Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22

a khaki uniform.
The comma nding officer of Fort
| Roosevelt reports that lookouts there
observed a submarine off the entrance
| to San Diego harbor.
Tho Deutsehe kirohen Zeituns
| states the Roman Catholic clergy of
Germany inaugurated a powerfully
organized peace movement.
A slump in army recruiting was ex-
per1enced when only /, ,154 men, nearly
half the daily average maintained un-
TIL Last Saturday, were enlisted.
The French torpedo boat destroyer
Boutefeu was sunk by striking a mine
in the naval engagement between En-
tente and Austrian vessels in the Adrf-
attic.
Prince Miguel of Braganza who
married Miss Anita Stewart of New
York, WAS promoted to a captaincy in
the automobile corps of the German
army.
Forty persons charged with con-
spiracy against the United States
Government were arrested in Snyder
Scurry County, Texas in the last two
days.
Athens, there is scarcity of other
foodstuffs. Since Thursday scarcely
any meats or vegetables were on the
market.
Spain's note to Germany regarding
the Patricio was short and energetic,
although official circles are extremely
reticent regarding the tone Of the
document.
A mass meeting to discuss the find
ings of the First American Confer
ence for Democracy and Terms of
Peace will be held at Madison Square
Garden May 81.
The Norwegian steamship Thorum
WAS seized by German submarine
inside the four-mile limit which Nor.
way claimed as the boundary of
Norwegian territorial waters.
The British engineers' strike, which
threatened to interfere with the out
put of munitions and other war ma
terials, was ended through interven-
tion of Premier LLlyd George.
The Baroness Gexa Duka Won Kadar
was murdered by employe on her
only heir is her brother, Baron Feodor
Nikolic, now in the United States.
Several persons were injured when
a crowded Broadway and Lexington
Avenue car crashed into the rear of a
Broadway and Lenox Avenue car, at
Lenox Avenue and 122d St. New York.
Schwerin and Mecklenburg- -Strelitz.
through their ministries. announce
their consent to far reaching revision
of the constitutions of both Grand
Duchies.
The second explosion in ten days
occurred in the United Piece Dye
Works plant at Lodi N. J. Dye being
boiled in large kettle, exploded,
wrecking the building and injuring ten
employees.
The first $50 aviation cadets for the
army began preliminary theoretical
training today at the Universities of
California, Texas. Illinois and Ohio;
the Massachusetts, Institute &c Tech
rology and Cornell University.
The Chinese House of Representa-
tives by a vote of 229 to 180 decided
not to consider any war measure un-
til the Premier and Minister of War
resigned and the entire Cabinet was
r'eorganfzed.
DR.. Arthur Warren Waite, who
poisoned his fatherin-law, John e.
Peck, when informed in Sing Sing
death house that his execution was set
hummed a tune.
Commanding officers of New York
National Guard organizations receiv-
ed telegrarns from Adjt Gen. Stotes-
bury to recruit their commands to
maximum war strength with as little
delay as possible.
on THE Balance Sheet of the War at
the Quaker Forum at Gramercy Park,
predicted that Colonel Roosevelt
would yet manage somehow to get in
to the fighting lines as soldier.
Entrance Of the United States into
the world war resulted in tremend-
Gus increase in exports from the port
of New York in spite of the submaL-
rine menace, according to figures
made public at the Custom House.
The members of the new Retirement
Board of the Education Department of
New York presented themselves before
Supreme Court Justice Giegerich and
were sworn into office as provided by
the new pension law for public school
teachers.
Capt. George 3. BeardsIey, who re-
turned from trip to the Far East
said that two German raiders got out
and preyed upon shipping in the Indi-
an Ocean and south Pacific One of
them was captured by a Japanese
cruiser and taken to Hongkong.
Four talesmen had been accepted as
jurors, subject to peremptory chal-
lenge, at the close of yesterdays pro-
ceedings in the trial Of Mrs. Rena
one of the defendants charged
with murder as a result of a bomb
explosion at San Francisco last July.
Senators, guests of Senator Sheppard
Of Texas at luncheon in the Capitol,
had a demonstration of war bread
suggested to conserve wheat. Bread
having Is per cent. Of cottonseed flour
mixed with wheat flour baked at the
Bureau of Chemistry, was served.
Creation of Commission on In
dustriaI Adjustment is proposed in a |
bill which was sent by Secretary VII |
son to Senator Key Pittman for IN
The bill is designed TO |
prevent tie-up of interstate trans |
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