Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-25
Condensed TeIeqrams

ment contract by the Philadelphia & Reading Railway.
 Disbandment of the cotton goods section of the War Industries Board was announced.
 Hundreds of Christmas presents ard pouring into the Murat home in Paris where President Wilson is stopping.
 Union between Montenegro and Ser bia has been officially proclaimed by the Montenegrin Parliament.
 Thousands of dnscharged German soldiers are returning to their homes in the areas occupied by the Allies.
 American patrol boats, each armed with a machine gun, are patrolling the Rhine.
 Carlos Menendez, President of San Salvador, has <relinquished the gov ernship temporarily because of i'll health.
 An inter allied hospital has been es- tablished at Nokolsk, Russia, to com bat typhoid fever.
 Negotiations between the Shipping Board and the International Mercantile Marine ended.
 President Wilson is being petitioned by many Americans to have the Irish question solved at the peace confer ence.
 It was reported in Brussels that Britain intends to use the River Scheldt to send supplies to the Brit ish army of occupation in Germany.
 Brookline, Mass, the richest town in the country, will petition the State Legislature for permission to appoint a municipal dietitian.
 An airpiane piloted by a British of iicer and carrying an American gen. eral from Treves, Germany, capsized, killing the pilot and injuring the gen. eraT.
 War Department turned over to the Department of Agriculture several million dollars worth of nitrates to be sold to farmers at cost price Secretary Lansing officially denied the American Peace Delegation had decided to sink surrendered German warships. The proposition was not even discussed.
 Secretary Baker urged the House Military Committee to bestow perma nently the rank Of General on John J Pershing and also make permanent the rank of Lieut. Generals or Hunter, Liggett and Robert L. Bull 1 lard.
 The annual meeting of the Ameri l ] land has been called off because o1 1 influenza.
 i The loss of the Danish schooner Scotia Queen off Cape Hatteras or i Dec. 19 and the rescue of the crew i. reported
 The United States naval air serv. ice station at Eastern passage in Hal | flax harbor is to be taken over by tht 1 Canadian naval service by the frs
 of the year.
 The effect of cancellations of wa contracts on labor conditions in Main,
 is being studied closely by Charles g Hichborn, state director of the fed eral employment service. Pohn Dorocher and Archie Gar rent, 12 years of age broke througl
 the thin ice of the Androscoggil
 river at Lewiston, Maine, and wer drowned.
 The supreme court of the Unite,
 States sustained federal court decree
 restrain ming the International New
 Service from pirating news of Tn
 Associated Press.
 Three charges of murder agains
 Edward D. Nolan. o-defendant c
 Thomas J. Mooney in the preparedness
 day bomb murder cases at San Sa,
 Francisco, were dismissed by Superio Judge Franklin A. Griffin because c lack of evidence.
 The resignation of w. Frank Per
 sons of New York, director general c
 civilian relief of the American Re
 Cross, was announced.
 Almost on the eve of the assemblin
 of the peace congress delegates tn
 United States is the only countr
 which has definitely and officially an
 nounced the composition of it's dele
 gation
 Reliable inform ation from Russi brings confirmation of reports ths the socialization of industry there a complete failure. The late Cardinal Fariey's searI, 7 ecclesiastical hat was hung withoI ceremony in the great dome over tt high altar in St. Patrfck's cathedr; in Fifth Avenue, New York. , The Torrineton company of Torrins } ton, brought suit against the city } Springfield in federal court to recovt 5 $50O damages alleged. , Lieutenant Colonel Chester Hare | ding, governor of the Panama Can; zone, arrived at New York aboard tI : steamship Advanck from Cristobal. I Twenty-four Germans were SCI l from New York by the Federal al . thorities to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga, f. ) internent.
 Word reached here today that Il | Dutch liner Nieuw Amsterdam le . Rottrdam Saturday for Boulogne s take on American troops returnir Q home.
 |, pr. Carl Duishburg of Leveskuse 7 head of the German aniline dye il dustry, is reported to have fled ! Switzerland.
 r Attorney General Gregory has giv' . President Wilson an opinion that tl = period of ten days which the const = tuition gives him to sign or veto bi e or resolutions passed by Congress do | not begin to run until the engross . copy of legislation actually is plac in his hands. s The report of the federal trade cor = mission on the meat packing indu Q try has been turned over to the ,T partment of justice for possible a if ton.
 r. Baron Zorn von BuIach, form d secretary of state for Alsace-Lorra. e has been invited to leave Strasboul d according to the Times and will I II tire to his estate in Baden.
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