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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Preparations preceding the opening of the aaa rial session of Congress Monday, are rapidly being made by army and navy heads, in order b. plan the country in such a state as to report to Cessna* the rradlwii for conflict. Bieala of the last aarerai bean concerning Mas country are u follows: Cabinet uiianiniously dei-ides with pnaMewt that war on Germany is only reconiec. WBaea will appear before Congress as soon as poaaible to hare Joint aeaakw declare bostDitics eNi.-t. fereiga Minister Zhnmermann, speakiag to lb lehatag, says Genaaay acted only in self-defease hi Mealeo after Aaaeriea "tried to net wetM agaiaat us." Ona»aay thinks it i- foregone conclnoion United States will declare war, bat r?fasea to lose poise. AViil stand pat on outlined submarine program. Beneblieaa aacuibtia -; boase aaoaTiciaUy diacasa aaireraai military train-in.-. Meal of them are strong for legislation of this nature. Navy prepared for duly eeder the act ami eiuivlitioiis and a long a~ Ike Gensaa n..yy is bottled up. Hiirh oaTicials bettere ample time will i -iyen to part branch of service on real war foot-lag. ■jtapatekea froai HeBaad, retlewing reports in i. rin-i. aewapepera aa CaaaceBor yon Betaaaaan-Hollwega speech and the debate in the lekhatag, impaasha* the promiaeace gtrrea to referm agitation, bi:t arrire i : different tout Ins ioaa as to its sij;nif-innce. The correspoadeat of the Times says: The rerolt, signalised by the Socialists rothas agahasi the budget, is a sham. The whole debate was prearranged and artificial and evidently. liUe the ateet hnportant section of the chancellors speech, in-tended to laftoence the Baeeasa pacifists and Socialists. The eerreapendent of the Caroalde says the rfoiiu inovi ment is champioaed by the whale progn iv- preaa and adds: The reactionaries will doubtlessly put up I fight and ta-re are hints that General von Lndeadorff may be used aa their champion agaiaat von Bethannu-Hallweg, who is accused of vacillation. The Munieli. Germany, Post says: "Iii the last fortnight the world baa become unite another place, through Kuaala going over to democracy and the United States entering the lists agaiaat us. Germany aew stands against an affiance of world democracy, and the people of the WetM are persuaded and are daily becoming convinced that the triumph of freedom of the WetM is impossible as lo:i:.r aa Gerasaay remains what it is." A summary of the European war far Iriday and Saturday moruinK is as follows: British troops capture villages of Bayalcoart, Sorel -le-Crand. and iins and gala groaad Bear Heuditomt. Berlin r. - I porta tow attacks bjr Canadiaaa near Neuville St. Vaai t were repadsed. Petragrad reports repulse of serenl Germaa attacks on Ogtaski canal. Berlin says ttairrlan attacks west of Dviaak failed. BecruitiiiK throughout the United Btataa is reel iviiiK mil li attention from patriotic eiti/.ens and. ;t is believed, is being a abend with interest by All the cities of th ■ Ck rman ageata ill this country. roontrj npurt an increase ia recmlting, together with an bscreaae la I desire for a settlement of the ogiutioa with Gerasaay. The British steamers Snowd-n and Crispin, both with Americans aboard, were reported to the State Department aa having been sunk, without warning, by a sul marine. Scyeral Americans are report-d aliasing. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoea three sons have volunteered far service iu the naval icaem iu i ran of war.
