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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY Latest renorts from the western battle front say that Wytschaete has been recaptured by the British, that British positions before Viires have been withdrawn to a new line, that the British have recaptured Met-ren. a vital point four miles from Caestre. a junction on the Yores railway, that among the numerous enemy attacks Tuesday afternoon and evening on the northern front in Flanders, one in great lorce in the Zillebeke sector, east of Ypres, was disastrous for the Germans, whose massed waves were shot down at close range. They apparently w« re ordered to retire and then the British gunners got on th *ir flank, the correspondent says and the slaughter was appalling. According to Charles E. Mitchell, president of the National City Company. America has discovered a sure cure for the submarine menace. Mr. Mitchell said: "Within the last hour I have received word fioni a most reliable source that America has put forward a new invention which lias been tried against the I -boats and was so successful that more than a down submarines were captured within two days." One hundred and fifty thousand drafted men— nearly three times the months quota — will be mobilized during May, Provost .Marshall ieneral Crowder stated yesterday afternoon. By June 300.-MMI men of the second draft of S00.000 will be in training camps, he said. Men can now be supplied the camps as fast as there is room for them, he announced. Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the board of directors of the Bethlehem Steel corporation, has been placed iu control of the construction of merchant vessels. The Government relies on Mr. Schwab to bring order out of chaos iu the shipyards and speed up construction. Mr. Schwab will be Director General of Shipbuilding, with full powers. Standing liefore a firing squad in the forest of Viuceuues early yesterday. Paul Bolo Pasha, condemned traitor, hist entirely the attitude of indifference he had maintained subsequent to and during Lis trial. When the order to fire was given the rifles s]« ke and Boio crumbled up with several bullets iu his head. During all his three years* experience in the war Sum*. Heaters correspondent at British front telegraphs, he has heard no such territie and uninter-mittent gunfire as has gone on since Tuesday afternoon ami eon tinned as he tiled his dispatch yesterday morning. Says a London dispateli of yesterday: "The Germans have lauded 40.000 troops at Helsingfors. A .eiin.ni squadron anchored in the harltor of llel-singfors consists of twelve ships, including the battleships Post n and Westfalen. each of ls.tMKJ tons." The Greek and British troops which on Monday crossed the Struma River, on the eastern Hank of the Macedonian front, occupied seven towns, the British war office announced yesterday. The New York Athletic Club plans to oust all disloyal members and will have sixty -one members cited for trial within the next week. Baron Burian has lieen appointed Austro-Hnn-gari.in foreign minister in succession to Count Czer-niu. ace irdiiig t a Vienna dispatch. Subscriptions to the third Liberty Loan, as shown in rc-iorts to the United States treasury, now total 31,156,050.
