Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-18


general of the PHILIPPINES arrived at Cal !
cutta for three weeks tour of India.
First mail 'airpIane left Omaha for
Chicago with 200 pounds of mail. The |
trip was made in five hours and a half
Russian Soviet government proposed
an armtistice between the Japanese and |
Siberians according to a dispatch from |
Irkutsk.
Japanese navy will use the wireless tel |
ephone instead of telegraph and other |
forms of signalling for communication on
all ships.
Chilean army officers will be sent to
the United States TO receive special train
ing. They are specially interested in the
cavalry branch
Germans are asked for an extra hour
Of daily labor to save the Fatherland,
by DIR. Bernard Dernburg in an article
in the Tageblatt.
In two Of Denmark's largest towns
the strike of dock workers has been
broken and men who were idle are re-
turning to work.
All churches in Paris from historic
.Notre Dame to the most humble chapel in
| the suburbs celebrated the canonization
of Joan of Arc Sunday.
Strikes in various trades are increas-
| ing in Spain. Police arrested groups of
trades unionists who were distributing
strike leaflets in the street.
Supreme court again yesterday failed
to hand down a decision on the validity
of the federal prohibition amendment and
the Volstead enforcement act.
According to William C'Pussyfoot")
Johnson, England will be dry within ten
years, provided America does her share
in keeping the wet forces down"
Five thousand dairy farmers will at
tend the dairy c-s-erence and the Milk
and Child Health Exposition at the
Grand Central Palace this week.
Three trainIoads of revolutionary
troops, under command of General Fran
cisco Cross. left Piedras Negras opposite
Eagle Pass, Tex, in the direction Of
Monterey.
Two paintings at the Sigismund Bardac
sale in Paris were sold for 1,200 francs
a square inch. They were lie Coucher'
and lie Lever by Schall, an eighteenth
century master:
Owing to the high cost of operation
and shortage of paper, the Richmond Vir-
ginian will suspend publication and
transfer it's business and good will to the
Evening Journal.
All records for increases in population
were broken by two Detroit suburbs
Hamtranaek and Highland Park, which
since 1910, increase 1885 and 1,OS1 pei
cent respectively
Postal telegraph and telephone ser
vices were resumed in Italy and all othel
strikes settled or called off as a result oi
a truce which will hold until a new gov.
ernment is formed.
The high cost of living for horses il
New York City caused a change in the
daily feeding Rolled oats are being giver
horses because of the great jumps il
ordinary horse feed.
Senator Calder introduced an amend
ment to the Sundry Civil Bill, appropri
ating $4,000. 900 to erect a building ad
joining the Pennsylvania Station for tn,
, handling of foreign mails.
: Turkish Sultan will resign his thron
in protest against the severity of tn
: peace treaty presented to that countr.
by the allied powers. according to ru
I mors in Constantinople.
e According to a special report to tn
i Federal Trade Commission, profits mad
: by the big meat packing companies dur
0 ing the first three years of the wal
doubled, trebled and quadrupled."
Kansas labor union announced plan
: to SEND large delegation to root TO
!. Gompers'' at the debate on the Kansa
t induE.risl court law between Samue
Purchase of 5000 acres at Rock
: Point. L. L, was announced by Edwar
]. Nally, or the Radio Corporation Wire
: less towers for communication with Ar
: gentina, France. Scandinavia, German
Poland and Italy will be built.
French column of 5000 troops whic
e left Kills, Asia Minor, on May to re
0 lieve the garrison at Aintab was met b
e a strong Nationalist force and compelle
to return. The situation at Kills is de
e scrbed as critical and at Aintab as des
: perate.
e A bill proposing that congress begi
e plans IOr the hOiQlnS OF an lnternatlOns
1 exposition in Philadelphia in 1926 I
e commemorate the 150th anniversary
lr the signing of the Declaration of Indt
Is pendence, was sent to the House by Rel
l. resentative Darrow.
Application Of the principle of IL
" cotton futures act of sugar transaction
p was proposed by Chairman SteenersC
who introduced a bill providing for ia
Iof 2 cents a pound on all sugar sold
manufacturers and importers at pric
others than of uniform scale.
II One man was taken to hospital al
several others were injured in a free Fl
g. all fight during a special convention
ay various state labor bodies called at NeN
o. ark to discuss the attitude of the tra'
unionists of the state toward polite
as candidates in the national election.
sn Socialist leaders declared that th
as had foreseen the possibility of a questic
rs being raised concerning eligibility of E
ne gene " Debs, nominated the candida
pe of the socialist party for president. Tn
r. declared espionage was not felony a
Debs did not lose his citizenship by it,
a NITTI ACCEPTS INVITATION
d. TO FokM NEW MINIsTI