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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY AustriaHungary already is reconciled to the idcsi of unconditional capitulation says si Viennsi dis ¬ patch to the Frankfort Zeitung because Vienna is threatened with famine the authorities are powerless and laws sire no longer enforced Hun ¬ gary intends to apply direct to the allied govern ¬ ments to ascertain on what terms they will grant an armistice and peace to Hungary it is reported Us political circles in Budapest according to a Zurich dispatch to the Journal JournalThe The British have taken more than 0000 prisoners and many guns in their new attack begun Wednes ¬ day morning on the front below Aralenciennes There are indications that the Germans either are carrying out or sire on the verge of beginning a retreat from the Scheldt line as the British north of Valenciennes push out in the direction of Mous and Maubeuge They are less than eighteen miles from Mons sind sibout fifteen from Maubeuge MaubeugeDenial Denial that Germany has ordered the cessation of all destruction whatsoever on the western front is made by the semiofficial North German Gazette of Berlin The newspaper silo denies newspaper reports from outside Germany that German sub ¬ marines have been recalled to their bases basesWireless Wireless messages received from the north said the Canadian Pacific Railway Companys steamer Princess Sophia Ikmnil south from Sksigway Alaska went ashore 011 Vanderbilt Reef Lynn Canal near Skagway It was believed here the Sophia carried a capacity load of passengers passengersA A dispatch from Holland yesterday ssiys Austrian newspapers declare it will be difficult to supply Vienna with food now that imports from Poland are shut off on account of the Hungarian situa ¬ tion and the closing of the Bohemian and Moravian frontiers Boy sc6uts in Hamburg ami other German cities are being armed with machine guns and are used frequently in quelling strike outbreaks according to information reaching the American intelligence department Tlie British cabinet met yesterday morning pre ¬ sumably to discuss President Wilsons reply to Germany The reply was received by the foreign office from tin British embassy sit Washington WashingtonA A Stainford White president of the Chicago Board ofTrade died yesterday of influenza He had been ill for two weeks Tlie allies have agreed on terms of an armistice according to information reaching London yesterday
