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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. The American expedition will remain in Mexico without interference from Carranzista troops, according to an agreement reached earlv yesterday at El Paso, Texas, by Chief of Staff Scott and Carranza War Minister Obregon. after a conference lasting nearly twelve hours. Obregon has granted permission for the expedition to have full use of the Mexico Northwestern Railroad in transporting supplies and men. and has promised to cooperate "as fully as possible" with General Pershings forces, it was stated on reliable authority. In return. Scott was unofficially reported to have set a sixty -day limit on the presence of the Americans in Chihuahua. Scotts concessions, if any were made, were not definitely known however, and it was believed the war department would give out the program agreed upon in a short time. The conclusions will not become effective, according to the understanding around the conference room, until ratified by the respective governments of the conferees. Though Obregon was clothed with greater authority than Scott, he will submit his report to General Carranza. while Scotts part of the agreement will l e subject to ratification by the Washington administration. Says a dispatch of yesterday from London: Four of the men who signed the republican proclamation in Ireland have been tried by courtmartial. found guilty and shot. They were: Patrick H. Pea r.-o. the • provisional president of Ireland": James Connolly, who was styled "commandant general of the Irish republican army": Thomas J. Clarke, a tobacco dealer; Thomas MacDonagh: Their executions were announced in the house of commons this afternoon by Premier Asquith. The announcement was made by the prime minister in the house of commons this afternoon a moment after announce incut was made that chief secretary for Ireland Aug.istiiie Birrell. the man held largely responsible for the Irish outbreaks, had resigned from the British cabinet. Besides Pearse. Clarke. MacDonagh and Connolly, the signers of the proclamation were S. Mac Dlurmud, e, teauut and Joseph Plunk - ett. The swiftness with which the government acted came as some surprise to parliament. No previous announcement had been made that a court-martial would be held this week jto deal with the rebels brought to England. The French official statement of yesterday says: In the Argonne district, after a spirited bombardment with shells which released irritating gases, the ennny undertook yesterday evening a small attack in which three companies took part upon our trenches between Harazee and Four de Paris. The Germans were successful in gaining a footing for a few moments in our advanced positions, but they were not able to maintain this success and had to retire. They sustained heavy losses by our lire. In the region of Verdun there has been fairly intense activity on the part of the opposing artillery forces in the sectors of Dead Man hill and Douaumont. One of our long range pieces bom- || barded the railroad station at Sebastojiol to the g east of Vigneulles. Flames were observed at the station. In the Lorraine district there has been an encounter between patrols near Moncel. From Mexico City yesterday a dispatch says: The City of Cuernavaca was captured by the forces of G neral Iablo Gonzales today after twelve hours of fierce fighting. This information was brought to the war office tonight by a »| ecial messenger, who carried the report of the commanding general. Cuernavaca is the stronghold of General Zapata. The prices of foodstuffs rose to such a point today that the governor of the federal district issued orders to all merchants, warning them that unless sales were made at reasonable figures the authorities would be comiielled to act with more severity, lmth in the imposition of fines and the infliction of sentences of imprisonment. Serious trouble is reported to have occurred in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany on May day. says the Amsterdam correspondent of the London Exchange Telegraph company. Vast crowds, composed for the most part of women of the laboring classes, clamored for peace. The crowds were disiiersed by the police and many persons were arrested. Two women were wounded at Chemnitz, Saxony. A Geneva telegram to the London Central News says: During food riots at Leipsix the police killed three persons and wounded seventy. In riots in Berlin it is reported twenty -five were killed and 200 wounded. The evidence presented by the Dutch shipping council and the pieces of metal found in the ships boat have convinced the Berlin government that a German toriiedo sank the Dutch steamer Tnbantia, says a dispatch from Amsterdam, quoting the lian-delshlad. Negotiations regarding the compensation for the sinking of the vessel are proceeding, the dispatch adds. Meantime, Albert Ballln, director general of the Hamburg -American Steamship Company, has offered to transfer to the Dutch company a large Hamburg-American line ship to take the place of the Tnbantia. William Livingston, president of the Lake Carriers association, has made public at Detroit u telegram from Secretary of State Lansing, giving assurance that the Canadian government does not intend" to exercise the right to search on vessels visiting Canadian lake tiorts. A report recently was published to the effect that the Canadian authorities intended to remove sailors of belligerent nations from great lakes steamers touching at Canadian ports, and Mr. Livingston brought the matter before the state department. If the plans of the general board are followed out the new battleships to be authorized at this session of congress will bo the largest and most powerful afloat and will be equipped with the biggest caliber armament. Tentative plans drawn for their con- J struction by the naval authorities put their displacement at 36.000 tons with an armament of ten sixteen -inch guns. The recommendation for ten sixteen-inch rifles comes direct from the general board and has the indorsement of many ordnance officials. The British armed .yacht Aegusa, Capt. T. P. Walker, retired vice admiral, and the British mine swe.-per Nasturtium, Lieut. Com. Robin W. Lloyd, struck mines in the Mediterranean and sank. The official statement announcing this adds that the captains and officers of both ships were saved. Six men are missing from the crew of the Aegusa and seven from the Nasturtium. More goods than ever before exported by one nation in a month were exported from the United States in March, the department of commerce announced yesterday. The total was 10,000,000 worth. The figures exceeded those of last March by 13,000,000 and were nearly double the average exi orts during the month of the five preceding years. A regular army of 180,000 men at peace strength has practically been agreed upon by senate and house conferees on the army bill. With the plans for expansion as provided in the bill, which has passed the senate, this would produce an army of about 250.000 men in war strength. The bill as it passed the senate fixed the peace strength at 250,-000 men.
