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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. At Yuma. Aiiz..na. Saturday. Mayor Charles C. Moore in d of he. nt failure, ascribed to excitement, aiu! fie whole city was thrown into panic as a result of the Hooding of Yuma, due to tlie breaking of th.- reclamation service [evee along the Colorado river. " 1 1 i 1 o the torrent was racing through the city 1 nite.i states soMiera were rushed out to help rest r •,!, r. The current in the main ttree was four feet deep. It was deeper in the older buildings, including mo houses. The levee broke south of Yum 1 and released a wall of Water upon the raUey. Another levee on the California side of the liver also broke and threatened great damage to the Irrigation project there. Communication with tin- I aperial Yalley of California is cut Off, s,, it la impossible to learn what damage has been done in that region. The flood put out of commission the utilities plants at Yuma, leaving the stricken population without drinking water, iras or etCCtl c-itv. Company l .. Twelfth ITnited stales Infantry, commanded by Acting Captain Sampson, is patrolling the city. Most of the people were taken to the hills. Desperate efforts are being made to close up the breaches in the levees. Commenting on the report of the British vice admiral. B. II. S. Bacon, regarding the naval operations off the Belgian coast last summer and autumn, as given out by a British news agency, the Berlin newspapers declare among other things that contrary to the report little damage was done and only one soldier was killed •and six were wounded. The German and French governments, says the Overseas News Agency of Berlin, have agreed to set free civil prisoners in both countries who are not subject to military service. Under this agreement all men younger than 17 years and over 83 will be released and sent home, also all other men unfit for military duties, and all women. The Frankfurter Zeitung proposes that Germaay negotiate a separate peace with Belgium, and adds that the Belgians probably will look with favor upon a peace offer. At present Chancellor von Bcth-ln.inn Ilollweg considers Belgium only as an article of exchange for territory seized by the allies, said the Zeitung. Tlie Manchester Courier, established in 1825, one of the oldest conservative daily BeWSSWpers in the English provinces, has fallen a victim to the war and announces its approaching suspension, "owing to tin rapid rise in the price of paper." Lord Northcliffe bought the paper in 1904. but recently gave if up. From live to twenty persons were killed early Saturday when a snow slide swept two coaches from the rear end of the Spokane Owl train No. 25 of the Great Northern railroad down the mountain side into a ravine 500 feet below at Corea. Wash, forty miles from Leavenworth. Five iKidics have been recovered. A decree was issued Sunday by the Austrian government extending the military age limit from 50 to 55 years. The new levies ahOVe 56 years will l.e employed for garrison and oilier like services. These men will serve for six weeks colli inuously and then be furloitghed for one or two in tilths. Censorship, as practised by the French government, was severely criticised by various speakers in the chamber of deputies. No conclusion, however. was reached, the debate, at the request of Premier Briand. being postponed until next Tuesday. In order to permit freer movements of provision trains into Petrograd and relieve the shortage of necessities, passenger traffic between Petrograd and Moscow has been suspended except one train daQy for one week.
