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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. A dispatch of yesterday from Berlin says: Berlin - does not expect any diplomatic break between Austria and the United States as a result of Austrias failure lo comply promptly with American I demands in Iter reply to the Aueoua note. Austria is willing to make Important concessions to f prevent such a break, according to information received " here. Another exchange of notes probably ■ will clear the whole situation. The position taken ™ by the Austrian foreign office in its reply not only L heartily approved here, but is exactly the attitude Austria was expected to take. It was |H iuted out t by officials today that to have complied meekly with h the American demands at once would have cost Austria ;. much in prestige and would have brought down n popular denunciation ii|«m the Austrian government. Austria, having maintained her position in a dignified manner in her reply, can now gracefully yield j to America in a subsequent note, said one German i, official. To have lmwed down to Washington in n the reply it has just delivered would have raised d a storm of protest in Austria. There is every v reason for lielieving that the Austro-Amcrican con-trovorsv !- will be solved just as the trouble over the e Lusitniiin was settled. The Vienna press, apparently ■- at the suggestion of tlie government, is refraining .- from sounding definance in editorials on n the Ancona affair. Some of the newspapers declare ■- that Austria has no desire for any but friendly y relations with America and assert that Austria is s willing to accept the American viewpoint if Washing!, i- m can submit proper proofs. These comments s are taken as a further indication that the Austrian u government does not intend to force a break. . From El Paso. Texas, yesterday a dispatch said: The question of terminating Villa opposition to the " Carrauza tie facto government today became a live issue at a council of war now in progress at . t Chihuahua, at which Villa and his staff is in attendance. This information was given out by * Americans who arrived from the south Thursday iiight. Pressure is being brought to l»ear upon „ General Villa lo abandon the fight, it is said. Meanwhile , troops are lieing rapidly concentrated at the p capital, coming from Juarez. Madera. Pearson and ,1 "i Casus Grandes. It was asserted an expedition would be directed toward the state of Jalisco. The arrivals J reported that but three of the thirty Atneri : can employes of the Madera Company. Ltd., of .f Madera. Chihuahua, has lieen taken prisoner by y Villa on his arrival at Madera as hostages for the e repayment of wages in stiver to the Mexican em-ii ,. loves It was said Villa would not defend Juarez, E but that if Carranza troops were permitted to cross is Hie border within fifty miles of Juarez he would d return there I • take reprisals on El Paso. A Mexican i- crossing the border at Columbus. N. M., reported »- tbat one hundred cavalrymen "f Gen. Jose ie Rodriguez Villa force looted the ranch of W. A. M. I. Itoxhy. an American, and removed Roxby to be ie burned alive. The CV striking employes of the Belt Railway •I of Chicago went back to work yesterday, and the moving of thousands of cars of freight, tied up J lor the last three days, was liegun. The Belt line acceded l the demands of the men lor a service 3 „ train from the old terminal al Eighty-third street ,. to the new v arils at Clearing. The settlement pro- •j ides for four such trains daily each way until lantirv 1 1017. and |iermits an appeal for a continuance - of service after that time if housing con riitiona at Clearing are not remedied. 1 . A. Burgess. ». aimtant -rand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers was pleased with the result. "We ** s ood firm oulv on the proposition that we be al-l " negotiate for a continuance of the train ln .w.-d to after a year" of operation." he said. "We always :ii •vere willinjr to settle the matter of how many f trains should lie run. in conference with the rail 1 road officials The right to negotiate was something f which we had no power to sign away." The rail " satisfaction over the agree professed r.*d officials f* melt "The original demand was for an hourly y i..V.. " said C G. Austin, solicitor general of the " c.mianv "Tlie limited train service proffered by • l lie company has lieen accepted." II. is its to to The Ford nenco ship Oscnr on way Hir Lti ansa ml Norway, having been released by the ie PH.TsI authorities at Kirkwall. Thursday night, t. according to a l"*s dispatch received in London m ■ I ! I I ■ i ! , p k 1 ■ • » i . 1 a r - yesterday. Neither the American embassy nor government offices had any confirmation, but it was assumed the report was true. The delay in releasing the ship, it was stated, was due to the fact that a few articles of contraband were found aboard. The Oscar II. is expected to reach Christiansand tomorrow. Restrictions by the New Foundland government on the export of cod liver oil from that colony were announced at St. Johns yesterday as the result of information that a large quantity of oil had reached Germany, where the glycerine contained in it could be utilized in the manufacture of explos ives. Hereafter oil may lie sent to the United States only if consigned to the British consul general in New York or Boston or to a few firms indorsed by the consulates. It is learned on unimpeachable authority, says a London dispatch, that Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, British secreary for war, is soon to wed the Dowa-5 ger Countess of Minto. and that the engagement will l»e announced within a few days. The count -r ess has lieen a widow for two years, her husband, the late Earl of Minto. having died In February, r.»14. He was viceroy of India in succession to I.ord Curzon of Kedleston, going to India from Canada. The Italian liner Porto Said has been sunk by a submarine, it was announced at London yesterday. The Porto Said was owned by the Italian Mari-1 time society of Genoa, at which port it was registered. The vessel was built in 1884 and displaced 5.301 tons. It was 43. feet long. Presumably it was sunk in the Mediterranean. Latest records show it sailed from Genoa November 17 for Alexan-1 dria, Egypt. In a written reply to a parliamentary question Lord Robert Cecil, undersecretary for foreign af-t fairs, states that the lelations betweeu Roumania and the entente allies are perfectly friendly, but that he is not in a position to reveal the military plans of Russia, which is said to be planning to i invade liulgaria through Roumania. Seven hundred and fifty Bulgarian, German and ■ Austro-Hungarlan officers taken prisoner by the Serbs and 40.000 soldiers captured In Serbia arrived at Marseilles. France, during Thursday night on their way to a concentration camp. Sir Edward Grey. British foreign secretary, again is taking a rest in the country. His place at the I foreign office is lieing filled by the Marquis of Crewe, lord president of the council.
