Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02
Condensed TeIegrams

Condensed TeIegrams
 The output of potash in Germany is estimated at 1, ,056, 800 tons.
 Two Greek missions are in Paris on their way to the United States.
 Since March 21, the British have talk en 14,500 prisoners on the west front.
 The Soviet Government at Moscow has issued a decree against anti Semi tism.
 The American Red Cross has opened | it's seventh hospital six miles from 1 Paris.
 Shipping in Montevideo, Uruguay, is paralyzed as the result of strike of | 5000 laborers.
 The War Labor Board announced that no minimum wage would be es- tablished now.
 As means of revivins British trade after the war preferential tariffs are USIllS uISCuSSSu,
 The French military mission sent to train the Guatemalan army has arrived in Guatemala City. William H. White, president of the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad has resigned. Brigadier General Cornelius Wander bilt of the 27th Division, United States Army, was in New York
 The cost of making bread in Canada showed a decrease of sixteenth of a cent for the month of May.
 Tin imports for the fiscal year ended l June 50, 1918, were 69,731 long tons compared with 67,529 tons in 1916.
 The French Government has be- slowed the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor decoration on Otto H. Kahn.
 Every doctor in Stockholm is report ed hurrying from house to house to check the attack of Spanish grip" British casualties for the month of July showed a decrease. The list con- tained the names of 67,291 officers and men.
 A collision of two German railway
 trains between Scheidemuls and
 Landsberg resulted in the death of 30
 persons.
 Documents taken from German soI-
 diers captured on the French front show that a pillage system has been
 organized.
 Ira Nelson Morris, U. s. ambassador
 at Stockholm, said in London Sweden
 was strictly neutral He is on his way
 to Washington.
 Major General Mann, former com mander of the Eastern Department , with headquarters at Governors Is , land was retired a 3 The first convaIescent home fol Q American nurses in England wa . opened by the Red Cross in Putney a = Colebrook Lodge. : Speaking in the House of Commons $ Arthur J. Balfour, British Foreign Sec
 retary, said no enemy country ha, made any peace bids. ,, Owing to delay in building aItera : tions, the service house of the Stag e Women's War Relief will not be open e ed on Aug. 4 as announced. r Two aviators are reported to hay made flight from Paris to St. Ma e caire and back a total distance of 47 r miles, in five hours and fifty minute! y The famous ''hunger stone" in tn
 River Elbe, near Tetschen, which ac 1T cording to popular belief in German 'l predicts famine, has been seen agah
 way employees in Washington that tn
 employees would be expected to do bet ] ter work because of the wage increas g Major General James G. Harbor, ." former chief of staff of Gen. Pershin
 was appointed head of the supply SCI er vice of the American Expeditionar > Forces.
 to Provost Marshal General Crowde ; called upon 23 states for 5,5S6 gramms J. school graduates of draft age qualifie sr for general military service to take a l. officers course.
 is T. J. Ritter, of New York, and G. le Curtaz of Boston, were injured whe IS they made a forced landing and the 5" airplane caught in a wire fence st Gainesville, Tex. Id
 al The United States Employment Se .4 vice announced that it would dete1 E mine later the initial quotas of III 5 ,5i skilled labor which the states will "' required to furnish.
 Dayton Wright AirpIane Co.,. h.
 shipped it's booth de Haviland al 7" plane. In honor of the event, tomo
 row was declared a holida~ and { aI employees will be given an outing.
 Miss Anne Martin, former pres ld dent of the National Womans Part all filed her petition as an independe av candidate for United States senat = from Nevada with the. secretary it. state yesterday. Miss Martins pet oo ton was signed by 7,217 electors. of r. DROUGHT PLAYED HAVOC ct WITH THE COTTON GRO n Forecast Shows a Reduction of 170I nd 900 Bales.