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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Ten young women of Norfolk. Va.. were given the rank of yeonlen in the navy Wednesday afternoon. They will be in the naval reserve and will do clerical and office work in connection with the work of he navy. Deports of enlistments of other young women throughout the country are being received each day by bureaus connected with the government, showing that the American women will plajr no small part in the war. if it comes. Cuban revolutionists stole an entire one-ring circus, except the tents and the sawdust, according to Edward and Lottie MeGinley. niemlters of the show, who arrived in New York, Thursday on a steamship from Cuba. In addition to the circus horses and food supplies the rel els took the garments of Caesar and Cleopatra and also a 23-year old lion and Hattie. the elephant. The British army in Mesopotamia has defeated a Turkish army of 20.00O men. capturing 900 men, including a general, the English war office announces. The entire divisional staff of the Fifty-Third Turkish Division in Mesopotamia has been captured by the British, it is announced officially. Says the London Times: "It has been discovered that the Germans in France did not even spare the I dead. In several places they systematically pillaged the graves for the sake of the zinc and lead | linings of the coffins. Clockwork mines set for different dates have been found. Marcel Hutin. who is usually well informed in such matters, writes in the Echo de Daris that the average number of merchantmen entering French ports daily was ninety -five in February and 110 in the first half of March. The Swiss legation has been authorized by the federal department of finance in Berne to deny published reports that the Swiss governmental insurance institution in Lucerne has invested money in German war loan securities. In tie British Museum is a small molded lions head, believed to be the oldest specimen of pure glass with anything like a date. It. bears the name of an Egyptian monarch of the eleventh dynu-ty.
