Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-29

Md, committed suicide while on guard at Camp Mcclellan.
 State Food Administrators were told by the sU. s. Food Administration to seize hoarded wheat.
 Drafting of the class of 1921 began in several parts of Germany in the first days of March.
 The Interstate Commerce Committee approved the increased demurrage charges in New York.
 ; It is reported at StoeI<hnIm that the Germans have .-Released the Swedish i steamer Princess Ingeborg.
 The Japanese special mission visit ing West Point witnessed a review of i the cadets at the Academy.
 Increased freight rates from Middle West to Eastern points were approved | by the Interstate Commerce Comlnisl sion.
 The discovery of an extensive de. posit of wolfram and also of molly | bdenite in Burma, India was reported | in London,
 Senator Robinson introduced . bill in the New York Legislature to tax outdoor advertising signs or :devises on a space basis.
 German newspapers announces that General Paul Bloch von Blottnitz a commander of an infantry division, was killed in action. E Lieut.. Col. E. Lester Jones testified before the Senate Military Committee that the. United States has sent only one airpianes to France.
 A convention between the United States and France for extension of an old treaty for five years longer was approved by the Senate. The Kaiserhof Hotel of Berlin, which | is to be taken over by the German government is the twenty fourth Ser lin hotel to be communicated r The War Department apnouneed the fesignation of&G Gelenelsa5 F. Wood sas chief of the woolens branch of the supply and equipment division.
 The City Garage, the largest in Har- l risbutg, was destroyed by fire. Fifty
 automobiles in the garage were also destroyed. The loss is $100 900. Commander Walter S. crosiey, the American naval attacle, at Petrograd, and fourteen Americans have siic- ceeded in getting out of Finland safely. | President Wilson announced that on every Wednesday afternoon a war dis |
 of the executives of the War Council Accused of insulting the American
 flag. hung in her window by neigh
 bors to replace German flag, Mrs
 Mary Takeh was arrested in Brook
 lyn. .
 Harold Buse. chief clerk of the Pon-
 iac Mich. draft board, was arrested | upon charge of taking money from drafted men fors having exempted
 them.
 The Massachusetts legislative com
 mittee on special welfare voted to re. i port bill providing for a 50-houl , week for women and children employ
 ed in industries. , Negotiations for the transfer of 15o;
 900 tons of Japanese shipping to tn, f United States were completed. Japal f will receive two tons of steel plate l for every ton of shipping. ! Dr.. Paul S. Reinsch, American min . ister to China, who is making a tou [ Iof inspection, with his staff, il soutl ! China, spent yesterday at Annoy el 5 route from Swatow to Foochow.
 An order abolishins all bugle call for mess and drill was issueG at Cam . Dix. N. J.. by Major General Hugh. I |. Scott, in order that officers and mel
 may learn to rely upon their watches
 The German consult general at Zu
 rich has inserted advertisements il l. the newspa pers, inviting all Germa
 subjects of the age of 17 years to com 1T municate with the consulate with e view to their being called to the col = ors. f.t
 @ British casualties reported for tn week ending yesterday aggregate y I3.61S divided as follows: Officers kille e Eor died of wounds, T9; men killed C Il died of wounds, GOA; officers wounde IS or missing, 26S; men wounded or miss
 ing, 2,667.
 = Corporal Homer J. Wheaton. forme ,s sporting editor of the Worcester Gaz al cite gave his life to save Lieutenar II George A. Corbin. Wheaton picke le up a bomb to throw it out of an An "a erican trench and 1t exploded in h al hand.
 creation of central governin
 board, Composed of prominent phys $ clans, to handle the general admins
 tration of the volunteer medical SCI y vice corps, was announced by D
 Franklin Martin. chairman of the ger
 eral medical board of the council = national defense. .i ,n LIEUTENANT SHOT AND ,a KILLED IN JACkSoNVlLL ? Woman Suspected of Crime Lat
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