Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-31
Condensed TeIeqrams


 Surgeon General reports influenza on the wan in Army cantonments. Shipping Board announced the need ot 1000 young men for the United States merchant marine be- cause of the rapid delivery of cargoA vessels by the shipyards. aAs |. Standard Oil employees at BaywS N. J, received a wage increase of per cent
 Navy announced lifting of b aSi short cable addresses, effectivS . | Freight movement in October es- abolished record, when 39, 549, 900, 900 ton miles were moved, compared with 3S,224, 900, 000-ton miles in 1917. l Shipments of fresh and cured meats 1 rom Chicago for the week were 75,- | 8S0 900 pounds
 Philadelphia Federal Reserve Sank for th1ne week ending showed a total reserve of $143, 3,555,14.
 French and Italian governments
 have purchased practically the en-
 tire smelter output of the Anaconda
 Mining Co.,
 Cuban sugar crop estimated at 4,-
 010,571 tons
 }, A naval seapIane fell into Boston harbor. One of the two aviators
 aboard was seriously injured. Ieonida 5issolati, Socialist Min 1ster of Military Aid and War Pen
 sion in the Italian Cabinet. resigned
 because of difference of opinion. Sweden's national debt increased
 from 1,054 4,110,00O crowns in 1912 to
 1,240, 490,O00 in 1917 | Department of Commerce reports
 from Uruguay report the Uruguayan
 government as going to regulate the
 cable lines Of the country Il Prices and expenditures of the , working class of England advanced
 80 per cent. from July 1914, to Sep tember, 1918.
 l, Five tons of eumdrops and 10000 doughnuts were presented to the . American Army of Occupation The
 Knights of Columbus provided the | gumdrops and the Salvation Army the
 doughnuts
 l Two soldiers were slightly hurt : when two cars of a westbound troop train on the Nickel Plate were de- 3 railed at Edgerton o. Secretary of War Baker announced . that no plan was formed as to which : aof the two big powder plants, one at : Nashville. Tenn, and one at Charles ton. w. Va, would be kept in opera :! ton.
 The German long range gun that
 shelled Paris is rusting in a park
 near Berlin.
 Victor Boret, French Food Minis t ter, announced that the government decided to drop it's trade ban. Sixty Fokker airpIanes arrived ir t Coblenz by train. They will be turned over to the American Army. Harvard College is inauguratint d d two special five-week terms for the 2 summer for men who were in the 9 service.
 e Secretary of War Baker urged med Il als for members of draft boards ant r state officials who helped administel z the selective service law. a Negotiations concerning the de {. parture of the German envoy iron I Spain were completed. He will leav
 Jan g.
 s, with explosives war materials am D merchandise on Belgian railroad ;. Within a month 32oooo Frenc s, prisoners of war returned to Franc 33 will be repatriated. = Through train service from Pari
 to Brussels which was stopped i d 1914. will be resumed. l. United States Navy has perfecte 1t new fuel bituminous coal fror l. which sulphates, and other bypro ld ducts were extracted. It is calle
 'carbocoal"
 d Women knitters, who did not sto t. work when the aTmistice was signet g. were ordered to stack kneedles D. More than 10 100000 pieces were knit 5 ted in r months.
 Generals Black, Crowder, Goethal ," Gorgas. Hines and Jervey will | b. awarded the Distinguished Servit U Medal.
 xt All war material captured s Americans will be brought hom Fh Secretary Baker announced ss, More than 400 American locom' ig lives were carried to France assemb ~ ed except the smokestack and ten( o- CTS. so as they move under their oN .e steam within a few hours after a h. rival.
 a Cardinal Gibbons has issued an al be peal to all Christians for aid for u 'aS Armenians and Syrians.
 Horse meat again has experlenc' ,ss another advance price III CopieI .o- This fact is due to the scarcity O. meat in Germany. Iso An American Albanian congress w ms organized at Boston to ,Work TOT U ali return to Albania of territory whl be speakers alleged was wrongly tax ,s- from their country.
 Two delegates to ask the pea of conference for emancipation or Je' .e- in Ruman:a were elected at a co ng vention in New York by the Feder ee- ton of Rumania Jews in Ameflca. wy Steamship Fairfield, a cargo o-earrl in of $500 deadWelght tons, nUli' ny
 Honsatonic Snipbuilding Company
 the Emergency Fleet CorDt ration. " be launched at Stratfcrd this nor Ts One of a party of eight wounded nor ficers who arrived at Camp Deve ad- was Capt Walter Camp. Jr, son or CTS veteran Yale coach. Captain Car en- served with the 2Sth Division tes