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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Men of military age. v. ho have married siie-e a slate of war against Cermanv was declared, will not escape military service, the war department so auiiounee.l yesterday. The statement is as follows: •The war department uanMUjmrea that all men married since the outbreak of war will be treated upon the same basis as unmarried men insofar as their military obligations are concerned. It is desired that the utmost publicity be given by the press to this announcement." President Wilson has notified the leaders of the Senate that he could accept no compromise on army and navy plans for tin- defense of the country and for pros, cut ion of the war with Cermanv. He insisted it was vital that Congress follow the reconi-inenhrtions of military authorities at this time. Despite the fact that the Hermans threw twelve new divisions about 228,888 men against the Preach between Soissons and A.uliorivo, they were not able to check the successful offensive of the Fre-ich, according to dispatch from Paris. James W. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany, in a speech at Poston. stated it was iutcition of Germany, after having subdued England by hunger, to come over to the United States and collect the price of the war from us. The volunteer system was assailed as uncertain and inadciiiate, and the selective draft was declared to lie the only just way to raise an efficient artny in the majority report of the Senate military committee. Assurances have reached Washington that under no conditions now conceivable will the provisional government of Bussia yield to the overtures from German and Austrian socialistic representatives to negotiate a separate peace. Since the beginning of the great French drive on Monday, the French have captured 17JHK un-wounded prisoners, together with seventy-five cannon, according to the latest statement issued by the French War Office. Beports. meager in detail from Buenos Aires, indicate that the great German population of Brazil, in at least three states, has revolted. Berlin officially announces that no German submarine is as yet in the western part of the Atlantic.
