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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY DETROIT Mich June 7 An alleged conspiracj to defraud the government out of 30000000 worth of munition supplies is said to have been unearthed here by government operatives Indictments charg ¬ ing conspiracy were returned against Capt Sotarios Nicholson of AVashlngtou of the ordnance depart ¬ ment Grant Hugli Browne millionaire sportsman Fred C Collins viceconsul of Greece and presi ¬ dent of a local realty company and a United States army officer now in France according to Arthur L Barkey chief of the Detroit Bureau of Investiga ¬ tion of the Department of Justice JusticePARIS PARIS France June 6 Within the last few months at least ten persons have been killed in Ireland by soldiers or constables under circumstances found by coroners juries to have been willful murder This charge is made in the report on observa ¬ tions made in Ireland by Edward F Dunne Frank P Walsh and Michael F Ryan delegates of Irish societies in the United States The report which was made public tonight was sent to President Wil ¬ son along with the demand that the peace conference investigate the Irish question questionPARIS PARIS France June 7 President Wilson today visited the tomb of Lafayette in the Picpns Ceme ¬ tery and placed on it a bronze wreath The new wreath is i duplicate of a floral wreath which the president placed on the tomb when he first arrived In France The card on the bronze wreath bears the same inscription as the card on the floral one reading To the great Lafayette from a fellow servant of liberty libertyLONDON LONDON England June 7 Americans who will IK decorated by King George at Buckingham palace during the presentation of war medals today will be Maj A J McElroy air service distinguished ser ¬ vice order and Capt Otto A Odjard and Lieut II I Steele both of the 39th Infantry military cross crossWASHINGTON WASHINGTON D C June 7 Expenditure of 185000 for newspaper advertising during the mouth of June in a campaign to secure recruits for the army was approved today by Secretary Baker
