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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAT. A dispatch from General Pershings camp of April 12, received yesterday, says: About forty mounted men. Iielieved to be Villa men of General Tarangos command, attacked last night an automobile supply train and were driven off after a short fight. There were no American casualties. One Villa bandit was killed. General Pershing moved his camp south yesterday, penetrating far into Villa territory where he found numerous constitutionalist detachments under General Garza, who gave all the Americans a friendly greeting and cooperation. Aeroplanes, which were first to reach this new front yesterday, had remarkable adventures, but all came through safely. General Pershing traveled here in an automobile train of supply trucks, which made a record-breaking trip. The fight, which occurred about nine occlock last night, was several miles in the rear of the automobiles carrying General Pershing and his escort. It lasted about twenty minutes. When the bandits who tried to capture one truck came up the Americans poured in five volleys, which ended the fight completely. There were two attacks, the first a slight one, and directed against a forward truck. The last attack was a rush against the rear trucks, during which bullets flew against the automobiles and poured through the brush which covered the mesa. The bandits seemed to think the cutting off of the rear truck would be easy, because some of them got within a few feet of it before the Americans, who were withholding their fire, cut loose. Tte German official report of yesterday says: Apart from occasional lively artillery duels in the region of the Meuse there is nothing to report. Attempts made by the enemy to attack on the left bank of the Meuse were arrested by our artillery fire as the attacking parties left their trenches. Army group of Field Marshal von Hindenburg; Minor enemy advances in the region of Garbunowka, northwest of Dvinsk, and south of Nareez lake were repulsed with sanguinary losses. Expeditions of Russian detachments against the position on the Servitche river, north of Zirin, held by the army group of Prince Leopold of Bavaria, were similarly unsuccessful. East of the Vardar river, in the Ban-kans, the enemy yesterday displayed at intervals considerable artillery activity. Enemy aviators dropped bombs on Gievgeli and Bogodance, east of Gievgeli, without doing any damage. A Rotterdam dispatch of yesterday says: The strike of the Holland-American line had so greatly aggravated the problem of how to replenish the nearly exhausted Dutch stocks of American wheat tliat the line has been compelled to yield to the strikers demands, and the steamer Ryndam, which was scheduled to sail March 28 and has been lying in the river since then, will nail today. !
