Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-19
Condensed TeIeqrams

turkey IS fePorred ready to ask for a British protectorate..
 Seven cent fare on Denver street railways was authorized.
 Western Pennsylvania is short 10000 coal miners and at least 1000 laborers.
 American shipyards produced 171 vessels in November with total tonnage of 357,660.
 United States Consulate at Ant Werp, Belgium, was reopened, with Henry Morgan in charge. Rifle plants of the MidvaIe Steel 6 Ordnance O.. at Eddystone, Pa., will shut down Jan. Il.
 International Mercantile Marine Corporation indorsed government ownership of the wireless. Director McAdoo and railroad off cers agreed on loan extensions to, roads by the Finance Corporation. | Total expenditure Of the Imperial Munitions Board of Canada was S1,- 10O,O00,000- The plants are to be sold
 l Resignation of E. p. Bass as di- rector of the Marine and Dock h. dustrial Relations Division of the Shipping Board was accepted. John w. Davis made his first call l on Foreign Secretary Balfour. He was introduced by Irwin B. Laugh 1 lin, secretary of Embassy. General committee on steel and steel products and various sub committees i of the American Iron and Steel Insti-
 Secretary RedHeld announced that tute will disband Saturday. the Government is going to make a careful study of trade needs of the world, so American industries may . he oOn0ucfQd Soipnti
 Two men answering to the descrip
 tion of those who robbed the Brooklyn bank and killed two, men of the bank
 robbed liquor store at Astoria, l.. l. I with a policeman 100 feet away Ira BiffIe, mail flyer, reported to the
 Post Office Department that he made the trip from New York to Washing
 ton in i hour and 40 minutes in-
 cluding a stop of ten minutes al Philadelphia.
 Lieut.. R. L.. Campbell of New York
 an army aviator at March Field, Cal.
 was killed after making a forced land ing. The propeller struck him on thu , head as he crawled from under thC machine.
 Government has 10000 Liberty mo tors on hand, worth about $20.00 each, and is threatened with rapid de
 preciation and perhaps serious i'm pairment unless method for pre-
 serving them is found. A strike of Toronto policemen i
 probable as the result of the actiol : of the police commissioner in dis , missing all union members. Mayo Church objected to the action of tn
 commissioner without avail.
 Gloomy reports of the situation il ] Russia, particularly at Petrograd, con ? tinue to reach the state department. s Professor Frank Clarke, prominen r as a boxer under the London priz 5 ring style, died at Cleveland, Ohi( S bare knuckles both in England an e this country.
 } The American ambassador, Williar y G. Sharp, gave a dinner in Paris i honor of President and Madame Poin
 lcare and President and Mrs. Wilson
 Fifteen persons are believed to hay . been burned to death in the fire tha
 destroyed a tourist coach on Can adian Pacific train at Bon Heu = station, 120 miles west of Fort Will 5 jam, Ont.
 = E. M. Lawton, American consul : 5 Nogales, Sonora, said that he had re
 ceived instructions from the stat
 department to investigate the fac
 SurTOunQlnS ILo hiulldpptAS II VI
 Douglas, Arisona, of Dr. Huerta, WI
 was hanged at Agua Prieta. Louis E. Post, assistant secretar = of labor. in an address here befol q the Washington Commercial Club, sat n the United States would enter upo = an era of great industrial prosperit Il by next summer.
 Faced by a programme of produeir
 2,OOO guns of all caIiber per mont
 without disturbing the flow of gur
 to the allied nations or the navy o prior right, the ordnanace bureau ,e the war department had achieved a 'a output. of about 800 guns mon lu when the arrnistice ended hostilities y B. M. GoedzeI, A, a foreman f .1 Al contractors on the new post ofh' :, building, at New Haven, fell from 'o ladder to his death on the walk twel