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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Germanys peace offer was not received with any enthusiasm in London and, if the comment of London newspapers is any criterion, England does not propose to regard the German peace move in any other light than "another German trick.- A dispatch from London on the subject, soon after the peace offer was made, says: Peace is a step nearer, but it is still far off. Chancellor von Beth-inann-Hollwegs speech before the reiehstug is no surprise to British officialdom. It has met with a cold and unresponsive reception here, however, for, no matter how war weary the people are, they are in no frame of mind to accept peace now. The spirit in which it has been received is one of ridicule. Evening papers, reporting the speech in full, use the caption "Bombastic." It was remarked that the dove of peace never appeared in such a ferociously exultant guise. The French view of the offer is told in a Paris cable, saying: "A clumsy trap," is the caption under which the morning papers print Chancellor von Bcthmann-Ilollwegs speech in the reiehstag. "The time for feints is over," says the Petit Journal. "We are no longer in the presence of the trial efforts of those persistent appeals to interviewers and newspaper articles." The heaviest losses of the war, as estimated by the War Study Society, up to the first of the mouth are distributed as follows: Country. Dead. Wounded. Invalids. Austria 718,000 1,177,000 533,000 Belgium 50,000 110,000 33,000 Bulgaria 25,000 00,000 18,000. England 205,000 512,000 154,000 France 885,000 2,115,000 634,000 Germany 8S5.000 2,110,300 031,000 Italv 105,000 245.000 73,500 Russia 1,498,000 3,820,000 1,140,000 Serbia 110,000 140,000 42,000 Turkey 150,000 350,000 195,000 Totals 4.G31.000 11,245,300 3,373,700 And the daily estimated cost to each of the leading belligerents is: Great Britain, 0,000,000; Germany. 2,000,000; France. 5,500,000; Russia, 0,000,000; Austria, 2,000,000; Italy, ,000,000; Turkey. ,500,000; Bulgaria, ,500,000; Belgium, ,500,000; total, 0S,000,000. From Paris comes the following announcement: General Nivelle, commander of the French troops at Verdun, has been appointed commander in chief of the armies of the north and northeast. The official announcement of this appointment says it is the first step towards the reorganization of the higher command. Preceding this announcement Premier Briand completed reconstructon of the cabinet. The new cabinet, according to an official list, is comprised as follows: Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aristide Briand; Minister of Finance, Alexandre Ribot; Minister of War, Gen. Hubert L. Yautey; Minister of Marine, Rear-Admiral Lacase; Minister of Fabrication Nationale including munitions and transportation, Albert Thomas. From London late yesterday a cable says that indications are that the various governments of the entente allies do not intend to act hastily in making joint response to the peace proposals of the central powers. It was pointed out in well-informed quarters that, while each one of the allied governments might indicate its general attitude, consultation among the allies under the treaty binding them to such action probably would require two or three weeks, so that it is unlikely the joint reply of all the allies will be ready before the first of the new year. Including the loss of the French battle ship Suff-ren, says an Overseas News Agency statement yesterday, the total losses of the entente fleet during the present war have been 192 vessels, including torpedo-boats and submarines, with a total tonnage of 744,000. These figures do not include special types of vessels, such as auxiliary and other craft of the merchant marine. The British navys share of these losses, says the statement, has been 123 ships and torpedo-boats, totalling 503,000 tons. Fifty or more men were trapped by an explosion in the Ryan ,and Reedy coal mine tit Stone. City, fifteen miles south of Pittsburgh, yesterday afternoon. At 1:45 n. m. yesterday it was announced tit the headquarters of the United Mine Workers of America that all biit twelve of the men had been saved. Fighting is in progress between Greek regular troops and the French, the Overseas News Agency announces. The news agency says that the fighting is taking place north of Kateriua, about sixty miles southwest of Saloniki, and that the Greeks have a force of 5,000 men. An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenluigen. says advices have lieen received there from Switzerland that King Constautine of Greece has ordered a general mobilization:
