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s t l 1 y a 0 " a I n e e ie r " he ie GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. News from the scene of operations on the various fronts is summarized as follows: The Berlin war office says on the Somme sector there was a temporarily violent artillery duel. On the east bank of the Mense fighting was revived today after a calm night. Western front Army group of Field Marshal Grand Duke Albrech of Wuerttemberg In the Ypres and Wytschnete sectors the artillery duel increased to considerable violence. Our attacking troops south-east of Zillebeke advanced into the British second line from which the defenders had fled. Army group of the Crown Prince On December 15 the French troops northeast of Verdun pushed us back from our most advanced positions into a previously prepared second line lying on Talou Ridge and the heights north of Louvomont and Chambrettes farm and south of Lezanvaux. The French war office statement is: On the right of the Mouse our troops continued their success. They progressed in the Caurieres Wood and captured the village of Bezou-Vaux. At the close of the day a violent German attack against our position on Cote Du Poivre Pepper Hill was stopped by our fire. Wj have maintained our new front. Prisoners continue to be brought hack, the number exceeding 9,000, of which 250 are officers. The enumeration of the captured material has not been completed, but the computation shows that eighty-one guns have been taken or destroyed. Reports from Rou-mania say, that Maekensen has virtually completed the conquest of Wallachia. The left wing of the Ninth Army smashed forward today and seized the road from Buzeu to Ramiucu-Sarat, near the Southern Moldavian border. The right wing advanced across the Calmatuiul lowlands east of Buzeu and forced the Buzeau River in this sector. The Danube army continued its methodical northeast movement, and by menacing the communications of the Russo-Roumanian forces in the Dobrudja compelled their retreat along the whole line. Two thousand prisoners were taken by the Teutons. Berlin announces that the Russians have given up most of their southern positions in the Dobrudja. Bulgarian Turkish and German troops pursuing the enemy have already crossed the line of Hirsova-Cartal-Cogela, the statement adds. W. G. Lee of Cleveland, O., president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen has publicly announced that negotiations are under way between the leaders of the brotherhoods and those higher up in the operating departments of the railroads, looking to a settlement of their entire controversy out of court before? January 1, when the Adamson law is scheduled to go into effect. He said the settlement was in a crude state as yet. A large tramp steamer, believed to bo British, was reported on Egg Harbor shoals, off the Now Jersey coast. Her identity and the seriousness of her situation were unknown yesterday. She lay about three miles out, heavily beaten by seas and evidently had been there some time when she was discovered at dawn Saturday. Captain Lewis Smith of the Egg Harbor coast guard station and a crew have gone out to the vessel in surfboats. Reports from London indicate that David Lloyd-George will be unable to discuss the peace proposals before the house of commons Tuesday. He is making steady progress toward recovery, but it is considered unlikely that his physicians will allow him to speak next week, as his voice is affected. At any rate, it is not expected the government by that time will be in a position to make a statement regarding the German proposals. Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, conferred with Secretary Lansing Saturday to get information of the attitude of the United States towards the peace proposals of the central powers, to discuss the general subject of peace from this governments view point and to give any informa-t tion Mr. Lansing might desire on the attitude of the German government. Of the 55,077,140 actually reported for public schools in 1910, at Washington, according to the commissioner of education, 98,511,104 was by the-;l North Atlantic and North Central States. New York expended 1916.sh0,000,000, Pennsylvania 2,000,000, Illinois 9,007,314, Ohio 5,172,950, California 0,579,804, Massachusetts 5,492,202 and New Jersey 3,284,090. London dispatches announce that the government has decided to take over the Irish railways, according to a statement made Saturday by James Henry Thoniiis, labor member of parliament for Derby and assistant general secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. It is honed, it was explained, thus to avert a threatened strike. At the expiration of the mens ultimatum at 8 a. m. Saturday a general strike of the Havana Central Railway was begun. Traffic has been paralyzed. The electric plant being out of operate tion, the current in, many towns in Havana province was cut off. Police are guarding the railroad and ferry terminals.
