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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. From Berlin yesterday a dispatch sa d: The German foreign office today transmitted to Ambassador BernstorS at Washington, instructions which "give reasonable hope for a positive understanding." on the Lusitania question, it. was scmi-omeially stated today. The statement was issued because of alarming re|M rts from English sources regarding the present nature of German-American relations because of the Lusitania controversy. It is true, said th- senii-oltieial statement, that on last Saturday the Sennas ambassador at Washington cabled his goveruni.-nt that he found it thus far impossible to adjust the Lusitania case in a manner satisfactory to lK th sides by a friendly and verbal exchange of rtews, Today instructions were transmitted to the Gel mas ambassador. A squadron of twenty Zeppelins, some of them equipped with the new silent motors, lias been maneuvering over Belgium for several days, lire ing to Amsterdam dispatches. The raid upon paring for a great air drive on I/mdon. accord-the eastern, northeastern and midland counties, of Fngland made Monday night was only preliminary to a great attack from the sky. it is believed. Seventy-eight passengers, including two Americans, one a consular official, who were rescued from Hie Dutch liner Prinzes Juliana, which struck a mine in the North sea. were landed at Harwich. Bag:, yesterday. The Juliana, which was on the way from Flushing for Tilbury, was towed to the beach after passenger* mails and baggage had l eon taken off by a British gunboat. The Rome correspondent of the Paris Journal reports that Genend Beeir and another Montenegrin general have been SassSstnated by patriots in Montenegro who opposed the capitulation to Austria. General Bedr had been intrusted by ■ provisional government in Montenegro with negotiations for capitulation. General Ilughe-s announced at Ottawa Saturday alghl be had received ■ cable dispatch from tie-British war office asking for the immediate dispatch overseas of 30.090 men. Mote than 40.OIMI are fully trained and ready to go to the front. This eonting-• ii i will bring the total of troops sent by Canada to 140,000. The subscriptions to the Italian war loan Monday reached the si:m of 2,000,000,000 lire, although lists have been open only since January 10. They will continue open until February W, bat the government has already reeoivod an amount etpial to what had been expected from the entire subscription. Fifty-four persona were killed and sixty-seven injured in Monday nights Zeppelin raid. The official statement says bombs went dropped at several towns and in rural districts in Derbyshire. Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Staffordshire. Some damage to property was reported. Reports received at St. Johns. Newfoundland, yesterday indicated that both the Japanese steamer Taka Ta Maru and the American tank steamer Silver Shell sank after a collision 2H miles southeast of Cape Race. Nothing could be learned as to whether crews had been saved. By direction of the naval and military authorities, the police of London have ordered the discontinuance of chimes sad the striking of hours by publie clocks between sunset and sunrise, as a precautionary measure.
