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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. War events reported from the European capitals summarized are ::s follows: London reports con-tinutd advance of British in Arras sector as well as to the north of St. Jueiitin. All Gorman counter attacks repelled. 1ari.s reports artillery actions all along French front. Infantry forces make a few sorties and bring back prisoners, l.orliu reports heavy fighting in Arras region continues. Claims lcpulso of British in Mondays fighting, but Laa-don says report is published for home consumption. British royal flying corps sends forty German planes crashing to the groun l in day of Grills on western front. Komo reports Italian victories over Austrians. Counter attack! in ampo Z"iie re pulled and gains made in environs of Castaguavizza on the Julian Alps beat. According to a report f ;- m Rome, said to be first received fri-iu influential sources in Berlin, stales that the Kaisers own family has tried to convince him that he should abdicate, thus lesson • ing the strain upon the Cerinau empire should it be ultimately defeated, which seems more than probable at the present time. The Kaiser, so it is asserted in the dispatch, left the council of the family, saying lie would consider the proposal. From sources, also said to be authentic, the report is given but little credence, it being pointed out that should the Kaiser wish t" do such a thing it would come without previous warning and in such a way as to have little doubt as to its truth. The correspondents at British headfpiartors emphasize the immense losses the liermans have suffered in the last two days fighting. One story says that a party of Germans, estimated at about 4.IKM1. attempt! d to advance to attack from the direction of the I.ois due Sant. but was "absolutely knocked to bits" by the British guns. Between Gavrelle and Koonx two battalions of Rhine-landers were massing for a counter attack when caught by the British artillery. One battalion. according to dispatches, is believed te have hern almost wiped out and the other completely shattered. Americn consuls from lr.igue. Tricsf. anil riume. with si-vral ftaurll aa». have just arrived at Geneva. It h learned from toeiii that Austro Hungarian polities have been completely changed since the advent of the new emperor, who wants to detach his country from German influence. A major -ity of the empire would gladly make a separate peace. The misery in southern Austria and along the Adriatic is terrible. Women and children especially are suffering. Speaker Clark, in addressing .1 hbgation from the National Security League in Washington Tuesday, stated emphatically his opposition to anything ia the nature of a seh. five draft on the young men of the count r; . Sneaker Clark said he was in favor of first giving the volunteer system a thorough trial. He predicted the defeat of the draft measure in the Congress of the country. Plans have been formulated by President Wilson. whereby L.HK»,0:K farm workers will be mobilized next summer for work in the various agricultural stati s of the union. The Labor Departments employment agencies all over the country will comb the country for men to work in the wheat fi-hls and 1 11 the farms. Such men will be exempt from military service, it is thought. Three million copies of President Wilsons address to Congn ss on the Genua crisis, just previous to the declaration of war with the Teutonic country, will be dropped into the German lines by American and French aviators, the messages in flliail being prepared through an under-iai ling between the French and American government;. Keports reaching the aewapaaeia in New York, carried the information that a German submarine. the 1-30. had been captured in a net in Charles-town harbor. A row from a large battleship is said to have made the discovery. Bcports could not be v -rified. although the War Department gave out no information on the tabjM t. The personnel of the American commission to Baaeia has been decided on by President Wilson, it was learned Wednesday. It is understood that F.lihu Root. Charles ]f. Crane. Prate— C Harper of Chicago Inivcrsity and Theodore Boosevelt will be asked to serve on the commission. The London Daily Mail understaiils it has been decided to reduce the bread lation to the army in the near future. It says it should awaken the optimistic dreamers to a recognition of the peril in u hi-. I: the nation stands from a shortage of wheat and flour. A wage increase was announced Tuesday by the Arlington Mills Corporation, which owns great woolen mills in Lawrence. Mass. This wage increase will affect 30.OMJ workers. the increase goes into effect April 30. A Socialist mob. radically opposed to Russian furtherance of the war villi Germany, attacked the embassy of the American consul at 1etro -grad, but were thwarted by troops. A chaffeiir in New York, who applaaded a scene in which a Gorman diver was shown in operation, was fined ten dollars. He said he believed it was an American submarine. According to British officers with the party from England now in this country and headed bv Mr. Balfour, the volunteer plan aaed in England cost th - country its best men. The Vnited Stat-s government has secured options on lagMS acres of land adjoining Savanna, 111., to be used in testing guns made at the Rock Islai.d arsenal. Samuel Gompei;:. In ad of the labor element of the Halted States, has pledged the support of the entire labor class to the crushing of Prussian autocracy. The S7.0 HUM10. M 0 bond issue, the greatest ever authorized by a Halted States Congress. Ix-came a la.v Tuesday with President Wilsons signature. l.roat Btitaia will get the first of the Pnited State- loans to allies: big American bond issue will be pat out in installments. There are now almost eight and three-quarter million women voters in the United States.
