Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-28

Condensed Telegrams

Condensed Telegrams Tobacco sent to American soldiers | will enter France free of duty. | Bermuda offers vegetables if ships are sent to carry away the crops. Kermit Roosevelt has been appointed honorary captain in the British army. Wage demands of the coal miners 1 were rejected by the bituminous op- orators.
 i Britain's total war expenditures from Aug. 4, 1914, to Aug. 4. 1917, are $23,- 080,000,000.
 Gold coin to the amount of $5oc,ooo was withdrawn from the Sub Treasury | for Canada.
 The French steamer Admiral de Ker- | saint, 570 tons, was sunk in Spanish
 waters Sept. IA.
 Brieadier- General F. A. Maxwell, " C., D. s. O., a member of the late Earl
 Kitchener's Indian staff, was killed in action.
 Senator Calder presened to President Wilson a petition urging that drafted married men be not called into mill tary service.
 The Senate Military Affairs Commit tee voted for the promotion of Col. Reichman to be a brigadier- general The vote was to 2.
 The Serbian Premier, M. Pachitch, gave a dinner in honoF of the Ameri- can Red Cross Mission to Serbia upon their arrival at Corfu.
 Government built homes for muni- tion workers, to overcome disgraceful housing conditions in congested and in dustrial centers are proposed.
 General SoukhomiIoff, formerly Rus sian Minister of War, was sentenced to hard labor for life after conviction of the charge of high treason.
 An announcement that a reward of $50 will be paid for the capture of a national army stacker is expected from Provost-Marshal General Crowder
 The Cotton Manufacturers Associa- atfon notified the Fall River Textile Council there will be a general shut down of mills from Oct. II to Oct. IS.
 For sinking a subm arine in the Ned iterranean on June 12, sailors of the steamer Meaford will each get a share in the $500 prize awarded by Canada.
 oinCe tHe war france mas 0eVeIOPcd 37 aerial aces now living. who have 'bagged 393 aeroplanes. Eleven aces" dead or missing, have downed 91 in their time.
 Lieut.. Alfredo Cruz Camarao, of the Brazilian navy. detailed to the Ameri- can navy for instruction, was killed by a swinging bag, which knocked him into a lighter.
 Food Administrator Hoover an nounced he would issue a call for a conference of international sugaE- com miss.oners at Washington to reach a decision on prices.
 The biggest strike in the history of the Australian commonwealth was set ted, It began Aug. 2. and involved railroads, docks. mines and seamen and other industries.
 Mrs. Stanley M. Fiiipovick, wife of United States engineer, lost her life during a hurricane off the island of Haiti. The incident was reported on the arrival of an American ship.
 Colonel Roosevelt observing young soldier with a medal on his tunic in a crowd he was addressing at Camp Grant, Chicago, jumped out grabbed his hand, and congratulated him.
 The Peruvian Government has in SII ucleQ lHe 1oEuN1dn MlnlSIer at Ser lin that eight days will be given to the German Government for satisfaction of the sinking of the Peruvian bark Lorton. |
 The Greek Parliamentary Commits 1 sion, Investigating charges against the | and the Lambros Cabinet | is revealing scandalous facts regard | ing their relations, with German propa- ganda. l
 The American Federation of Labor | has sent an appeal to all striking navy yard workers in Norfolk to return to | work. pending an investigation and a | of the increase of wages.
 Daniel O'ConneII, an attorney and | i've others. were convicted by a jury | m a United States District Court at | San Francisco for hampering the se ective draft law. Their sentence | will be pronounced next Saturday.
 Harry D. Wilson, Louisiana, com missioner of agriculture, sent out a ;all for a conference of southern cot on growers to meet at New Orleans Oct. 2 to discuss the advisability of i cotton at a minimum price of 30 cents pound.
 The reasons for the bombing of Hol- and by German aviators was explain # the bombs suspended under their machine. Instead of dropping the bombs on German soil they circle 1 round Holland and drop them.
 Twenty two German prisoners, in luding Captain Muller. who com handed the cruiser Emden, disappear 6 J1cpt fnn a British |