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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. A dispatch from London says thnt Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, has announced in the House of Commons that the government has decided to permit the brewing during the quarter ending September 30 next of an additional amount of beer, not exceeding 33 per cent of the amount already allowed for that quarter. This action is taken owing to the greater consumption during the summer and harvesting months. Rumors are persistent in well-informed political circles that Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, the German imperial chancellor, in his coming speech to the rcichstag, will make new and more definite declarations concerning peace, says a Central News dispatch from The Hague yesterday. The declarations will refer not only to Russia, but the entente powers generally, according to this report. A London cablegram of yesterday says that Premier Lloyd George announced in the House of Commons this afternoon that the Irish convention would meet July 25 to deal with preliminary business, including the appointment of a chairman. Lloyd George said the government had suggested that Henry E. Duke, chief secretary for Ireland, act as provisional or temporary chairman. One hundred seventeen draft evaders were sentenced to serve a year and a day each in the Chicago house of correction by Judge K. M. Landis in the federal district court at Frecport, 111. The sentences specified "hard labor." Two others were sentenced to jail for thirty days and another was sentenced to ninety days. Judge Landis ordered also that each man be required to register. The German governments overoptimistic report on the crop prospects, which were declared on June 25 to be "really brilliant," were sharply criticized yesterday by speakers in the reichstag and means committee. They accuse the government of giving the people a false view of the situation, arousing unrealizable hopes. A late dispatch from Washington yesterday says: In what was regarded as the first real test of strength between senate wets and drys, the senate late today rejected, 52 to 34, a food bill amendment by Senator Myers to prohibit manufacture of beer and vinous beverages along with distilled liquors. An amendment to the food bill by Senator Cummins of Iowa prohibiting imports of distilled liquors during the war and also the use of those now in bond for beverage purposes was adopted by the senato late yesterday by a vote of 54 to 30.
