Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-18
Condensed TeIeqrams.

Condensed TeIegrams
 Sixty thousand Germans applied to Sweden for passports to enter that country.
 of butter was advanced one-half cent
 German exchange fell below 30 francs for 100 marks for the first time in history s.
 More than 1s,ooo steel workers of Chicago voted to give leaders power to call a strike.
 New York state is preparing to make large highways appropriations through next legislature,
 suspended by the strike of 5000 moter- men and conductors.
 Bar silver was quoted at 59 pence an ounce in London. New York quot ed silver at SLIP 3-S.
 Canada's revenues are $99, ,e21 ,97o for the years first four months, compared with $91,954,172 in 1918.
 Four informed Germans at Fort Me- Emerson escaped by cutting through the two wire barricades
 United States distinquished service medal was bestowed upon General du Pont of the French army.
 Dominion crop reports show total yield of of wheat as 24s,500O00 buhsels and oats 405,S19.00O bushels.
 King George has given his approval to the bills passed in parliament rati- lying the German peace treaty.
 General March, chief of staff an- nounced the first" 100, 900 recruits were secured for the new permanent army. London that the British government would assist in reconstruction of Per sia.
 More than 20 republican senators are said to be ready for quick ratifica- tion of the peace treaty with reserva- tions.
 Parliament buildings in Luxembourg were stoned by 1000 workmen during demonstration against the high cost of living
 Prices on the Chicago board of trade dropped. The government seized the 292 tubs of butter valued at $5O,0O0 in Chicago.
 General Horvath was replaced. by General Rozanoff by order of the Omsk government as supreme dele gate in the Far ast.
 Troops were called out to man the walls of Londonderry, Ireland, to pre- vent Nationalist and Sim F'ein Lady day demonstrations.
 Allied governments notified Austria that it will be held responsible for Bela Kun and for his delivery later to the allied tribunal for trial.
 Mexican embassy denies reports that the Carranza garrison at Chihuahua CitS mutinied with the intention of going over to the Villa forces.
 Cleveland Railways Co. has taken out an insurance policy said to be the largest ever written for S10, 900 against riot and civil commotion."
 Victory Hotel at Put t-In- Bay, Ohio, was destroyed by fire at an estima ted loss of s500,000. Fifty persons escaped when the flames started on the third floor.
 Italian newspapers announced through new financial. agreement Italy may cede to Britain part of the financial indemnity due her from Ger m4ny
 United States military mission as- signed to Germany after the armistice dissolved and leave for home in Sep- tember.
 Four more men were taken in to custody by the secret service. They are said to be members of a counter feit band raided in the upper West
 Mayor HyIan asked Fire Commis- sioner Brennan to have his fire in- spectors investigate all cold storage houses and warehouses for hoarded food in New York.
 Five men were injured, two so badly they may die when a railing they were sitting on broke during the Gi- ant Cincinnati baseball double header at the new York Polo grounds.
 Stockholders of Standard Oil Go. of New Jersey. at special meeting, vot- ed to authorize creation of a new is- sue of $100,000,0O0 per cent cumula- tive non-yoting preferred stock.
 First arrest for alleged profiteerinq was made in Newark when Samuel Blaeser, owner of grocery store in the heart of the city was charged with selling sugar at 18 cents a pound.
 Following action of striking shop men on the Boston & Maine lines de- cId1ng to return to work, the freight emoargoes were raised. Freight em- Monday.
 report received at Queenstown from British tank steamer War Khan says the tanker picked up an American schooner drifting in mid-ocean with rnutlnous crew and the captain and other officers in irons, or incapacitat ed from injuries