Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-18
ss A Digest Of Events ,
  Occurring in Europe
Damages Suffered by Belgium as the Result of the War Estimated at 85,O00,000,- 900 Francs.
(By The Associated Press.)


 With the return to Paris Of the British prime minister. David Lloyd George, accompanied by the Earl of Curzon and Lord Miner, it is expect ed that there will be a speeding up of the final preparations, preliminary to the gathering of the representa- tiVeS of the associated powers with the German delegates at Versailles on April %.
 1 There was no meeting of tae Coun- 1 cil of Four at Paris Thursday, and 1 President Wilson was thus enabled to take up many matters with various delegations, which may be considered 1 side issues of the coming peace settle ment. The problems of many coun- tries, including Ireland, RInania,
 Serbia and Portugal, have thus again come under the considera tion of tEe president.
 According to the present purpose
 the covenant of the league of nations will be the first subject treated in Ge-
 tail after the declaration of peace. Af- | ter that the matter of the military,
 naval and aerial terms, separations responsibilities and frontiers will be taken in hand.
 | As it is evident that the question of
 the possession of Plume and the Dal- matian coast has not yet been dcfi-
 nitely settled. the Italian delegates Eare working earnestly to secure de-
 cision before the Italian chamber o1
 deputies meets on April 24.
 It is the intention of the aeronauti- cals commission of the peace confer tional commission on aerial naviga- ton, to act as a kind of clearing i house on all questions of air naviga- tion between the respective states.
 That the internal political and Ia b0r troubles in Germany are not to bt
 permitted to encroach upon the oc cupied zone anywhere is indicated b! an order of the British commander oI
 the Rhine, which informs the striker in Cologne that they must immediate iy return to work on pain of havin; i strong measU1 es. taken against thos who promote oT countenance Unrest The American commander some tim |, ago issued a similar order. Northern Italy is experiencing
 tspell of labor trouble, the worllmen a Milan, Bologna, Turin and Genoe, tn principal manufacturing cities hay !. ing gone on a tWenty-fOur hour strike
 Earlier in the week at Milan ther
 was fighting in the streets between so cialist and antisocialist groups, i , which four persons were killed an several WOuIuGQ. ITOOl}S 0du lO , called out to restore order Labor troubles also are brewing i :, the department of the Seine, France of which Paris is the capital. A one , day strike has been called for May f by the general federation of labor | |, put forward the federati0n's program :, which calls for an eight hour day, pc I litieal amnesty. non-interventfon f Russia, lifting of the. state of sieG f and the censorship and the return ( . constitutional guarantees. A genera 8striile is threatened if the governme1
 and the employers do not meet tn |, demands Of the federation. o Disorders of such magnitude are re
 ported from both European and Asia I tic Turkey as to give rise to the fea 1 that there will be great outbreaks {
 various points and new massacres n Armenians.
 : :, An investigation by the Belgian cer I tral industrial committee of the dan V ages suffered by Belgium as d fesu 7 of the war shows that these aggrega f 5000, 000.000 francs. The items il : clude damages to state property Be gian industry. private homes and W; n expenses.
 A Russian Bolshevik wireless con
 munlcation announces that the Bo :, sheylki at various points on the Wes f erns Russian front from the Black St ,I to the Baltic have been victorious IL tghtipg against various grOuDS