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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY From London comes the following information and the second im ¬ 7 ebniggc the port of Pruges portant German submarine base on the Belgian oast has been occupied by allied forces Rrngcs seven miles south of Xeebrugge lias been evacuated by the Germans according to information received at the Relgian headquarters Tourcoing a city six miles northeast of Lille has been entered by the IJritish troops according to the Evening News retween the Sensee canal and the Lys river the Pritish are continuing their advance on the whole front frontQuestionnaires Questionnaires for men of the 37 to 40 and IS vear age classes under the draft were ordered re ¬ leased yesterday by Provost Marshal General Crowd er in all local l oard districts when the classification if other groups has been completed This will affect more than half of all the territory in the United States progress having been more rapid than was exacted in classification work Local loards sending out questionnaires must release 10 per cent a day dayA A dispatch late yesterday from Amsterdam says a demonstration by the German Independent Social ¬ ists in Unter den Linden Ierlin today is reiwrtcd 1V the Cologne Aolks Xeitung The crowd sang the Marseillaise The police adds the newspaper prevented the demonstrators from reaching the im imrial palace There was a clash in which some of the croivd were slightly injured by the police sabers sabersStep Step for the organization of Austria on a federal ized basis were proclaimed by Emperor Charles to ¬ day w v 5 dispatch from Vienna dated October 38 The plan does not include the union of Aus ¬ trian Poland with the independent Polish state the emperor declared The city of Trieste and the Trieste region will lie treated separately in on formit with the wishes of the population populationilie ilie great fires that paralyzed northern Minne ¬ sota burned 100000000 worth of properly killed a thousand people injured many thousands more and made homeless approximately 11000 are burn ¬ ing themselves out Total deaths injuries and losses will not be known for weeks it is said but the fire probably always will be known as the fire that killed a thousand thousandThe The Senate finance committee in revising the war revenue bill yesterday amended the House provision iy fixing a flat rale of 12 per cent upon the net income of C9rporations and eliminated the section imposing a i per cent additional tax upon undistributed earnings Chairman Simmons esti niated that this change reduced the tax approxi ¬ mately 140000000 140000000A A dispatch from Amsterdam says The crown prince is reported to have asked permission of the kaiser to visit him in Berlin and was immediately warned to keep away from the capital as his life would not be safe there It is quite certain the crown prince could notwiilk the streets of Uerlin without serious danger to his life adds the lipateh lipatehTen Ten thousand dollars worth of opium represent seizures of the entire government narcotic staff fr a month is missing frnn the Treasury store ¬ rooms hi Washington Eight boxes each contain rf fifty pounds of the drug were hauled to the Treasury storerooms recently from the public health headquarters A day or two later there were only six Ncvs of the deliverance of Lille spread rapidly J Iaris rousing deep and quiet joy Flags were hung oat on all sides and i crowd of refugees from the UN region paraded to the Lille statue in the Place de la Concorde where they sang The Mar ¬ seillaise and decorated the statue with allied flags flagsIrmn Irmn Rueiios Aires comes the following The f rcj rcjii ii office has received a dispatch from the Argentine legation in Kerlin saying that the present situation in Germany is unendurable unendurable1he 1he Germans have begun a new retirement in the area between the Oise and the Serre rivers be ¬ tween Laon and Cambrai according to the official
