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a s B f r e e B i u t L J s ? 1 J i I e e 0 " II p 1 r V o t P ? , n a s e I of . ,i j . v ,1 t w. GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Reports issued telling of the progress of the figlit-e ing on the various fronts, as announced by tiie different Avar offices, are: From Berlin on the Roumanian situation: The Russians again attacked between Kirlibaba and Dorna Watra Avithout achieving success. South of the Trotus valley they captured a height, but although employing strong forces did not succeed in gaining ground on the side of the point of irruption. Army group of Field Marshal Aon M:ckensen: The armies in eastern Wallachia are advancing. Bulgarian forces have crossed the Danube between Cernavoda and Silistria. In Dobrudja there has been little fighting activity. The Russian statement concerning Rou-. nianiau operations follows: In the Putna valley and north of Dorna Watra fighting continues. Our detachments during their advance encountered strong enemy resistance. We are continuing to advance in the Trotus, Salty and Chcboniaha A-alleys. The Roumanians assumed the of-, fensive along the Buzeu-Ploechti road and drove back the enemy to a position behind the Grikovul river. From Berlin the army headquarters state- ment on operations in the Avestern Avar theater says: Army group of Crown Prince Rupprecht: In tjie Somme sector the artillery fire increased in the evening. Strong British patrols advancing at night east of Gudeuecourt were repulsed. Army group of tiie German crown prince: In the Cham-i pagne, soutli of Repones, our detachments ejected the French from a sap, AViiich had been evacuated by us and then occupied by them. In the Vosges, Avest of Mnrkirch, Nassau reserves brought in several riflemen and machine guns from a French trench. The bulletin issued by the French Avar office on the campaign last night reads: At the southeastern extremity of Butte du Mcsnil the Germans exploded two mines; an engagement took ; place for the, possession of the craters, which re-J main in our hands. At A-arious points along the Belgian front artillery activity was quite marked, particularly in the direction of Dixmude and Stecn- straete. In the Vosges an enemy surprise attack Sunday night upon one of our trenches south of Col Sainte Marie Avas repulsed. A group of our aviators dropped a number of projectiles upon stations and military establishments at Matigny, Sanet and Mons-eii-Cliaussee. From Tokio word comes that Field Marshal Prince Iaviio Oyama, commander-in-chief of the Manchuriau army of Japan during the Russo-Japanese Avar, is dead. Field Marshal Prince Oyama shared Avitli Field Marshal Prince Yamagata, another distin-guished member of the "Genro" body, the highest military and civil honors in the gift of the emperor. Botli were field marshals, both Avere princes, and botli Avere military councillors. Prince Oyama hailed from Satsuma, the birthplace of so large a propor-ij tion of the men avIio have shaped the destinies of modern Japan. He Avas 74 years of age at the time of his death. Alberto J. Pani, member of the joint Mexican-American commission Avhicli considered border problems at Atlantic City, is ou his A-ay to Washington, where he expects to arrive Wednesday. He de-,r clined to discuss tiie protocol Avhieh he carried to General Carranza, aiid would neither affirm nor deny that Carranza had signed the document. From pri-ate but apparently reliable information, however. it was learned that the protocol has not been signed by General Carranza but that Senor Pani Avas carrying a reply from General Carranza requesting a fewminor changes in phraseology. An official dispatch from London announces that the government had been constituted, with war cabinet comprising the following: Premier, David 1 Lloyd-George; Lord president of the council. Earl Curzon, avIio also Avill be government leader in the i house of lords; Arthur Henderson, minister Avithout portfolio; Lord Milner, minister Avithout portfolio; Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, avIio lias been asked by the premier to act as leader j in the house of commons, and also as member of the Avar cabinet Avithout being expected to attend 1 regularly. A Raoul Peret, former minister of commerce, di 1 cussing in the chamber of deputies Saturday night in behalf of the appropriations committee, the 1 budget for the first three months of 1917, pointed out that France Avill have incurred expenditures to the amount of 1,520,000,000 between the opening of hostilities and the end of March next, while 1 Great Britain in the same period Avill have had an outlay of 1S,000,000,OCO. Nine million dollars is the sum last years epidemic of foot and month disease took from federal and state treasuries, according to the annual report of the Bureau of Animal Husbandry. That, however, does not represent the full cost, it is declared, as owners Avere paid for their animals on a meat value basis, Aviiicli did not represent the Aalue of thousands of animals slaughtered. Special dispatches from Rotterdam say that according to the Frankfurter Zoitungs Constantinople correspondent, the entente powers have agreed that, if it becomes necessary, they Avill dethrone King Constantino and enthrone Prince Pierre, the eight-year-old son of Prince George of Greece, Avitli M. Vcnizclos as regent. A Paris cable of December 11, brings Avord that four German airplanes Avere brought down yesterday, two of them on the Verdun front and two in the Champagne, the Avar office announces. Intermittent cannonading occurred south of tiie Somme last night. The Roumanians Im-e lost approximately 112.000 men in prisoners since Roumania entered "the var, or about one-sixth of their army, besides suffering casualties estimated at about 300,000, writes the military critic of the Overseas News Agency. Officials of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America announced last night, that a strike of 00,000 makers of mens and childrens clothing in Newark, and Ridgewood, N. J., v.ill be called Tuesday or Wednesday. A Berlin dispatcli of December 10 says that the German commercial submarine Deutscliland, completing a quick trip home from the United States, arrived at noon Saturday, off the mouth of the Weser. The British steamer Caledonia AA-as sunk by a German submarine on December 4, after it had tried to ram the undersea boat, it Avas officially announced at Berlin Sunday. Its captain Avas taken prisoner. The Britisli steamer Britannia has been sunk by a submarine. The captain Avas made prisoner. Twenty-three survivors of the ctoav have arrived at Lisbon, Avhile fifteen are missing. A highly successful air raid on enemy aero stations at Belgens and batteries at Soobha, Avas announced in an Austro Hungarian official statement received at Berlin yesterday. Premier Lloyd -George of England is ill. He Avas unable to go to Buckingham palace yesterday Avith members of his cabinet to receive the seals of office from King George. I The Norwegian steamers Modum and Falk have I been torpedoed, but their crews Avere saved.
