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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY Chapters of the Daughters of the American Revo ¬ lution in twentyeight states contributed 200000 to the Red Cross and 78000 to the Y M C A and Y W C A and raised 74SoO for the care of French orphans and 23000 for civilian relief in Tolloloy France in the six mouths ending October 1 These figures are embodied in the semiannual report of the war relief service committee committeeRefugees Refugees arriving in Holland from Belgium re ¬ port that a number of ships on the Eecloo canal carrying German officers and material were shot to pieces and sunk with all on board by Belgian troops Friday afternoon says a dispatch from Am ¬ sterdam to the London Exchange Telegraph com ¬ pany The German troops according to the refu ¬ gees are retreating toward Ghent and Antwerp AntwerpFor For the first time of its existence in 132 years no public services will be held Sunday in the Santa Barbara Mission in California established by the Franciscan Fathers in 178J Father Dominic ex ¬ plained that the spread of influenza niade it neces ¬ sary to close the doors of Californias famous old landmark landmarkThe The record of submarine activity for the summer months June July and August the period most favorable to submarines is now practically made up and shows two highly satisfactory results a steady fall i the allied shipping losses and a steady rise in the submarines destroyed destroyedMany Many German columns with many gnus and auto ¬ mobiles traveling eastward are passing Sluis a town on the Holland frontier ten miles northeast of Bruges German sentinels have abandoned their posts on the canal at Slnis according to informa ¬ tion reaching London yesterday yesterdayThe The next two weeks should determine whether we shall have a spring campaign In the mean ¬ time we are proceeding on the theory that the war is going on and that a spring campaign on big lines must be fought says an army officer sta ¬ tioned at Washington WashingtonThe The evacuation of the territory of Serbia Albania and Montenegro by forces of the central powers has been begun according to u dispatch from Vienna forwarded by the Amsterdam correspondent of the Central News Agency AgencyThere There was another panic on the Berlin bourse Thursday according to a dispatch to Paris from Zurich Maritime securities dropped L5 per cent and chemical products from 10 to UO per cent centA A Copenhagen dispatch of yesterday says The Czechs are masters in Prague according to a Berlin dispatch Czech money is in circulation and the Czech flag waves over Hradcliang castle castleBritish British troops have entered the Belgian town of Eecloo according to a dispatch from Sluis to the Telegraaf and six thousand Germans have been shut in against the Dutch frontier frontierLate Late reports yesterday from the allied forces in Belgium show that four more towns were captured namely Chereng Hasmy Vred and Catelet
