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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. S.critary Lansing and assistant attorney general Warren has urged the senate judiciary committee to prcs a hill authorizing the president to use the armed forces of the I nited States to enforce its neutrality obligations, especially with reference to armed vessels of a helligerent interned in ports of the Inited States, which might seek to aaeaje. The Tnited Staffs Senate has passed the Espionage bill providing severe penalties for spying on matters of national defense and punishing conspiracies to violate American neutrality. Spying for a foreign government in time of peace, the penalty is twenty years imprisonment and in time of war the death penalty may be imposed. According to the Loudon Express, the military .•uthorities are developing a scheme, under which ■women will be substitut.-d for men in a number of lioncombatant posts it: the army, both in Great Britain and Fiance, such as cooking, canteen work, stieki eping and clerical work. A revision of the exemption certificates of all men under thirty-one years of age is to be made in Knglaad. li is said that it may bo necessary to raise the military age from forty-one to fifty. President Wilson has virtually decided to appear before the present congress liefore its adjournment. March 4. The protection of American citizens and sailors on the seas, will be the subject discussed. Mayor Mitchell of New York will attempt to re-11. vo the condition of the j oor of the metropolis by a civic appropriation of ,000,000. New York officials faced a serious bread riot on Tuesday. Four hundred Americans are reported stranded in Copenhagen anxiously awaiting some development in the transatlantic traffic, which will make it iKissible for them to sail for home. England claims Germanys submarine blockade of England is a failure. Germany says the bio. kade has h.eu a complete success. Fourteen ships were sunk hy Gorman P-boats on AVednesday. Hazel Nina McAdoo. daughter of the Secretary of the Treasury M.-Adoo. will wed Ferdinand do Moliienschildt of the Imperial Russian embassy in "Washington, it Mas announced Tuesday. Tniversal training, to embrace the modified proposals of the war college, is said to have heen on- lors-d by President Wilson aud will be legislated upon in congress this week. Secretary of the Navy Daniels denied seizure of the liners New York and Philadelphia. They have-not sailed from pert since ierinanys submarine policy whs announced. The Kaisers appeal to the Polos to enlist in the Polish army and fight under Austro-Perman haulers has fallen on deaf ears, according to reports from Warsaw. The Cuban situation was clarified Tuesday, news reaching the officials at Washington of the governments control of the situation. The rebels are iis|ior.-iiig. The British government has decided on drastic restlkthias ea imports, according to Andrew Bonar Lav., chancellor of the exchenier. The Iron Mountain railroad, placed on sale by .-notion, was said for fl.BM.OM. The sale was eulminat.l late Wednesday. The British people have quickly subscribed U :,Hi.iHi.KMi far the new war loan, exclusive of the yn.oant lake B iiy tin- banks. Major - General John .1. Pershing has been appointed i oiiiuiander ,f the southern depaitment P. S. A., to net I id the late General Frederick Fuuston.
