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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. From London a dispatch of yesterday said: Under cover of warships guns. Russian transports are now landing large forces of men on the Armenian seacoa-l. seventy miles east of TreMaond, encountering only feei.ie resistance.* Petrograd dispatches today indicated thai these forces will march westward, joining the troops mev advancing on Trchi-aaad from the direction of F.rzerum. The Turks are not expected to make a serious stand at Trebi- zond. the city being poorly fortified. The troops are being transported from Datum, where they have bee* held in readfaMSB for several months. The fact that they were not used in the earlier stages of the Armenian campaign leads to flic belief that the grand duke has under his command much larger forces than was at first suspected, and plans to push an aggressive campaign through Armenia, driving westward toward Constantinople, or to the southwest to join the British in Mesopotamia. A brass button on the uniform of policeman Rudolph 1. Fisher of the Town Hall station saved his life yesterday. A bullet fired by a robber, surprised while holding up a bartender in the saloon of Tracoy Mover, 3200 Broadway, was deflected by the button. Inability of the policeman to quickly draw his revolver probably enabled the robber to escape. He lied fr.mi the saloon before the policeman could use his Weapi n. . Van Have* of Brooktichl. 111., an employe of the . A. Taylor Trunk Works, was shot in the leg and robbed of a bag containing ,100, the weekly payroll of the concern, by a bandit at Washington bouli yard and North Hesplaines street, shortly after noon yesterday. The robber was captured, after a chase by a score of policemen in which lifieeii shots were tired and the money was recovered. It is reported at Havre, says the Journal des Debuts, that Adolphe Max. former burgomaster of Brussels, who was arrested by the Germans shortly after the outbreak of the war and later taken to Germany, has been liberated and sent to Switzerland, where he BOW is. Otiicial figures of the French customs service during January show total Import* of 810,903,000 francs, an increase of 277,532.000 francs over January, 1915. Export* were 201,080,000 francs, an increase of 48,000.000 francs. The Hungarian minister of finance has concluded arrangement* with a group of German banks for a loan of 130.000,000. The loan will be covered by live per-cenl treasury bonds, redeemable iu two and a half years.
