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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. German ships interned at Mormngao. in the Portuguese eolonv of Una. have been seized by the Portuguese authorities, decked out with Portuguese flags and their crews taken to an internment camp at Panjhn, according to dispatches received at Bom-hay. The colony lies on tile west CSSSt of India. about 286 miles southeast of Bombay. The British ".ovornment has adopted a new plan that will eliminate many of the inconveniences now suffered by American shippers because of the blockade, the United Press was informed yesterday afternoon by Lord Bobert Cecil, new minister of blockade. The House loll, as jinnlly approved in committee, calls for an increase of the army to a total peace strength of approximately 700,000 men. This would inein.ie 170,000 regulars, 425,000 National Gurdsssea and about 100,400 federal volunteers. Tlie naval prfaw fund derived from the sale of contraband goods seined by the British navy ami condemned by the prise courts now amounts to over 130,000.000. This fund will lie distributed among all men of the navy after the war. The Senate, by a vote of OS to 14. yesterday tabled the Core resolution in favor of warning Americans off armed ship*.
