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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY Buy a Liberty Bond today — keep on buying until it hurts. The booming of cannon at midnight Friday signaled to Chicago the o|icniiig of the third Lilicrty Loan drive — the drive for .000.000.t!00 to help Carte Sam silence the guns of Prussia. At the twelfth stroke of the hour H. L. Stuart, director of the seventh reserve district committee, touched a button in the Western Inion office. A spark leaiied over the wire, carrying the news to the waiting chairmen of five states — Illinois, Indiana. Iowa. Michigan and Wisconsin — and released a babel of sound in Chicago. Big guns in Grant Park started a proud and measured salute of twenty-one guns — the salute of the President of the Inited States. Whistles screamed. Motormeii clanged their gongs; on the elevated roads the whistles screamed enthusiastically and taxicab drivers and men in their own machines toot.d their horns to add to the general clamor. Dispatches from all over the country indicate that similar scenes were enacted in all the large cities. Parades, in which soldiers, sailors and civilians took pact, were the order of the day throughout the nation. President Wilson arrived at Baltimore shortly before 3 oclock yesterday afternoon and liegan" a review of 12,000 Camp Meade troops. Last night lie formally opened the third LilM-rty bsaa campaign with a speech in the Fifth Kegiment Armory. Three hours soliciting by the New York Federal Reserve Districts army of Third Liberty Loan bond salesmen at noon yesterday has resulted in subscriptions aggregating 7,747,000 — au opening which campaign managers declared was "more ausnicious" than they had expected and which had bettered the record of the first two Lilierty Loan "drives." Before 9:30 yesterday morning, or within half an hour after the Third Liberty Ioan campaign officially opened, three towns re-Itorted by telegraph to headquarters at Washington that they had subscribed their full quotas. The Continental and Commercial National Bank opened Chicagos drive bv taking a subscriniion of 0,000,-Ctiti of Liberty Bonds. The first bond bought in Chicago was purchased by the mother of Peter Wojtalewicz. the first Chicagoan to die for his country in France. "Invest your Liberty Bond interest in thrift and war savings stamps. Dont take any money away from the government in interest until after the war is over." This is the message of the War Savings Committee for Illinois to the oeople of the state as the date for the payment of Liberty Bond interest coupons approaches. These coupons will be payable iu May. and it is estimated that from ,000,000 to .0,000,000 in interest will be distributed iu Illinois. Hanks all over the state have agreed to co-operate with the War Savings Committee in urging that all holders of Liberty Bonds of tiie first and second issues re-invest their interest in war savings stamps this year. Germany is fighting desperately to defeat the allies in the west before America can place enough fighting men in Europe to turn the tide of battle. Germany has staked all her resources upon this slender chance of realizing in full her dream of conquest of a great European empire. This is the interpretation placed by" administration officials at Washington upon the renewal by the German army of the drive toward Amiens, an interpretation made more significant by official information of German purposes which has reached tiie war department through secret channels. Orders from Provost Marshal General Crowder for mobilization of the April call of the second draft were being received yesterday by governors of the states. Although the orders had not been published in Washington yesterday, it is estimated that the number of men called to camp will range close to 150.000. This is slightly in excess of the monthly quota as based on the calling of 800.000 men over a period of nine months. Illinois has been called on Is supply 5.579 men for general military service in the five-day partssl beginning April 20. according to advices from Springfield yesterday. Another heavy attack by the Germans in the drive for Amiens appeared to be under way at an early hour yesterday. At 5:30 oclock yesterday morning the enemy was reported to be advancing in waves near the Vaire Wood, which lies in the Souinie valley, east of Corbie, says a dispatch from British lieaJcpiart-rs on the western front. An indictment charging five alleged Industrial Workers of the World with a conspiracy to hamper the government iu its prosecution of the war and to encourage a campaign of treason and sabotage, was returned at Sacramento. Cal., by a United States grand jury. Three of the five men are in custody. Premier Lloyd George, telegraphing yesterday to the lord mayor of Loudon ou the occasion of a luncheon given to celebrate Americas entry into the war. said: "During the next few weeks America will give the Prussian military junta the surprise of their lives." A London dispatch of yesterday says that the admiralty reports tell of the destruction recently of ten German submarines by naval aircraft, in which the aviators swooped down and dropped bombs, exploding the enemys craft before the submarines were able to submerse. "It is true we have made a continued and substantial advance, but we have left behind mountains of dead." the Dresden Neueste Nachrichten declares, iu copies received at Basle. Switzerland, yesterday. The Germans are reported to have taken iu Ukraine, twenty-eight railway cars filled with French rifles and ammunition, with more than a million artillery shells. The War Department will build a permanent 5,000,000 quartermasters warehouse in Brooklyn. Australia has turned over to the British government sixty-one large vessels.
