Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-15

I The inland waterways of France nd the canals will be used to trans ort supplies for the American army. The Senate passed the bill creating Wo additional assistant Secretaries of 7ar. The House has passed the bill. | The Ionsstanding fisheries dispute etween Canada and the United States vas settled for the duration of the 7ar
 Philip Balm, Sr., founder of the will DIV basket industry in New York 'tate, is dead at Syracuse, at the age if S3.
 Capt. Archibald Roosevelt, a son of Theodore Roosevelt, was wounded in Lction with the American forces in Trance.
 The Rev. osiah Boucher was award d the Croix de Guerre for distinguish d bravery at the front with American .roops. The Interstate Commerce commis- sIon refused to readjust rates on sugar shipments from New Orleans to South ports.
 The American and Allied legation staffs left Jassy for Odessa with as- surances of safe conduct from the Rumanian King.
 Metal workers in the shipyards at Mobile, Ala, will go on strike Monday unless they are given an immediate increase in wages.
 General Maurice, director of opera tions of the British army announced there were indications Of an offensive on the western front.
 Philip K. Glazebrook, member of Parilament for South Manchester, and major in the Cheshire Yoemanry, was killed in Palestine.
 The department Of labor has for mally announced the settlement of a strike of 300 employees Of the Pullman piant at Wilmington. Del.
 Judge Arthur E, Burr, who took of : nee. on Monday as probate officer for suffolk country Mass dropped dead at the courthouse on Wednesday
 
 The New York Senate will resume the fight over the ratification of the prohibition amendment to the Federal constitution next Wednesday.
 Further shifts in the American army are indicated. Reduction of several major generals to the rank of brigad- ier-general is only the beginning.
 
 Capt. George IT. Bailey, Canadian Army Medical Corps, was Lentenced to three months Imprisonment at Tor onto, for slurs on soldiers at the front
 The destruction of 400 British towns is asked for in the Berlin Tages Zei- tung as a reprisal for the action of the Allies in taking 400 German ships
 The Government has asked the clothing manufacturers to return five cents for every soldiers service coal made without padding in the should er..
 Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. sen to the Russian Soviet Congress a. Moscow, the greeting of the organiza- ton.
 Major Henry L. Hissinson, head ot the Boston Symphony Orchestra, de. clared that Dr. Karl Muck, leader o the orchestra, is Swiss and not { German.
 Syracuse members of the Inter national Bible Students Association who claimed exemption from militar, service on religious grounds, wer, placed in class Al. City engineers in New York hay plans completed for another bridg across. the East River. It will con meet with the Bronx at Old Ferr, Point with Whitestone. The whereabouts of the America engineers, Pursell and Nyl. was learn ed. and the Chinese bandits who cap tured them near Yeh -Sien are sur rounded by Chinese soldiers. Action of some miIIers in refusin to observe the regulations regardin profits resulted in the Millers' Com mittee requesting an inquiry into tn conduct of the milling industry.  Four nurses and a doctor attache to the Pennsylvania University hos pital unit jumped into the icy water at the Battery to demonstrate the ef fectiveness of rubber life saving suit which they will wear. l Ten thousand dollars was eoilecte in three days in New York to aid i 1 furnishing comforts to the soldiers c | King Albert, who are holding tn l three hundred square miles of unoc cupied Belgian territory.
 Frederick F. Aver, millionaire medi cine manufacturer and financier C Boston. Mass, died at Thomasvill, Ga. He was 96 years old. MT. Aye had been spending the winter her, He was born in Ledyard. Conn.
 George Tompkins, Philadelphia cos Operator, was found guilty of musde in the first degree in connection wit the shooting to death last July of MT Caroline Humphries, by a jury in tn Icriminal court at Ebensburg, Pa. | The commissions on union of tn Presbyterian Church, north, and tn Presbyterian Church. south, failed 1 lagree upon plan for the propose merger of the two great church bodie at the final session of the joint con ference at Atlantic City. Secretary Daniels today instructe all naval commanders, in their discre ton, to give Az hours leave, begiHnin lwith the evening of March l27 to me of Jewish faith in the navy that ths T may observe the Feast of the Pass nYer. Similar orders were given