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INTERESTING AND PERTINENT TOPICS OF THE DAY GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY In Flanders and from the Oise to the Mense the allied troops continue their vigorous blows for im ¬ portant gains says tlie Associated Press summary of the progress made by the allies As the French press on In the LaonAIsne region the allied of ¬ fensive in Belgium and the American operations west f the Meuse art being renewed today with success Smashing their way through the network of rail ¬ ways in western Flanders the Belgian French and Britisli forces under King Albert now are within two miles of the important rail center of Courtrai Thw allies also dominate with their guns the railroad running from Lille to the Belgian coast by way of Coiirtrai and thus hamper if they have not cut off all communication between Ostend and Lille The German resistance in Flanders appears to be only for the purpose of delaying the allies until the evacuation of Belgium can be completed The enemy is reported to be evacuating Ostend and to be sending large boat loads of troops away from the coastal region Between the Oise and the Ar gonue the French are pressing the enemy hard and giving him little chance to dig in should he decide to do so East of the Oise the French are within a half mile of the Serrc along most of its length i and have advanced between five and six miles from Laon Even the Aisne is fast being lost to the enemy as a means of defense The French now threaten Ketliel having captured NnnteuilSur Aisne two and onehalf miles west of Rcthel and about the same distance east of Chateau Porcein PorceinA A general political strike in Bohemia and Mo ¬ ravia began Monday according to dispatches re ¬ ceived at Zurich There was a great manifestation in Prague in favor of independence The deputies declared that the final act of the revolution had be ¬ gun Bohemia and Moravia are AustroHungarian provinces the home of the CzechoSlovaks who have been recognized by the United States as one of the I allied nations It has been the belief that the breaking up of the Austrian conglomeration of peoples and the revolt against the Hapsburgs and the Hohenzollerns might start in Bohemia and Moravia as disaffection has been stronger in those provinces than in other parts of the central em ¬ pires piresShortly Shortly before the American troop transport America formerly the German transAtlantic pas ¬ senger steamship Amerika was about to sail today for Europe with soldiers and supplies the vessel foundered at her pier at Hobokeii N 3 In the early morning darkness while the troops aboard were sleeping the America settled with her keel in the mud leaving only three of her eight decks to ¬ gether with parts of her funnels above water There were 300 soldiers on board in addition to memlMrs of the crew and all hands except three privates and two sailors have l een accounted for It was thought probable the missing men were safe but had failed to report themselves themselvesThe The vast and varied activities of the American Red Cross in relieving suffering In the war zone is outlined in the latest report of the civil affairs de ¬ partment of the organization During the month of June the department rendered aid to 412563 civili ¬ ans exclusive of the work among the allied soldiers Of this huge army 220638 were refugees from the warstricken regions In the early dayrt of the Ger ¬ man offensive thousands of refugees passed through Paris daily most of them practically destitute and suffering from exposure and hardships of the hur ¬ ried flight flightCapture Capture of the Albanian port of Durazzo by Italian and Britisli naval forces was reported yes ¬ terday in an official dispatch from Rome The city was occupied and many prisoners and quanti ¬ ties of war supplies taken The message also told of further advances by the Italian columns driving the enemy out of Albania and the occupation of several important points pointsIt It was Field Marshal Von Hindenburg himself and not the supposedly pacifist Premier Prince Maximilian who caused the German government to accept President Wilsons peace terms and seek an armistice according to advices which reached Washington yesterday through official sources by way of a neutral country countryFrom From Stockholm comes word that five socialist leaders Aronen Hermac Kujala Lanhihi and Nackelaine were condemned to death on Saturday at Holsinjtfors on a charge of treason Others who yere tried were sentenced to penal servitude for life None was acquitted acquittedThere There is good reason to believe that the German submarine warfare will reach a climax during the winter according to the Rhenish Wcstphalian Ga ¬ zette which says that it will produce an economic crisis of unanticipated dimensions ill entente coun ¬ tries triesAs As a precaution against the spread of influenza and pneumonia every theater and motion picture house in the state of Illinois was ordered closed until further notice also lodge meetings and night schools were prohibited prohibitedSerbian Serbian forces advancing nortii of Xish on Sunday captured on a large front all the heights which dominate both banks of the Morava river according to an official announcement made here today todayThomas Thomas A Edison is ill at his home in West Orange X J today His ailment is diagnosed as a cold
