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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. From Petrograd yesterday a dispatch said: Although the issue of the struggle between the opposing forces in the region of the Stokhod river hangs iu the balance, and there has been during the last few days no essential change in the situation along the main Russian front, the Russians have achieved three important advance at widely separated points in the eastern war theater. The first is the successful drive from the new quarter in Volhynia, southwest of Lutsk. The second is an advance of the extreme southern wing of General Brussilolfs forces along the high road leading into Hungary, and tin; third is the improved situation iu the Caucasus resulting from the taking of Baihurt. In the first region the Russian operations are now directed against the left wing of General Boehni-Ermollis army near Sviniusky, which has already yielded ground before the fierceness of the Russian assaults. Of the four Austrian army groups employed against Brussilolfs forces. Roehni-Ermollis group has been the least affected by the Russian offensive and, after its initial withdrawal from Dubno at the beginning of the Russian campaign, has held its ground firmly against all the Russian attempts to push the advance to the Galician frontier town of Brody. The beginning of the further retreat of this group, therefore, is considered extremely important and may open up a new Russian radius of attack from the north. The taking of Baihurt, which lias been the goal of the central Caucasian armies ever since the fall of Erzerum, has definitely ended, according to military operation here, all chances of a successful Turkish counter offensive, which, with Baihurt as a base, the Turks have for months been carrying on with the object of regaining the entire Trebizond-Erzerum area. An investigation yesterday at Philadelphia, disclosed that with present facilities and those being added under millions of dollars worth of new contracts just closed, that city in less than twelve months will be the greatest and biggest shipbuilding center iu the world. There are now under construction or contracted for seventy-six ships, with a total gross tonnage of -120,253. Millions of dollars are being poured into the shipbuilding industry along the Delaware river. Thousands of men are working long hours getting new shipyards together. This tremendous boost is due primarily, of course, to the fact that the seas have been practically stripped of foreign shipping by the European war and there is an enormous demand for bottoms which will carry foreign and domes-tie sea trade. All the big yards here are jammed witli all the work they can do for the next three years. They are refusing orders every day on this account. Among the largest of these yards is the Cramp Company, New York Shipbuilding Company, Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pusey and Jones, Harlan and Hollingswortb, Chester Shipbuilding Com pany and Qiiigley and Dorp. The Pennsylvania Shipbuilding Company is completing u big, new 1916.sh,000,-000 yard. The Sun Shipbuilding Companv, organized by New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh men. is completing a new yard costing several millions. A report today shows that Cramp is building thirteen ships with a total gross tonnage of 81,300; the Chester Company, ten ships, with -18,000 tonnage; the .New York company, twenty-four ships, with 120,305 tonnage; Harlan and IIol-lingsworth, fourteen ships, with .S5.000 tonnage; Pusey and Jones, nine ships, with 37,018 tonnage, and the Pennsylvania company, six ships, with 12,000 tonnage. From Brownsville, Tex., yesterday a dispatch said: One troop of the First Illinois Cavalry began today to guard the Brownsville Electric Light and Water Pumping plant and the adjacent strip of river bank. Colonel Foreman spent this morning receiving reports on the strength and efficiency of the various troops preparatory to assigning one to the important task. Illinois thus becomes the first state except Texas to furiihu troops for actual border duty, and the station is one of the most dangerous on the whole Rio Grande. The plant, which is worth a half million dollars, is on the river bank directly across from the Mexican city of Matamoros. It is outside of Brownsville, a mile from the Illinois camp, but farther from Fort Brown. Army strategists agree that the plant would be the first objective point if a raid were made on Brownsville. Its taking would throw this city into darkness and cut off its water supply. It has been guarded by regular soldiers for about two years. A oinpuny of the Fourth United States Infantry has been camped there for several mouths, and is relieved by the Illinoisans. Many times the soldiers have been fired on from the Mexican side, the last time being just over two weeks ago. It is real service at last, and the whole Illinois regiment, from the colonel down, is delighted at the change and at the confidence shown in them by the regulars through the assignment. The strip to be patrolled includes three fords, over one of which last similiter came out? of the most murderous Mexican raids made in this vicinity. That the German army has suffered great losses during the allied attack on the western front is gained from tin; admissions of prisoners brought to the headquarters of the British armies in France, and reliable information is responsible for the estimate of experts that the number of their casualties in killed, wounded and prisoners must be somewhat near 150.000. An artillery officer, as a result of rough calculations, says that along the allied main front of attack iu the west since June 27, 500,000 shells per day have been raining on the enemy. On this basis the allies have used up in twenty days 10,-000.000 projectiles of till sorts, exclusive of bombs, rifle and machine gnu fire. According to advices reaching Iyoitdoii, the capture of Ovillers was signalized by appalling German losses and the most desperate fighting since the offensive began. That the Germans realized the positions value is shown by the fact that the defense was intrusted to picked regiments of the Third Division of the Imperial Guard. In one underground retreat twenty-five Germans, survivors of a full battalion, who had not tasted food for sixty hours, were captured. In another stronghold the survivors were nearly dead front thirst. Twenty-seven men from the First Infantry, rejected for the second time by medical examiners because of physical defects or illness, will depart from amp Wilson, Texas, for Chicago within the next two or three days. Out of the forty- j four men disquulifcd by the medical examiners at Springfield, seventeen were accepted as fit to serve in the second test. Doctors examining the Second Infantry are reported to have disqualified fifty men out of 139. The men rejected front Colonel Joseph B. Sanborns regiment are Thomas J. Kelley, Orrin W. Router, Harper C. Watress, Mark II. Wasster. Harry Lind, Melville Dourier, Earl F. Austin, Charles E. Moe, John K. Miner, William S. Simpson. Frank W. Shick, Earl M. Scikes, Russell II. Wilson, Walter J. TranowsUi, John A. Witt, Frank .1. Wenzeler, Chester S. Simmons, Charles T. J. Cockrell, Harry Ebetlein, Carl Huehuca, Earl L. Lorn, Iasqualle F. Boetta. Edgar C. Beyers. Luciau V. Tram-hard, George Murtoii, Theodore Kanot and Earl .1. Frank. According to a London dispatch the Germans havs recaptured a portion of Delville wood and obtained a footing in the northern outskirts of Lougueval, the war office announced yesterday. The enemys attack last night, the beginning of which already has been reported, was directed against our new positions east of Bazciitiu village, the statement says. Very large German reinforcements had been collected for this attack. After an in tens.! artillery fire the first assault was delivered in dense masses at about 5:30 oclock in the afternoon. The fighting continued all night and was particularly violent in Delville wood. After suffering very heavy losses the enemy recaptured a portion of Delville wood and also obtained a footing in the northern outskirts of Langucval. The struggle iu these areas still is violent. Elsewhere the attack, including three separate assaults on Waterlot farm, completely broke down under our fire. The breaking off of conferences at New York between the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers Protective Association and the International Garment Workers Union left the garment workers strike to all intents where it was when it started three months ago. Statements issued by both sides accused the other of bad faith and responsibility for the failure of negotiations. The strike affects some -10,000 employes and about 500 manufacturers. It is estimated that orders for womens clothes worth 1916.sh0,000,000 have been left unfilled. Strike payments of 1916.sh5,000 a week have been made by the union. The citizens committee, which has been aiding the workers, issued a statement today saying as the result of the strike more than 200,000 persons are facing hunger. The committee plans to raise 5,000 a week for the benefit of the garment workers as long as the strike lasts. From Berlin yesterday a dispatch said: The recapture by Herman troops of the village of Lougueval and of Delville wood is announced today by the war office. In addition to these successes along the Somine front the French were repulsed iii their continued attempts to gain ground iu the Froide Terns ridge in the Verdun region. The Russians have been reinforced strongly along the front south and southwest of Riga at the northern end of the Russian line and have been attacking Field : Marshal von lliudenhurgs forces there heavily, The assaults, however, all failed, the Russians suffering unusually severe losses. South and southwest of Riga, our brave regiments caused repeated attacks by the Russians, delivered with strengthened forces, to break down with extraordinarily heavy losses for the enemy. Eight thousand guardsmen now at Laredo, Tex., will be moved back from the border to one of the smaller towns on the railroad connecting Iaredo and San Antonio unless General Fiinston alters his plans announced Monday. Citizens of Laredo recently sent to Texas congressmen a telegraphic protest against the unsanitary condition of the guardsmens camp, calling attention to the limited supply of water. This protest reached General Fiinston. who admitted that better conditions might be found. The regular troops will be left at Laredo anil a small detachment of the guards, but he said he would move most of the 8,000 away from the town, holding them at some point on the railroad from which they can be moved quickly to the border if their services are required. The Russians are now in possession of four important lilies leading into Hungary, as a result of their advance along the Kirlibaba-Maraninros-Szigct road. Following their conquest of Bukowina, which took them but a month practically to complete, they seem to be meeting with little resistance on the southern portion of the eastern front. General von Linsingens retirement across the Li pa on the eastern front is considered by the critics as removing the last serious obstacle to the advance of the Russians toward l.emberg, the capital of Ga-licia. Reports from Rome say that the retirement of the Teutonic allies on the Lipa has caused a panic in Galicia, where towns are being evacuated. Sir Roger Casements appeal from his conviction on the charge of high treason, for which he was sentenced to death, was dismissed :it London Monday. The Court of Criminal Appeal announced its decision after listening to arguments by Alexander Sullivan. Casements counsel, who contended that the instructions to the jury in Casements trial were inaccurate, and that the actions complained of iu the indictment did not constitute a statutory offense. . Unless the crown commutes the death sentence, Casement will die on the gallows. The justices dismissed the appeal without hearing counsel for the crown. Settlement of the strike of 0,000 bituminous coal miners iu the Allegheny and Kiskimiuitas valleys is expected at Pittsburgh when representatives of the United Mine Workers of America confer with members of the Pittsburg Coal Operators Association. Other scattering strikes, but of smaller proportions in District No. 5, are expected to be ended as soon as John L. Lewis, chairman of the international board committee, returns to Pittsburgh within a day or two. Before starting for Kentucky Mr. Lewis said he did not expect any more trouble in the Pittsburgh territory because of the acceptance, by the miners of the New York scale. The Cologne Gazettes Vienna correspondent says the Serbian Colonel Radowitsch has been arrested in the concentration camp near Salzburg because it was claimed documents found iu the Serbian state archives proved he was an accessory iu the assassination iu July 101-1, at Sarayevo. ! of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Austrian throne, and his wife, the Princess Ilohenberg. The killing of the archduke and the princess was the first step leading to the war in Europe. Freedom to enter the United States, once denied, was granted Tuesday night to former President Cipriaim Castro of Venezuela, and his wife, by order of Secretary Wilson of the labor department, who overruled the decision of the special board of immigration officials at New York, denying them admission. Under the secretarys ruling, the Cas-tros are free to go to Porto Rico as they had planned, or to remain indefinitely in the United States. Frank Gotch is out of the circus and wrestling for a long time because of a broken leg just above the ankle, sustained Tuesday in an exhibition bout with I!ob Managoff, of Chicago. Managoff is acting as trainer for the chaiiipion. who is traveling with a circus. Gotch had reached for a hip hold on his opponent, who was putting up a rough bout before a capacity crowd, when he caught his leg between two gymnasium mats. The bone snapped. It is reported at Stockholm that the British steamship Adams, 2,223 tons gross, has been captured by a German destroyer off Alms, Sweden, while on a voyage from Finland. Two more neutral vessels have been torpedoed. The Ritzau News Agency of Copenhagen says they were the Dutch iron ship Denula and the Swedish schooner Bertha, and that their crews were landed at Nyborg. A Lloyds dispatch from Algiers to London, says the Italian steamship Angelo, 3,000 tons, has been sunk by a submarine. The crew was landed. The Greek steamship Evangelislria, 2,212 tons, is believed to have been sunk. The Angelo sailed from Wilmington, Del., June 1, for Spezia, Italy, reaching that port on June 25. The French government has called to the colors a part of the class of 1SSS that is, men from forty-seven to forty-eight years of age, except those in munition factories, and for the present, farmers and farm laborers who are now busy with the harvest. The Panama canal zones population is 31.01S, said a consular report received yesterday giving a census just taken by the police and fire division. American residents number 1-1,870. Three large enemy transports were sunk by submarines iu the east part of the Black Sea and a fourth forced to run ashore, according to an official statement from the Turkish admiralty received at Berlin yesterday.
