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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. A dispatch of yesterday afternoon from Loudon says: Cem-ral Sir John Maxwell, hero of the Kgyptian war of 1SS2. arrived in Ireland today and aaaaaMd iaMawdtata eaaaauuai of the troops which •will suppress the rebellion. His point of landing is a secret, us are all other details concerning the progress of the rebellion in the last twenty-four boors. The press bureau, however, hopes to K able to give out a statement in the course of the day dealing with the Irish disorders. Both the pievs and public admit today that the Irish re-aeUioa eaafraat- Kngland with the gravest crisis siiiee the war ltegan. The fact that the British eensfir passed this expression is indicative of the seriousness of the Irish situation. The public has no knowledge as to the extent to which the revolt ha qpcead -IJ IIBd Premier Asijuiths statement me;itionii!g the counties in particular. It haa beca reported from time to time, however, that the counties of Meath and Louth, north of Dublin, as well as the western counties of Clare, Tip-porary and Limerick, were centers of Sinn Fein activities. A limited passenger service in Ireland w.a- restored today, but the rigid censorship on all dispatches iri.m lri-Ii cities continues. Wild rumors are in circulation regarding the progress of the ■treat fighting in Dublin, where the rebels at last repeats held the Mat Hi e aad other buildings, but nothing de Haifa is known here. From HI Paao yestord.y ■ dispatch says: General Alvaro i|;eg..:i. niinist r of war of the de facto government. K in .Inure* today awaiting to confer with M-Jt ieierals Sett and Funston on the military questions involved in the American punitive e|i-iition into Mexico. General Ohrego;;. nccom-panied by General Jacinto Trevino. military governor of Chihuahua. Genera] Samuel S. Santos, Qar-ern.ir Bariqaea of Chiliu a bun and President Jose de Luz ilerreia of Parral. reached Juarez on a special train Ibis morning. TI.e third section of General lireirc!i"s train, hc.irin- Qaacral Luis Gllth IT! I. military governor of Chihuahua state, wis derailed south of Juarez. No one was injured by the ile-raiiment. though several passenge rs were shaken up. C in ral Oliregon reached Juarez on the second section : tire siiecial train. Generals Scott and Fiinsi.in ate due to reach there tonight, when it is expected that arrangements will Is- made for the first eonf!. nee to be held in Juarez, tomorrow. The I aate and house conferees were still deadlocked yesterday over the -.ire of the regular standing army, the senate holding out for 250,000 men end the hMMe for 1-JO.oou men. It is understood that the soi.ato ci nfere« ■ will refuse to yield to the haaaa lltfltu- ar a small army, but are willing to make eoacesaiaM on other important points, among them the federal volunteer army plan, in order to j ut the preparedness legislation into force at Hie earlie-i poaaitlte date. The British battleship Russell has ! een sunk by a mine. Admiral Freemantle. twenty four ofti eers and t!7 » men were saved. The Russell was sunk in the Mediterranean. She was a vessel of 14.000 ton*, buiit at a cost ef $."..000.00. and generally carried a crew of 750 men. A German xuh-marien wa - sunk off the east coast of England Thursday, it was anno, meed officially yesterday. That the German military and naval staffs are preparing a gnat offensive, lxitli against the combined .nglo-Frci .. h ermy on the continent and the fleets on the coast of Great P.ritain in a last desperate bill, for victory, is be conclusion arrived at by Major ia Civrieux, the military critic of the Paris Matin, after a cl-.se study of the military factors ..f the situation. Numerous air raids along the western front, in which German planes, including a fokker. wore brought down, were reported by the Freuch war office yesterday. There were no important activities on the whole front excepting intermittent bombardment northwest of Verdun. The captain of the Danish steamer Johnnne was killed when the vessel struck a mine in the North Sea, according to a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Copenhagen. The remainder of the crew was landed at Hamburg. The Johanue was a vessel of Till tons.
