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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. 1 Of the great battle raging in northern France, .1 London dispatcli of yesterday afternoon says: 5 The number of prisoners taken by the British in J the fighting on the Ancre sector of the Somme front is now over 4,000, according to an official : statement issued by the war office today. The war : office now reports progress at Beaucourt-Sur-Ancre. . Bitter fighting was going on in the outskirts of the , town at i:oon. The announcement, which told of the new advance at Boaucourt-Sur-Ancre, said the s storming of Beaumont-Hamel village had been completely successful. Fighting at the northern edges 1 of Beaumont-Hamel on the nortli bank where the 1 Germans are attempting to rally their forces is t proceeding witli an intensity that increases hourly, i according to unofficial rejwrts reaching here from t the front. Yesterdays advance was on a front t of more than five miles, and to a deptli at some points of more than 2,000 yards. Each attack was f preceded by a curtain fire which German prisoners r say is the most terrible of any barrage hail of metal that has been faced on any front. On the a south bank, about St. Pierre Divion, half a mile j north of Thiepval, the Germans already have started r counter attacking, and the fighting there is bitter. The British have rushed up reserves at all three r points taken in the lightning stroke that began -under cover of the low-hanging mists early yester- ., day and continued in this sector with a surprisingly small show of resistance by the Germans. The re- r serves are now at work consolidating the gains that were made where the Germans dug and cemented themselves into what heretofore had been regarded as one of the most impregnable portions of their to western lines. Military experts here expected the P greatest show of resistance about Beaumont-Hamel, since any further advance by British forces there n will seriously threaten Miraumont, less than one mile east directly on the road to coveted Bapaume. 1 The positons north of the river are described as a of extraordinary strength, Beaumont-Hamel equnl- ing Thiepval in the extent and security of its p dugouts. In all the positions of the Germans north s of the Ancre there was a profusion of connected h machine gun redoubts, elaborate telephone and elec- e tris light systems and great caverns capable of t sheltering companies of infantry. Prisoners say it p was believed Beaumont-Hamel could not be taken t to by the British. Fragmentary press reports reaching London told of a spread of the fighting several n miles northward, which led to belief that General d Haigs forces have started a drive on Serre, about j one mile north of Beaumont, and a scant mile and a half northwest of Miramount. be , From Atlantic City a dispatch of yesterday said: n Gen. Pershings column will be out of Mexico soon, if present plans of the American-Mexican peace s commission materialize. The commission proposed to reach a border agreement, probably before the Sl week end. With doubt over the election passed, p the commission today put in its finishing work. As v tentatively framed, the border agreement will call for immediate or gradual retirement of Pershings men from their posts below the boundary. In the 11 meantime, Gen. Cnrranza will endeavor to show a all Kood faith by bavins Gen. Murguia prosecute more e 1 . D a i J 3 1 J . 0 2 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 . ; 1 1 1 1 j , . : 1 i 1 , , , j 1 5 J : : . , s 1 1 t i t t f r a j r r ., r to P n 1 a p s h e t p t to n d j be , n s Sl p v 11 a all e vigorously than heretofore the hunt for Villa and I his bandits. Murgia succeeds Trevino, Chihuahua commander. The proposed agreement likewise will I go toward adequate security of the border, with 1 the Mexicans assuming a larger share of his pro-B tection than previously. In planning for Pershings ; withdrawal, the Americans will be guided bv - American military mens advice that his stay is 1 strategically useless. Two deaths from exposure, reports of suffering from the citys poor and an increase of more than 100 per cent in appeals for aid to the Associated I Charities and the county agent, marked Chicagos first touch of winter weather vestredav, which recorded 14 degrees above zero. The two dead from exposure are J. A. Davidson, sixty years old, 0992 Glenwood avenue, and a poorly dressed man, known only as "Pittsburgh Bill," who was found dead today in a box car on the Pennsylvania tracks 5 at One Hundred and Thirty-second street and Bur-U . ley avenue. Davidsons body was found in a prairie . opposite 6030 Broadway. A card bearing that name i and address was found in his pocket. Police took I the body to AVestbergs undertaking parlors, 5210 ; North Clark street. An error of 100 votes in the count for state rep-, resentative for the forty-third senatorial district ; was discovered at Galesburg, 111., yesterday by the I election commission in recounting the votes in the ; second precinct of the fifth ward in that city, which 011 the face of the returns gives the election ! to Patrick Gallagher of Canton over his opponent, William Basel of Astoria, both of whom ran on the democratic ticket. The official returns announced j last week by the county clerks of Knox and Fulton counties gave Representative Basel thirty-five , votes over Gallagher. The error found today puts : Gallagher in the lead by sixty-four and one-half votes. Gallagher is expected to dismiss his contest : to make way for a demand from Basel for a re-! count. Great Britain insists she has the right to limit the trade of British subjects. This is the tenor of the British reply to the American protest against the blacklist it was learned yesterday. The reply ; will be made public by the British foreign office and the state department. It is understood, however, that the British government declares there will be no application of a secondary boycott of purely American firms which may have some connection with blacklisted firms. This is to applv so long as no American firms attempt to act as a blind or agent for a blacklisted firm. The British government also expresses a readiness to investigate the merits of individual applications for removal from the blacklist. Xo specific date has been set for the next conference between representatives of the railroads and of the brotherhood of trainmen, according to officials of botli sides in Xew York yesterday. It was intimated that unless the roads signify their intention of yielding unqualifiedly there may be no more parleys. "We met," said Elisha Lee, chairman of the railroad managers, "for the purpose of exchanging ideas on the application and operation of the Adamson law. We failed to reach an agreement. William G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, said that in the event of evasion by the railroads of the Adamson law, summary action would be taken by the brotherhoods. : With the task of recounting the California vote swinging along rapidly, 110 reports had reached po- . litical headquarters at San Francisco which would tend to alter the general results of the unofficial : canvass. In San Francisco President Wilsons lead was augmented by six votes, with about one-sixth of the precincts recounted by the board of election commissioners. The counting is watched closely bv checkers, lawyers and expert accountants employed by both the republican and democratic state or- ganizations. Unofficial reports from other counties received at political headquarters showed in all cases small gains for President Wilson. From Berne, Switzerland, a dispatch says: The recent note of the central powers to Switzerland i demanding that no products made by machines with oil coming from the entente countries and no electric ! power transmitted by copper Avire purchased from the allies shall be exported to Germany or Austria, is declared to be based on incorrect promises bv the 1 Swiss newspapers. The paners say that the oil and wire come principally from the United States and neutral countries. They also claim that of 00,000 i horse power electric service going over the frontier Italy receives 34,000 units, France 11,000 and Germany 14,000. : Although the German merchant submarine Deutschland was expected to sail for Bremen at daybreak yesterday, at last reports it still was at its pier and no statement was forthcoming as to o when a start would be made. Twenty-five tons of I fuel oil have been pumped into the submarines 2 tanks, making a total of 125 tons now aboard, and other arrangements have been comnleted for tlte re- , turn dash. Shore leave of the crew has been i-evoked i and clearance papers issued. Weather conditions were favorable, a heavy fog hanging over the har- ?, bor, but for some reason the start was delayed. Importation of sugar beet seeds into the United States in the nine months ended with September $ IS. 509,000 pounds broke all previous records, according to a Department of Commerce statement fJ of yesterday. This exceeded by more than a million pounds imports in the calcdnar year 1913-1914 and Ii were almost twice as much as in the full rear 1912. Russia is now the chief source of supplv, d whereas, prior to the war, Germany held the bulk 1 of the arade. Total imports of sugar beet seeds in the fiscal year ended Juno 30 were 9,042,490 pounds f of which Russia furnished 5,S81,94G pounds. Two reverses for Russian arms were announced in yesterdays German war office statement re- Z garding fighting on the eastern front. Northeast of i the Jacobeny forest, in the Carpathians, said the announcement, Russian detachments were chased bv 1 fire from our outermost batteries. The Russians o also were forced to retire from Gyergo Mountains q to the Roumanian frontier under heavy Austro- 2 German attacks. On the southern Transylvanian " front fighting continues successfully for us. We have captured many prisoners. According to information received bv the Johnston 3 ,,n. ?f Nlltimore, Sid., Captain Phelan of the 3 British steamer Rowanmore was killed when a British destroyer shelled the German submarine on which he was taken as a prisoner after the sinking S of his vessel last month. The Johnston line also received information that Capt. John Mitchell of Ii the Donaldson line steamer Cabotia and Capt. John Browne of the steamer Marina, both of which were sunk by submarines, lost their lives, but in what d manner was not stated. j, As a climax of the bitter campaign waged in Cook County over the office of states attorney. Municipal Judge Trude yesterday issued a warrant at the in- stance of Chief Justice Harry Olson of the municipal c2".r,t fo,T tlle arrest of Walter A. Brown, manager 1 Vm , -y News 1llrt!lu. charging him with crimi- nal libel in disseminating to Chicago newspapers an -alleged libelous statement of States Attorney Hoyne to the effect that politics interfered with Judge 01- 7 son s handling of the sensational Hoyne-Uealey case. , Statistics prepared by the Irish register and issued Si by the government yesterday, placed the total num- 3i her of men for military age in Ireland, based on 31 the national registration of 1915, at 547.S27. De- 31 ducting 245,875 who are considered indispensable to 3 the industries of Ireland, 130,241 who have joined 31 the army since the outbreak of the war and those 3 who are unfit for military service or unavailable 31 for other reasons there remains a total of 101.239 31 men in Ireland now available for military service. 31 Fraternal delegates from Great Britain, Canada 3 ana Japan told the convention of the American lederation of Labor at Baltimore yesterday of the progress of trades unionism in their respective coun- $; tries. The speakers were William Whitefield. representing mine workers in the British Isles; Harry p Gosling, representing bargemen on English rivers and in English seaports; Thomas Stevenson of the 0 O. Canadian trade and labor congress, and B. Suzuki rcpresetning the Friendly Labor Society of Japan. 11 the Four express companies the Adams, American, Wells Fargo and Western announced raises in pav , employes to go into effect on November 1 in ail v parts of the United States "where working condi-tions and cost of living fairly warrant such adjustments." In Chicago wagon men in downtown dis- lrlS0 i11 be incresil in pay 5 a month. About P 1,000 drivers are benefitted. Some other employes r also receive increases. Incomplete returns of the vote cast for minor i! parties in the election in Massachusetts last week 3 show that the Socialists have supplanted the Pro- 3 lubitionjsts as the third party in the state. It is 3 estimated that they will lack a few thousand of J the three per cent gubernatorial vote needed to 8 place them on the 1917 ballot without recourse 3 nomination papers. 3 A senatorial investigation of alleged misuse of 2 money in the presidential campaign was announced J definitely yesterday by adminstration officials. Preliminary plans have been made and a resolution providing the machinery for the inquiry is ready to introduced soon after Congress convenes next month. C An Amsterdam dispatch to the London Times w says the Belgian and British passengers on the Dutch mail steamer Koniiigin Regentes, recently seized by a German submarine, have been sent to ii prison in Bruges. The Belgian women and children ? end. were released and allowed to return to their homes, p Tlie Standard Oil company of California, volun- wi was tarlly granted an eight-hour workday yesterday to refinery, pipe-line and producing department Pi employes. There will be no change In wages.
