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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. The Telegraaf of Amsterdam publishes an account of further food riots in Barmen in which the chief of nattce was seriously wounded by the stones of the women rioters. The account says that the police were helpless and that even tiie troops failed to disperse th" rioters, who were finally gotten in hand by firemen turning their fire hose on them. A rioter who cut a hose with a knife was sentenced to ten years imprisonment. Serious disturbances among the German troops in the vicinity of Nasser and Huy are reported also. The paper says that only fragmentary reports of the trouble -have reached Holland, but that it is known that such large numbers of soldiers have been imprisoned at Namur and Huy on charges of insubordination in connection with the outbreak that the prisons in the two towns are crowded to four and five times their normal capacity. A London dispatch from Vevey says Ritaat Pasha, formerly Turkish minister to France, has left Geneva hurriedly for Turkey. It is aaderatood he is charged with a mission in connection with the differences which have arisen between Constantinople and Berlin on account of the reverses in Mesopotamia, which are attributed by the Turks to Germanys action in forcing her to send In r best troops to help the Austro-Germans. It also is reported that Bedry Bey. governor of Constantinople, has arrived at Berlin on a similar mission. A war council of the British Empire, at which will sit all the prominent heads of different de-partaients in Great Britain, will sseet at London within a few days to deliberate at length upon the conditions underlying farther employment of England and her allies during the war. England, so it is said, is to become the sole prosecutor of the struggle, as Russia and France are ::t the end of their resources, and the burden must lie carried by Great Britain alone. The war council will be in session until in April. England maintains permanent shipping quarters at Newport- News. Va.. whore upwards of S.IKMI horses are quartered at all times and 15.000 head can be accommodated. The yards cover 2IMI aires. The method of care is decidedly American and thoroughly systematic. Over 300.000 horses and mules have passed out to sea. designating Newport News as the principal shipping point. On an average of 750 to BM animals are carried on a vessel, the cargoes ranging from 300 to 1.S00 head. A general strike on the railroads of the Tnited States, threatening to tie up everything in the way of traffic and so far reaching as to imperil the interests of the country, is threatened by the brotherhoods, unless the eight hour concessions are immediately granted to the employes of the roads throughout the country. The ruling, as said to exist in brotherhood circles, will affect 3.000.000 employes. Labor has pledged loyalty and support of the government in case of war. *ยป Hall carried on an American ship, the Standard Oil tanker John D. Archbold. was removed by the British authorities at Halifax, according to the officer* of the reasel, which arrived at New York from Bergen. Norway. This is said to l e the first time that the right of transporting mail from a foreign country has been denied to a ship flying the American flag on the Atlantic. That Germany is preparing for a gigantic offensive along the western front, probably a blow at Calais through the Yser canal, is the concensus of military opinion in European capitals. Field Marsha] von Falkenhayii has passed through cities back of the western front on his way to the headquarters ef the general staff and it is believed this signifies an offensive of some sort. Preliminary steps were taken by the navy department Tuesday toward contracting for the quick construction of 100 or more high sliced coast patrol boats of a new type for scouting against submarines. At a conference in which a score of builders were represented, assurances were given that deliveries could be begun within four months. Andrew Bonar Law. chancellor of the exchequer, stated in the house of commons Tuesday that a supplementary vote of credit to meet increased unforeseen expenditure will lx- moved Thursday. When the latest vote of credit was passed it was expected that it would carry over the present financial year. Prisoners on the Yarrowdale-German adventure have arrived in Switzerland. They claim mistreat- i ment in the German prison camps, alleging the Americans were singled out from among all the others, to become the center of acts out of keeping with the treatment accorded other prisoners. France has just placed an order with the British- American Tobacco Company of Durham, N. .. for 7,00,000,088 cigarettes, to be supplied to soldiers of the republic fighting along the front in France. If the cigarettes were coupled together they would embrace a line 210.297 miles in length. The third Canadian domestic war loin of 50.-000.000 was placed on the market Monday. It is an issue of five per cent twenty year bonds, and the issue price is ninety-six. The loan is open for purchase in the United States, as it is made payable in New York. Scores of German reservists have creased into the Mexican state of Sonora from points in Arizona within the last week, an agent of the department of justice announced Monday night. The agent said they appeared to be scattering to all parts of Mexico. The senate foreign relations committee approved in modified form. Tuesday, the treaty with Colombia by which the Halted States will pav that republic 5,000,000 for the partition of Panama. It will be pressed to a vote in the special session of the senate. Harry N. Thaw, slayer of Stanford White and who was a prisoner in a sanitarium after being adjudged insane, will be returned on a lunacy charge. Thaw was to lie fried on charges of assaulting a schoolboy in Kansas City, Mo. Notice to the world that American ships shall henceforth be armed, has been served by President Wilson and arms are now being placed on the merchant ships awaiting available mounted guns in American ports. Instructions to gun crews on ships which are to bear guns and gunners of Ameriean origin, have bsea given. They are to embrace an order ordering crews "to fire on submarines upon sight." Twenty-four men were entombed in an explosion in the Henderson Coal Company mines near Conousburg, Pennsylvania, Tuesday.
