Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-24
Condensed Telegrams

Condensed Telegrams
 British fiers bassed five more Ger man airplanes.
 Fordham University has a service flag with 603 stars.
 Only one dead Americans name was found on the list of Canadian casual ties.
 A new drive in behalf of prohibition will be made in Congress after the holidays.
 Enrique Esparsa, the last survivor tonic Texas.
 M. caIIaiux, on trial for espionage in Paris. is preparing a three-hour speech for his defense.
 The Rockefeller @Fuondatien con- tributed S100.0O0 toAthe Knights of Columbus war camp fund.
 A German government bureau for studying questions relating to peace has been opened in Berlin. The St. Louis Southwestern, Railway increased the wages of it's clerks and telegraphers 1-2 per cent.
 John Hicks, of Oshkosh, Wis. owner of the Oshkosh Northwestern, and once minister to Peru, is dead. The employment of girl hootbIacI<s in Boston has been forbidden in an order adopted by the City Council. Serbia's military mission to the United States was entertained at the White House with much ceremony. For ten days the soldiers in Russia have footed vodka cellars. The troops are in a state of constant dissipation. three of the four blast furnaces of the Bethlehem Steel Co. have been banked. Lord Rhondda, Food Controller of there would be one meatless day a week. Owing to the shortage of coal the continued public lectures in school buildings. The Berlin socialist newspaper VorwaertS has been obliged by the government to suspend publication for three days. The War Trade Board has reemoved
  of three Southern American firms and one Cuban.
 General Ludendorff requested cor l respondents or the German front mot to write too much regarding the peace situation
 Gen. Pershins in general orders pro l hibits all alcoholic beverages except 1 light wines and beer to American ex- peditionary forces. l Howard AveriIi, of Bradford, Pa, is 1 in Elnira jail because he reported him self dead in his home town papers to
 escape the draft.
 1 New York State Fuel Administrat i tor Wiggins ordered all the coal sup i plies not essential for war manufact- ! I1rer to be cut off. ] Secretary Daniels confirmed the an 1 nouncement made by Lloydy George ! that more and more Uboats are being sunk by the Allies.
 l George 8. Barker, professor of dra- l matic composition at Harvard college i was granted leave of absence to enter i Government service. l The London Daily Mail began the
 publication of an American edition in i Americans in France. 1 The city of Charlotte, N. C., has com . i pleted plans for an elaborate Christmas entertainment of the 30,000 men in training at Camp Greene. ] The captain and the members of the l submarine that sunk the old French 1 cruiser Chateau Renault, were captur- | CT by French torpedo boats. Congressman Porter H. Dale, just l back from France, urges that the Unit ed States speed up with her supplies , and munition manufactures. l J. c. Traphasan, secretary of the i Mercantile Trust & Deposit Go. of New 1 York, left for Russia to control the ' 1 M. c: A. finances in that country. l More than 150 German propagandist ] agents were arrested during the last i three months in Illinois, where they i were active among the coal miners. l A plate glass window, 26 by 16 feet | costing $266. was broken by striking l employees of the Childs restaurants al Church and Cortland Streets, New i York.
 1 A violent earth trenor lasting nearly an hour was recorded at the Fordharn