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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY The complete success of the allies is indicated by a confidential message reaching Gen March chief of staff at Washington yesterday from an officer who at the time of writing had just returned from FereenTardenois The oficer reported that it was seemingly impossible for any army to gather the number of guns and shells that were abandoned by the Gentians in their retirement The message added that the Germans had been driven back without time to bury their dead and the German bodies lay so thickly it was impossible to advance without walking over them themGeneral General Pershing has estimated American casual ¬ ties in the present drive at 12000 members of the Senate Military Committee were told yesterday by General March chief of staff General March made it clear however that this was only an estimate General Pershing estimated the casualties have increased recently from seventeen per thousand men to twenty per thousand General March also told members of the committee that Americans troops shipped overseas now number more than 1300000 1300000The The 300000000 mark has been passed in the value of enemy owned property taken by the Federal government according to A Mitchell Palmer alien property custodian This includes money as well as other enemy property in this country A total of 140 business concerns and corporations whose value has been place at 230000000 will be sold by Mr Palmer in tue near future The cash will be turned into Liberty Bonds BondsThe The crew of nine men from a lumberladen four masted schooner were landed at Grand Manait X It yesterday The men reported that their ves ¬ sel was sunk by a submarine Friday iticltt while between Briar Island and Grand Manan Grand Mauan Island is eight miles east of the eastern extremity of Maine and Briar Island N S is thirtyfive miles southeast of Grand Manan on the eastern side of the Bay of Fundy FundyAn An anarchist plot to destroy an American troop transport is believed by the authorities to have been frustrated today with the arrest of a man who said he was Frederick Kouchat The prisoner caught climbing a rope ladder on the side of the steam ¬ ship a former German liner said he had been selected by lot to blow up the vessel vesselThe The American League at its special meeting in Cleveland yesterday decided to continue the base ¬ ball sasun until September and to stage a worlds series between the American and National league pennant winners starting September 4 4Tiiree Tiiree men two of whom were dressed as police ¬ men robbed two officials of the II T Walker Company yesterday at Cleveland of 23000 The money was the weekly pay roll of the 900 employes of the company
