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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE BAT. A Ixuidon dispatch of yesterday says: Four classes of recruit* who enlisted under the Earl of Derbys plan were called out today by royal proclamation. AM recruits on the Derby rolls who did 1 not enlist for immediate service were placed on the army reserve rolls, and therefore the first call for -ervice of four classes is made by the same for-r .ihty as in uu- case of the old army reservists who 1 heretofore have been called to the colors. The ap-] earaiiee of placards topped with the royal arms caused a stir in the streets. The public infers that I the Derby enlistment plan has been a success and I that conscription at least is postponed. If it should develop that any large percentage of unmarried ellg-ihles - failed to enlist, it is expected they will be I subjected to conscription, as foreshadowed by Premier As«|uith. before any calls are made for married 1 men who volunteered under the Derby plan. It is I inferred the government intends to consider the first 1 class, consisting of eighteen-year-old boys, as corre-s|K nding to the class of 1 : 1 1 7 ia continental countries, and will defer indefinitely putting them in training. The classes called out are groups 2, 3, • 4 and I of the Derby recruits. The announcement, plaearded by the war office, states that their services [ will begin January 20. These groups are -omposod of unmarried men from nineteen to twenty-two years of age. The following official communication was issued 1 bv the Austrian war office at Vienna yesterday: : Italian theater: In the coastal district thus far r the Italians have not resumed their great attack. which after a relatively short interval was re-u| c!iod - on November 11 and lasted until the end of £ NovemlMT and still proceeded to the first week of PecoiniK r at several |m :ms. This engagement may therefore be doscril cd as the fourth Isonzo battle. • More than in former battle:., the enemys efforts s this time ar.- directed toward tin- capture of Gorizia 1 and against the Gorizia bridgehead, where finally seven Italian divisions of infantry were in action. • The attacks of those strong forces, as well as all 1 attacks massed in the neigblioriug sectors, collapsed " before the tenacity of our troops, who firmly retained their hands on the Gorozla bridgehead, the ? Dohi-rd.i plateau and all remaining posXtttSM. By " the destruction of the town, the population was sc-vcrolv hit. but thi expression of ini|Mitent fury had j no influence ui«n the military situation. In the fourth battle in the coastal district the Italian army. according to reliable statements, lost 70.000 j dead and wounded. Yesterday we repulsed on the . Isonzo front an attack against the northern slopes 1 of Monte San Miebele and on the Tyrolean front an attack by an Alpine battaliou against Colonel dc Lena. The threat that the German minister at Athens is said to have made, to the effect that Germany would be compelled to take action to drive out the ■ allies at Saloniki if the fortification of that base -. nt inned. brings the Balkan development a step nearer a crisis. How soon the Austro-Gernians s cross the Greek frontier will apparently depend 1 U|»in !*••*" soon they are able to collect sufficient troops. The Ivoudou Posts Athens c .rrespondent t sins that the fact that an attack upon Saloniki i lias not yet liegun is attributed in diplomatic circles s t.. the necessity in which the Germans find themselves - of concentrating sufficient forces, repairing ? communications destroyed by the Anglo-French anil 1 Serbians and the bringing up of sufficient supplies s of munitions, but that the moment they have made 1* these preparations the attack will lie begun and 1 pushed home. Dispatches to the Isuidou Daily Mail from Athens estimate the total available Gorman ! forces at SWLMi men. who. however, are fatigued by continuous mountain marching, and states that it is reported the intended German reinforcements s hare been diverted to Uustcbuck to meet an expected " Russian menace. According to the Athens s Fmhros the ministerial organ, the Greek government will address a fresh protest to the euteute lowers against fortifying Saloniki. preparation of another American note to AustrtJ-Hungary on the sinking of the Italian liner Ancona. more vigorous than the first communication, was s under way yesterday. The note will request prompt acquiescence in the ..riginal demands of the Cuited 1 States all of which. Secretary Lansing announced. Austria failed to meet. The dispatch of a second 1 late Friday aftT President note was determined upon - Wilson and Ids cabinet had considered the • •tibia] text of the Austrian reply to the first t American communication. It was regarded as wholly unacceptable to the American government. The new v u .tc will be dispatched, with President Wilsons s approval to Ambassador Penfleld for presentation n U : the Vienna foreign office as quickly as possible. It w-as said that while the Tinted States would not ; !. •i Into a detailed discussion, it might give some of tlie facts which Austria requested. The Lnited 1 States expects prompt compliance with its demands and in this support is found in information from an " authoritative Teutonic source, which said that Ausq tria probably would do so if the second note left the wav o|»en for it. It was said further that 1 iMiiV was n 1 desirous .,f a severance ,.f the diplomatic relations between the two coilulries. Bombardment and total destruction of a Germ-in ■ munition factorv at Jafla by a French cruiser was » announced by the ministry of marine at Paris jester- - 1 1 I I - I 1 I 1 • [ 1 : r - £ • s 1 • 1 " ? " j j . 1 ■ s 1 t i s - ? 1 s 1* 1 ! s " s s 1 1 - t v s n ; !. 1 " 1 ■ » - day. A naval engagement between a torpedo boat and two hydroplanes, in which one of the enemy craft was captured was also reported. "The torpedo lKiat. sighting two enemy hydroplanes resting on the water near Outratel banks, chased and cannonaded them, capturing one with two officers." the statement said. "The other got off." The following statement was given out this afternoon at the war office: "There were several artillery engagements. In the Artois district fighting at close range with torpedoes occurred to tlie east of Uoclincourt. Our batteries bombarded German trenches at Blaireville, to the south of Arras. Between the Somme and the Oise in the region of Chaulnes our artillery directed an effective fire against a collection of enemy transport wagons." Congress adjourned Friday night until Tuesday, January 4. The senate passed the joint resolution for the holiday adjournment just after it had passed the joint resolution extending the war revenue act for another year. The vote on the passage of the latter resolution was a strictly party alignment, forty-five Democrats voting for the measure and twenty-nine Republicans voting against it. Senators Poindexter and Clapp. known heretofore as Progressives, rated with the Republicans. Senator Sinoot pressed a substitute to limit the provisions of the act to expire June 30 next instead of a year hence. This was rejected by a vote of fifty to twenty-five. Two Republican senators. Harding of Ohio and Clapp of Minnesota, declined to vote for the Smoot substitute on party grounds, saying that they were opposed to all such legislation. Charged with conspiring in a military enterprise to destroy the Welland canal, the Canadian waterway which connects Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, three men are under arrest in New York, while a fourrt- man :s in the custody 01 government authorities. Those under arrest are: Paul Koenig, formerly head of the bureau of investigation of the Hamburg-American line, said to be the head of the German secret service in the United States. Richard F. Lyendecker. an art dealer and a natural-1 ized American. Frederick Metzler of Jersey City. reported to have been a clerk in the offices of the Hamburg-American line and secretary to Koenig. The fourth man lield in custody is George Fuchs, who was formerly in Koenigs employ and who has given the authorities valuable information. Earl de la Warr died at Messina from rheumatic fever, followed by pneumonia. He had been serving in the Dardanelles. Gilbert George Reginald Back-1 ville, eighth Earl de la Warr, was forty-six years old. He succeeded to tlie title in 1896. His son. Lord Buckhurst. who is fifteen years old and a student at Eton, is his heir. Earl de la Warr in 1 1!»13 was sued by his wife the Countess de la , Warr. for a restoration of her conjugal rights. She . charged that he had deserted her. The ceuntess ; obtained a divorce from the earl. The De la Warr • family is one of the oldest and most distinguished 1 in England, the first Baron de la Warr having received his title in 1209. The state of Delaware was I named after one of the Lords de la Warr. From Berlin yesterday a dispatch says: "The Teutonic invasion of Montenegro has resulted in clearing a considerable part of the eastern section of the country. The war office announced today that the territory nortlieast of the Tara river, southward from Xbjkovac. alwuit twenty-five miles from the . Serbian border has lieen occupied. In the fighting which resulted in the capture of Bjelopolje. 1,950 j prisoners were taken, amousr them a small number of Montenegrins. In the last five days Austro Hungarian troi.ps have taken 13.500 prisoners. On i the eastern front only small engagements among ; patrols are reported. Near Niadziol lake two officers and 235 men were captured." Tlie President celebrated his wedding day by ex-1 • tending executive clemency to several convicts. He also made several appointments. He signed an 1 executive order permitting the appointment of Mrs. . Virginia Campliell. 11 grandnieee of Thomas Jefferson, - to a federal position without civil service I xaminaticn: reinstated William S. Phelps, who had I lieen removed as an examiner in the New York I custom-house on what the President considered in-5 sufficient evidence, and ordered the appointment of Harriet M. Sweet to a Job in the treasury with- out examination, liecause of her services in connec-l lion with the recent Pan-American financial con-,1 gross. The Saloniki corres|K ndent of the Paris Temps, writing concerning the fighting along the Serbo-t - Greek frontier, says that the situation is stationary, He continues: The French and English troops have ■ settled north of Saloniki and intrenching is being carried on vigorously. The Bulgarians continued 1 inactive at the Serbo-Greek frontier. Their number r is estimated at 100.000. It is confirmed that the ? Greek and Bulgarian governments are in accord 1 to create a neutral zone a mile and a quarter wide • Ui each side of the boundary line, so as to avoid 1 incidents between the pickets of the two armies. The Rotterdam correspondent nf the London Daily Mail telegraphs: Rioting among the working -1 class women of Berlin is increasing. The authori- ties are In-coming alarmed and official notices have been posted threatening merciless repression of r riots. The police, however, are puzzled how to 1 deal with the women among the rioting masses. The correspondent adds that the violence and elo-L" - quence of the German women recall riots of the - women of Paris in the early part of the French J revolution. The demonstrations take place in the " poorer quarters only, German troops will cross the Greek frontier be-t foie the end M next week and renew the assault on j the Anglo-French forces, according to r i»orts cir-. rulated in Athens yesterday. The information is , said to have come from persons close to the German 1 embassy. The allies will make their first deter-t - mined stand about twenty miles north of Saloniki. Strong works, liegun before the Anglo-French res - treat from Serbia, are licing completed and are counted upon to check, if not to stop entirely, the Teutonic invasion. A dispatch to the Tribune de Geneve at Geneva. . Switzerland, from Laibacb. Austria, says that an 1 artillery duel which lK-gan Friday morning is still I continuing around Gorizia. This has been the most t violent engagement for several months. The Aus-s - trian counter attack at Plava was repulsed with a heavy loss, according to the dispatch, the outer r forts there and the inner works at Gorizia hav- in;: been pulverized and affording no protection to 1 infantry from artillerv fire. It is stated tlial Grand 1 Dul.e Eugene has taken command of the Austrian 1 forces in that sector. The White Star line has agreed to pay 1915.sh44,000 1 in settlement of all claims arising from the sinking » of the Titanic ou April ID, 1912, when more than a 1 , . ; • 1 I . j 1.500 persons were drowned. Of this amount approximately 00,000 would be distributed among American claimants, 0,000 to British claimants, and 14,000 would be required for interest and expenses in connection with the numerous suits. For the second time since the war began, one of the smaller powers of Europe, crushed by the armies of the kaiser, has been forced to move its capital beyond its borders. Announcement was made in Rome yesterday that the Serbian capital will be established temporarily in Italy, probably in Rome. Early in the war the Belgian king set up his seat of government at Havre, France. The Supreme Court of Illinois denied yesterday a rehearing of the Fergus suit, which was asked by Rufus If. Potts, state superintendent of insurance. The Supreme Court held that legal work for the insurance department, the public utilities commission and other state departments should all bo done by the attorney generals oflice and not by special counsel employed by tlie departments. German railway officials have arrived at Constantinople to insiiect the military railway being built from Damascus, supposedly for the Turko-German Invasion of Egypt. With them, according to advices received at Geneva. Switzerland, are a number -of engineers who have lieen employed constructing new railway lines in conquered territory in Russia. The Swedish government has ordered reprisals against England on account of violation of Swedish mails, says the Overseas News Agency. As England is holding hack sealed mall hags for Sweden, taken from the steamship Helllg Olav. the Swedish government will stop parcels from England which pass through Sweden. Field Marshal von Hindenburg has undertaken t new general offensive along the Riga Dvinsk line. The German troops opened a terrific bombardment Wednesday and it is still in progress. The Rus-■ sians are replying vigorously and have repulsed several infantry attack, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy. Mount Aetna is considerably active again and is emitting red-hot lava which, streaming along the the sides of the mountain and melting the snow, produces a wonderful effect, especially at night. In addition glowing cinders and smoke form an umbrella-shaped cloud above the volcano. An Exchange Telegraph company dispatch from Copenhagen to London says a German warship . guarding the southern entrance to The Belt is re- ported to have been blown up Thursday and all members of the crew lost. Total exports for the month of October announced yesterday by Secretary Redfield were 28,030,281. a new record. Total exports for the ten months ending October 31 were ,800,515,448, also a new record. Metz was bombarded by enemy aircraft, but outside of heavy damage to the municipal museum, no 1 other damage was reported, it was officially announced at Berlin yesterday. A dispatch from Tlie Hague to the Central News Agency at London reports that an Austrian subma-1 rine struck a mine near Cattaro in the Adriatic Sea and sank with all its officers and crew. Major-General von Stoekhausen of the German army has been killed in action, says a dispatch from Amsterdam to the Central News agency.
