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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Edward Stuart, chief of the American Bed Cross iss force in Serbia, yesterday appealed to the Americaii aii state department, through Consul Ki hi. to demand ud lust Mrs. Farwell and Dr. Furbts be allowed to to ! i i o c j ! a i 1 t 1 i i | - : : i ] : * , . * ■ ■ * it t e to ■ ■ •- i s , |t ,_ ,r n on u y 10 a a 1S ,. •1 „. .. be „. 1- * a il ■ s il I*- k "e ■d f- a a 5 his be |, ■ * s all ,, * l.y of if .1 .1 it ly 1- . I •k ,, . ]. 11 ! . . the * ■" •* 111 are rt. of „f .„ ;l a be the |R. 1,1 is is ch de by hy the sold Id .r 52 l e * to *• Ml lx iss aii ud to to leave Monastir. A Red Cross agent who reported the attack to Stuart said that they were safe last Wednesday, but that the situation was growinir unpleasant, if not actually dangerous. Dr. Follies, according to reports received by the Bed Cross I olhcials. purchased tventy-four carloads of flour from the Serbians before they evacuated Monastir. o o He stored it in Bed Cross headquarters and was | I distributing small portions daily to the 2.100 im- I I l»overisheil families in Monastir. The Bulgarians | I repeatedly demanded that Dr. Forbes sell the Hour I | to their "troops, offering double prices. Dr. Forbes I | lefused. explaining that the Hour was the property I | of the American Bed Cross for distribution among j o o civilians. When the Bulgars threatened to confiscate the flour Dr. Forbes hung an American flag over the door. Several Bulgarian officers with thirty soldiers suddenly descended upon the building anil tore down the flag. One officer who said he was former deputy sheriff in Kansas exclaimed to Dr. Forbes: 1 know that rag. Its only good enough ; to scare Mexicans, not Bulgars. Several soldiers sprang upon Dr. Forbes, according to the report received by Bed Cross officials. In the struggle an I officer struck him with the hilt of his sword. Mrs. Farwell aitouipted to photograph the invaders. Three soldiers seized her by the neck and arms ; ami smashed her camera. The Bulgars then seized 1 two carloads «.f Hour and warned Dr. Forbes and 1 Mrs. Farwell not to attempt to leave the building. A Bed Cross agent who was sent iuto Serbia in an ; attempt to reach Dr. Forbes and Mrs. Farwell. was turned back at tin- Bulgarian lines. He gathered I the story of the raid from Bulgarian officials with whom he conversed. The officers and men composing the crews of the » Atlantic submarine flotilla who are taking a course . of instruction in electricity as applied to the submarine - in t!ie Edison lalioratory at Orange, N. J.. are highly praised by Dr. .Miller Beese Hutchison, 1 member of the naval consulting lioard. Dr. Hutchison said yesterday that he could not have selected a finer or more intelligent liody of men. j Thus far three groups of thirty-three officers and 1 seventy-one men have taken up the study of electricity under the Mi|iervision of Thomas A. Edison and Mr. Hutchison. Seventeen questions are included in the examination papers the submarine . students are required to submit to Mr. Hutchison each week. No paper has yet ranked lower than ninety-five per cent, and many have been perfect. The men are receiving a course in the construction of the new submarine battery Mr. Edison devised to eliminate the danger of chlorine gas. The new American note to Austria-Hungary regarding the sinking of the Italian steamship Ancona i was understood to be on its way yesterday to I Vienna. The communication as finally drafted by . Secretary Lansing is said to have been cabled Sunday nigiit to Ambassador Tentield for presentation a to the Vienna foreign office. It is expected to reach I him by Wednesday night. Publication of the note • will lie delayed pending its receipt by the Austro-Huiigarian !; foreign office. The new note is understood to be a reiteration of the original American n demands and to hint that it is the last word of the e United States. These demands are for disavowal of the sinking of the Ancona. punishment of the submarine - commander and the payment of an indemnity for the Americans killed and injured. A reply is 8 expected within ten days. Continuance of friendly y relations between the two governments depends upon n Austrias answer. Fighting between small detachments of Greek and d Bulgarian troops is reported in a dispatch from ii Brindisi. Italy, to the Havas News agency at Paris. I It is said several Greek officers and soldiers were e killed or wounded, and that the Greek government it is hastily forwarding reinforcements to the scene e of the fighting. The dispatch says that the dis- • i- turbances occurred iu the province of Epirus, at it the western end of the SerlK -Greok border. A Bul-r I garian advance guard is said to have penetrated Greek territory after an encounter with Greek k outposts, resulting in lively fighting. The Greek k press maintains SIMMS in regard to these incidents, *• the dispatch continues. But the government is ls disturbed. Greek detachments have been sent hasti-. • ly to Koritza and Cogradespi to reinforce the garrisons r there. American shipyards have under construction now iv more vessels than ever before were building in the K. United Stales, to add to an American merchant ,t marine whose gross tonnage already is the largest t in the countrys history, says a report issued by the ie commissioner of navigation. Ninety-eight merchant it vessels of more than 3,000 tonnage are being built It or are under contract. These, with many small II vessels being constructed, have a total tonnage of f 701.511. The total tonnage of ships under the ie American flag, numbering 20.8.S8 December 1 was is S.444.25S. a net gain of more than 50.000 tons is since July 1. There was a net gain of 187 ships. s. despite 272 vessels lost, abandoned and sold to 10 aliens. Twnty-threo came under the American "J flag from foreign registry and 4.!0 were completed u iu shipyards. Says a dispatch of yesterday from London: That it Russia has abandoned all idea of entering the Bal- 1- kan campaign was apparently confirmed in Sofia ia dispathes of today, announcing the withdrawal of If Slav troops from Rent, on the Roumanian frontier. r. where they have been concentrated for several 11 weeks. Sofia corroborated reitorts reaching Rotterdam t_ that the Bussian troops were being transit s- ferred to the Bukowina frontier, presumably for jr a new blow at Austria. Diplomatic circles were * advised a few days ago that the czar had given " np hope of obtaining Roumanian co-operation in ■ sending troops down the Danube into Bulgaria. The ,v Roumanians threatened to opinise with arms any " movement of Slavs across their frontier. The prelude of what appears to be a strong Gor-= "• man offensive movement on the western front, f; where the Germans are reported to have received " large reinforcements, occurred Sunday against the « British line northeast of Ypres. To the accompaniment *! of a heavy bombardment the Germans directed ; clouds of gas against the British, who, in conjuiie-JJ J! tion with the French batteries, turned their guns on the German trenches engaged in the gas operations. " The British official report of the attack says • mat mo.-t of the German infantry were prevented i" l.y the gunfire from leaving their trenches, while other detachments were driven back before reach-ing i. the British line. The s-ocialists of Paris and of its district met in iu private session Sunday and, it is reported, voted 1 almost unanimously that France should pursue the ie war so as to render the defeat of imperialism iu ." Germany more effective, as the resolution put it, ,*• and peace more durable. The resolution is said to lo have provided also that tin- renewal of socialist iu-._ "" tenia tion a I relations could only be considered when ". the German minority had completely separated itself " from the German social democracy. It is stated the *! vote was j,00O in favor of the resolution to llKJ M against it. Bulgarian troops have seized the American Bed d Cross stores at Monastir. after tearing down the ie American flag, according to advices received at at Salouiki yesterday. Mrs. Walter Farwell. Chicago •* society woman, who was in Monastir doing uews-., ■* Hpet work, and Dr. Varna* of the Bed Cross, have " been taken into custody by Bulgarian officers, the " dispatches stated. American Consul Kehl of Salouiki a is preparing to appeal to Washington on bo- " half of the two Americans. Major-General Sir Sam Hughes. Canadian minister e* of militia, yesterday received from British Columbia n a proposal to organize a regiment of Canadian in Japanese for service in Euroi»e. One thousand id Japanese, who have been naturalized in Canada, a. will be enlisted at once. Not only will the ranks be made up wholly of Japanese, but the officers Pf will be naturalized Japanese. The full strength ..f the regiment will be maintained by enlistments from in time to time. An agreement was reached and papers signed at lt noon yesterday w heroic- the Villa faction in northern , Mexico concludes peace terms with tlie de-B" facto government of Mexico. The conference was " held liotwcon Mexican consul Garcia and former lieutenants of General Francisco Villa at the con-l r " sulate in El Taso. Villa is reported in Juarez. The signing of the peace agreement eliminates him , from Mexican affairs. An appeal will lie made to President Wilson to use "ft his go.nl offices with England in preventing death *» by starvation of two million babies in Germauy »" threatened, it is said, by a milk famine. Dr. Ed-|M. 1 mum! von Mach of Boston, executive head of the I" Citizens" Committee on Food Shipments of New NV York, called at the White House yesterday. lie • said Englands blockade is not affecting the men " of Germany but the babies. Tay rolls in industrial plants in the Turtle Crock u ami Sloioiig::l;ela river valleys this week will be the "u largest is the historv of the companies, according ■8 to conservative estimates. Because of tin- great ache 11 livity in nutoas lines of the steel induslry 150,060 !" employes in the plants, which include many of the " largest in the Tittsburgh distri.-t. will receive vo more than $.:. 0.t JO. it is estimated. The London Daily Mails Copenhagen corresi ond-,M id- out says he learns the torpedoing of the German an cruiser Bremen and the German torpedo boat c-1 c curred Friday night close to Lilian, while the he Bremen was returning, with lights out. from an in-,r in- spectlon of tin- entrance to the Finnish gulf. The he orresponileiit adds that the attack was made l.v by two British submarines. . Treniier Asquith declined to be drawn into any nv discussion of the subject of peace yesterday after- r ii.KUi in the house of commons when Sir William mi Inllard Byles. member from North Salford. In a a question, suggested that recent debates iu the reieh- •h- stag indicated a disposition to transfer the issues us of the war from the battlefield to the council cil chamber.
