitions. Well-informed circles here did not consider the Roumanian move as sufficient evidence that Roumania is to enter the war with the allies, but admitted the Bukharest attitude was most puzzling. King Cousiautiiie, it was reliably reported today, is about to assure the allies that their demands will be met in full. Greece may not openly state her position to the world, but the assurances will be of such definite nature as to remove all doubt in London and Paris. The most severe fighting in the Balkans is going on south of Plevlje. In this region the fierco resistance of the Montenegrins is reported to have checked the Austrian invasion. The following official communication was issued by the Bulgarian war office yesterday: After the defeat of the Serbians last Monday near lrisrend the remains of the Serbian army retreated toward Djakovo and along the Balidrini toward Dibra and Scutari, pursued by our troops. Friday our column following the Serbians along the Balidrini overtook them in positions on the left bank of the. Ljuma and energetically attacked and d:spersed the Serbians, who tied precipitately. The Serbians lost here 100 field guns and howitzers, 200 motor cars, a great quantity of war material. 150 transport wagons and large quantities of uniforms and equipment. The road along the Balidrini to Kiilarjuma was blocked with the liooty. Serho-Montenegrin tr.iops retreating toward Djanto evacuated this place at the sight of our troops, leaving behind six howitzers. Our cavalry continues the pursuit. According to statements of prisoners King Peter of Serbia had to be carried on a stretcher because the march along the Drina river was even impossible for horses. Chemicals put in the water of the Hill liner Minnesotas lmilers may have caused the breakdown of the big freighter, now on its way to San Francisco, according to information received by C. W. Wiley, marine superintendent or the Great Northern Steamship company. All of the sixteen boilers were put out of commission by leaky tubes at various times since the Minnesota left Seattle November 14 for London with a cargo of lt;,HH tons of foodstuffs. Five hundred extra tubes were carried for replacing any of the 0,510 tubes in the boilers, but the supply has been practically exhausted. British agents informed the company. Mr. Wiley sai.l, that a water tender boasted to his wife that the vessel would not make the voyage. I sent this information to Capt. T. W. Garliok by wireless, but he lias made no comment on it. The Minnesota will return to San Francisco. Mr. Wiley said, instead of putting into San Diego. Five additional indictments were returned at New-York yesterday against Robert Fay. Walter Scholz. Max Breitung. Dr. Herbert Kienzie, Engelhert Bronkhorst and Paul Darehe. All were charged with conspiracy to commit murder, to commit assault with deadly weapons and to destroy ships. The previous indictments against them merely charged them with attempting to destroy ships. Fay. who says he is a lieutenant in the German army, and his associates were originally arrested on charges of conspiring to blow up ships carrying munitions to the allies. Fay claimed to have invented a device which could be attached to the profilers of the ships and which would be exploded by the movement of the vessels. The original charge referred to ships presumably owned by the allied nations. The new indictments specifically state that the alleged conspiracy was directed against Americans and ships owned in part or whole in this country. A new record in receipts of hogs was established at the Chicago stock yards yesterday when 80,000 were receved. Last Monday 4S.00O hogs were received. The average Monday run of hogs is 30.000. Todays record run. which presaged a sharp break in the price, and the possibility of a severe shortage later, was caused by the lack of feed in bog and cattle raising states. Shippers reported that feed conditions throughout the entire middle western and western states are serious, due to a freeze suffered by the corn during August. It was estimated that there were more than 14.500.000 pounds of pork in the shipment. Pork sold Saturday at prices ranging between 1915.sh.85 and $ .!0. but it was predicted that before tlie end of the week prices would be the lowest in several years. Shipments of cattle also were large, the receipts being 35.000. as against 25.000 a week ago. The Athens correspondent of the Havas agency sends the following to Paris under date of Sunday: According to news from Saloniki the Serbian tro-.ps retiring from Monastir arrived at Gieygeli yesterday and will fight under tlie orders of General Sar-rail commander-in-chief of the French army in the orient in junction with the French troops. A band of Turkish and Bulgarian irregulars is reported to be between Monastir and Kavadar, seeking to har-rass the French at Kavadar. A. M. Eliphtherios Venizelos. ex-premier of Greece, has issued a manifesto addressed in tlie name of the liberal party to the people of his country advising abstention from vcting in the forthcoming general elections. The manifesto was issued Novoml er 21. but its transmission by telegraph was preveuted by tlie Gri-ek government, and it reached Paris today by mail. Witli fire raging in No. 2 hold, the British steamer Carlton arrived in iiort at Halifax yesterday with 7.300 tons of sugar on board. Captain Henderson at once reported to the admiralty. "What was the cause of the explosion?" the captain was asked. "What is the cause of them all?" he repli -d. He said the ship was rolling heavily when the fire was discovered and he was not sure whether an explosion had occurred. The steamer Carlton of Newcastle sailed from New York with sugar last Thursday bound for Jueenstown for orders. The fire was discovered Saturday afternoon and the smoke was so dense it was impossible to make an investigation. Steam was forced into the hali and tin- hatches were securely fastened down. The Carlton then raced for Halifax. An official communication issued at Paris says: The activity of tlie artillery has become more in tcn-e on both sides. In Belgium our artillery effectively shelled the underground pas. ageways in the region of Hetsas, where hostile troop inovc-tnents a Vie reported. In1 Artois our batteries energetically readied to a violent bombardment of our trenches at Grassier Double, to the southwest of I.oos. Between the Somme and the Oise our trench guns destroyed enemy posts to the north of Herbe-court and a shelter for machine guns under a cupola toward Tilloloy. Mine lighting continued to our advantage in the region of Frise. iu the St. ■aid wood, to the east of Tracy le-Val and on the heights of the Mouse at Los Eparges. A dispatch of yesterday from Shanghai. China, says: The crew of the Chinese orui-or Chao-Ho mutinied last night and opened tire on the arsenal and two other warships. The tire was returned by the two other warships and the engagement lasted an hour. Many shots were exchanged, several of them falling in tlie foreign section of the city. Apparently the outbreak has been confined to the Chao-Ilo. Tin- Chinese authorities announced that the Chao-Ho would he shelled and sunk at dav break. At that hour, however, all was said te be quiet at the arsenal. Conflicting accounts ,,r the nature of the outbreak are current, and owing to sirict measures taken by the authorities it has hern iii-1 KKihle thus far io obtain official Information. The recruiting scheme of the Earl of Derby. director of recruiting, has not lioen as successful as had been hoped for. according to James Henry Tliomas, labor member of parliament, addressing a meeting of railway workers at Long Eatou Sumjity night. Mr. Thomas said he had discussed the matter with the Earl of Derby Saturday and that Hal earl had expressed the opinion that his plan hail not been as successful as he had anticipated or had a right to ex| ect. Therefore, the earl declared, the supreme effort must lie made in the next few-days ay those who valued their freedom and were opposed to conscription. That the Germans plan one more great drive against the French and British lines in January, after which, iu case they fail, they will turn to President Wilson and the |M pe with the req lest that they start peace- negotiations, is reportec by the Lausanne correspondent of tin- Loudon limes ■ on what he declares is accurate information. The Germans, lie says, are still in a state or alarm f d lowing the big offensive of the allies in the Cham lag, -ii district and tlw Krupps are working ever Ishly to prepare the necessary big guns and material for a great drive. Fire was discovered in a hold of the steamship. Tyinghame as the vessel was loading sugar for an English port at her Brooklyn pier Sunday. Tlie fiaiues were extinguished witli little loss. The vessel, owned by the Hall Steamship Company af London, was to ail this week. Capt. David Jones told the police he believed the fire suspicious, and further investigation indicated the Haines started in several places at the same time. The blaze was similar in ninny respects to that discovered last month on the steamship Euterpe when it was loading sugar for England at the same pier. The sixty-fourth congress, destined to go down into history as one of the most important ceaatoaal ever held, came into lieing at noon yesterday. Be--fore crowded galleries and amid si-enos on the flocrsy of both houses which presaged patriotic delibera- I tions on international questions, and intense par- I tianship on domestic issues, both the house and : senate proceeded to organization as a prelimiucJT * / to receiving the executive message which will he read to both houses in joint session by President Wilson leday. Governor Edward F. Dunne has appelated George B. Van Norman. Chicago: W. L. OConnell. Chi-, ago. and Guy Houston. Blandinsville. as a commit tee to investigate the charge that the Union Stock! Yards has refused to accept shipments of cattle fr ..i certain countie; iu the state. Orders of the Union . Stock Yards and Transit company, allowing shipments of cattle, sheep anil bogs from townships where foot and mouth disease is not prevalent became effective Saturday. The latest census figures for Ireland show a:i increasing population. However common this may l e in America, or in the other countries of Eurotie. this feature is for Ireland an agreeable novelty. For the quarter ended September 30, the number of births in Ireland was 27.77!. a rate of Sell | er thousand, ami the deaths 14.070. a rate of 13, 1 pc;-thousand. There were only 3,511 emigrants, to that, the net increase in population is B.5VS. It is the decrease in emigration that has turned the scale. In a vote of confidence for the government in lie Italian ehamlier of deputies Saturday, the policy of the cabinet was sustained. 405 to 4.N. Tlie vote followed a speech by Premier Salandia. who declared the confidence of the government in final victory. The socoalist deputy. Signor Cicotti. ntade a patriotic speech, which caused many deputies to embrace him. Instruction of a large ammunition fact ry in Halle. Prussian Saxony, by an explosion, with the loss of several hundred lives, is reported in a--message from Kolding. Denmark, to Copenhagen. It is said a similar disaster was narrow!*- averted in Bogden. Eilesia. Arrests are said to have been made in Bogden. It is said discontented workmen are suspected in both instances. The British government in a statement rel-ttve to the assertion in recent dispatches from Berlin that British hospital ships are being used improperly, says the hospital ship Mnuretania lias l een examined at Naples by the American. Danish and Swiss consuls and no combatants nor "warlike stores" were found alioard. General Jan Christian Smutts. minister of defense in the union of South Africa, announced at ■ public meeting that the entire force asked for the] East Africa expedition had been recruited ami thai the imperial government had lieen informed that the union was increasing its forces to provide for contingencies. A mistake in decoration has come to light in thej case of the late Lieut. J. II. Mil us. m of the Ro.vaW West Surrey Regiment. The name of t.ii- omccr was confused with the name of another officer for whom the reward was intended. Musson never learned of the cancellation of his award, lie died five days previously. The British army in Mesopotamia, which baa u at in retreat following its defeat before Bagdid. InA readied Kut EI-Aniar.-i ea the Tigris, 103 miles below Bagdad, without further fighting.
