Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-11
Condensed Telegrams

During the week 948 vessels arrived at French ports and 934 left.
 The rivers and harbors bill became a law with President Wilson's sigma ture.
 Emperor Charles of Austria left Czernowitz, the Bukowina capital, for Vienna.
 field service were awarded French war crosses.
 Germany is going to concentrate her U-boat warfare on Great Britain ex- clusively.
 General Pershng reported favorabIy On the plan to have army divisions of 19,000 men.
 Collins of waterproof cardboard are being made in Germany, due to the shortage of lumber. The Italian government is going to manufacture shoes of a stout make for the army and civilians.
 The Peruvian senate passed a reso- iution expressing sympathy with the , United States in the war. Government officials. say that dis tillers are buying up corn throughout the country al any price.
 British medical officers are trying to find out what new poison the Germans are using in their bullets. Twenty-four persons were killed and 100 injured in a train wreck at Aruata of the Genoa Milan express. Dr.. MichaeIis. the German chancellor, was promoted from captain to lieuten- ant colonel in the German army. Mrs. Mary Underwood. mother of Commodore Underwood L. $. N, re- tired, is dead at Oswego, N. Y.
 Senator Marooni, the last member of the Italian mission to the United States to leave the country, arrived in Rome.
 Because his son Harold was called by the selective draft, Jacob Gill hang ed himself in his barn at Pearl City, III.
 Sour yeast in 5000 Ioaves of bread for the soldiers led to the belief that a German spy had put poison in the bread
 The summer home of Lord AtheIstan, owner of the Montreal Star, was bad ly damaged by dynamite. Nobody was injured.
 The Austrian steamship Buda pest was sold to the Kerr Steamship com pany of New York by the American government
 Major George F. Dennarest, for many years a member of the 22d engineers, lawyer in dead a Sound Beach Conn. after an illness of a year.
 The northeastern division of the American Red Cross has outgrown it's quarters at Boston and will move to another suite of 20 rooms.
 President Wilson designated W. P G. Harding as governor and Paul Warburg vice governor of the fed era1 reserve board for another year.
 Judge Robert S. Lovett denied the report from Washington that he was made chairman of the purchasing con- mittee of the War Industries board.
 One time Senator chauncey M. Depew donated $500 to fix up the chil- dren's playgrounds in Depew Park, Peekskill, which was named after him.
 The navy department placed an or der for 1,6S7. 800 pounds of canned pineapple, a years supply, for the At lantic fleet for the eastern navy yards.
 A temporary hospital was onened at Tarrytown, N. Y" by the National League for Woman's Service. It will he used for the New York Naval Milf tia.
 One busheI of potatoes extra for every man, woman and child in the country during the next year is pre- dicted by the department of agricul- ture.
 The American Steel 6 Wire Go. an nounced that the plans for its new plant are complete and when finished it will be the largest rope plant in the world.
 The French Iosees in ships for the week were four ships over 500 tons and two vessels of less tonnage. Italy lost only two steamships and one sail- ing ship.
 Johnny schiff. Los AnaeIes boxer, who advertises that "he took part in f25 battles and never took the count" was turned down for admission into the navy at Chicago.
 The first of the three "Liberty Loan" days in Russia proved a great success Automobiles paraded and booths were decorated where the bonds were being sold.
 Fjndino their ioh "too hazardous" Misses Anna and Helen Henion re- sirned from guarding Dead Mars" crossing of the Eric railroad In Hill burn, Rockland county
 Attorney General Wiley Jones, who was Investigating labor conditions at Risbee. Ariz., said only a force of federal troops can overcome the un- lawful deportatfons from Arizona.
 Officers graduated from training camps the war department announced, will be appointed to the officers re- serve corps. where their age permits and they are otherwise satisfactory.
 According to unofficial fiaures, the total number of men available in New Haven for the new national army a s a , esult of the first examinations is 732, i