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w GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY Buy a Liberty Bond today— keep on buying untU it hurts. Invest every cent you can spare from your living in LIBERTY LOAN BONDS. The Covernmeut is the safest lioirower iu the world. Cncle Sams promise to repav you is backed up with wealth by the hundred billions. The Government will pay you 44 i er cent interest, too. American troops will soon be in the thick of the fighting against the great German drive for a decision on the western front, according to the indications in todays dispatches. They have appeared in the British battle zone, where their presence is to be felt shortly, the advices state. Meanwhile, the new German offensive in Flanders appears to be developing into more than a local operation. The fighting has spread to the north of Armentieres. south of which it first broke out. and a drive is now on between Armentieres and Messines. behind which lies the famous ridge, the taking of which by the British in their terrific blasting operation of last, year gave them their firm hold on the Flanders situation. The German effort iu the Flanders stroke is really of such magnitude as to constitute another attempt to break through the British lines, in the opinion of at least one of the close observers at the front, the tremendous concentration of artillery and the throwing in of dense masses of infantry denoting this purpose. The Inited States Civil Service Commission is sending out an urgent call for thousands of men and women stenographer* .-md typewriters to work for the Cnited States government. Examination for such positions .ire held every Tuesday iu 450 of the principal cities of the country and applications may he fil.-d with the commission at Washington any time. War taxes took from the pockets of the American people. 0,076,000 in February, or 51.90.000 in the eight mouths since last July 1. These figures. reported yesterday by the internal revenue bureau, are the tax increases for those periods over the same periods of the year previous, and represent .substantially the result of heavier war levies. German troops continue to advance eastward into Russia. Iu Finland, llelsingfors, the capital, is re|« rted in danger of capture, while in the south the Herman and Ikraini.in forces have occupied Kharkov. 410 miles south of .Moscow. This is the furthest point east yet reached by the Germans. Two divisions of American submarines are now fighting the kaisers undersea iMiats. Secretary of the Navy Daniel- announced here yesterday, adding that they are under separate commanders and are meeting with success. The Senate Military Committee yesterday characterized the governments aircraft program as "gravely disappointing* and recommended a drastic reorganization of production machinery. Secretary of the Navy Josenhus Daniels arrived in Chicago yesterday to Injost the third Liberty l.oan and also make an inspection of the Great Lakes naval training station. There appears to he a strong impression in German military circles that Marshal Joffre is in coin-maud of one of the iin|s itant allied armies facing the German offensive. Senator Stone of Missouri was stricken with paralysis yesterday when riding on a street car in VasUiugtou.
