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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. The Leyland liner Devonian, which left an Atlantic port on July 28, has been sunk, presumably by a German submarine. Officers of the line yesterday confirmed the report that the vessel was lost, but said they had received no word as to the safety of the crew. The Allies great offensive, unceasingly boring ahead, already has cost the Germans and Austrians close to 100;000 in dead and wounded and at least 21,100 prisoners on the. British, French and Italian fronts. . 7000 mechanics and other civilian employes of League Navy Yard at Philadelphia have pledged their loyalty to the Unites! States government and criticise all manifestations of labor disloyalty. Advices from Rome are to the effect that furious fighting continues cm the Isonzo front. The Italian troops are seriously menacing ;hoth northern and southern wings of the Austrian army. James AV. Gerard, former American Ambassador to Germany, is ill at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago. He is of the opinion that the. German press in this country should be muzzled. . The important submarine base of Zeebrugge was bombarded by British warships AVednesday evening after naval aircraft had made a bombing raid on the same place in the morning. The German raider Sea Adler, which for a time roamed the seas witli the famous Moewe, has been sunk in the Atlantic after having been surprised by an, English warship. Austrias terrible toll of casualties in the continuing Italian advance has reached 33,000 in dead and wounded, according to Italian headquarters es-timates. For war preparations and to carry on the government .during,-the year.-heginnirig July 1 last, more than ,000,000,000 thus far has heen appointed. Chicago has raised its quota for the first contingent of the new national army. According to German reports, vast coal fields have been discovered in Silesia. Striking miners in Spain have returned to work.
