Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18
Condensed 1eIegrams

Gold sold at 1Z1S Sd fIne ounce ln London, compared with 121s Sd at pre- vious close.
 Oil land leasing bill is at the White House, awaiting the signature of Pres ident Wilson.
 Paris quoted the dollar at 14 frs. 15 cts, compared with H frs. Il cts. at previous close.
 A shortage of raw materials in Ger many precipitated condition describ- ed as desperate.
 Stockholders of the crueibIe Steel Co.,, approved plan to raise capital stock to $1O,Oe0,OoO.
 Amsterdam police discovered the be- ginning of a widespread communist in Holland.
 sisnor Polidor, kn actor and writer, Naples while making a moving picture film.
 An Italian transport with 1000 reg ular troops was captured by two war ships attached to the forces of O'An- nunzio.
 Discovery of the growth of sugar on fir trees in British Columbia was an- nounced in the American Forestry Magazine.
 More subways will have to be built in London, according to Lord Ashfield, of Southwell, to meet growing traffic conditions.
 Department of agriculture announc- ed. more, than 50, 900 farmers own mo- tor trucks. New York state leads with more than s,ooe.'
 The senate adopted the Mcclellan resolution directing the shipping board to delay temporarily the sale of form CT German vessels.
 James Garland Pollard, of West vir- ginia, was appointed federal trade commissioner and his nomination was sent to the senate.
 Rand gold mines of South Africa an uounced the output at 670,50S ounces in January, compared with 676,Sl9 ounces in December.
  Organization of a German electric lamp concern, "Osram Works Ltd" was announced in report to the de- partment of commerce.
 Premier MiiIeeand said he had no information on President Wilson's re- ported Intention to ask the recall of Ambassador J1isserand.
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 Owing to a strike of harbor employees at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Amer ican vessels were advised to avoid temporarily, these ports.
 Coast guard cuttsr Itasca reported by radio she was 100 miles east of Cape Lookout Mghtship towing dis sbled teams laip into port. E Lou TIsnS Isisna, Chinese minister of foreign affairs; and Chen Lee, vice minister, resigned, according to re- ports! to the State department.
 Reports that Eart Reading would re- sign asllbrd chief Justice and accept tho British ambassadoFship at Wash ington were not confirmed in London. <, -ts 4 5 .4 2 William 6. Young, general superin- tendent of the New York and Stam- ford Railway Company, who has been connected with the line for 21 yjears will resign on March L.
 Marshall Foch declared. in an inter- view in Paris, the proposed alliance between France and England is an absolute and imperative necessity for France. The crueibIe ss.eI company an- nounced today that the stockholders had unanimously approved an increa SC from $25,0oe, 900 to $75,O00,00O in com mon stock. Commercial relations of Britain in Russia are facing a serious menace through the existence of quantities ot counterfeit British bank notes in Rus sian territory.
 | In order to encourage Belgian plant CTS to increase their beet root cror sowing. the government fixed the price factories must pay to growers at 125 francs ton.
 United States shipping board steam CT Orion, bound from Hamburg for | Nova Scotia, was caught in the Bar rington Passage off Nova Scotia and is in need assistance. Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes was turned over to. Miss Clara Olson, a govern ment agent, to be taken back to Chica- go to face an indictment charging hel with criminal anarchy. |. I've firenen. were killed and severa ] injured in fighting blaze in the plant of the American Manufacturing Co.,, al St. Louis Among those injured wal 1 Assistant Fire Chief Barry. l. An inflammatory document of th' most important character was seized l on the person of a bolsheviki agen under arrest in London. He was or his way to the United States. | c. F. O'Briant, farmer of Dalton i Ga, after experimenting for years, an. t.nounces production of cotton with {