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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Features of the unofficial Ol !!■■■ reply to President Wilsons recent note, as published yesterday were that the German admiralty has issued a new-order to submarine commanders a copy of which is included in the note by which M more merchant ships shall be sunk without first being visited and searched and that all persons on board the merchant ships shall lie given a chain— to escape. Ger-many declares that unless the Cuited States coi.i-IK-ls Knglaiid to cease "violating the rules of international law." a new situation will arise in which the Oerman government •"must reserve for itself complete liberty of decision." Germany declare-; that: The Inited States has discriminated against her in favor of the allies; the Gorman people have become aroused by the attitude of the Inited States: the Oerman government is determined not to give up its most effective we.i| o:i the submarine although a restriction of its use will be allowed: the Inited States is expected to - ■aemte with Germany in restofMg tic- freedom of tin- seas: the German govcrnniiit wishes to prevent a break with In- Patted Stiles; the Gcriiirin govern -ment wants to confine fighting to belligerent na tions and not extend the bloodshed to countries now at peace; the 1nited States will B0 held responsible if the German armies are defeated through the starvation policy laid down by England in her blockade. Oerniany intends to continue her submarine warfare and frequent references are made in the note to the Oerman people as apart from the Oerman government. The note intimates that responsibility for a break would rest with the Inited States anil indicates that a further exchange of representations is desired before certain elements of the submarine controversy are cleared up. A Paris dispatch of yesterday says: The French successes on the left bank of the Meuse have l een of greater importance than indicated by first re-l«irts. according to a semi-official statement issued Thursday night. The French troops, by a skillfully prcpared and brilliantly executed operation, have thrown back the Ocrmnns on the northwest side of Dead Mans hill beyond the line held at the beginning of March. The enemy has thus lost by a single stroke his gains painfully made by two months of continuous, costly attacks. Dead Mans hill has twin summits known respectively as hill; No. MB and 295. On the first of these" the Gor-maiis had affected a footing, bat now have been completely cleared from hill MB. Tin Oermans. surprised by the suddenness of the French attack, wen thrown back in disorder and suffered exceptionally heavy losses, particularly from the preliminary iMimhardmcnt. The large nnnilicr of Oermans killed explains why so few prisoners were taken. West of the Meuse the Oermans yesterday evening strongly attacked the French positions north of hill 304. says the official statement issued this afternoon by the French war office, but they were repulsed along the whole front attacked, except in one or two points in tile advanced trenches. An attempted attack on the trenches at Cappy. south of the Sonime. the statement adds, completely failed. East of the MoDse and in the Woevre there was an intermittent bombardment. Otherwise the front was comparatively calm. Yesterdays dispatch from Dublin says: Four more rebel prisoners were sentenced to death by court martial and shot this morning. This was announced officially. The men were Joseph Plunkatt. Edward Daly. Michael OHanrahan and William Pears;-. Fifteen other rebels were sentenced to death, the official statement adds, but later their sentences were commuted to ten years penal servitude. The death sentence of another prisoner was commuted to eight years penal servitude. Only one shot has been heard in Dublin since late last night. The military authorities continue to destroy large quantities of arms and ammunition. E-iw and order were better maintained in Dublin than probably at any period in the history of the Irish capital. Before the recent disturbances the police wire considered objects for abuse by sections of the populace. aM even now. under martial law. th -ir orders are obeyed with reluctance. A word from a soldier, however. sup| orted by rifle and bayonet, commands instant respect. Loss of the Zeppelin L-20. following an air raid on Kngland. was admitted in an admiralty statement at Berlin Thursday, which says: A Ocrnian naval air squadron on the night of May 2-3 attacked the middle and northern parts of the east coast of Kngland. Factories, blast furnaces and railroads near Middlesborongh and Stockton, industrial establishments near Sunderland, the fortified port of Hartlepool, the coast batt.-ries south of the River Tees, and British men of war at the entrance of the Firth of Forth were attacked with many bombs. The success of these attacks was witnessed. All our airships returned to their home port with the exception of the L-20. which was lost off Stavanger. The whole crew is safe. The arrest of Karl Liebknecht. the socialist leader in connection with a May day demonstration in Berlin. May 1. caused great excitement among the workers there and led to a fresh demonstration, which was suppressed by a large body of police, according to reports from Berlin forwarded from Copenhagen by the Exchange Telegraph company. The dispatch adds that it is believed that the Oerman government will be compelled to release Dr. Liebknecht in order to prevent a revolution. It is stated that he was arrested while addressing a peace demonstration and that it was n violation of the military regulations for iiim to wear the civilian clothing in which he was dressed. A Zeppelin raided Saloniki early yesterday, according to a Renter dispatch from that city. The airship was subjected to a heavy fire and is reported to have Iteen destroyed. A later Renter dispatch from Saloniki states that the report of the destruction of the Zeppelin has beea confirmed. Only one of thee row of thirty on the airship escaped. A Zepiielin dirigible balloon was destroyed Thursday I y one of the British light cruiser squadrons off the Schleswig coast, says an official announcement issued by the government. William Lorimer was found not guilty of wrecking and looting the La Salle Street Trust and Savings Bank by a jury which returned a verdict in Judge Devers court. The former Inited States senator announced that he would devote the rest of his life to repaying all those who had lost money in the failure of the bank. He then went to the home of a friend near the rseidence of the late Andrew J. .Graham, one of his close friends, at whose funeral he was to be a pallbearer. James M. Sullivan, former Inited States minister to Santo Domingo, has been arrested in Dublin in connection with the Sinn Fein uprising, it was announced Thursday at the Inited States embassy in I/ondon Sullivan has been brought to London and probably will be placed on trial there. Sullivan was formerly a resident of New York, where he practiced law. At the State Department, after the Cabinet meeting yesterday, it was stated that no "hasty" action would be taken on the Oerman note, and that in view of its length and the necessity of digesting it carefully, it was improbable that any decision would be reached liefore next week. At Oeneral Fuiistons temporary headquarters at El Paso. Texas, it was said yesterday afternoon a message had lieen received from Oeneral Pershing, in which he stated that he thought he had located Villa. Much significance is attached by Oreeks generally to the occupation by French troops of the Oreek town of Florima. owing to its location being only eighteen miles south of Mouastir. The British government has decided to release the thirty-eight Oerinaus and Austrians who were taken from the American steamship China.
