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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. "If peace negotiations were begun today." says the Journal de Geneve, Which dees not reveal the source of jfs information, but declares it is absolutely reliable, "Gereeaay would offer to re tore tin- territory she occupies iu France, except in the mining districts of Rriey. in exchange for a channel perl Calais or Dunkirk- am! an indemnity of 18,000,000,008 francs 88,000,000,008. Gemtnny would also offer to restore tbeilerritorial integrity and sovereignty of Belgian onnoondition that lie] -giuni would not lie allowed t T maintain a n.ithe *A army and that Ocrniuny be permitted to garris.ew* Namur. Liege and Antwerp pel petually." It adi ■ Germany must be given control of the Belgian railroads and ports and be favorably treated in an ecoaomic treaty. This is not the program of pan Germans, but the actual terms of the German government. National Ouard forces of sixt-en states and the First separate battalion of the District of Columbia, have been summoned by the War Department into service for safeguarding tin- home interests of the country preparatory to war with Gel many, which now seems inevitable. In the order issued by til" president, eleven full regiments and three companies and two battalions are included. Policing arsenals, protecting water works and strategic psints will be tile duties of the militiune n. who have been picked absolutely from the troops who have already had training upon the Mexican border. Germany has 200 submarines capable of crossing the Atlantic, according to advices which have reached the navy department. Germany has laid down no new capital ships or destroyers since the outbreak of the war. confining new construction entirely to submarines. Battleships and battle raisers in course of construction at the outbreak of the war AngOSt 1. 1914, have been completed, as have destroyers. Aside from this. Germanys naval constructing geniuses have devoted their efforts to turning out large numbers of submarines and to Improvements in submersible craft. An aclded zest to recruiting, as a result of the call to the ccdors issued by Secretary of the Navy Daniels in the m rwspapers of the country, was reported from the recruiting agencies throughout the country, Monday. The attempt to place the personnel of the navy up to the standard from the standpoint of numbers, has. as always was the ease when the country faced an emergency, met with -in cess. Monday the recruiting stations had all they could do to handle recruits and a bigger rush was looked for as the days passed. The Tana near cruiser Azuuia has been selected to take home the body of the late American Ambassador to Japan, Mr. Guthrie.
