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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Legislation to increase governmental revenues to meet the expeases 1 national defense is expected to take h Unite shape, now that all doubt as to the eonstltutionaUtj of the lacosse tax lias Iteen removed bv t lie Supreme Courts decision. Coii-gres8ional leaders bad taken no deunite steps toward a soluiiou of tin- revenue problem pending the courts decision. n ail sides yesterday the leaders expressed the belief that the decision had paved the way for increasing the tax rate sa great la-comes of more than ,000,000 as high as titty per cent are now before Congress. Representative Hull of Tennessee, author of the income tax law. declares thai without say unusual or unjust changes it can be made to yield an additional 00,000,000 annnaUy. The law now brings into the treasury 5,600,000 to 0,4 .000. Three thousand dead were b ft on the letd by the British in a stx-hour attach oa the Turks near Kut-ei Ainara. the Berlin v.ar o6Jce reported yesterday. Qaoting the Turkish stat.nn nt. the Berlin reporl said: tin the Irak front English forces coming from [n lu All Gharbl oa January 21 attacked Turkish positions mar Uenlarie, about tweety see miles east Of Kat-4 lAmaia. on both hanks of the Tigris. All English attacks were repulsed. By our conater at-l kg the English were driven several miles further eastward. The Knglish left on the battlefield aboal 3,000 dead. Turkish losses were comparatively Ji:_iit. General Aylmer, commander of the English forces, asked and was granted ■ one-days truce In enler to burv his dead. English prisoners slated that the English lost 3,000 in the preceding engagements near Sheik Shad. The military compulsory service bill has Deseed the English House of Commons on its third read bate, by a rote of 383 to 38. The bill Immediately Went Into the House of Lords, where it was given its tirst reading. The present plaa is to prorogue Parliament oa Friday. The fact that the mln rity against the bUl on the final rote in the House was virtually only a third of that on its lirst reading is considered ■ great triumph for Dressier Asquith and Andrew I.onar Law.
