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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. There have been further reactionary developments in Russia, says the Berlin Overseas News Agency, The minister of the interior has forbidden the holding of conventions by several Russian unions. declaring thai Moscow was no place for the gatherings, as the mob was still restless after the recent street rioting. Brigadier OtSMtal Herbert Campbell MM of the Sixteenth aalry. Indian army, is rc|M rtcd to have Ih-.ii wounded while on the battlefield in France. Announcement also is made that Brigadier General [ George Benjamin Hodson of the Indian army, and Brigadier General G. II. L. Syria of the Australians, have been wounded while in the Dardanelles. Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Murray has been I aptJHiinted to succeed Sir Charles Monro as British I commander at the Dardanelles, says an otlicial statement issued Wednesday afternoon. Sir Charles Monro has been appointed in command of the First British i Army in France, in succession to Sir Douglas Uaig. The delate in the house of commons mi the sup piemen t a rv estimate of the government providing for the raisins of 1 .poo. NX extra men for the Kim Iish army, continued until ."i:.!o ocloek Wednesday morning, al which hour the vote for the additional men was agreed to and the house adjourned. La Razon. of Buenos Aires, says that Dr. Romula S. Naon. Argentine ambasador to the United States, has been given a mission to arrange with ; Chile the preliminary basis for an accord between ; Argentina. Brazil. Chile and the Inited StatM for the protection of neutral states. The Illinois Supreme Court, which adjourned at two oclock at Springfield Wednesday, handed down i I a decision sustaining Judge James A. Creighton of the Sangamon County Circuit Court in his decision i in the Fergus mileage case, which declared the bill I unconstitutional. The Athens correspondent of the London Daily • Mail telegraphs that one of the reasons King Con-stantine bowed to the demands of the allies was , liecause of riots and a bad internal situation in I Germany received from the Greek minister in , ■ Berlin. According to advices to the Amsterdam Telegraaf, forwarded by Renters correspondent, a powder factory and several ammunition depots at Muenster. Westphalia, have been blown up. Great damage ! was done to the town, the newspaper adds. At London an order in council Monday prohibits 1 further ex]*or.ts of pig-iron, scrap-iron, steel scrap » or hematite, and restrictions are laid down on the " exportation of vegetable fibers and varns made from 1 them. Eighteen million francs, constituting the Serbian I treasury, have arrived at Marseilles, France, on I the way to Paris. The money will be deposited in i the Franco-Serbian bank at the capital.
