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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY Consultations in progress between party leaders in Germany may have the most farreaching con ¬ sequences according to advices received at Wash ¬ ington froin official sources in Europe These con ¬ fidential reports suy the German middle classes are taking control determined to have peace tven if it involves complete acceptance of the allies terms including the downfall pf the kaiser the crown prince and finally Ludendorff and the entice mili ¬ tary control It is not possible to give details but officials here are prepared to credit the reports as they are supported by knowledge from other sources that German business interests and landed proprietors who heretofore have been inclined to ¬ ward panGermanism now fear an uprising of so ¬ cialists and the threat of a German bolshevik regime Latest news from Amsterdam says Antwerp is being evacuated by the Germans according to re ¬ ports from the frontier Warehouses are being stripped and the Germans are shipping thirtyfive submarines overland to Kiel More than 15000 German soldiers have been interned in Holland in tlie last three days The Germans were cut off by Belgian troops pushing northward from Eecloo and fled into Holland to avoid being taken captive Allied forces have advanced from the Dutch fron ¬ tier to a point west of Tburnai and iijvc estab ¬ lished a bridgehead at Peteghem seven miles from Ghent GhentFiremen Firemen of Cleveland threaten to quit if their de ¬ mands are not granted according to the following Hspatcli from there yesterday Unless Mayor Davis agrees to submit the dispute of the city firemen to tle Natomil Var Board or issues u proclamation this morning giving full force and effect to the eighthour law 500 firemen will quit work at noon according to President Urbanowicz of the Firemens Union More than 1000 persons with military trucks swung out of Dnluth Miihi early Sunday and constructed eighty settlers homes in the urea de ¬ stroyed by recent forest fires before returning at night Two hundred and sixty trucks loaded with food furniture and other supplies followed close their heels and stocked the refugees new homes homesThe The Badisrhe poison gasvpiant Jlt Mannheim fn the Khine Valley is a favorite object for strafing l v tiit British airmen Three consecutive raids upon it by night have extensively damaged it The raiders bombs partly destroyed the sulphuric acid and nitric vitriol factory and th aniline department Qthvr buildings of thu plant were wrecked
