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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAT. ! At least 30.000 men are expected to avail them- I selves of the opportunity that will be afforded for military training in nine camps to be conducted under the general supervision of the United States Army this spring and summer, it was announced at New York yesterday. The camps will be located at Plattxburg." X. Y.: Fort Oglethorpe. Ga.: San Diego and Monterey. Cal. ; Fort George W right. Washington; Fort Benjamin Harrison. Indiana: Fort Sheridan. Illinois; San Antonio, Texas, and Galveston, Texas. More than 3.000 men already have enrolled for the Flattsburg camp and the rolls of the other camps are rapidly filling up. according to officers of the military and training camps association. It is estimated that the number of men represented probably will be in the following proportion: East Flattsburg and Fort Oglethorpe, 10.000: middle west. 7.000: southwest. 2.000. and far west. S.000. Many of the large employers throughout the United States, it was said, have agreed to give such of their men as enlist one months leave of absence at full pay. As each man attending the camps pays an average of !0 for uniforms, transportation and food, approximately ,000,000 will bo contributed in this way. It also is pointed out that the cost to employers in granting a months leave to the men at full pay will represent an additional . 000.000. The government will provide tents, blankets and arms as well as regular army officers as instructors. A list of financial and industrial concerns which have responded favorably to the request that their employes be granted a months leave with pay to attend the military training camps includes forty -five New York banks and trust companies, four insurance companies, the United States Steel Corporation, Standard Oil Company of New York, Western Union and American Telegraph companies and the New York Telephone Company. From San Antonio. Texas, yesterday a dispatch said: Carranza troops were reported today by Consul Letcher to be concentrating in the vicinity of Chihuahua. The reason for such concentration was unexplained, but officers of General Funstons headquarters assumed that it was part of the de factor governments plan of co-operation in the pursuit of Villa, who. according to a majority of re-] orts. is traveling south beyond Chihuahua. General Hell also reported that information from Mexican sources indicated that some thousands of the de facto governments plan of co-operation in the pur-Chihuahua, witli the ostensible purpose of checking the retreat of Villa. Villa was at Cieneguillns, ten miles south of Satevo. on April 4. according to General Louis Guiterrez. commanding the Carranza troops in Chihuahua. General Hell received this information from Chihuahua and transmitted it to General Funston. American cavalry are pushing forward along the trails to and beyond Satevo. Guiterrez reported that Carranza troops engaged fifty Villa men at Ciencguillas, killing ten and capturing two. The prisoners said Villa had left there early in the morning with 200 men. leaving the fifty as a rearguard. Another column of American cavalry arrived at Cusihuirachio to support that of Col. AY. C. Brown, who reported there April 4. according to reports at General Funstons headquarters. Colonel Brown explained his delay in rendering a report after the engagement a few days ago at Aguas Caliontos. near Bachineva, by saying he and his forces had exhausted their money and he had none to pay the expenses of getting a message to a commercial wire. A dispatch of yesterday from Paris says: The Germans launched heavy attacks against the F.ethin-court salient last night, after violent artillery preparations, the war office announced this afternoon. In an attempt to crush in the southeastern side of the salient, the Germans penetrated French trenches on the Betliincourt-Chattincourt road. They were immediately ejected by a French counter attack from all but 300 yards of the newly-captured pos;ti ns. Unable to make further progress in the Haueourt region, because of the terrific curtain fire from French dominating positions on the heights, the Germans shifted attack to the southeastern side of the Bethincourt wedge. The German onslaught readied its greatest fury between Bethincourt and Hill 265. The Germans drove forward in an attempt to reach the Bethincourt -Ksnes road, leading south from Bethincourt, thus cutting off the French retreat from the Bethincourt salient. Despite the fury of their attack, they only su-eeeded in taking front-line trenches a mile east of this road. A victory for the British over the Turks on the Tigris below Kut-el-Amara has been reported by General Lake, in command of the British forces there. The Turkish entrenched position at Funnel-Henna was attacked and carried at five oclock this morning Wednesday by the Tigris corps. General Lake telegraphed, and the operations are proceeding satisfactorily. The capture of 1mm -el-Henna, which is on the Tigris, about twenty miles downstream from Kut-el-Amara, is the most important news from this theater in seme time ar.d is regarded at London as giving promise of the early relief of General Townshends force, which has been besieged in Kut-el-Amara since the first week in December. Umm-el-Henna is a strong position at an important bend of the river and is said to be the last serious barrier to the relief of General Townshend, although two or three less strong positions are still to be overcome before Kut-el-Amara is reached. The German official report of yesterday says: "German troops, after careful preparation and tenacious fighting, conquered British crater positions south of St. Eloi. defended by Canadian troops. In the Argoune the French sprang mines south of Four de Paris. Following this brief engagements ensued. The enemy, who had advanced with a flame thrower, was rapidly driven back. Several attempts of the enemy against German positions in the wood northeast of Avocourt were not equal to their first efforts or their vain partial attack. East of the Mouse the French were unable to carry out attacks against our positions in the Caillette wood, which are firmly in German hands. French troops, who had made ready for the contemplated attacks, were efficiently shelled by the German artillery. Eastern front: Local but violent attacks by the Russians south of Lake Niroez failed. The enemys artillery has been active on both sides of the lake. Both sides in the L««rimer case claimed victory yesterday when Judcc Dover, after listening to the arguments of the lawyers decided that there was enough evidence "tending to show a conspiracy" on the part of William Lorimer and his aids in the La Salle Street Trust and Savings Bank to justify the court in sending the questions involved to the jury for decision. "In my opinion," commented the court, "the questions are ones of fact and not of law. There lias bam sufficient evidence presented to make it proper for the jury rather than the court to pass on it." Attorney Albert Fink, counsel lor Lorimer. informed the court that iie would probably consume Friday and part of Saturday in making his arguments for a dismissal of counts in the indictment not already passed on. If these are overruled, as anticipated by the courts remarks, tlie defense will begin offering evidence Monday. It will require at least two weeks. The Chamberlain army bill was amended yesterday afternoon to provide for vocational training of seventy-five hours a month for enlisted men. Adoption of the amendment, proposed by Senator Bake Smith, w.is almost unanimous, many senators having declared in speeches favoring it that it would undoubtedly prove a great incentive at men to join the army. The Senate adopted without opposition a resolution by Senator Brandegee calling oa the judge advocate general for an opinion as to whether a federalized National Guard Mould be constitutional. Nine cents a quart for milk, an increase of one cent, became a certainty today after scores of milk dealers in all sections of the city signed an agreement with tiie Milk Producer Association to pay 81. .Vi a hundred pounds. A canvass of tiie smaller dealers, following the announcement that Ira J. Mix A: Co. .:n,l the kee and Chappel! Dairy Company had signed and wmld raise the price to nine eaata, showed that nearly all milk dealers agreed that if they paid the fanners .5." per 100 pounds instead of .33, they must increase the price to the consumer. The assertion is made by the Echo Beige that Miss Gnhricll • Petit of Molrnbeek. Belgium, has baaa put to death by Hermans after trial by court-martial on a charge of treason. It is alleged she conducted an information bureau in the interest of Germanys enemies. The newspaper also states lhat Louise de Bettignies of Lille has | oon sentenced to death, but that the sentence has beta commuted to imprisonment for life. Another woman. Marie Van Baatte, the newspaper says, has been sr nti need to imprisonment for fifteen years. A gigantic plat to assassinate Kaiser Wilhelm II., and other crowned heads of Europe was revealed to ! I day by States Attorney Hoyne. The plotters are said to have headquarters in Chicagos lam The plot, which would create a reign of terror in court circles of every Europenn country, was uncovered by detectives searching through the anarchists clubs while seeking a clew to the whereabouts of Jean Crones, who poisoned the soup served at the banquet to Archbishop Mundelein in the University Club. At Berlin yesterday the government expropriated coffee, tea and chicory and appointed a commission to regulate their distribution. The regulation applies to persons having in their possession ten kilograms about twenty-two pounds of unroasted coffee or five kilograms of tea. It is announced that there is a visible supply of coffee sufficient for about six weeks, that the armies needs are covered for four weeks and that there is enough tea for about a year. The Swedish steamers Hakan, Hera and Olof, with herrings to Germany, have been seized by British warships. Their cargoes are valued at 1.000.000 crowns. It is stated that in the future Swedish herring ships will sail within territorial waters. The Hakan and Olof are vessels of #■ and 442 gross tons respectively, while the Hera is of 233 gross tons. General Carranza. head of the de facto Mexican government, issued a decree Thursday night calling for a new issue of paper money not to exceed $..00,000,000. which will be a substitute for the present issue and will be put into general circulation on May 1. The next new issue will renew the paper money at present in circulation, all of which will be recalled by December 31 next. Destruction of a German airship southwest of Dvinsk and the capture of Svetkavtze, in Galicia, was reported officially yesterday at Petrograd. Flight Lieutenant Barbas brought down the enemy dirigible, presumably a Zeppelin. It fell behind the German lines. In the taking of Svetkavtze, near Tarnapol. the Russians captured forty-two land mines and much other booty. Austrian attempts to retake the place were repulsed. There is not a single battleship on the Pacific coast and many of the coast defenses there are unmanned, according to statements submitted to the Senate yesterday by Secretary of War Baker and Secretary of the Navy Daniels. There are thirty-seven vessels of all types assigned to the Pacific fleet, with thirty -one ships in reserve. At Washington yesterday a bill to authorize the president to promote Colonel George A. Dodd, who recently led the American troops in Mexico in a dash against Villa forces to the grade of brigadier general, was introduced by Representative Kiess of Pennsylvania. An Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company of London says Vice-Admiral Dick, director of the shipyards department of the German navy, has been retired on pension. He was regarded as one of the close advisers of Admiral von Tirpitz. Lung Chi-Kuang. governor of the province of Kwang-Tung, in China, in conformity with the wishes of the people, has declared the independence of the province. The announcement was receivd with general rejoicings. A telephone message from Pensacola, Fla.. to Mobile. Ala., yesterday said the navys new dirigible airship broke from its moorings at the naval station there and is being driven westward by a high wind. It is feared it may be lost.
