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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. A lull on the Verdun front and elsewhere on the French battle line was indicated in the official statements from the Berlin and Paris war offices yesterday afternoon. The German statement re ported artillery active all along the front, but mentioned no infantry engagements of great ini-nortaace. Near Meain an English biplane was si tot down, the war offlce reported. Two French biplanes also were downed near S •is-.un-.. Intermittent bombardment last night along the French froal between Regnievllle and Remenauville and the shooting down pf a German aeroplane were reported in the Paris statement. Twelve ii,, urs after Germanys submarine warfare decree became effective word was received of the sinking of the British steamer Tbomaby. All members of the creu were reported killed. The Thornabj was owned in West Hartlepool, England. its i-s tonnage *as 1,782. It was built in 1889 and mi- j..s feet long. The Thornaby sailed January 16 from Sunderland. England, for Palermo, Sicily. Plans of I nited Stales fortiticat ioi:s have been found in the possessi n of Richard von Arend and Rudolph von Kracht, ti o young Germans arrested in Ken York on a charge of operating the mails to swindle, ace rding to ■ statement made yesterday by Assistant United States District Attorney E. W. McDoni Id. The White Star Line has cancelled all passenger reservations i * March on the Lapland, Baltic and Adriatic, its only passenger venae la remaining in serviic. it was am uneed in New York yesterday. Simultaneous with the announcement came a state meat thai the German I boat policy had nothing to do with the cancellations. Gerasaayi latest assurances su the conduct of submarine warfare, presented Monday by Count van Bemstorff to Si ■ retary Lansing, are not so broad as the United stales desires, but it is indicated no further steps will be taken ! .v this government until the administration is certain iu action will imt be- embarr i- ed by congress. The Italian liner Napoli, which reached New York several days ago with guns mounted aboard, was ordered ilea red yesterday under assurances similar to tboce in the case of the liners San Gug-lielmo and Giuseppe Verdi, that her guns would be used only for defensive purpi aes. Germany lui sent an ultimatum to Portugal demanding the restoration within forty-eight li mrs of the German slii js recently seised by that country. ace. rding to a Renters dispatch from Madrid. A I/ondon Central News dispatch from Petrograd sayi the Turks ;ire- hastily evacuating Trobizniul and the neighboring towns on the Black sea coast of the Cam asiis region. British casualties in all the war areas published during February showed a total of 75l officers aud 17, M7 uitu.
