Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-12
Condensed Teiegrams,

Five thousand Russian prisoners or war escaped from the Ruhleben camp.
 Striking shoemakera, 5000 strong, paraded in Brooklyn. A score of persons were injured m a wreck on the Pennsylvania Railroad near Washington, Pa. A great American memorial hos pital will be established at Rheims. Employment of discharged British soldiers in the construction of tun- mel under the English channel is be- ing considered by the British gov ernment.
 Company K, 1o6th Infantry, returns to New York with only six original members who went through the 2Iths 1 battles and returned unWounded. l Lieutenant Parodi, an Argentine army aviator established new South l American altitude record when he went up 21 500 feet. 1 One man was killed and four injur- 1 ed when a barrel of naphtha eXplod 1 ed at the Baldwin Chain X Manufact uring Co. plant at Worcester, Mass.
 Britains debt totalIed $29,605, ,479,05 on March 31, 1918, according a white paper issued in London yesterday. l Secretary of War Baker and Chies of Staff March inspected Camp Gust CT. near Battle Creek, Mich. E. F. Kearney, president of the Wa bash Railroad, died in St. Louis, agcc, fifty three years.
 Cuban sugar production in which American interests are heavily invest ed suffered considerable curtailment owing to a strike of Cuban railway employees.
 Director Hines of the Railroads con ferred with Eugene Meyer, Jr., of the
 
 mary to the general confidence to 5e held with the bankers pool.
 British Government decided to re- move the import restrictions upon goods coming into the United King dom from any part of the Empire.
 The remaining men of the 27th Division left Brest, March 6, for the United States on the Seattle. report from Vienna said piar was being worked out in Paris for the naturalization of the Danube river.
 While soldiers who were called tc suppress rioting in Spandau were ab- sent from Berlin. 5000 Russian pris- oners of war escaped and are now terrorizing the country. Arthur J. BaIfour, Secretay of For eign Affairs in the Lloyd Geoge Min istry, will retire at the close of the peace conference. Balfour will bt succeeded by Earl Curzon.
 Amrican Main Headquarters ap
 proved the proposal that the German , workers numbering 10000, who vii rebuild roads and other works in tho American area of occupation be pai( l partly in fod rations. } Reports from Havana say th'
 general strike was settled!s } Chilean loan amounting to 89,o0o,
 
 Council of State. t Soft coal output for the week endet . March 1. amounted to S,08S,000 tons
 compared with 7,715.00 tons for thu 3 previous week.
 Reports from Mexico announce tha nothing can be done by the Cararnzi 2 Government to alter the conf1scator, oil decrees against which the Cnite'
 States and Britainprotested. t Grain receipts at Chicago durln! = the past week amounted to 2,S02.oo , bushels.
 Q Four more Russian Grand Duke
 were murdered by the Bolsheviki O e charges of being implicated in a mon e archistic movement t Secretary Lane announced poiso = gas invented during the war cano 0 be used to kill isects. on. America 2 farms. because of risk of winds blow s ing the fumes to livestock and per | sons living nearby.
 American Red Cross mission arrlv ed in Poland and was warmly vel
 comed.
 / President MenocaI of Cuba con o ferred with representatives Of em v ployers and strikers in an eort e end the general strike. Herr BoIs, president of the Stat
 Council of Wurttemberg, was electe President of Wurttemberg. United States transport Buford, dis
 abled by a break in it's steering gea n. sent out calls of distress off the Elr ,+ ginia coast.