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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. The following statement of casualties in the Ku-rapaaa war up to January 1 of this year is as complete as the expert engaged in its preparation could make it: Allies. Captured Nation. Kitted. Wounded. and missing. Total. F.nglnnd 306.400 102.500 107.500 415.400 France S70.000 5tO.SK» 4.KI.0OO 1.810.8QJ1 Russia ...1.500.000 7*4.200 800,000 S,084.A Italy 105. OOO 40.000 55.000 200,000 P.clgium 50.000 22. MM 40.IMM1 112. MM Serbia BMM 2S. mm SS.OOO Totals 2.7! 0.40: 1.5:!0.5Mt 1.40J.50U 5, M0. 400 Central Powers. Germany ...flBBJBO 48B.000 215. MM 1.58KJ2M Aus.-Hug. .523.100 85S.0Q0 561,000 1,400,100 Turkey 127. MM 110. MM 70. MM 307. MM Bulgaria ... 7.5M 7. XX i.MM 30,900 Totals 1.550.NOO 922.000 912.000 3,381. SIM The Vorwaerts. received at Amsterdam Saturday, contains the following from the speech of Men liefer, socialist member of the Prussian diet: The mortality among elderly people is increasing at a terrible rate, while epidemics are spreading everywhere, owing to the decreased powers of resistance. The situation is much more serious than lias been admitted. The number of suicides is iu reusing, and parents are killing their children owing to their laabilty to obtain food for them. Yet the price of potatoes, which long ago became generally scarce, is to be increased. A tornado which wrecked a large aectkw of Indianapolis, killing thirty-five and carrying death and destruction in its path, swept over sections of Indiana and Ohio Sunday. Search for missing bodies, it is believed, will add to the already long list of dead and injured. The cities affected were Newcastle. Now Lisbon. Moroland. Mount Summit, Richmond and Ashland, lad., and Cincinnati. Ohio. The chewing of cordite, a smokeless explosive used in munition plants throughout England, has resulted in a "drunkeness" similar to that caused by highly stimulative drugs. The effect upon the women in the munitions factories is quite no.iccable and is taken as a relief for fatigue. Its effect is so injurious, however, that the government has taken steps to abolish its use. Carlos Jaeger. Rrazilian consul general in Vienna, committed suicide following an attempt at self-destruction by his wife, according to an Aatstetdaai dispatch to the Central News Agency at London. Senora Jaege-.-s act was prompted by grief over the death of her children, and Senor Jaeger took his life in the belief that his wife was dead. Obsequies over the remains of Count Zeppelin, inventor of the aiiship which bears his name, were held in Stuttgart. Emperor Williams condolences, in the form of a messag" to the countess, recalls his assertion at the occasion of the counts seventy-fifth birthday, that Zeppelin was "the greatest man of the twentieth century." Great pressure is being brought on Japan for greater help to the entente in the war according to advices from Tokio. which quotes M. Pichon. former minister for foreign affairs for France, as saying that "the entente powers are agreed to get as much assistance from Japan as possible and to give further compensation." W. S. Stone, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, would neither confirm nor deny rumors at Washington that the railroad mi n will go out on a strike at 0 oclock Saturday. "Intil after Thursday, when we met tie- managers, the hrocherheeda will have nothing to say," he told the Inited Ire-s. Explosives in quantity enough to wreck the League Island navy yard, have beea shipped there since the relations between Germany and United States were broken off. it is said by officials connected with the yard. Investigation is in progress. two peeaaaa being arrested already in connection with the affair. Riots for "food and peace" are reported as having SCI urred in Moscow and Petrograd during the past week. Cossacks charged the crowds; one. on Than- _ day night, threatening to devastate a large eectioajfl of liaking establishments. Teh -graphic communication between Moscow and Petrograd have been interrupted. Miss Alexandria V. Stoppert. a German student who has been studying at Bryn Mawr. dtacrihee -auditions in Germany as "horrible." She says: •The people near my home in Dusseldorf are rafferiag for want of food, for want of everything, hrraaao of the harsh measures of the government." The President of Bolivia has been authorized to undertake, under the siipervi-ion of the state, the construction of the Atoehu-Tipiza sectioa of the railway which will connect La Paz with BWeaeo Ayc-es. It is expected that this railwa; will be a formidable rival of the Panama Canal. A careful estimate of the tcdal wealth of the ratted States at the beginning of RUT places it at a litth- above 00,000,000,000. A careful estimate of the coat of the European War down to the beginning of the spring campaign is 8,-000,000.000. Ne-vs of the fall of Bagdad, the aacieat Capitol in Mesopotamia, fell as a glad surprise on tie- cars of the English public. Its capture- so early was unexpected. Details of the fall of the ancient city, the biggest Engli-h victory of the war. are lacking. In spite of a bill recently passed iu West Virginia to the effect that a man may bring iu a quart of liquor a month, the "bone dry" bill recently passed in AVashington. renders the state lev. invalid, according to Inited States District Attorney Bara-hardt. Wood will be used as a fuel on the Honduras National Railroad because of the high price of coal. Cah-iou nuts wen- experimented with, but the intense heat generated by them damaged the boilers of the locomotives. It is reported that a new Japanese steamship line is to be started this month between Yokohama and South America by way of Cape Town. Twi nty thousand immigrants a year will be carried for the first four years. A sugar refinery, financed by Japanese interests, is to Ik- built at Mukden, Manchuria. Tin- partes interested in the new venture will endeavor to induce the Chinese in tiiat district to cultivate the sugar beet. - Plana for a desperate offensive on the part of Conn any to end the war and to end her present economic conditions. Starvation for entire Barepe is predicted for 1917. Carranza has been named as President ef Mexico by a general eh C thai. No opposition candi. late-made himself known and the election was practically unanimous. A plan to train an army of 1,000,000 men in ease of war. is the plan of the- war college at Washington. Little fear is held of an invasion of this country. Count von Bernstorff has denied any connection or knowledge of the plot unearthed, in which the Gorman foreign oflice and Mexico figured. Direct mail service will be started lictween Ecuador and Cuba in the near future, therahj saving fifteen days in the delivery of mails.
