Norwich bulletin., 1919-01-17
Condensed tf iams

1861.
Total gold holdings of Imperial Bank
of Germany to Dec. 81 were 2,262,003,-
600 marks.
Oil land leasing legislation is still
tied up in conference by disagreements
between the House and Senate.
Foreign fur trade gained 40 per cent.
in America in 1918, Imports were $685.
3S9,372. Exports were $13 903,631.
France accepted an offer of the
American Forestry Association to aid
in restoring devastated forests of
France
French Chamber of Deputies will
receive President Wilson after the
! dinner given in his honor by the Sen
ate on Jan. 20.
Candiar wooIen mills, the Depart
ment of Commerce was advised, will
be able to supply the Canadian mark
! ct for six months only.
! A bill providing for the maintenance
| of wheat at the present Government
! guaranty price will soon be intro
duced in the House.
| FrencF, cruiser Gioire, which was
conveying transports up to the time
the armistice was signed, returned to
New York uneXpctdly.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg was
appointed Generalissimo of the Ger
man armies on the eastern from &c
lead the fight against the Poles,
Copper Export Association o. aer.1
York, organized by large proes asYs
filed with the Federal Trade Com-
mission.
| George w. Perkins, the New YORK
financier who went to supervise the
Y. NJ. c. A. finances, is i'll in hospi-
tai with influenza.
Fifteen hundred Canadian soldiers
who were previously thought dead
have been found since the armistict
to be found since the armistice to bt
alive as prisoners in Germany.
United States cruiser TaI.aaoosa ar
rived at Halifax with the crew of th'
Gloucester schooner Akrona takel
off on the coast of Labrador in
starving condition.
Import restrictions on iron ore
, chrome ore, cormite manganese ore
copper ore and concentrates and mon
, azite were removed by the War Trad
: Board.
A bill was introduced in the New
' York Legislature providing a stat
, department to control and supervis
moving picture production, distribu
= ton al d exhibition.
Southern railroads applied to tn
, ! Interstate Commerce Commission fo
2 increases from one-half cent to 141
: cents in rates on sugar in carloa
I. shipments from Southern paints.
: Austrian delivered $500, 100000
d Italian armistice commissioners. Tht
# sum represents money removed frol
Trieste and Trentino banks at til
o outbreak of the war.
n Falling off in the demand for flu
It oil since the signing of the armistiC
: is said to be responsible for a re
!; duction of 80 cents a barrel for Gu
1t Coast fuel oils
I'll Francis j. Heney, testifying befo,
the Senate Agriculture Committe
u said packers were tipped to send juiC
i steaks TO LANES R.-Mann, Republics
'e leader, to influences him to prevel
Congressional Investigations.
u Director General Hines of RaIro;
!, Administration conferred with Chai
" man Sims of the House Intersta
ID Commerce Committee regarding Il
m investigation of the roads. Hines to
in Sims the administration was ready
j. have an investigation made.
of Revision of the plans of the Eme
D. gency Fleet Corporation to me
Sc changes brought about by the armi
tlce VIII be Undertaken py comm
ed tee consisting of James A Farrell,
A. S. Franklin. George S. Dearbol
II, H. H. Raymond and F. D. Strachan.
e. Another body was found today
#, wreckage caused when 100000 Sc
h, Ions of molasses burst from a stora
2e, tank in the North End, Boston. T
known dead now number twelve.
a Francis B. Sayre, sonnlaw
w President Wilson,, has been appoint
oL a lecturer in the Harvard Law SchC
for the session from February to Au
w ust of this year.
u Carlos MeIendez, leader of the N
-. tional Democratic party, was elect
~ PRESIDENT of the republic of San Saly
~ dor.
~ Organization of an American col
a. mittee for the independence of :
~, menia was announced at New Y or