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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY Federal officials on Monday found packages of ammunition, several hundred rifles nnd a number of bags filled with revolvers buried under the cargo of hides in the Shilka, a Russian freighter which arrived at a Pacific port Friday night under control of its bolsheviki crew. Officials said the cartridges found in the ammunition packages .contained slugs such are used by the Germans on the eastern front. The consignment was probably intended, officials said, for Industrial Workers of the World, or for use of a raider in; the Pacific. That the cargo brought to a Pacific port from Vladivostok by the Russian freighter Shilka, under Bolsheviki control, was to have been sold and the proceeds turned into a defense fund for the alleged Industrial Workers of the World conspirators now awaiting trial at Chicago.; is a theory advanced regarding the "mystery ship" by federal agents. The Shilka carried a cargo of hides, beans, peas and licorice root valued,.at. about 240,000. The identity of the shippers has not been learned. Forces of the enemy, which had crossed the Piave river at Piave Vecchia, have been driven back across the river, the Italian war office announces. On the mountain front, the statement says, the Austro-Gennan forces pas.ed the Italian positions in the Asiago sector in the region of Buso Monte Valbella, but stopped at the Italian rear positions from which the Italians arc counterattacking with satisfactory results. Baroness Iona Zollner of New York, wife of a German army officer serving on the Flanders front, is held in Chattanooga, Tehn., without bail for the Federal Grand Jury on the charge of violating the espionage act. Lieutenant John W. Spaulding, the 22 year old United States.army officer arrested with the woman in a hotel last week, was sent to Fort Oglethorpe under guard after he had testified for the defense. While several sections of the country actually are suffering for want of coal, mines producing bituminous coal turned out more during November than in any month in history, witli one exception, the geological survey reported Monday. These mines are practically one month ahead of the 1910 production and if the present output is maintained production this year will be 9 per cent, in excess of last year. General Dubail has signed the order for the prosecution of Deputies Caillaux and Loustalot and M. Comby. It is alleged that Comby was present at the lunch at which former Premier Caillaux met Uavallini and is said to have accompanied Loustalot to Switzerland, where he saw the former Khedive of Egypt. Maitre Debange, who defended Dreyfus at Rennes, has been chosen by 31. Caillaux as his counsel. Senator Francis Griffith Ncwlands of Nevada died of heart failure at his home in Washington Monday night after an illness of a few hours. The capital knew nothing of his illness until the announcement of lits death. For several weeks Senator New-lands, working almost night and day on his preparations for an investigation of war-time transportation problems, had been in a weakened state of health. Gilbert Keld, an American accused of being a pro-German propagandist and sympathizer, has been deported from Peking to Manila at the request of the Chinese government. Dr. Gilbert Reid. editor of the Peking Post, was released from prison at Shanghai on July 23, 1917; when he promised to refrain from criticism of the American government or its officials.
