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Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-24
LONDON COMMENT ON
 THE BALKAN ADVANCE

London, Sept. 24.-The London newspapers this morning comment on the Balkan advance as an astounding achievement and more surprising one than General Allenbys operation in Palestine.
 The Bulgarian front had proved it. self impenetrahle so often that the first news of the attack a week ago aroused no eager expectation. The typographical difficulties had been so repeatedly explained mountain ranges twisting and doubling up on each other in bewildering fashion; the lack of roads and the existence of in numerable deep ravines-that the peo- pie here had come to regard the pos abilities of this front limited. Now, in view of the happenings of the past few days and the immenes losses the Rulgars already have suffered, the commentators anticipate further big successes by the allies.
 The Daily Graphic thinks that it will be difficult for the Bulgarian. army with it's base at Prilep to escape big disaster
 The Serbians have performed one of the most wonderful feats in military history, deed comparable to the breaking of the Wotan 1Ine." says the Daily Mail. They have stormed po- sitions which many of the allied ex- perts regarded impregnable"
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-24
BARON EURIAN'S PEACE
 NOTE A PRELUDE TO OTHERS

Amsterdam, Sept. 23.-f6y The A.. P,) In an interview with Theodor. " off in The Berlin Tageblatt. Baron Burian. Austro- Hungarian foreign. minister, said he was not surprised at the reception of his peace note: natl urally he did not suppose that the en-. tente would straightWay daelare read mess to enter into peace. negotiations.
 Tn situation like the present, ." continued the minister, it is some times necessary to clarify things by means of reagents. The note was | such a reagent. It, has already pHo- duced remarkable phenomena, and will do so still more in the near future. Very extraordinary, for instance, vas the remarkable rapidity of Pres l ident Wilson's reply. Clearly, Pres ident Wilson wanted to anticipate the ether entente governments. He all ways had the ambition to ,he a world arbiter, and has mot abandoned that ambition since the United States en- l tered the war as a result of the J- boat warfare. Hence he set out lis tfourteen points, and, in addition l twice four. that is, altogether. twenty l two, which are to be authoritative for the new arrangement of the world.
 T don't suggest that he is insin- cere, but one could instance many l cases where America herself has of tended against the principles he for. mulates,. for example. the treatment I Colombia and the seizure of Texas 1 But, after all, large regions were thereby opened to civilization. I vii
 cnly say that it does not do 70 be al ways contrasting our actions with thu
 views expressed by President Will
 son's points,"
 Baron Burian attributed Presiden
 Wilson's haste in replying to his de
 sire to prevent an agreement betwee1
 Great Britain and France, and de
 clared that it would serve Teo purpos to reply to speeches like Mr. Balfour'
 and Premier Clemenceau's
 With regard to the date of {, des natching the note, he said: 'Ther
 was complete agreement between u
 and Germany. There were certain ii
 vergencies of opinion, but they di not concern the date of despatch Tn
 Eote has had the subsidiary effect c l dragging into the light of day the sit uation in the opposing camp, and 1t
 non success will not prevent me. fror 7 further following the road entered up
 on. We shall take the next ste when the time seems suitable and al f ways in the fullest accord with ou allies"
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-24
DISTRIBUTORS OF OILS
 AND GAS TO BE LICENSED

Washington, Sept. 23-Regulations are being prepared by the fuel admin 1stration under authority granted by President Wilson for the licensing of persons or firms engaged in the u transportation and distribution of oil ond gas. The licensing plan becomes operative October l and it was em- phasized today that all concerns com ing within the provisions Of the pres ident's proclamation must obtain li- censes by that date.
 Specifically, the persons oE. firms compelled to obtain licenses Are inn porters, distributors or marketers, and transporters of crude oil, fuel oil, gas oil, kerosene or gasoline. Manufac- turers of fuel oil. gas oil. kerosene or gasoline, and producers, distributors, and transporters of natural gas and Of oil in it's various forms whose bus mess does not exceed $100,000 annual ly are not affected.
 Persons or firms who are required to obtain licenses but who fail to do so and fengage in business after Oc- tober l will be able to the penalties provided under the food ana fuel COT = trol act
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-24
DANIELS TO MARCH WITH
 MARINE BAND INTO BERLIN

Philadelphia, Sept 2S.-In stir ring address. to workers at the Eddy stone Ammunition corporation plant today, Secretary of the Navy Daniels reafhrmed the stand the United States has. taken that there shall be no, compromise with Germany.
 'On my calendar in Washington said the secretary. there is recorded an engagement, no date yet set, to go with the Marine band when it marches in the triunnpfial-- entry O. General Pershing's victorious army into Ser lin''
 !, Fifteen thousand workers cheered the secretary. who visited the plant to help celebrate the delivery within one year by the company of one mil ] lion rifles to the government. Before speaking, Secretary Daniels visited the
 gun factory of the Baldwin Locomo- tive works near by where he was shown the latest. creations in heavy ordnance, and the ninspected the Ed dystone plant.
 In his address MT Daniels said the ] acid test for the men of America after l the war will be Did they give every l thing they had to their country in it's 1 triaI?"
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-24

to make interpretations of the award. MT Taft replied that the examiner had been told to make no rulings. but that hoW he was fully authorized to go ahead. =
 2. The first ruling in Mir Winters an nouncement says that "the institution of collective bargaining, including the organization of shop committees. is to be established solely under the direc- tion of the examiner. and TO independ- ent action will be permitted Another paragraph reads: ''The eight hour basic day provisions. so far as condensation is concerned, is to be effective the sane dates as in- creased rates of pay
 These dates are given as May ii. June 26, and July 1 191S Employers are. ordered to pay retroactive com pensa tion by October |
 The examiner has set power to hear charges discrimination, to investi- gate and reinstate the employe if the charges arc, sustained Another ruling
 reads: "All strikers who returned to
 work at the presidents request have
 the option of reinstatement in their
 old positions Plans for the formation
 of the local board of mediation and
 corciliation are also outlined
 Mr. Winter stated that all field
 agents and representatives Of the war
 labor board have been withdrawn from
 Bridgeport. I. K. Russell, field repre-
 sentative for labor. left tonight for Reading, "a. M Lavit, Joseph A Schuwltz or New York and others rep l resenting the n1achi1iists. had prepar> ed lengthy statements Of tie griev- ances and charges of the workers, but l they were not submitted to the gar board at the hearing George S flaw 1 ley, general manager of the Manufac- turers association. W. Gordon Merritt, | ap6 William Wallace IT,. of New York, attorney for the Remington 1 Arms Company, were at the hearing to represent the manufacturers. All available space in the supreme court ] chamber of the Fairfield County court | house was occupied.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-24
FIRST STEPS TAKEN IN
 FIXING PRICES OF COTTON

Washington. Sept Ss.-First steps looking to the fixing of prices for rtanda1d grades of raw cotton were taken today by the government in the naming Of two conmn tees one 10 in vsstfEate the entire cotton situation and the other to control during the period of this inquiry The distribution of cotton oy purchasing all Of the. s-ap.s ueeded by the United States and Ind aliieE at prices to be approved by tnc presSdeni. .i
 Thomas ". Page, vice chairman of the tsrtf commission, was named chairman of the comuntree of inquiry which is uo hold hearings over the, cotton growing stEss. The other members sru W. R. Beattie, CsreeHville, S. C.. president Of the Piedno0t Man ufacturing company; R. L. Bennett, Paris. Tex. cotton grower; Ward NJ. Burgess, Omaha, Neb.. retail mer- chant. Edward Farnham Green, Bos- ton. former president of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers J c. Redn1on- St Mathews, S C. cot ton grower; NJ. P. Sturdivant, Glen dora, Miss, cotton grower, and s. W, Weis. New Orleans, cotton factor. D. S Murphy Of the federal bureau of markets. will be seIetary'o Of the com mittee-
 The mfmDeTS or the committee to purchase for the government and the allies are; Charles J. Brand of the de- nartment of agriculture, chairman William M. Clayton, Houston, Tex. member Of a large cotton finn operat .ng in Texas and Oklahoma: J. Temple Gwatmey, New York, member of a large cotton firm with branches ir many cities, and Edward H. Inman Atlanta, Ga, former cotton merchant now acting as a purchasing agent fol Inc government
 Before the war industries board nads public the personnel of the com mittses. senators and representative from the southern cotfon growing states met with members of the cot ton states marketing board to dis cuss the proposed price fixing. The conference adopted a resolution set ting forth that 1t opposed price hxins in principle and appointed a commit tee co represent the facts to the gov, ernment committee of inquiry in al effort to convince them that price fix ing Is not necessary.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-24
POLICEMEN ARE ON
 STRIKE AT NASHUA, N. H.

Nashua, N. H., Sept. 23.-State guardsmen patrolled the streets. of, this city tonight in place of the IT members of the police force who went out on strike at evening roll call.
 The patrolmen had been granted an, increase in wages but had been in formed that the yearly uniform allow ance would be discontinued, together with the usual two weeks vacation with pay.
 Mayor James B. Crowley, learning Of the plan to strike, appealed to the policemen tonight to remain at their posts. TheX refused and as they left the station house for their homes they were alternately cheered anJ hooted at by the crowd that had gathered outside the building.
 Mayor Crowley communicated with Governor Reyes and acting under in structions of the <overnor, :Adjutant General Charles ". Howard ordered Company l. of the state guard. mem bers of which live here. mobilized at once A short time later .he guards men were on du"V 4-
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-24
WAR LABOR BOARD SUSTAINS EIDLITz
Taft and Walsh Decide That Bridgeport Strikers and Employ Must Abide by Rulings of Apheus Winter the Local Examiner for the War Labor Board Who Has Been Au thorized to Render Decisions. f4sfzs

Bridgeport. Conn, Sept, g. = The section of the National War Labor Board handling the. Bridgeport wage award dispute announced. late today that Alpheus Winter, local examiner for the War Ltbor Board, was given full authority to rule on all questions involving the 60,000 workers in sixty six plants here which were included in the award of Otto M Eidlitz. Mir. Winter gave out nine rulings and in- terpretations intended to make clear to the manufacturers and the employees the questions raised by the Eidlitz award disagreement over which re- suited in the recent strike of machin- ists which lasted eighteen days
 William H Taft and Frank P. Walsh, as joint cIfarmen, presided at the War Labor Board hearing. Loyal A. Osborne and Thomas Savage were the other members or the board pres ent. The hearing was delayed mpre than two hours while the War Board members conferred with the local ex- amiGer and score of field represen- tatives. The hearing lasted but twelve minutes. Messrs. Taft and Walsh making their announcements with few interrogations by counsel for the machinists.
 MI. 1dIJ SalQ InGU the W dT hOdTU section did not come to Bridgeport to upset the Eidlitz award, desnite pub lished statements to that effect An appeal on the EidlitG award could be made only to Mir. Eidiitz as arbitrator he pointed out, the war board disclaim ing Jurisdiction over that phase oi the case He said that the local ex- aminer had been given full power tc decide all questions and that the board was well satisfied that the examiner had the right of thG award. He de | clared the board was not foreclosins the right of either side to appeal fol rehearing of the entire Bridgeport issue if the rulings of the examiner dt not satisfy both sides.
 | SGmuel Ldvit business agent of th' machinists' union. interjected, de 1 claring that the examiner had refused
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-24
CONFESSED TO A S1o,0oo
 FEEOSTUFFS CONSPIRACY

New Haven. Conn, Sept. 23.-Harry +. Freed, 2 years old, and Max Sus- man, grain and hay dealer of this city, were arrested today. charged with conspiracy and the theft from the Smedley company, a local trucking firm of hay, and feedstuffs aggregating in value about sIO 900. Freed, who was employed by the company as cashier and bookkeeper. was released under S2, 800 bonds and Susman under $5,o00 bonds. According to the police, both men have made confessions in which they implicated a third person.
 The operations are said to have ex- tended over period of two years, the allegations being that Susman in sell ing hay and feed to the Smedley com pany failed to deliver the entire order while receiving payment for it. and that Freed manipulated the books to cover the operations
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-24

and Germans Already in the swift drive in. the center a great spearhead has been pushed by the Serbians across the Istib- -Prilep roao. severing between the Bulgar- ian army northeast of Monastir and that in the Lake Doiran region. Un official reports are to the effect that the Serbs have taken between 5000 and 10000 prisoners and 120 guns.
 In, the region between Monastir and ;the Vardar the enemy troops are in full retreat before the Italians French and Serbians, while west of Doiran the British are steadily hammering their way forward, driving the enemy northwsrl toward the Bulgarian iron ter. Already the entire enemy line from Doiran to a point west of the Niardar has been evacuated. This force of the enemy, with the railroad to the. north severed seemingly is in danger of an enveloping movement unless it turns sharply eastward and presses into Bulgaria through the mountains.
 Not so spectacular, but of vital i'm noTtance. have been the operations of the French and British from the south kof St Quentin to Cambrai Both the French General Debeney and Field Marshal Haig have won highly essen
 tial ground in the manoeuvres which
 have as their. objectives the oblitera-
 ton of the Hindenburg line, the cap
 ture of St. Quentin and the turning
 of the German line at Laon, South of St. Quentin the French have ad- vanced their line to the west bank of the Disc Canal over a front of three miles and now completely outflank St. Quentin on the south and La Fere ! ;1z I~t.,1I ToF stal Haig north of St Quentin around
 the village of Epehy has taken strong | positions from the enemy.
 Tn eastern Siberia the Japanese have l'captured Blagoviestchensk capital of
 the province of Amur and also the
 town of Alexievsk. Two Ihou3and | Austro- German troops surrendered
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-24
WATER POWER BILL
 GOES TO CONFERENCE

Washington, Sept. 2S.-Afttr spir- tied discussion the senate tonist voted 42 to 9 to send the administration Wa ter power bill as passed by the house to conference for consideration in con- nection with the senate bill for which tho house substituted the measure as dTnWn by the secretaries aof war in terior and agriculture. Three mem hers Of commerce and public lands will be named as the senate managers.
 Appointment Of the managers was deferred but negotiations arc expected to begin soon. Several senators de-
 clared during the debate today that house and senate differences on poll
 cies of water power development are
 so pronounced that 8 compromise in
 conference is impossible without an
 other vote by the senate
 A motion to accept the house bill, which authorized the government or municipalities to take over power | properties at the end of the lease pe- riod by paying the amount of the met | investment" was defeated, AS to 2 Because of the differepces between
 the senate and house bills, most sen ators today were of the opinion that it would be many weeks before the wa fer power legislation finally is com | pieted and sent to the president
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-24
TERMS OF THE FOURTH
 LIBERTY LOAN ANNOUNCED

Washington. Sept. 23.-All terms of the fourth Liberty loan except the size and the maturity were anrouncad today by the treasury. The amount. probably near $6,000, GOO, 900, was de- cided on but announcement was with held
 The interest rate will be f 1-4 De" cent, the same as that of tie th5"d loan. Bonds will be datei October 24, five days after the close of the subscription period, and the first in . terest payment will be mace next April 15, and will be for the i73 days intervening. Thereafter semi annual payments will be made October #15 and April 15. On a $50 bond, the first interest coupon will be worth s1 01, on $100, $202 and higher muitiples ac- cordingly.
 Both coupon and registered bonds will be issued in denominations or $50, S100, $500, 5000 $5,e0O and $10,UD0, The $50 0o0 and S100, 900 bonds will Le registered only.
 Since the latest maturity periols of the first. second and third loans were 30. 2 and 10 years. respectively it was considered probable that the
 maturity of the fourth loan would b= either fifteen or twenty years. Ten per cent of the irlhscriptior will be. required as the, initia3 paS 1 u9ent on the fourth loan Twenty pel cent HfiFsaee que as fflstalIlaent Nov.
 ember 21, December 19 anu January 16 and thirty per cent. January 3U.i 1 Terms of the loan were communi
 cated today to the bureau of .engr2v
 ing and printing. and within 8 ev hours 500.00o finished bonds vcr tready for shipment An equal nun ber or even more will be turned ou
 daily hereafter. Tie bureau plans t ! print about 35,000,000 separate bond
 for the fourth loan, with a larger pro portion of baby bonds" of the $50 de nomination than ir previous issues, il anticipation of a multitude Of suh
 scriptions from persons If snlal ] means
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-24
SPANISH INFLUENZA
 IN 25 ARMY CAMPS

Washington, Sept. 2S.-Spanish ii,- liuenzt now has made it's appearance in at least 9 army camps over the country The surgeon generafs oftice announced tonight that the total num- ber of cases has increased to 20.2I1 including the 2,225 new eases reported up to noon today.
 Seven camps reported ;ntluenza for the first time today as follows;
 Tayior, Kentucky, ST: Colt. Penn : syIvania, S2; Grant, Illinois, 70: Se- vier, South Carolina. ?; Sherman, Ohio, 1: Pike, Arkansas, l Greene, North Carolina, 1. Other camps re- ported new cases today as .Eoliows:
 eW 4ors, elfsn fse 5!S bSRshs, 1a5ssch9 edng, setts, 868; Funston, Kansas, 70: Cor don, Georgia, 124: Humphreys, Eir- ginia, 56: Lee, Virginia, l6l: Lewis Washington, P; Meade, Marylan, S9, Hoboken. New Jersey, 297: jJix, New Jersey, 179, and miscellaneous posti i g. ] The epidemic continues most severe at Camp Devens. Mass, it Was sai6 at the surgeon generals office. The total number of cases reported from zoo Camp Dix with l ,S97 cases is sec ond in point of seriousness. At Cami l Devens the number of unaumonii cases is high, 424 new cases having been reported during the past fo,.l days.
 The total number of influenza casei by camps, excluding the camps re- porting today for the first time, fol lows;
 Logan, Texas. 175; Mcclellan. II l Syracuse, 596; Devens, 1o,7o0: Dix. 1,
 S97: Funston, 1S1; Gordon, t19. Hum
 phreys, 209; Jackson, $. C., 7S4: J. E Johnston, Florida, 14 Lee 1.SlG
 Meade, 223; Lewis. 50; Travis. Texas
 S1;. Upton, New York. 1,141: Newpor News, Va, 21: Hoboken, 1.I1i: Edge
 wood Arsenal 1SS and misccilaneou Eosts 11S.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-24
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF :
 MERCHANDISE IN AUGUST

Washington, Sept. 23.-Both imports and exports of merchandise were greater in value during August than in any previous August in the history of American foreign trade. Figures announced today by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce show imports valued at $273, 900, 900, an in crease of 5000, 900 over August. 1917, and exports of s529 0O0, 900 against 4SS,000,000. Imports of gold, slightly over s1.500O0o, were less during Au- gust than iny month for over Is years, and for the eight months amounted to $54,000 900, against s524, 100000 last year. Exports of gold were $S,277 900
 compared with $46.ooG 900 for August
 1917. Exports of silver Broke all rec ords for August last, being more than s25 0Oo,Oo0 as against $7,50o,O0o for August, 1917. ~
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-24
GERMANS FIGHTING TO HOLD E POSITIONS ABOUT EPEHY

With the British Army in France, Sept. 23. 2 p. m (By the A. P).-The continuous efforts of the enemy to dislodge the British from their posi- tions about Epehy. which gravely threaten the Hindenburg line, have resulted in hard local fighting with the odds in favor of the British The. British troops have clung tenaciously to their new defenses. while the weary and weakened Germans keep desper- ately hammering at them.
 The engagements reported along the remainder of the front have been of little cOnsequence
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-24
-R The Associated prsssl

Disaster has ouertaken the TeutonEci allies in all fields. In Palestine thel Turks are an but absolutely crushed;, m Macedonia the entente forces are harrvinE their foes and threatening tru with similar disaster, tn France he British and French troops slowly bgt surely. are eating their way into he vi,als os the German defensive positions. the collapse of which would result in important changes all along tbe western battle front. and in east -. e-r Siberia the Japanese have made. -ddzional saridles forward in the pro cess or rsciaiming that territory for .te Russians. In all theatres Of war tr, eH-Hn1e allies have the initiative n thesr izands and are pressing their rdva,czre r5gorously. The Germans and tnnir allies nowhere are able suo' do morr than stand on the defensive, and in FaleFtine and Macedonia their efforts iu this respect have proved, so-rv ones.
 From north of Jerusalem to the Seq Cf Gallee in the territory lying be- tween the River Jordan and the Med, iterraneau Sea the Ottoman forces have been ciiught by the swift drive Of the British General Sllenby's. ar mics and virtually annifdlated. Add cd Go the heavy casualties suIeRd by rHc Turi.s. hCrdes Of them were made prisoner and many more are wan Iering bewildered, without leaders. in Inc hEls. eventually 70 be brought in fo swell the great total. At last ac- counts more than e5 poo of the sul- tnn's soldiers and 260 guns and large uuantfties of lwar stores were in Brit ish hands.
 To add to the demoralization of the Turkish morale. allied fvators are carrying out successful bon5hing raids rEainst Conszantinople.
 Over a front of eighty miles in Southe-n Serbia. from Morastir to Lake Doiran, the ententef troops are y1roro1siy assafling the Bulgarians
Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-24
21 OF CREW OF STEAMER
 BUENA VENTURA MISSING

Washington, Sept. 23.--The navy de- partment was advised today that 21 men of the crew of the American army cargo steamer Buena Ventura, torpe- doed and sunk last Friday off the coast of Spain, still are unaoounted for There were ninety-fve men in "be crew.
 Six officers and Se men from the Bu- ena Ventura were landed at BNest by a French destroyer and two officers and 2 men have been landed at Co., roma Spain.
 The departments advices said the steamer was attacked about s.30 D. m, being hit by two torpedoes. It sank in six minutes. The submarine emerged after the attack and was de- scribed by survivors as being about $50 feet long and mounting two guns
 First information regarding the sinking of the steamer was received last night in cable despatches from Spain.