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I GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. The otlieial statein.nl MSSBSd by the war otliee at Paris late Sat unlay night was as follows: In the region of Verdun violent bombardment has been in progress all day on tin- left bank of the Mouse at hill 304 ami Cote de IOte. On the right bank the enemy, after an intense bombardment directed on tie- Haudreniont wood east of Cote dit Poivre. launched against our positions an attack; which was stopped by our machine gun ami infantry tire. In the Stoning the Oermans had succeeded in again gaining a foothold in the village of Douauniont. from which we had driven them last evening by a counter attack. The struggle rontlnnes desperately, with alternative advance ami recoil, for the possession of Ihe village. In the Woevre .there has Men less activity on the part of the artillery. In Arfois an attack by the enemy with the object of driving us from the crater which we occupy near the road from Nenville to La Folio was repulsed. In the Argonne wo cannonaded the German organizations in the region to the southeast of Vanqnois and demolished several shelters. In Lorraine, in the region of the i on is of Thiaville, alter artillery preparation we carried several sections of an enemy trench. About sixty prisoners were taken, including one officer. Two maehine guns and nan bomb thrower also remain in oar hands. John Yussuf. the former Creek consul at Monastir r. niii-meil reports of the mistreatment of Dr. Henry Forbes. Mrs. Mildred l-arwcll. ami Mam Mitchell by l.ulgarian soldiers, when he arrived at Athens carrying a message to Garrett Droppers. United States minister to Greece, from the three interned Americans, in which they begged that the stale department make efforts to obtain their release. According to Yussuf. the three were ordered to L" to Sotia from Monastir on February D. He reported that Dr. Forbes was ill and that all three had undergone so many hardships that they were most anxious to leave Bulgaria. New indictments charging a conspiracy against the king of Great Britain plotted iii San Francisco were returned Saturday by the federal grand jury against Eranz Dropp, Cernian consul general, and six others. They were substitutes for a similar indictment rendered invalid Friday night hj Judge Maurice T. Dooling in the Fnited States District court sustained demurrers against it. Mrs. Fred A .Basse, wife of the former may. r. is to l e given a 61,600 clerkship in the city law department. The position was especially created for Mrs. Basse Saturday by the council finance committee. Corporation Counsel Ettelsoa said lie approved the action of the committee ami would find work for her to do. The four New York gunmen who robbed the Washington Park National Bank of ..inio under the leadership f Eddie Mack were found gnllty by the jury in Jadge Barretts court. The jurors deliberated just one hour. Their verdict leads that they Sad the defendants. Charles and Harry Kramer, Harry Iine and Alex Brady, gnllty "in manner ami form as charged in the Indictment, and we further find that at the commission ol the crime the defendants were armed with deadly weapons. to wit. revolvers, with intent, if resisted, to then ami there kill or maim the persons -o robbed." lie punishment is one year to life in ihe penitentiary. Jadge Banctt will fix the term .f yen-each must serve. Plans for an immediate start on a second municipal pier just north of the river mouth b rival in size and facilities the mammoth pier now Bearing completion were taken up Thursday by City Comptroller Eugene l. Pike, in conference with i oi w. V. Jmlson. United states engineer in charge I tin Chicago district. The comptroller annoonccd that enough money has been saved out of the pier bond issue, from the construction of the first of the citys new harbor structures, to build the north wall oi the next pier, provided for in the citys comprehensive outer habor plan. The greatest marine disaster of modern times, surpassing even the Titanic and Lusitania tragedies in loss of life, was revealed in the announcement of the Preach ministry of marine that there were nearly 4,000 men on board the l-reni h auxiliary cruiser Provence when it was sunk in the Mediterranean on February 20. It is announced that Japan, as well as Great Britain, France. Italy and Hussia and probably Serb. a and Belgium will Ik- represented at the forthcoming economic conference of the entente allies in Paris at which it is expected to outline a trade pact against Cermaiiy. The extent of the preparations made for the capture of Verdun are revealed by Paris Ll.iai:. which asserts thai every day during the nrsj week Of the bombardment the Gel mans expended more I ban 400,000 projectiles. The total Bred lew exceeds 3.000.000. Twenty per-ons were killed and many injured by a violent explosion in a manufacturing establishment at La Courneuve, a suburb of Paris, yesterday morning. A Central News dispatch from Saloniki vales that fighting has broken out between Bulgarians and Creeks near Matzikuio, the Bulgarians making the Brat attack.
