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GENLRAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. T!u Amerfau. *rmj N bcH up t» ridicule Ky Major Moraht. writing In tfce l -utsc-he Tages Zeituug. who Jeer* :it the tdea thai America can Iflre any effective military - ■ j « t to tm allieK. Major Moraht says: "The American army Is uo danger ii Germany. The iv:i war coal half a millioa lives because neither sid IumI ■ train d army. Now Wilson forgetful of history, i- trying the name thins but it will be showi •" t i i * - • * - thai tin- hrag- p idi do of his countrymen hi in htTerae ratio to their fighting ralne." The Kremi Zeitung says: "Thir-i, n Unndnsl millions of the worlds luliabitanta are fightiug seventj i!ii"i":i Uerniaus. I.--I the rest oi the earth come as well; we will beat them . il." The raited Btaten government today began prcp-arathMM tor important war starits to be heM ;;i "W.i -hinKl -ii noon with eommhwJoa from England and i ranee. The State Department announced that i; .M.-.-t-. the arrival within ten days of :i British delineation, headed by Foreign Uinfeter Arthur 1. II [four, and Including Admiral de Chair, represent-!,,•_ the nary; II a. Bridges, re pre Beating the army, and the governor of the Bank of England. 1 1 waa learned anrhoritatively also that a Preach commissi,. u. headed b] U. Viviaai. minister of Juati * and former premier, will arrive about the lame time. Wat report* From Buropeaa capitals are -.:• follow : German; again trying to Induce Russia to make separate peace, according to official advice* t Washington. Heavy snowstorm* halt operatioua on Preach front after I.riiish had captured llonchy-fce-Preus and La Bergere. British penetrate Ger-man positions near Bnllecourt. German rouatrr attacks tail. Germans attack Bussiaa lines near Hojitche in Yotayui* and Bokal ia Galhria. Petro-grad reports heavy battle with Turks. British official report shows twenty-five snip* of :.!i sixes lov; during week, indicating a decrease in victim*. War events reported la this country during the past day are as follows: British and French eoinmi*-aions will visit Inited stat. to obtain pledge against separate peaei and prepare for co-operation in : 1! war moves. Board of five named to direct wartime operations of American railroads t.i advantage of nations defense. Warning hawed .o commanders of vt *s Is in Pacific to beware f mil marines. Seven billion dollar war measare favorablj reported and it probably win i e ansae d by house to fore adjournment toaaorrow. Three eoacbea of the Couatitutionalhat lines of Mexico, arriving in Near* Laredo Thuraday, were riddled y bullets as the reaaH of the traia having III tin gauntlet of ■ heavy fire from several hundred revolutionists who at tacked it near Han Pelipe, t he of Hidalgo, on Monday ntgfct, according i" passengers surviving. Aboard tin • train were fifty Carranxa soldiers, all of arhom were killed in tin-li.ittt which followed the halting of the train. The War Department prepared yeaterday to inane Instructions to recruiting offleera, which will be in effect a call for 50O.84O volunteers, to fill up the regular army and the existing unit- of the national guard. All recruits enlisted since the declaration of war and those t« be enlisted henceforth win I*, notified that they will l»- discharged at the doa • of the war. putting thana in the status of wartime volunteers. ice Admiral Browning if the British navy and II ar Admiral De Graase of the Pre nth navy yesterday conferred with Decretory Daniels at Washington, on the part the Inited states navy shall play in the allied operations agaiaat the central powera. Both ::dmirals easnc to America in their flagships. A i ■mpalga of cataaaal mwportioaa t break do« ii the Germaa suhmarta • blockade and keep the entente plentifully supplied with food, cJotbJng and munition*, it baa been decided by Preahtent Wllaoa end lis advisers, shall to Americas first physical stroke agate*! Ikt enemy. General Carranaa has green posit! te assurances to the United States that oil supplies from the Tampico fields and other Mexican sources will not lie dented to the Inited States or Grant Britain. Mexican oil is the principal fuel for British uud French Avar vessels. A co.iscrintion bill has passed the legislative con-oil of the British colony of Jamaica. As registration is about to hegiu no man between the ages or is to 41 years who is fit for military service is allowed to leave the island.
