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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY The Brazilian cabinet has decided upon these regulations for German subjects: To prohibit all commercial relations direct or indirect, between foreign nationals resident in Brazil and enemy subjects in foreign countries. To suspend the exportation of all kinds of goods belonging to the enemy. The authorities will be given special power to control enemy enterprises and to put an end to such operations. To intern in concenration camps or . elsewhere all suspected enemy subjects. To cancel all public land contracts and concessions, with due regard to the right of settlers and proprietors already located. The famous Gridiron Club held its first banquet since Americas entry into the war, at the New Willard Hotel. Washington, last night. The guests, which included the President, diplomatic representatives of the Entente powers, many captains of industry and army and navey leaders, entered the banquet hall through a series of trenches "Somewhere in France." The progress of the dinner was interrupted by the appearance of the chief of police and five of his men. The chief received a report that the Sheppard dry law was being violated, but the only bottle found contained grape juice. The Department of Justice, Washington, is considering suggestions that regulations applying to alien enemies within the United States, be applied with less severity to the thousands of Austrian subjects who are pro-ally, or even in the American army. It is said that regulations to be issued this week may provide exemptions for certain groups, such as Hungarians, Roumanians, Poles and Slavs who immigrated from Austrias territory heterogeneous empire and now maintain little love for their mother country. A cable dispatch from Rome says the central powers are developing on the Italian front the maximum military effort" of the war. Unofficial dispatches declared French troops are in action. Italian aviators report continual concentration of Austro- German forces on the Asiago plateau, where desperate fighting continues. Fighting which is continually increasing in violence, is reported from the entire Italian front. Prisoners taken by the Germans are now said to number more than 10,000. The death of one of Belgiums most famous aviators, Pierre Braun, was reported at Washington in official dispatches to the Belgian legation. He was drowneii when his machine fell into the sea just after rising for a patrol flight. Braun, known as the "Bambino Baby" of his equadron, was only 20 years old and had been flying for three years. The United States government has issued an appeal for spy glasses, binoculars and telescopes. It is said manufacturers cannot produce them in the present em.ergcucy. Citizens are therefore asked to contribute the use of their glasses during the period of war, after which they will be returned I if not destroyed or lost. Daniel Heas.ley,, Jr., 17, 4143 North Whipple street, Chicago, : .las confessc-U. that, he was responsible for the fire ill .the United States army medical, supply depot at Fortieth and Dearborn streets. .He declared it was an accident. Heasley said he was using a gasoline ullimiiiatlng torch on the third floor of the building, where he was working as an apprenticed electrician. A cup holding tlie gasoline was damaged and the burning fluid flowed over the floor. The fire did 00,000 damage. Dispatches from La Paz, Bolivia, report that eight civilians were killed and thirty wounded and one soldier was killed and several wounded during the disorders that occurred Wednesday after a sitting of the chamber of deputies in La Paz. The casualties were the result of attempts by the soldiers to disperse an anti-government political demonstration. Lieutenant-Commander David Worth Bagley and Lieutenant Norman Scott were among the survj-vors rescued after the sinking of the American destroyer Jacob Jones by a German submarine. Those two officers, two warrant officers and two enlisted men were named in a dispatch from Admiral Sims, in addition to the thirty-seven previously reported saved. r The London Daily Express correspondent at Geneva says lie learns from a Russfan revolutionist here that Leon Trotsky was, up to June, 1914,. employed as a reporter by a small east side New York newspaper at a salary of 2 and that Trotsky is now worth more thnn 00,000. The Federal grand jury at Madison, Wis., has indicted Assistant Secretary of State Lewis B. Nagle on a charge of uttering disloyal statements. Nagle was indicted under section 3 of the espionage law, which calls for a penalty of 0,000 fine, or twenty years in jail, or both. An army council order issued at London prohibits the manufacture after January 1, and the purchase or sale after February 1, of boots for women with uppers exceeding seven inches in height of leather or eight inches in height if of any other material. An official statement from Tokio says Japan is to decide her own policy as to supplying of troop and ships in the great war. Japan, it was stated, has not been asked by the Paris inter-allied conference to dispatch troops or furnish tonnage for use in the Atlantic ocean. War time activities of tiie national advisory committee for aeronautics, the governments scientific research air sen-ice agency, were described in an appropriation of 00,000 for the coming year, asked yesterday in the committees third annual report to Congress. Comparative quiet during the past twenty-four hours on the Cambrai front is reported by Field Marshal Haig. Around Flesquieres, Mouchy le Preux and Paeschandaele, German artillery is active. Military experts predict a German drive against the Champagne front. Reports of the activity of Mount Popocatepetl, the big ice-capped volcano about thirty miles southeast of Mexico City come from the Mexican capital. Popocatepetl, or "Smoking Mountain," is 17,500 feet high and is a semi-active volcano. All but four or five of the entire crow of the American steamship Actaeon, sunk by a submarine on November 23, have reached European ports safely, according to authentic reports received at New York. It is reported from New York that the will ot the late Oscar Lewisohn leaves his entire fortune, estimated at 1917.sh,000,000, to his widow, who was Edna May, star in "The Belle of New York." A revolution has broken out in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, according to a dispatch received at Madrid by way of Oporto and Tuy. Outbreaks also are said to have occurred at Oporto. All American citizens residing in Jerusalem have been removed to the north and east, according to a. Reuter dispatch from British army headquarters in Palestine. Ecuador has severed diplomatic relations with Germany, according to an official announcement. The Finnish government has proclaimed the independence of Finland.
