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I ; ! ; ; ■ J , l , j • i | . I | ! J l , ; ; ; t j ! [ GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. From Washington yesterday a dispatch says: Bv a vote of 373 to 1 the house today passed an army deficiency bill carrying ,600,000 to cover the cost of the Mexican expedition. It will enable the war department to recruit the army up to full strength and to buy aeroplanes, motor trucks and other equipment. The vote is taken as an indorsement by the house of the Mexican expedition. Representative London of New York east the negative vote. A memorandum to Gen. Carranza pressing for an immediate reply to the request for permission to use Mexican railroads in supplying American troops in pursuit of Villa was prepared today at the state department. It will be forwarded to Queretaro probably late today and be delivered by Special Representative Rodgers to Gen. Carranza and Gen. Obregon. The memorandum points out that the problem of supplying troops now more than 200 miles from the border is a pressing one and need not lie delayed for the protocol covering the general subject. Gen. Carranzas suggestion as to modification and additions to the draft of the protocol are still under consideration in the state department. As considerable time may lie required to bring the agreement into final form, the American government will urge that the immediate question of the use of the Mexican Northwestern lines lie considered separately and at once. A dozen Indian chiefs from Arizona are to be enlisted as guides and scouts for the American columns in Mexico. Maj. Gen. Funston asked for the services of the warriors and Maj. Gen. Scott, chief of staff, today authorized their employment. The Indian chiefs not only are familiar with the Mexican country through which the American troops are pursuing Villa and his bandits, but long ago demonstrated their mastery of the art of guerrilla warfare to the troops they now will aid. State department advices from all parts of Mexico gave renewed evidence of quiet acquiescence in the pursuit of Villa by American troops. The governor of Chihuahua has issued a proclamation setting forth the good relations with the Pnited States and explaining the American expedition after the bandits. It urges that no uneasiness be felt by the Mexicans as to the good faith of the United States, and counsels loyalty to the Carranza government. Latest official reports at hand indicate that Oen. Pershings advance base is in the region of El Valle. and that Villa, who is reported to have got through the network of Carranza troops, is far to the southward." From London a dispatch of yesterday says: The British infantry7 stormed today and took first and second line German trenches along a front of 000 yards at St. Eloi. This morning after exploding mines, infantry of the Northumberland Fu-sileers and Royal Fusileers assaulted the Cerman salient at St. Eloi successfully, taking first and second line trenches on a front of some 000 yards. Heavy casualties are known to have been caused to the enemy. Two officers and 108 men were taken prisoner. The artillery activity today has been mainly confined to the neighborhood of Angres. Wulvergham. St. Eloi and Weiltje. Last night and today there has been much mining activity. At La Boiselle we successfully exploded a mine. South of Neuville-St. Vaast and near the Hohenzollern redoubt there has been crater fighting, in which we were successful. Opposite llullttch the enemy-exploded mines last night, damaging our trenches and causing some casualties. We are established on the crater formed by the explosion. nerst von der Goltz. alias Bridgman Taylor, who is said to have been sentenced to death in England as a spy. arrived at New York yesterday on the steamship Finland from Liverpool to give evidence to tbe government concerning alleged conspiracies to provide etmnn warships at sea with coal and provisions. He was brought by two detectives from Scotland Yard, who handed him over to federal agents Charles J. Scully and Albert J. Adair. According to the Scotland Yard men Von der Goltz was a prisoner for some time in the Tower of London, awaiting execution, but was promised that his life would be spared if he would come to this country and tell this government what he knew concern.ng the alleged conspiracies to commit 4a-leutral acts. After giving his testimony he is to be sent to South America. Von der Goltz also figured in the exposure of German activities which preceded the recall of Capt. Boy-Ed, the German naval attache, in this country, and Capt. Franz von Papen, military uttache. Grave strikes among the machinists at Clyde are holding up the manufacture of big guns, Christopher Addison, under secretary for munitions, informed the house of commons yesterday afternoon. The strikes were inaugurated for the purpose of forcing the government to repeal the conscription act and other measures. Addison said. Six of the agitators have been removed from the factories and the government is considering punishing them and taking sharp measures to meet the situation. The munition works at Clyde have been hotbeds of anti-conscription propaganda for several months. On one occasion Minister of Munitions Lloyd-George was hooted by a crowd at Clyde when he urged the workers to speed up the production of munitions. Chicago continues to lead all other cities in recruiting for the army. Lieutenant Franklin R. Keaaey, at recruiting headquarters, r 05 South State street, said yesterday, though figures on the number of applicants are not made public. The offices are kept open day and night, the advertising campaign is being continued and applicants are ap-: peering every hour, he said. "The advertising campaign has not reached its height yet." Lieuten-j ant Kenaey said. "It will be some time before the high point will have been reached, and so that we can know that most of those men we hoped to reach have come in contact with our work." The city is contemplating suit against the county for 04. Sol. 30. This amount, according to Comp- t roller Eugene R. Pike, who yesterday turned over to Corporation Counsel Samuel A. Ettelson the uncollected biB, has been hanging fire for many years, six weeks ago the city rendered a bill to Peter Beiaberg, president of the county board, re- questing the payment of the bill. No action was I taken. The citys bill against the county includes boarding prisoners at the bridewell, repairs to the old city hall, rent of space in the rotunda of the old city hall, water supplied to the county and I fees due for death certificates. Lieutenant Edgar S. iorrell of Baltimore, one of , the aero earns, who arrived at Columbus, N. M.. yesterday, with dispatches from the front, told the story of his suffering in the desert in which he was J lost for several days after being forced to land in an uninhabited district in La Ascension country. Lieutenant "orrell also reported that when the plane of Lieutenant It. H. Willis, who was also reported missing, was rescued thirty-six miles south I of Caaas Grandee, it had been cut into ribbons. All I of the leather and instruments had lieen removed, he said, and the wings were slashed to pieces, leaving the plane worthless. Only the engine was uninjured. Scarlet fever, not only a dangerous disease in i Itself, but one that opens the way for other ail-meats of even greater danger, such as pneumonia. diphtheria, tuberculosis, measles and nephritis, may soon lie conquered, it is believed, as a result of the ■ work of two Boston physicians. Dr. F. B. Mallory. . pathologist of the Boston City Hospital, and his assistant. Dr. E. M. Medlar, have been working on Market fever cultures for two years. They have » isolated and studied the germ, and believe that they are well in the way to discover an effective antitoxin and vaccine. Dr. Mallory believes that a 1 vaccine is all that will be required, as the treat- ment of the disease is already well understood. An official communication issued at Vienna yesterday says: On the Italian front violent engage- ments took place yesterday at several points. The Austro-Hungarian forces near the Ooritz bridgehead 1 conquered an entire enemy position before the north , section of Podgora heights. Fivt hundred and twenty -five Italians were taken prisoners. In the Iloecken section the enemy, although he brought up re-enforcements, failed to take back the trenches j which he had lost. The engagements spread and 1 continued all night. A semi-official dispatch from Saloniki says that I five Cerman aeroplane a bombarded Saloniki early Monday. Eighteen civilians were killed and twenty - one wounded. The ermans lost two aeroplanes. one being brought down near Lake Amotova. The British steamer Empress of Midland has been ! sunk. All aboard her were saved. The steamer i- was a steel screw vessel of 2.224 tons, built in FJ07 f and owned and registered at Newcastle. The Brit- I , J I I i ■ . » 1 ish steamer , Fenny Bridge, which was unarmed. was torpedoed without warning, says an admiralty statement. The ship was bound from Philadelphia for Hull. The report of her sinking was announced Monday. Explosion of two twelve-inch guns on the battle-I ships Louisiana and Michigan became known for the first time yesterday when Secretary Daniels appointed a special board to investigate the acci-, dents. Real Admiral Strauss said the guns had survived their full life of 120 shots and that, the explosions occurred after they had been relined. House Democrats will caucus tonight to determine their policy on the general subject of govern -I ment manufacture of war munitions. A call was issued with particular reference to the government armor plant proposed in a Senate bill now before the House naval committee. Tightening of the censorship at Gen. Pershings base and activity among a large body of troops at Columbus, N. Mex., yesterday preparing for some unknown movement were believed to forecast im-s portant developments in the pursuit of Villa. Cen-i sorship will be tightened at all other border points also, it was announced by the military officials. Secretary Daniels has written to chairman Pad-; gett of the house naval committee urging that the current naval bill provide for equipping Norfolk r.avy yard for building battleships.
