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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY The threatened crisis In the relations of Mexico and the entente allies and the United States ap ¬ parently has been averted by a modification of the new Mexican oil tax decree by President Carranza It was learned that on August 12 Carranza in effect canceled provisions of the decree of July 31 under which undeveloped oil lands might be seized by the Mexican government upon failure of their owners to make declarations and submit to what they re ¬ garded as excessive taxation taxationMiss Miss Isabella Fcder and Michael Polsky respec ¬ tively vicepresident and general manager of an equipment making company were convicted in the Federal Court at Brooklyn for attempting to sell defective barrack bags to the government Miss Feder was sentenced to a year and three months in prison and Polsky got four mouths mouthsGeneral General March told the senators at Washington yesterday that the American army now under arms numbers slightly more than 3000000 men with l4r 0000 men in France or on the way and approxi ¬ mately 1550000 in cantonments at home homeThe The first experiment with an airplane postal ser ¬ vice between Paris and St Nabaire on the coast was made yesterday the start from Paris being witnessed by the minister of posts says a Paris dispatch Nearly 2000 studentsoldiers received commissions as second lieutenants at the first graduation exer ¬ cises at the artillery training school at Camp Zachary Taylor Louisville Ky KyUnset Unset jewels valued at 3r 000 and a small amount of money were taken yesterday in a day light robbery of the DonovanSeamans jewelry store in Los Angeles Cal CalReports Reports are in circulation in Finland that the Germans have seized the Russian naval port of Kronstadt according to a Stockholm dispatch to Le Matin Paris ParisSenator Senator Jacob II Gallinger of New Hampshire died in a hospital at Franklin N H yesterday
