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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. An Itheaa ilspalrh to the London Chronicle says: It is stated tliat Itoth the Turks and Bulgarians are asking for an understanding with the entente. The only tilings they require is that they retain their position of Integrity. The Young Tuks. perceiving the danger to Asia Minor from the Hus-stans advance, do not consider their existence sate, nor expect derisive help from Germany. The highest Bulgarian military circles greatly tear the extension of the existing frontier. Their capital. they tear, runs the j -i.sk of falling into enemies hands. The evacuation of the l ort of Durazzo. in Albania, is said by the Italian press to have been in accordance with plans long prepared, n it had served its purpose as a base for rescuing iho remainder of the Serbian army. Italian military efforts on that side of the Adriatic will, it is declared, be now directed to the safeguarding of Avion*, Ihc port which lies about eighty miles â– oath of Dnrasno and which has a strategic value of the greatest importance. Croat Britain will permit the shipment of two cargoes of dvesi nils, valued at ,000,000. from Rotterdam to the United states. Ambassador Page at London has advised the state department, and officials at Washington are hopeful that Germany will make an exception to its embargo by grunting permission lor their exportation. Ambassadt r Page said the British foreign office had given him assurances that the cargoes would not Be interfered with. The auxiliary French cruiser lrovonco. formerly a well-known French liner, was sunk in the Mediterranean la t Saturday, it was anonnced officially yesterday. At Malta 286 survivors have been landed. The ministry of marine estimates the number of survivor-- at 870. Four hundred survivors were landed at Mile. The Pro cnce sank in the middle of the Mediterranean. According to a Rotterdam dispatch many new troops have arrived in Brussels and have Immediately been senl to reinforce the German positions in Flanders, The quantity of ammunition that baa arrived indicates that German activity will extend for a long period over a large area.
