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j GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY General von Ludendorff is universally blamed for the west front disaster according to advices from German sources which declare he will be superseded by Field Marshal von Mackensen who has been summoned to imperial headquarters from the east A Zurich dispatch says von Hindfiiburg participated in a recent conference at headquarters and accused Ludendorff of mismanagement and im ¬ prudence Ludendorff placed the responsibility on Us subordinates subordinatesFederal Federal action which will make possible the col ection of a 0ccnt fare on the surface and elevated lines of Chicago is expected iu the near future fol ¬ lowing the award of the War Labor Board in in ¬ creasing the pay of the motormen and conductors by 9 cents an hour or about 40 per cent Officials of the lines affected say that the only way open for the companies to meet the increase in pay if by an increase in fares faresThe The arrest of Maxim Gorky Busxian author and revolutionary has been ordered by an investigating commission of the Soviet government says an Ex ¬ change Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen The Petrognid correspondent of the Daily Express re ¬ ports that Gorkys paper has been suppressed per ¬ manently Gorky has been considered the only free and courageous press critic of Leninc and Trotzky TrotzkyFederal Federal indictments were returned yesterday at New York against Dr Edward A Rnmely former vicepresident and secretary of the New York Mail and Express Company and S Walter Kaufmanu former counsel for the German embassy in the United States as particinnnts in the purchase of the Evening Mail for the German government governmentAs As a sop for the establishment of a monarchy Germany has offered Finland to use its offices to obtain the cession by Russia of eastern Karelia on tiie principle of selfdetermination but the Landtag which hys been summoned to meet August 5 must decide immediately according to a dispatch to the London Times from Stockholm StockholmBy By a vote of 15 to 4 the Cuban Senate last night approved of the obligatory military service bill virtually in the same form in which it passed the House last week says a dispatch of yesterday from Havana
