Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-01-07
CONDENSED kilograms

New York Clearing House banks
show surplus OF SCI, ,538, 120 for the
week.
President Wilson is opposed to
special session Of congress during the
peace conference.
Imports of the United States for
November $251 008 600. Exports
amounted TO 1922, ,272, ,000.
War Trade Board announced that
supervision over imports of diamonds
Will be discontinued Jan It,
Shipments OF fresh and cured meats
from Chicago in the week Jan.
amounted to 68,243, 900 pounds.
London Daily News in an editorial
discussion says England must act
swiftly to avert another world dis
aster.
Miami Copper Co. produced 1885,
4S5 pounds of copper in December,
compared with 1882, 130 pounds in No
Vember.
1t was reported in Christina that
Norway will sue Germany for ship
ping losses due to mine and subIna-
rine activities.
Export licenses will be issued freely
| to approved consignees for shipment
of all non conserved commodities to
Siberia.
George Creel, chairman of Public
! Information, says he will retire when
propaganda work in the Balkans is
| completed.
Fire destroyed the new four story
fertilizer plant of Swift & Co. in the
meadows near hearney, n. J. The
! loss IS $200,0O0
Officials of railroads operating east
! from Chicago and St Louis report
conditions improved
| French Syrian congress, organized
by the chamber Of commerce, opened
at MarseiIles under the presidency OF
Franklin BouilIon.
1t is officially estimated that 41,000(
persons died in Egypt, outside OF
Cairo and Alexandria, as a result Of
the influenza epidemic.
The Allies destroyed or captured 20:
/ German submarines. Germany de-
stroyed IA and 10 more were founC
under construction.
Secretary Daniels will not ask fo
permanent rank for a few naval OF
fcers who have distinguished them
selves in the war as the army i
doing.
! Dr.. Cady Herrick of Albany, unsuc
cessful candidate for governor of Ney
York in 1904, was appointed superin
tendent of prisons by Gov. Alfred L
Smith.
Interstate Commerce Commission
granted increased class and commod
ity rates on coal and coke shipment
between points on the Marylan
Electric Railroad.
: Major Clark Williams, Director 0
, Field Service of the American Re
Cross, returned from France on Wed
nesday after nine months servic
with the American forces.
. Pierre S. du Pont, president of tn
: du Pont Powder Co, and Col. z. {
Bruckner, vice president of the com
pany, were made members of tn
| French Legion of Honor
| General March, Chief of Staff, au
: thorized a denial that Batteries b an
D of the Field Artillery of the Rain
: bow Division were wiped out Just be
fore the signing of the armisuce.
Secretary Daniels expressed hiYnse
) as being opposed to the sinking {
) German warships. He said they coUI
be used as training ships or serve .
targets for testing new guns.
; Appeals were filed in Washingto
l asking the Supreme Court to set asiG
convictions of Eve editors and officia
of the Philadelphia Tageblatt, four
Captain Emery Rice, whose sh
: Magnolia sunk the first German sui
8 marine, and who also made Al triI
= through the Atlantic; died of inf1uenl
:, at the New York Navy Yard Hospita
= Commenting on reports of his
4 profits paid for construction of Eag
- boats turned out by Henry For
q Secretary Daniels said profits We
4 smaller than on any other type of bo
n constructed for the Navy.
q II. A. Collins of Passaic, N. j., =;
a aviation cadet, was killed and Cad
: Caperton of New York City, was Sc
= iousIy injured yesterday in the fall OF ;
airpIane at Memphis, Tenn, in whi
they were flying at u height Of 20
feet.
John Walter Scott, president of t
E Scott Postage Stamp and Coin Cor
: pany and one of the most wide
n known stamp collectors in the wor
Is died at his home in New York. ]
s. was born in London, Is years ago.
" Maxim Gorky, the Russian auth
IS and revolutionist, has been memE
s. of the Petrograd soviet.
le Only about one hundred soldiers
the American expeditionary forces
France have been made Blind durl
the war