Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-13

Sir Eric Geddes speaking in London l said that mines were gradually hem | ming in the submarines
 Two persons were killed and 12 were i injured in an explosion in the Frank 1 ford Arsenal, Philadelphia.
 1t is reported in Chicago that the William Davies Co., packers, will erect new plant costing sS00,000.
 Former Chinese Minister to Spain Tai Gnu -Cheng-Ling was appointed Chinese minister to the Holy See.
 The United States Forest Service of Montana reports general rains in the state have relieved the forest fire situ- ation.
 Senator Nathaniel Curry, president of the Canadian Car & Foundery Co.,, l Ltd, arrived in New. York from Mon trcal.
 Fire yesterday afternoon destroyed the Danbury factory of the Waterbury Mattress Company causing a loss of $5,0O0.
 The preliminary report of the Rice Mlllers' Association gives the total rice acreage in the South this year as l. 300, 717 acres.
 Nat Hoffman, a white soldier, was l hanged at Camp McArthur, Waco, Texas, on a charge of attacking | school girl. William L. Edison, son of Thomas 1 Edison, the inventor, enlisted in the i tank division of the army, at Morris | town, N. J. I Announcement was made on the New York Stock Exchange that the fiji of John Muir & Co. had been suspended for one year.
 The fishing trawIer Georgia, with a crew of nineteen was sunk in colli- sion with the steamer Bristol off the New England coast. l The Court of Cessation rejected the l appeals of the men convicted in the | case of the Germanophile Paris news H paper Bonnet Rouge"
 Secretary Daniels sent a telegram to commanders of battleships asking them to observe Bastile Day, July 14, as a special tribute to France Swedish newspapers publish a state ment of a Swede returned from Mos COW, that the son of the eX-Czar was killed by a Bolsheviki soldier. General Fadini commander of an
 Italian regiment, which was in active
 service on the Piave, was reported killed by shell while motoring. The Food Administration announced
 that normal supply of sugar without cards may be obtained bS retail deal
 CTS in New York until August 1. There will be no censorship of news
 paper despatches under Government
 control of the telegraph wires, Post masters Burleson assured Congress. | President Wilson vetoed the resolu lltion of Congress extending the time t l Jan. 1 next for the Government to turI
 the short line railroads back to theil | owners.
 Major w. East, commander of nev
 flying field near MineOla, sent to tn
 War Department a request to have tn ! field named in honor of the late Maj
 or Mitchell.
 The approximate quota of Connecti
 cut in the S112,0Q0 900 drive to b launched next fall by the Y, M C. A . will be, according to revised figures $1,609,O00.
 . According to advices from the Span . ish Embassy at Berlin Prof. Henry ( Emery is not military prisoner i . Germany. He is allowed the freedom
 of the city.
 The model of the statue of Olive
 EIlesworth to be placed in the sout o niche of the west side of the capitol a , Hartford was approved by the com mission on sculpture.
 Arthur Malone, waiter, shot an
 killed himself at Providence, R. l., yes = terday. after killing Mrs. Ida F'rencl q formerly a resident of Beachmon a Mass. Both were fifty years of age. ; Provost Marshal General Crowde is refused a, request of the Department c e Agriculture to have the monthly de e mand for draft men from the whea O section in the Northwest delayed unt Is the harvest.
 # Brigadier General M. B. Stewar
 until his recent promotion chief C c staff of. the 76th division at Cam e Devens, was yesterday assigned to tn Is 175th Infantry Brigade at Cam Il Dodge, Iowa.
 " Responsibility for the loss of tW ,e Austrian dreadnoughts on July 10, wa = placed on the German Admiralty be
 cause of it's insisting on the Austria ,t fleet smashing the nets at the en l. trance to Otranto. -o ADD BITS Dw.tto'u.y- -1yhdsevi ?i ,e The nomination of Captain Geors
 R. Clark to be judge advocate gener Fl of the navy with the rank of rear, at
 miral was confirmed late yesterday
 the senate without opposition.
 CALL FOR 5000 MEN " FOR SPRUCE DIVIsIo