Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-15
Condensed TeIegrams

Condensed TeIegrams
 Russia agreed to talk peace with Finland
 Germany is demanding $3,5oo, ,0oo, GOO IS war indemnity from Russia.
 The Japanese Red Cross mission will arrive in Washington on Tuesday.
 Another campaign has been started n Rhine towns to stop air raids.
 Four Texas points reported the first" bale of cotton of the season.
 Owing to the shortage of food, dis ease is spreading rapidly in Petrograd.
 More than 1s,ooo munition workers were addressed by Secretary Baker at Nitro, w. Va
 A Swedish report says an enormous peasant army led by M. -Tchernoff has reached Moscow.
 Secretary Lansing left Washington | for Watertown, N. J., where he will | spend his vacation.
 Ten large electric locomotives cost ing S110,000 each are being completed for the St. Paul road.
 At the end of May there were e3,- 507 holders of United States Steel Cor poration common stock.
 German guns have not bombarded Amiens, the object of the great Ger man drive since June 25.
 The British Air Ministry announces that on July :, aisInen dropped half ton of bombs on Constantinople.
 The Trenton Board of Public Utili- ties denied the application of the Pub lie Service Co. for cent fare.
 The compulsory arbitration treaty between Brazil and Peru has been ap- proved by the Brazilian Congress.
 Four hundred employees of the Smith &, Wesson small arms plant struck for better working conditions and more pay.
 President Wilson signed the bill pro- viding for the manufacture of Govern ment supplies at the Atlanta Peniten- tary.
 Two soldiers were killed and score | injured in Camp Bowie, Fort Worth, Tex. when d bolt of lightning struck l a mess tent.
 Official statistics show that more than 800 OOO- war prisoners. invalids and sick, of different nationalities pass ed through Switzerland
 Brazil press reports announce un- usual cold and some heavy snow Many planters announce enormous damage to coffee plants.
 A motor ambulance sent to the front by the Salvation Army carried 20,o0C wounded, in three and a half years and is still in daily use.
 The Canadian Government announe
 ed the next Victory Loan Bonds ikt
 those of the previous issues will bt
 free of all Dominion taxes. French aviators during the month O
 May brought down, and destroyed 15t
 German machines, seriously damaged 151, and buried 31 balloons.
 President Wilson signed bill pro
 viding for $500 fine and six months il pl lison for persons found guilty O
 wearing an "allied' uniform. Attorney General Gregory an, Charles E. Hughes, investigating air plane programme at Dayton Ohio
 closed their investigation Saturday The War Trade Board has name III firms, largely South and Centrs American companies, which have bee
 added to the enemy trading list.
 A resolution was adopted in tn | Senate calling upon the people to cele
 brate July 14, Bastile Day, the In f dependence of the French republic.
 The Federal Trade commisso
 granted the request, of newsprir paper manufacturers to have tn print paper case opened again July 2 II Il Turkey has informed the Unite v States that proof of the sacking of a Il American consulate and hospital 6 h Tabriz, Persia, has not yet been, asceI II tained.
 L. Brand, of the Agricultural Dc partment, will confer with handlers ( : grain in Chicago to discuss the ne U grades of corn which become effectiy , , Monday. E The house sustained President Wi u sons veto of the agricultural apprC Il priation bill. A motion to pass u ' measure over the veto was defeate d d 172 to 72. .s a American troops overseas and ( It shipboard and en route have passe U the HOO 900 mark, General Marc e chief of staff, told senate military con
 mittee members.
 Davenport and metal bedmake : have reached an agreement with u
 War Industries Board to reduce u IF styles of beds to thirty and patterns
 davenports to twenty. The Memphis Cotton Exchange at opted a resolution to expel. any men Der who trades within 10 years aft . the war with any country now III war with the United States.
 General Pershing's communique f ,eo yesterday. received last night at u Il +loa