Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14

l | France has taken over the control of the food administration throughout | Greece.
 ] Twenty members of the Chicago American League baseball team are | drilling for war.
 l The Prince of Udine has recovered and the delayed trip to New York will be made June 21.
 down inside the German lines at the the battle of Messines.
 Employees of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation subscribed S4,455,OOO to the Liberty Loan in five days.
 Nearly 400 Americans are still in i the Central Empires according to Min ister Morris who is at Stockholm. 1 The French Minister of Agriculture says that there is a big improvement in the crops since April 1 to June l. | The War Department called for | 10000 recruits for the regular army to fill it up to the required war strength. Notre Dame University, of Indiana, presented Rear-Admira1 Benson of the
 
 medal.
 An American hospital medical unit, or 15O men and 75 nurses, arrived Chicago.
 There are 4,e22, 600 aliens in the United States who were born in Ger many or in any of German allies countries.
 Without conscripting men with de- pendent families the United States will have at least 3,OOO,OOO from which it can pick it's army.
 The Patterson Forge company's fac tory on East Main street, Bridgeport was almost totally destroyed early last night with a loss of $15,OO0.
 Indians in Utak refused to register. After going on the war path they re- cided to register. They made a pris- oner of the acting Indian agent.
 Eleven large cargo ships arrived in an Atlantic port within the last day or two. Six of them were under the American flag, and four British.
 Edward Collins, charged with pinch ing the cheek of Mrs. Anna Keller of New York, when collecting a bill, was beaten by her husband and arrested.
 Contracts for cotton on future de- livery were advanced to 25 cents pound in the widest opening of the New York pit" experienced this year
 Adjutant RoauI Lufberry of the La fayette Escadrille had a narrow es- cape of death last Thursday in an aerial battle. His battleplane was riddled.
 The Newfoundland legislature, now in session, is expected to enact a law permitting export to the United States of a considerable quantity of pulp wood
 The Senate adopted the conference report of the Gregory espionage bill. commonly called the spy bill. The bill now goes to the President for his signature.
 Harold Hogan, a brakeman on the Lackawanna Railroad was Killed when a milk train crashed into the rear of a freight train at Fourth Street, Har- rison, N. J.
 German language instructions were abandoned except to students of chem istry for the period of the war by the faculty of Case School of Applied Sci ence in Cleveland.
 An experimental hydropIane postal route connecting France with Corsica, with stations at Marseilles, Toulon and Ajaccio, is being considered by the Minister of Commerce.
 A Florida family has three sons en- listed in the regular army, aviation corps and the officers training camp. Mother and daughters are preparing to join the Red Cross.
 A new submarine chaser which ar rived in France created a sensation because of its radical departure from preconceived ideas of shipbuilding
 "Nick" Luona, a member of the I w. w. was shot at Virginia, Minn., when he attempted to escape from of ficers who had placed him under ar rest on a charge of failing to register.
 Boy Scouts of Waterbury Wednesday obtained 7S1 subscriptions aggregating tions for three days to $159,350. Wa terbury's complete liberty loan total so far is $7,319,35O.
 Representative Bacharach, of New Jersey, introduced in the House a bill i the Secretary of the Navy to expend $175,000 in acquiring a 57 | acre tract of the water front at Cape May, for naval air station.
 Whether the Unied States army has adopted the British Enfield rifle is | what Senator Reed Smoot wants to | find out. He asked this question in | 8 resolution. Senator Poindexter held | up consideration of the resolution.
 A seven hundred pound haIibut, said by fishermen to be one of the largest every caught in New England waters, was brought into Boston by the schooner Eva Avina. It was hooked | fifty miles northeast of Thatcher's Is- land and brought $50. HELD IN CONNECTION
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