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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. After protracted debate in which many senators urged heavier levies on incomes and war profits in the war tax bill the senate yesterday tentatively adopted Senator Gerrys amendment, which would add 0,375,000 by greatly increasing surtaxes on incomes exceeding 00,000. The amendment increases the tax on incomes between 00,000 and 50,000 30 to 35 per cent and would fix the ratio at 50 per cent on incomes exceeding ,000,000. A dispatch from London says that ten enemy aeroplanes raided England yesterday, dropping bombs over Dover and Margate. Lord French, commander, in chief of the home defense forces, announced that two of the German flyers had been brought down and that the only casualties jivere at Dover, where eleven were killed lind thirteen Injured. Charges that the United States government has been defrauded out of fully 00,000,000 in income taxes evaded by the wealthy were made in the Senate yesterday by Senator Lewis of Illinois, who declared the treasury department had the proofs. French troops have gained a footing in the southeastern part of Avocourt wood and on the knolls to the east of that position on the Verdun front, says the official statement issued yesterday by the German war office. More than 13,000 Austro-Hungarian prisoners have been captured by the Italians in their offensive on the Isonzo front, "the Italian war department announced yesterday. The Italians also have taken thirty guns.
