Norwich bulletin., 1919-01-24
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 Shortage of iron ore in Germany $ 4ported. situation in scrap iron and steel in
 4ttsburgh district is demoraIzed.
 Secretary Baker pardoned 11s slackers held at Fort Leavenworth.
 Exports of United States for 1918 were $6,150000, 900. Imports were $3,- 031, ,000, ,000.
 ference will favor the formation of a League of Nations.
 One hundred thousand bushels of barley was bought by the Government at Chicago at $1.01.
 Between $10,000,0o0 and .$15,000 900 will be lost by the Government in it's auction of wool holdings.
 A two-day conference of shipbuilders and operators opened at the Smith sonian Institute at Washington. An odrer for 15,000 tons of ship building material was placed in this country for export to Holland Senator Champ Clark in a speech in the House demanded the withdrawal of every American soldier from Eu- rope.
 Director of Railroads Hines declared | that railroad compensation contracts l should be signed up'' within 50 days. | A report just issued by the GeoIogi- | cal Survey Bureau failed to confirm reports that deposit of platinum was 1 found in Arizona. Formation of International Trades | Union Congress was agreed upon at l a meeting of American and British 1 labor representatives ] Department of Commerce was ad- | vised that Great Britain removed the restrictions on the importation of golC and silver coins.
 i Attorney General Gregory requested the Federal Trade Commission to re l open in all it's phases the investigation 1 of the newsprint situation. Four United States submarine chas CTS, which were engaged in patrol worl on the Nova Scotian coast for some time, sailed for Newport, R. l. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Sec retary of the Navy. says that with tn exception of 5000 men in the Ameri
 can navy will be out of Europe b, Feb 15.
 Senator George F. Thompson 0 Niagara introduced a bill in the NeV
 York Legislature to regulate. the pro
 duction, distribution, quality and pric
 of milk.
 According to the Paris Matin thefts | acts Of violence ana armed dlldChS di
 increasing daily in Paris. During on
 week 130 night assaults were reporte in Paris.
 Sir Arthur Meiqnen, Minister of tn Interior. announced at the Board c
 Trade meeting at Winnipeg that Can
 ada would spend $60,000,000 on ne'
 railroads.
 Several Germans disguised as wom en were arrested at Brussels, nea Mons, following the explosion of . munitions dump. which destroyed
 mile of the Brussels -Ostend railroat
 Police of Chicago and cities west (
 there are on the lookout for 20 pris
 oners who escaped from the count , jail at Rock Island after Overpowerin ? two guards and shooting the turnke John F. Stevens, head of the Amer | can Railway Commission to RUssl ! reports difficulties of the first mang tude will be experienced in the reo1 : eapization of the Trans Siberian Raj
 road.
 I Director of Railroads Hines declare 1 a reduction in freight rates on Go' e ernment- controlled lines within ! year is doubtful until complete oper; ting statistics for the last F montl e are available.
 z The Foley bill to prohibit the Sd f of intoxicants to men wearing Il 1. military or naval uniform of u Il United States was sjgue1 oy Go
 ernor Smith of New York.