Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-17
Condensed Telegrams

Another loan of .$20o,ooo,oo was made to- France,
 American socialists touring Europe arrived in Rome.
 President Menoeal, of Cuba, restored constitutional guarantees.
 The Uruguayan mission to the United States arrived in Cuba.
 Shipments of anthracite were the highest recorded -7,OS4,775 tons.
 Retail food prices in the United States increased 66 per cent. since June, 1913.
 American camps and depots in military mission
 Pope Benedict received Mgs. James N. Connolly, vicar-general of the American chaplains.
 The treasury announced it had fixed the maximum price of silver, at s1.01 1-2 per fine ounce
 The English. wheat and grain crops are reported large enough to feed the nation for forty, weeks.
 w. p. G. Harding was reappointed iby President Wilson. as governor of the federal reserve board. Proposals to extend the draft age increased enlistments 1T. the merchant marine training service. h i Canada's wheat crop is estimated at J23,OG0 GOO bushels comtpared with 233. AZ $50 bushels last year The guardianship under which Prince Freidrich Leopold, of Prussia, was placed last June was rescinded. Z 1 Police Commissioner Enright, of 1 New York. announced appointment of six women for general police duty
 Director McAdoo intends to inspect the New York railroad terminals and the railroad system throughout New England.
 General Humbert, commander of the French third army, in an interview declared Americans fight with an ar dor unsurpassed"
 Contracts for the construction of seven steel cargo vessels under the \ dominion governments shipping pro- gramme were approved.
 All liberty bonds of the first issue owned by the New York Stock Ex. change have been sold to make wa! for the next issue
 Herr Von Sengbusch, a German of
 ficial at Wenden. was reported assas
 sinated. Wenden is Russian towI
 fifty miles northeast of Riga. President Wilson has written an ad vertisement for the next liberty loar The text lad" will be kept a secre
 until the campaign opens. The imperial munitions board an
 nounces that 10000 tons of coppe
 scrap valued at s5,000,0 900 were re
 claimed for the British ministry c
 munitions. Ninety one enlisted men of the ma
 rine corps were commissioned secon
 lieutenants after completing thre
 months training at the Quantic camp
 A deputation representing 200 ,O0 state employees presented a deman for an increase of 50 per cent. in th l war bonuses to the Austrian govern ment.
 The United States and Great Brit @ ain joined diplomatic representation : to the Mexican government protestir
 against oil land decrees of Presidel ICarranza.
 $ Freight rates from Brazilian DOT y to Italian ports have jumped to mo n than double the rates charged sho o time ago. Recently the rate was 5. high as S300 ton.
 Forty Dutch ships, now idle in u L. Dutch East Indian ports, are expectt e to be released to bring sugar, tin. qu Il nine and other commodities to u g United States
 Mrs. F. Sheehy Skeffington, who VI = released from Holloway prison, Lol l. don where she was detained after h l. deportation from Ireland, applied f g permit to return to Ireland s. General support for schools of ; grades during the war was urged el President Wilson in a letter to Seer le tary Lane approving his education 5 campaign this summer and fall
 Eighty-four members of the Ste le ems railroad commission, sent to a e sist in rebuilding Russian railroa SC and who were in Japan for eig lg months, arrived in Nladivostok a l. will begin work behind the Czech ed Slovak lines.
 William E. King. seaman. of Bal SC more, and Clarence E. Ready. m le chinists mate. of Bardwell, S. C., we lg commended by Secretary Daniels l- bravery in rescuing sev-n sa llc ss from the burning Spanish stean
 Scrantes.