Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-26
PRESIDENT WILSON HAS CALLED HALT IN
 RECURRING DEMANDS FOR WAGE INCREASES

HULL HyUhLHOLO I Condensed Telegrams I ouiek.i.ysr was reduced s2oo . | Cleveland may join Akron machin-
 ists in their strike.
 High price of shoes in the United
 States is blamed on the shortage in I Europe.
 l Germany reported returned to France 27,o00 tons of material seized during
 the war.
 Run1ania will be able to export 1oo- 600 truck loads of corn in 1919. accord 1 ing to a report.
 A fight against landlords raising l their rents from : to IA per cent. is in l progress in Chicago. l A IS per cent. increase in wages and 1 five day week was granted to shoe operators in Lynn, Mass. l Munich correspondent of the Jour. nal de Geneve says Germany is plan I ming League of Nations.
 German government reported with holding from sale memoirs of former
 Grand Admiral von Tirpitz- 1 Production of coalin Colorado show 1 ed a decrease of 25 per cent. for the | first seven months of this year. | Legislative elections in Bulgaria re- l suited in complete defeat of the par | ty headed by former Premier Rado- 1 slaroff.
 I Transport Huron, formerly Freder- l ick der Gross. arrived at Hoboken with 1,243 officers and men of the i Third Division.
 Prince NikoIai was officially reeoe-
 nized as heir apparent to the throne of Rumania in place of Prince Charles, ! who renounced his rights. Luis Cabrera, Secretary of the Treasury, Mexico suggested an agree ment between the United States and Mexico regarding the border. Lancashire cotton operatives re- ported alarmed over the merging of textile companies. The amount in volved is reported at f1.000,000. Food Administrator Williams says the high cost of living has been great ly reduced through the sales of army foodstuffs, or fixing a fair retail price
 Officers of the New York, Vest chester & Boston Railway began hir- ing men to attempt to break the strike of motormen and conductorse on that line.
 cadi chereheiI Taleb Mohamn,ed was appointed French Envoy P1eni- potentiary to the King of the Edjaz and will leave Algiers for Beirut this week.
 Three hundred soldiers belonging to Warwick, Berkshire and Gloucester were arrested al Southampton for re- France.
 For the first four months of fiscal year ended July S1 grand total of trade with s7o2,7226s6 for the same period last year.
 Passports will be issued after Oct. to tourists going to France, Belgium Spain, Portugal. Italy and Northern Africa. except Egypt, Secretary Lans- ing announced.
 Plans were perfected by the Demo cratic National Committee to collect a campaign fund of between S, 900 900 and S1o,000,0 ,000 One million contribu- tors are sought
 
 Major General Robert Lee Howze who in France commanded the Third or "Marne" Division of the Regulars was ordered to take command of the Ell Paso district.
 An international agreement provided for six hour day for coal miners with four shifts, will be sought by the Essen. Coal Commission of Germany, it was announced.
 Officers and soldiers of the First Division who are on the point of en- barking for home sent on open letter of farewell to the officers and men of
 According to reports received at Washington agitation among the ne- groes is supported by the Bolsheviki ments in the country.
 Colonel Nicholas Smith, declared to be the EandsomeSt man ever pre- sented at the court of St. James, by 1 the late Queen Victoria. died at his | daughters home in F't. Salonga, L. I.
 Brand WhitIock, United States Min-- ister to Belgium during the war. is one !, of the 5S witnesses called for the trial of Gaston Quien. French resident of | San Quentin charged with the betrayal | of Edith Cavell to the German. au- thorities.
 Two persons, man and wife, were drowned and three others rescued fol- | lowing splitting in two of a launch in 1 which they were sailing in the Lower i Bay of Staten Island when the boat | was struck amidships by the steam | boat Point Comfort shcpmen urge is the very serious in- crease in the cost of living. This is a | very potent argument indeed. But the | fact Is that the cost of living has cer-