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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. An important dispatch from London of yesterday says: At daylight this morning the Pritish. resuming the offensive north of the Sommc, attacked the German second line defenses, and, according to the report of their commander, .Gen. Sir Douglas Haig. succeeded in penetrating them on a front of four miles. Press dispatches from the front add that the villages of Pazeiitin-le-Grand and Iuig-ueval, north .of Moutauban, and the remaining portion of Trones woods wore taken by the Pritish. Pouters correspondent at the Pritish front telegraphs that the Pritish forces have captured Pa-zentin-lc-Petit and most of the village of Ovillers. A subsequent dispatch from Pouters correspondent on the Pritish front says that later reports tend to confirm the first a-.-counts of the success of the Pritish attack this morning. The German second line was carried with small loss, said the corre-spoadeut, and the Germans surrendered freely. He reports that one regimental commaider and his staff, three artillery offiars and about 150 infantry officer and men had been brought into the camp early today In addition to the -villages already reported captured, the correspondent says Pa-zentin-le-Potit has been taken by storm. Fighting also is proceeding around Ovillers and virtually the entire village is in the hrnds of the Pritish. Several German counter attacks against the positions just won have boon repulsed by the Pritish. who are now consolidating their gains. The Pritish troops f.re in high spirits over their successes. The gain is the greatest scored for the Anglo-French offensive since the opening of the great assault thirteen days ago. Xew and violent battles are being fought on both sides of the Diver Sommc this morning, says the official statement given out yesterday by the German army headquarters staff. Early this morning, the statement says, Pritish troops att-icked in the sector of Mamctz wood and Longueval and iiia.de. repeated efforts to capture Trones woods. The first Pritish attacks were beaten back anil new battles are now in progress. East of tin? Diver Mouse, in the region of Verdun, the French attempted to reconquer territory captured by tht? Germans, the official statement says. Xear the fortress of Souvillo, the French attack was impeded by a curtain of fire, it is declared, and in the vicinity of Laufee work the attack was completely repulsed. On both sides of the Soiniue new and violent combats are in progress. The Pritish early in the morning attacked in the sector of Mainetz wood and Longueval, ami they made repeated efforts in Trones woods, whop? yesterday evening the Pritish already were sensibly hit by tin? rapid advance of our reserves. After the first attempt of the enemy had been beaten back t!it? Pritish engaged in new attacks. A San Antonio dispatch of yesterday says: To company C, Second Texas infantry, commanded by apt. A. S. Ilorton. came the distinction today of being the first of the national guard to exchange shots with Mexicans, when they prevented a raiding party from crossing the Pio Grande near Doinm. Tex. Six armed Mexicans, attempting to enter American territory at 3 oclock in the morning, were detected by the outpost. They were ordered to halt, but continued advancing. The Toxuns opened fire. The fire was returned, but discontinued after a minute, the Mexicans hurrying back to their own country. Xoae of the Americans was injured, and It is believed none of the Mexicans wen? hit. With cheers ringing in their ears and marching in line to the tune of music, twenty officers and 344 men of Capt. Edward A. Evers command, Illinois naval reserve, left yesterday for Philadelphia. An hour after they arrive in Philadelphia they will embark on tin? V. S. S. Alabama for their annual two weeks cruise. The men marched in military formation through Grant park to Harrison street. Tin? wives, mothers and sisters and friends of the reservists wen? among the crowd that cheered them off. AVith nine other reserve warships of tiie Atlantic battle fleet, the Alabama will cruise off the Maine coast while the citizen sailors will be instructed in manning battleships and naval maneuvers. The French official report of yesterday afternoon says: The Germans made two attempts last night to storm French positions north of the Aisne at a point south of Villi? au Pois, but were checked by the French machine-gun fire. On the Aerdun front artillery fighting continues in tin? Souville sector. There were patrol engagements in Clnnois wood. North of the Aisne, in the region south of Villi; au Pois and on the Aauclere plateau, two attempts by the Germans to make attacks were arrested promptly by the fire of our machine guns. On the right bank of the Mouse Aerdun front the artillery fighting was very active in the Souville sector. Patrol engagements occurred in Che-nois wood. A declaration that he and all other members of the Cnrranza government are mutually united with the firm determination of establishing order in Mexico was made yesterday by Gen. Jacinto Tre-vino, military commander of the northeast, in a statement given to the Associated lress. A furious counter attack was launched by Austrian and German forces against the Pussiaus west of the Stripa. The Pussiau war office announcement of yesterday says that in this region the Pussiaus took 3,200 prisoners and captured two guns and nineteen machine guns.
