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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Admiral Dewey was laid to rest yesterday with nil the honors a grateful nation can bestow. After funeral services, conducted under the dome of the capitol and attended by President Wilson, the cabinet, the Supreme court, the diplomatic- corps and a notable company, the admirals body was taken to Arlington National cemetery to rest with these of naval heroes gone before. Two of Deweys commanders at the battle of Manila bay — Benjamin 1. 1. amlierton. the fleet captain, and Capt. Joseph P. Coghlan of the cruiser Raleigh — lie near by. Not far away on the wooded slopes rest Schley and Sampson. The German admiralty statement that the neutral subjects in the crews of vessels captured by the German raider in the South Atlantic "have been removed as prisoners of war" will raise a complicated question if any Americans are among them. The whole question turns on whether an armed merchant ship is a war vessel, and the gulf between this country and Germany on that question is still unbridged. Of course. Americans on such ships could be considered as prisoners of war only if the vessels were considered as war vessels. The explosion in a munitions factory near London Friday night, announced in an official statement, involved virtually all the explosives in the factory, which was entirely destroyed. The effects were felt at a great distance. Three rows of small houses in the neighborhood were almost demolished and considerably other property damage was caused. Between thirty and forty bodies have been recovered thus far and about 100 persons are reported to have been injured seriously. The German raider which has been preying on commerce in the South Atlantic was accompanied by three submarines, says a dispatch from Iernambuco today. These submersibles were said to be less than twenty -five feet in length and of a new type. The submarines were used for scout duty, it was said. They would leave the mother ship at intervals and later return, reporting the appearance of any ships they may have se n. Chicago faced a threatened paralysis of business yesterday afternoon after a general strike of coal teamsters and auto truck drivers had been called. The walkout was ordered suddenly by union officials yesterday morning, and heads of coal companies declared they were in the dark as to the reason for it. The official text of the allied ultimatum to Greece giving King Constantine 4s hours to agree to with draw all his forces into the IVlonencssus and the Greek acceptance asking lifting of the liloekade were given out at the Greek legation at Washington yesterday.
