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Q GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY Although official statements were silent, military experts here believed that the terminus of the one remaining railroad line to Lemberg at Stojanof hail probably fallen before the advance northwest of Brody. The four railway routes to the Galician city from the east to the west would in that case nil be in Russian hands. Brodys capture gave the czars forces command of the terminus of the main tap line; another, the terminus of which is in Russian hands, runs from Tarnopol, and the third, running northwest from Kolomea, has been tapped north of that city. Utilization of these and other railroad lines in Galicia will greatly aid the Russians in their advance. Floods are still hampering operations, but the spirit of the Russian troops is so high that they make light of such obstacles as ; marshy lands, swollen rivers and rains. Announcing that attempts made by small German detachments to attack the Russian positions on the western front were repelled by rifle fire, the Russian official statement issued today says: Western front: Rifle and artillery duels are proceeding at various places. Attempts made by small enemy detachments to attack our positions were repelled. An enemy aeroplane bombarded a transport containing wounded near Dusitchi, on the Vladimir-Volynski-Lutsh route, killing one and injuring twenty men already wounded. The same aeroplane also bombarded the divisional hospital in Dusitchi. killing one and injuring eight hospital orderlies. Caucasian front: Our advance continues. The French war office statement of yesterday says: North of the River Soinine, between the Hem wood and the Monacu farm, our troops captured a fortified work strongly held by the enemy. South of the river an attack delivered by us near Estiees resulted in our occupation of a German trench northwest of Denieeourt; we also took some prisoners. In the Champagne district, west of Auberive, a Russian reconnoitering party delivered a bayonet charge against a detachment of the enemy which was thereby dispersed, leaving behind a number of dead. On the right bank of the Mouse the fighting continued last night with violence along the front between Vaux-le-Chapitre and Chenois, and spread to the east as far as a point south of Damloup. The enemy, after a series of fruitless attacks, some of which were accompanied by the spreading of asphyxiating gases, gained a little ground in the Vaux-le-Chapitre wood and at Chenois, but elsewhere all their endeavors were checked by nur fire. In the course of these engagements, which resulted in important losses to the enemy, we took 100 prisoners, including three officers. Along the Somme front our aviators yesterday showed great activity. A total of thirty-three aerial encounters took place over the lines of the enemy. One German aeroplane, attacked by two Nieuport niahines, was seen to fall in flames, while fourteen other German machines, seriously damaged, were compelled to land or were seen to dive down within their lines. The submarine merchantman Deutschland left Italtiinore Tuesday and in that connection a dispatch from Norfolk of yesterday said: That the German submarine Deutschland. outward bound, Italtiinore to Rrenien, will remain secluded in lower Chesapeake Ray until she can commence her run into the deep waters of the Atlantic, under cover of the night, was an opinion gaining strength rapidly here late this afternoon. The Deutschland has not been reported since shortly before noon, when she was lazily moving southward along the shores of the Delaware, Maryland and Virginia peninsula. She was then reported to be testing her apparatus under the sheltering sides of the tug Timmins. Members of the Virginia Pilots Association say that they expect the Deutschland to disappear tonight. Some think she will try to go right through the allied patrol. Others believe she will submerge inside of the three-mile limit and wait there. One man alone knows. lie is Captain Koenig of the Deutschland. And he will not tell. All of the docks in Norfolk, Newport News and Old Point Comfort have been crowded all day while waiting for a possible sight of the giant submersible. Out at the Virginia Capes other big crowds have been gathered. Says a dispatch of yesterday from Rerlin: With regard to the operations on the eastern front the official statement says that several Russian attacks against the German positions in the Stokhod sector broke down. The Turkish troops who now are arriving in Rukowina and Galicia consist of picked regiments, most of which participated in the heavy lighting on the Gallipoli peninsula. They are equally experienced in trench warfare and in storming attacks, a high Turkish officer told the correspondent of the Lokal Anzeiger. They are armed with the latest type of Mannlicher rifles. The machine gun divisions have been greatly enlarged and perfected under German instructors since the Gallipoli campaign demonstrated the importance of this weapon. The Germans have trained a large number of Turkish aviators for military work. The orders to the Turks to join the Austrians in the fighting against the Russians aroused great enthusiasm among the Turkish officers. England regards as an essential part of any peace conditions the restoration by Germany of Rclgiuni and Serbia, both materially and economically, and the repairing of devastated portions of France and Russia, Premier Asquith yesterday declared in a speech in the commons. Itritisli eyes, the premier said, had been opened to the full meaning of the German system of econimic, commercial and financial penetration, and it was necessary to perpare to combat this. Asquith asserted that at the Paris economic conference of the allies the opinion was that the blacklist should be continued during the war. The resolutions of this conference, he said, were not directed against neutrals. "We are aware of some uneasiness in America," the premier continued, "but this is not justified. The allies measures are their sole defense against economic aggression. Every effort will be made to see that neutrals do not suiter." General Funston on Tuesday night sent to the war department a telegram announcing his intention to rid the various guardsmens camps of newspaper corrsepondents who send out false accounts of conditions in the camps. He referred to such correspondents as "pests," and said he had endured them as long as he purposed to. An order lias been sent to all district commanders along the border covering future action against newspaper men sending out dispatches which may be classed as untruthful. In each instance the offender will be tried by a special court of militia officers from his state. If found guilty he will be ordered from camp. "The great mass of the guardsmen are standing the hardships of camp life well," General Funston said, "and have no cause for complaint. It is only mollycoddles and sissies who kick. These are the ones that tell tales to special correspondents." Merchant shipping cleared from ports of the United States in the year ended June 30. set a new record, notwithstanding the allied blockade, the closing of the Rlack Sea and the withdrawal of German and Austrian merchant ships from trade. Bureau of navigation reports, made public yesterday, show the tonnage cleared was 25,500,000, of which 2.500,000 originated in the United States and 23,000,000 was foreign. The previous high-water mark was 24.800,000 tons cleared in the year ended June 30, 1914. Comprising the two years, American shipping tripled and European clearances decreased. The American tonnage to South America was 950,-000 nearly five times greater, and to Europe 1,100,-000, two and a half times greater. Total clearances to France and Italy almost doubled. Clearances to Norway, Denmark and Sweden more than doubled and to Greece increased threefold. A London dispatcli of yesterday says: Much interest is being shown in the house of commons lobby in the bill introduced by David Lloyd-George, secretary of war, empowering him to set up a special court martial "to try certain allegations which have been made against a high official at the war office." The morning newspapers discuss the subject guardedly. The Morning Post says: "It is a simple looking measure, but there is a great deal behind it. The allegations involved concerned civilians more than soldiers." The Daily News says: "The affair is causing a great stir in political and military circles. Among the allegations against the official is that his action in certain army matters lias not always been influenced by national considerations alone." A specially designed armored railroad car, built by the Standard Steel Car Company at Hammond, Ind., for the war department, was shipped east yesterday. The car was ordered a month ago, when the Mexican crisis was acute. United States army officers in Chicago who had planned to visit Hammond were unable to be present when the car was shipped. Designed by army engineers, aided by engineers of the company, the car is constructed of specially heavy steel plates and equipped with forged steel wheels. It will carry a high-powered gun, mounted in a well in the oval roof, and twenty machine guns along the sides of the car. The ports for the machine guns also may be used by sharpshooters. An unexpected degree of success has been attained in efforts of the state department to secure the consent of the maritime nations to amendment of their trade treaties with the United States to conform to the radical requirements of the new seamens act. Of the score of countries whose treaties were affected by the law, all but four Spain, Sweden, Norway and Colombia have in principle agreed to permit the necessary changes which include excision of articles permitting the arrest and return to their ships of deserters and the libeling of vessels by dissatisfied sailors at foreign ports. An official statement issued at Paris yesterday says: We are now in possession of precise information regarding the repressions of which two Hungarian regiments were the object. One had revolted; the other took to filght before the enemy at Pliaschowo. It was the Seventh regiment of Landwehr of the Sixth corps which made common cause with the Magyar mutineers. Two hundred and seventeen men of this regiment, were shot. The other regiment was the Thirteenth Landwehr. The 123 who escaped from the Russians wore shot by order of the chief of staff of General von Lin-singen. The Rundesrat has adopted a decree authorizing the chancellor to liquidate Itritisli firms operating in Germany. A semi-official note published in connection with the decree says the measure is retaliatory. The note alleges that this difference is due to the fact that Germany economically is so strong that she is able to meet the free competition of foreign concerns within Germany, whereas English business men were able to devise no better method of restoring their lost position than the destruction by forcible measures of values created by peaceful German industry. Further progress has been made by the Itritisli troops to the east of Pozieres. in the River Somme region, it was announced officially this afternoon. The text of the statement follows: Last night some further progress was made in the hostile trenches east of Pozieres, where fighting at close quarters by small detachments has been in progress. Hostile counter attacks delivered after dark yesterday evening against our new trenches to the west of High wood failed to get through our artillery barrage. A cure of eruptive typhus, the disease which made such terrible ravages in Serbia, has been discovered at Paris by Drs. Nicolle and Rlaisot. The physicians described their discovery to the Academy of Medicine. It is a serum which they found after exhaustive experiments. So far thirty-eight serious cases have been treated by injections, which were followed by rapid recovery in a number of patients. In addition the injections of the serum prevented complications so frequent in this disease and reduced the death rate from 25 to 3 per cent. The German government has sent a pledge to Holland not to destroy or molest Dutch ships carrying foodstuffs to England, according to a Copenhagen dispatch to the London Express. This decision is the result of a visit to Rerlin of Cornelius J. K. van Aalst. president of the Overseas Trust, and another Dutch commissioner, who threatened to close the Dutch eastern frontier unless the pledge was given. Sir Roger Casements solicitor, Gavin Duffy of Dublin, had not received word yesterday of any change in the plans for the execution by hanging at nine oclock Thursday morning of his client at Ien-tonville prison. Premier Asquith had received an extensively signed petition from Ireland, but beyond a formal acknowledgment he had not communicated j further with its originators. The Russian war report of yesterday says: The Russian wedge separating the Austrian and German forces was thrust still further forward today. Not only has the separation been virtually accomplished. j but today unofficial advices here indicated rapid progress of the movement from the south enveloping Kovel. Renomination of all present congressmen and defeat of the proposed literacy test amendment to the state constitution by 15,000 votes were the outstanding results of Tuesdays Oklahoma state primaries. The Dutch steamer Zealand was submarined Tuesday night. The crew was landed safely at South Shields. England. They asserted the German submarines captain had boasted to them that he had sunk five ships prior to torpedoing the Zealand. Frederick Dane, loan commissioner representing the Ontario government in relief of the North Ontario fire sufferers, said at Cobalt that from reports received from the fire-swept sections, the number of dead now is estimated at 30C. Lord Robert Cecil yesterday authorized the Associated Press to state that Roger Casement will be executed today. There will be no reprieve, Lord Robert declared. The union of marine engineers of Havana harbor, Cuba, has voted to call a strike if not granted an eight-hour day. The strike will practically tie up all sea traffic.
