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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. News from the war fronts contain the following Information: Paris reports the repulse of a German sortie on the left bank of the Mouse. London says that the German attempts to advance near Neuve ChapeUe have tailed. I.erlin chronicles the defeat of the British south of Armentieres. Dispatches from Rerlin also assert that the Russians were beaten back southwest of Riga, while Petro- grad reports say that Gtrmaa attacks in dense formation northwest of Dorna Watra in Roumania have proved failures. Face to face with a menace of admitted gravity to her food supplies, through the operation of the German submarine warfare. England baa determined upon the most drastic curtailment of her imports. All luxuries will be banned. Nonessential staples must make way for the necessities of war. Premier David Lloyd George announced such sweeping steps in the house i.f commons yesterday. Word was receireS at Washington yesterday of the arrival at Peine. February 20. of twenty Ameri can consuls from various points in Germany. United States Treasury Agent Oottscholk is with them. lanest Batermaaa, Vice Consul at Stuttgart. Germany, was taken ill at Lindau and is now in a hospital there. Senator Lewis of Illinois yesterday introduced in the Inited States Senate, as an amendment to the revenue bill, a provision to authorize the President to seize foodstuffs deemed to be monopolized in violation of law. Foodstuffs so seized would be disposed of at public sale under government supervision. Higher prices are predicted by merchants in Chicago, although potatoes are now lioing sold at eighty-five and ninety cents a peek, sugar at seven and one-half and eight cents, and cabbage at thirteen and fifteen cents a pound in retail markets. Associate Justice Clarke of the Inited States Supreme Court yesterday denied the application of the Illinois Central and twenty-seven other railroads to enjoin enforcement of the Illinois 2-cent passenger rate. The Army bill, carrying 50,000,000. was passed by the House. Thursday, but without the inclusion of the general army staff increase and universal military training. Germaa diplomats expect Austrias reply to President Wilsons note to carry a full discussion ami defense of the submarine warfare. President Wilson has been denied blanket authority to use the armed forces of the Inited States by the Senate committee. The Commerce Commission reports that the railroads are rushing cars west at top speed to take foodstuffs east.
