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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Thirty-seven persons were killed and 141 injured in the London air raid, it was officially announced yesterday. About twenty enemy airplanes bombarded the city, according to an official statement by the war olTice. Damage was done in the heart of Loudon by the raid, which was one of the greatest, if not the greatest ever attempted by the Germans over the metropolis. For about a quarter of an hour the raiders dropped a steady rain of bombs. An official statement issued yesterday afternoon by the Brit.ish admiralty said that three of the German airplanes which had dropped bombs on London had been brought down at sea. Violent fighting has begun on the Russian front west of Pinsk. The city of Pinsk is in flames, according to an announcement yesterday by the semiofficial news agency. The Russian artillery, the announcement says, is leveling all obstacles. The Russians have captured the fortified forests of Sianka. with all the enemys organized positions, and also hill 3S8. They have penetrated the village of Godov. The United States senate yesterday voted, 44 to 39, to reconsider its action of Friday, in tentatively adding to prohibition legislation, proposed to the food control bill the amendment of Senator Cum-mins prohibiting withdrawal of distilled beverages from bonded warehouses. The Leyland liner Cestrian, long in the Boston-Liverpool service, has been sunk by a German submarine, according to advices received at Boston yesterday. , 1 ; 1 ; : i
