Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-29


 Eneland's largest trade unions begun fight on unauthorized strikes.
 Aisaee reports great inundations. The river above Strassburg overhowed it's banks.
 Railway station at Marseilies, France was destroyed by fire, according to re- ports.
 A Hamburg shipping company an- nounced it will soon open a line to London.
 Frnace's nation credit loan was over the first day according to cable reports.
 Since the arnistice Britain realized $555 000,O00 from the sale of surplus stores and property.
 Chicago railroad officials asserted | freight rates will be advanced after re- !, turn of roads on March 1.
 It is reported the Standard Oil Co. | closed contracts in Rumania for 500, 900 | barrels of refined petroleum.
 Nine wireless stations are to be es- tablished in Cuba by the Government and on on the Isle of Pines
 Municipalities Of Manitoba, Canada, authorized appropriation of S1,5o0,0 ] for road improvement in 1920.
 w. s. Miller, chairman of the board of directors of the Standard Oil Co. of California, will resign Jan. l.
 Spanish Government has taken over control of important deposits of plat mum discovered in that country.
 An engagement was reported be- tween Polish and Bolsheviki forces at Taiga on the Trans-Siberian Railroad
 French Cabinet approved a bill for the turning ahead of clocks one hour beginning Feb. l, as a means to save fuel.
 War Risk Bureau began work get ting out increased checks provided for by tae Sweet bill signed by the Presi- dent.
 Japan has decided to discontinue the issuance of passports permitting pie ture brides to proceed to the United States.
 Finland is reported negotiating for a loan of 10000 ,000 pesos gold with Ar gentina to buy Argentine cereals and cattle.
 President Wilson will take no action on the sugar equalization bill until he has heard from the Sugar Equalization 1 Board.
 American ships carried during oc- tober exports valued at $231, ,041, ,9S6 or nearly half of the total ocean borne ex- port trade.
 i Gold holdings of the wheat belt re- J port weather conditions unfavora hle owing to the alternate thawing and freezing.
 Arturo Toscanin, the most famous 1 conductor in the world will assume i complete charge of the Chicago Opera Co. next season.
 An unsuccessful attempt was made tc assassinate Chief Engineer Peckitt, o1
 tn State Railways at Cairo. The as- Saliant escaped.
 Conferences will begi at Paris next
 week between allied and German dele gates, preparatory to putting the peace
 treaty into effect.
 Poisonous odsrs from Mount Also
 an active volcano in Kyushu, Japan have injured the cattle of the sur.
 rounding country.
 A Soviet republic, charged with !; special mission to the Italian Govern ment, arrived at Naples, according t, a report from Rome. J. V. Priest, mining man, arriving a New York on the steamship CariIlo, re ported finding Of new gold region il Colombia, South America. , A statement confirming reports ths
 Col. T. $. Williams, former presiden of the B. R. T. would retire from tn
 system was issued at the B. R. T. of . | fees.
 First indication of serious break i ranks of steel workers and prediction of an immediate end of the steel strike that practically tied-up Cleveland stes . mills, was announced. | SyndcaIists in Spain are revotn Q against their leaders, whom they ac f cuse of withholding 100000 peseta n which was paid in dues and of whic = there has been no accounting.
 Decision of the United States Ship n ping Board to prohibit the sale of Ii 6 qour will mean the loss of thousand Q of dollars, because privately oWne : craft will sell liquor and win bushes e away from the government. s Detroit United Railways withdrew q request that it be permitted to make
 charge for transfers stating that bt e cause of improvement in it's operatio = condition it now finds itself able s operate on flat five-cent fare. n Lieutenants Connolly and Wate It house, who lost their lives after beir l. forced to land in Lower Californi
 Mex, were murdered according ,e testimony before the Senate sub-con
 mittee Investigating Mexican affairs. 70 INCREASE IN COST OF LIVING
 SINCE 1914 IS s2.2 PER CEN