Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-03

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 Condensed Telegrams
 The Rainbow Division is safe in France.
 The navy will need 2e,ooo recruits by Dec. 22.
 Maximiiists troops occupy the Petro- grad State Bank.
 Europe is suffering from a serious shortage of coal. A call for 5000 men was sent out by the United States Naval Reserve. sist Canadian farmers to purchase hogs.
 The Navy Department is equipped l with enough shoes for its men for the next year.
 John F. Carroll, the former Tam many leader, left an estate amounting i to $491,O95.
 Germany's war credit of 15,0e0, ,00o,- 900 marks passed second reading in | the Reichstag. New export duties have been plac- ed on hides and rubber by the Mexi- 1 can Government. being increased approximately 15 per cent for next season. Great Britain has extended it's con- | trol over raw horSehides to leather produced from horsehides. Five thousand tons of sugar on two | boats from Cuba arrived in New York | to end the sugar famine. Harvard students training for the of 1 ficers' reserve corps have been warned | against sighting their regular studies. | The Oklahoma crop report for the | month of December puts the condition i of wheat at 51, against S4 a year ago. | A 17-year-oId schooIboy was arrest | ed at Cassel Germany, for stealing art 1 treasures of the Kaiser from the pal | ace.
 A call for inspectors of shoes and l leather has been issued by the Quarter 1 master Corps of the Army and Marine | Corps.
 1 w. H. Maxwell, superintendent of New York schools, who has been in l the Flushing Hospital for two months, l recovered.
 I One hundred carloads of apples will l be sent to the American soldiers in 1 France by the fruit trade of the United States.
 An s0o-aere farm, which was prairie land three years ago, was sold 1 at Saskatoon, Sask., for a considera- | ton of $42,200. l A Iishtship stationed near White | Island in the lower St. Lawrence, is l adrift on the ice. She has a crew of | six or eight men
 Stockholders of the Aetna Mills will meet in Boston on Dec. to authorize I the proposed increase in stock from 1 S225,o0o to s525. 900. l An American patrol boat which ran | ashore on the North Atlantic Coast { two weeks ago was ref1oated and taken 1 into port for repairs. ] Anti British motion picture films, 1 dealing with the Revolutionary War, were seized by the Federal authori- 1 ties at Los Angeles, Cal. 1 Since the advent of cooler weather, | conditions at Camp Mills necessitated l the bringing of a hundred soldiers to 1 New York for treatment. In an address at Jackson, Miss. l Representative Harrison of Mississippi
 declared himself in favor of a decla- | ration of war against Austria.
 Field Marshal Haie of the British | armies wears the heavy cavalry sabre | in preference to the ivory handled sword prescribed for officers of his | rank.
 Passengers on the Broadway Limited l arriving in Chicago doated their re-
 fund checks. for $1 each-the train
 was an hour late-to the Red Cross.
 Posetto Angelo, address unknown, was shot and killed by Policeman | Michael Kelly in Brooklyn when he
 tried to escape after being called on to
 halt.
 More tentase will be used at Camp l Wheeler, Macon, Ga, as a sanitary measure. Hereafter, only five men
 nine as heretofore.
 Leave of absence for a year was
 granted to Rev: Oscar E. Maurer of may go abroad to assist in work for American soldiers.
 With 4,0OO of the first American bal lots cast upon Europen soil. C. L. Grant one of the special election com mittee of three, has returned from England to France.
 I American troops using trenches con
 structed by the French have found
 they must dig a few inches deeper, as the average American is taller than the average F'renchman.
 ! Immediate expulsion of all Amer1-
 can draft evaders in the northern dis
 trict of Lower California, has been ordered by Col. Esteban Cantu, mih-
 tary governor of that district. Indefinite leave of absence waz
 ranted its pastor. the Rev. Edgar R
 Hyde by the First Baptist church Middletown that he may engage 1n
 war work with the Y. M. c. A
 The cotton mills of New Bedford,
 employing over 30,O00 operatives, may
 be obliged to close Tuesday as the re-
 sult of 2. strike vote of the mill fire mems union today. The firemen de-