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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. From headquarters at San Antonio advices of yesterday said: Francisco Villa. n whose inelis tinct trail General Pershings cavalry are- riding, sou declined today to offer resistance. General i Funstons reports from the ceemmaneler of the- expeditionary forces ui, the manner in which the 1 forces are- operating south of Caaaa Graadea, but t offered little- reason for a belief that any clash 1 with the- retreating bandits would occur today or • even tomorrow. Most of the- information re-aching : General Pershing indicated that Villa was heading ; for the mountains in the Guerrero district. Americana who have- passed maaj rears in that part e f r Mexico are being used as scouts and guieles over the-trails ■ that hail to the seiuth and east of Cnsas Grandes. Tne force actually being used in the chase - eef Villa was strengthened teeelay by the arrival at t Caaaa Grandes of detachments e,f the- Thirteenth Infantry and feeiir field artillery .-mil the aero squad -ron. Reports te army lieadVioailen did not indicate - whether the aeroplanes moved forward on their r trucks eer lev flying. It is assumed here that Gen-eral Pershing will immediately avail himself of f the serviie- of the eight aeroplanes. It has been 1 Bosanaed at army he adquarters that the- Carransa 1 troops are- Joining heartily in the- task of running [ down Villa, but what the- Mexican troops are doing t is unknown by the Americans. The seddicrs eef f both countries are Willi lag tei the- same- end. but the ■ Mexican commanders have not revealed to the American offie-ers their plan of operations, and I just where the- troops are- who are supposed to be ! cooperating with the Americans is unknown. General Pershing reported today that the garrison at t Oases Grandes was "friendly, but passive." In 1 the same report he said that the Mormon colonists ; there loeiked upon the- Americans as the-ir "r.-s-caers." New estimates by General Pershing placed I Villas losses in killed, wounded and deserted since ■ crossing tin- line- to attack Columbus at 300. From London a dispatch of yesterday saiel: "Germanys long -threatened ruthless submarine campaign against all ships boand for Great Britain. without regard for the- safety r aeatral vessels or . the-ir crews, appears to be in full swing. All day today news anil rumors of the- sinking of neutral ships and killing of members of their crews continued to reach London, and then- were itpotta ap-p urently substantiated by the landing of large-numbers of Danish ami Norwegian saUora that several vessels whose mnnes had not been given oat hail been sunk in aiMitiou to tln.se definitely reported. The- miosis reported sunk by submarines i today were: Danish steamer Skoilsborg. of 1,007 tons; seventeen members f the crew wen- saved, three being lei-t : Not Weglaa st-ami-r Lange-lie. 971 terns: engineer killed, sixteen members of crew sae-i; British steamer Port Dalhousie, six men saved, remainder e.f crew missing. The Skodsimrg saile-d freim Norfolk on February 21 fur Helsing-bsrg, Sweden, and was last reported passing the Liza re I on March 11. She was a steamer 270 feet long, built in Copenhagen in 1902 anil owned in Copenhagen. The Port Dalhotisie- was a vesse-I of 1.714 tons. 2.10 feet long and was owned in King-steeii. Ontario. Fremi El Paso a dispatch of yeste-rday says: Car-ranaa troops stationed at Caaaa Grandes and othe-r peiints of that an. Hum at the time General Pershing begnn his march inte Mexico now are locateel at I Juarez, opposite El Ease, ami in the- rear of General Pershings columns, it was authoritatively ; slated today. No re-ase,n has been assigned for tin-transfer of troops from points Inland to the 1- irder. From reliable sources it is stated alsee that in one instance a Carransa detachment allowed Villa to pass southward on receipt of a miBBB| from the . bandit leader that he was not warring against Mexico. A lash between the VUlfarts ami Carraa- zista forces is Imminent, according to advices received here today through General Gavira. the Car-raiiza eommnnder at Juarez. Villa, fleeing south [ before the rapidly advancing American troops, is apparently trying to break through the Mexie.-ui-Americaii cordon closing in about the Laguiia-l.abricora region. He is seeking a loophole in the direction of Namiquipa through which he e:in escape into the mountains around Gerre-ro and Santa Ana. the familiar ground where he commenced his career as a bandit. Yesterday afternoons statement from the war otiie-e- at Berlin said: "Favored by good conditions for observation, there was very pronounced activity on the part of artillery and aeroplanes on both sides. In the- Mouse- sector and in the plain of the Vfoevre artillery engagements continued to be especially violent yeste-rday. To prevent us from inishiiig our line-s further toward the defensive positions of the enemy in the neighborhood of Fort Douaumoat and the village of Vaux, the French delivered a fruitless attack with parts of a division recently brought up against tie- village of Vaux. They were repulsed with heavy losses. In an aerial battle- Lieutenant von Althaas brought down his fourth aeroplane- over enemy lines west of Lihons. is announced, while Lieutenant ltoelke brought ele.wu his twelfth machine over the forest of Forges. The enemy lost three other aeroplanes." A Paris dispatch of yesterday said: "Repulse of a German infantry attack against the Pepper Heights positions, four miles north of Verdun, wan announced by the war office this afternoon. The Germans attacked after an artillery bombardment of the French positions. The- ass.-tc.lt showed the-ami- lack eef spirit displayed by the- Germans in recent fighting around Verdun and was stopped hv French guns. We-st of the Meuse violent cannonading occurred last night in the region south of Mai-ancoutt, west .if Dead Man hill. Intermittent bombardment around Vaux village, northeast of Verdun, ami lively cannonading around Epargi s em the Mouse bights to the- southeast were reported in this afternoons official statement from the war office." Allied aeroplanes yesterday bombarded the Belgian ce.ast town of Zeebrugge. All returned. The following official statement was made: In the- early honrt eef tin- morning a combined fe.rce of approximately fifty British. French and Belgian aeroplanes and seapl: s. aeeooapaated by fifteen fighting machines, left and attacked the German seaplane station at Zeebrugge ami the aerodrome at Hout-tatv. near Zeebrugge-. Considerable damage appears to have been done. The- machines on tin- average-carried 300 pounds e.f bomb.. All the machines re--turnee! safely. One Belgian eefiie-er is reported seriously wounded. All the British machines referred te were naval. A dispatch from Basel, Switzerland, says: Whea twenty-three allied aeroplanes raided Mulheane, upper Alsace, the- greatest aerial battle- of the war occurred. Accounts just reaching here dec! ire-thai more than fifty machines were fighting at such le se- quarters that the- German anti-aircraft guns had tee cease fin- in e,rele-r to avoid hitting the-ir own machines. One- French airman rammed a German machine, which fell in flames. Five- German aeroplanes and three French fell, the- occapaata of all being killed. Even while the allied airman wen- fighting they dropped a number of bennies lip-in military positions. Many thousands of persons witnessed the- combat. Thomas Taggart, Democratic national committeeman, was appointed Inited State-* senator te fill the vacaucy caused by the- death e,f Senator Benjamin F. Shively by Governor Ralston of Indiana vi-s-te-r-lay. Mr. Taggart e-pi-,-ts to leave for Washington Immediately. The new senator has been prominent in polities in Indiana for twenty-five years and has maintained the leadership eef the Democratic party in Indiana practically all eet" that time. Tin- only offices Mr. Taggart has ever held were auditor f Marion county for two term- ami three- times mayor of Indianapolis. Tin- Ilaneh lsiii.,,1 of Amsterdam savs it has learned t tat tie- Nedrrland and the Rntterdnmsche Lloyd steamship companies are- seriously contem- plating tie- Suspension of the-ir whole se-rvie-o until Germany clearly eh-fin--s her intentions regarding se-.-i warfi re. Their ships, tin- Prins iter Nederland e-u ami Tambera, homeward hound freem .lava, have l-e-e-n ordered tee wait at Falmouth for further orders, according to tin- newspaper. Elisi-o Arredondo, General rranaaa ambassador, ami Acting Bccreturj Polk at Washington yesterday discussed terms of a proposed new agreement for a joint pursuit of Villa by American and Mexican troops t.e replace the present agreement by which Genera] arranxa agrees t . tin- American punitive expedition.
