Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 21, 1917, Page 4

g (SRS Rorwich Bulletin . and @eufies 121 YEARS OLD B s v s, s, at the Postoffice at Norwich, a8 second-class matte! Telephome Calles tin Business Omfice 480. Bulletin Editorial Roome 35-3. - Bulletin Job Office 35-2. Office. 625 Ma'n Street 3. 4 i imantic phone orwich, Friday, Dec. 21, 1917. CIRCULATION average 4812 5,92 average 15 1917 .. MBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS e Associated Press is exclusive- fentitied to the use for republica~ p of all news despatches credit- to it or not otherwise credit- in this paper and also the local v pubiisiied nerein. Il rights of republication of jal_despatches herein are also od. B\ val expert, DEVELOP WATER POWER. Just at this time when the coal shortage is being so seriously feit, ‘when industries are being compelleg to shat down for lack of fuel, cities are being forced to economize on light and electric roads are being directed to reduce their schedules in order to eut down on the consumption of coal, it is pertinent that each and every section of the country which Is per- mitting water power to g5 to waste pld put somm serious tbought upon ladvisabilis of developing the mil- of horsepower in the streams of country which ars daily going to . is at the same time possible to eciate what it would have meant goncerted move in this directien been made a half dozen years o that by now it would be pos- ¥ for the industries, the~lighting ‘traction concerns to be in pos- on of the vast amount of power h is now unharnessed. Never has been a zreater demo: ration of the peglect of _the 55,000,000 power, estimated in round num- means to the country than that h i= provided today. New Eng- is one of the sections where this ce prevails and it is also here the fack of fuel is especially felt. 4is of courss next to fmpossible j§¢ material and equipment for de- jing such hydro electric plants he need of- overcoming the situa. and preventing this great fage at the earliest possible mo. ought not to be overlooked. “‘2 poor appreciation of the natural jurces which have been provided ©s. AVOID CHRISTMAS FIRES. The adyice which has gone forth m those in charge of the Red Cros: membership campaign, as weil as Mrom tbe national board of under- Weriters, against the idea of placing can- in the windows to illuminate the Cross membership cards Christ- Léve is timely. The susgestion E‘:ru made that such a plan be out order to add enthusi- and interest to the effort, But_consideration of the danger which s $tolved in such 2 plan has re- spited i1 the recognition of the need of ‘avoiding the fire hazara which is wserfously involved. Itican be appreciated that the plac- g of candles in windows or near draperies would constitute .a serious gienace. The chance of causing many as the result would be excellent and it is more important that the pro- Bection of the homes against such as woulg bg likely to result therefrom is preferable. The light- 458 of the window containing the Red S9-mris can be accomplished in “ways and with perféct safety. THe Christmas season with its trees and ‘much inflammable material used in décorations ‘always calls for the exercise of =reat care. The lesson Of the homes which have been Futted 5y fire as.the result of thoughtless preparations for the celebration ought to be thoreushly impressed upon ev- ery commupity as the result of the ces of the past. Thus every- thing that & done to prevent fires can only be regarded asfa contribu- tion to the joy of the households. . CHILD LABOR LEGISLATION. Aecording to the general secretary of the national child labor committee there were both goocd and bad results from the legislative action in the states during the past year. The bad results were pointed out to be the relaxation of the child labor laws in four of the states in order to better mest the conditions which have Been impesed by the war, and a relaxation ©of the compulsory education laws in &Wo other states for a similar reason. The good results shown were the stiengthening of the child labor laws in eleven ctates, the improvement of the compnuisory educstion laws In six states, the enactment of mothers pension Jaws in four others and the amendment of such laws in ten more. ‘Thus it is madepiain that the good far overbalance the bad, and 50 when it is understood the relaxation in the half dozen has taken place in those where BEIE Joist need for iy - lere such to pre 1 anring the period of the war. The 1ooked upon o &8 one of much progress in = metter which is galning greater recognition each yeur. Where states have siven some official or commission authority to waive certain conditions there can be no fear. of this becoming perma- nent for they understand as the sec- retary of the.child labor committes declares that “The problem of safe- guarding the child is one which in- volves consideration- of health, edu- cation, 'recreation and general weil balanced training for useful service to the community” and such will be in- sisfed upon at all times. SHIPPING BOARD INQUIRY. The investigation which has. been ordered for the shipping board can- not proceed with too much speed and it cannot be too thorough in its work. There is nothing which the country nceds more than it does ships. The lack of such transportation has al- ready causea a serious handicap not only in sending aid to our allles but in the transportation of our soldiers, their equipment 4nd suppiles, and it iz bound to exist as lonz as there is a failure to bring our shipbullding ef- forts to the highest point of efcien- ey, The shipping boara and the emer- gency fleet corporation, which is un- der the former's direction, were wel devised as organizations for centraliz- ing the work of handling the prob- lems of the merchant marine. But almost from the time of their crea- tion there has been friction among the members and a lack of coordina- tion which has seriously affected the results. The president was most un- fortunate in some of the selections that he made with the result that changes and resignations Lave come with too great frequency and even now there is no assurance that there Will not be others who will throw up their hands because they cannot tolerate the lack of harmony. There is no question but what the shipbuilding needs should be ziven the fullest attention and If the Inves- tigation will hasten the straightening cut of the tangle which has long ex- isted in the board It will render a mpuch needed service to the country. OVERCOMING THE SUBMARINES. When Arthur Pollen, the Pritish na- declares that the cam- paign of the allied navies against the submarine has at last resuited In keeping the world's tonnage from showing a monthly decrease, or will do so in a very short time, he refers to the good work which is being done by the naval vessels -in destroyinz the underwater boats or frustrating them in their purpose, and to the strides which are being made by the shipbuilders !n turning out new ships, Even though the number of vessels torpedoed or sunk by mines shows a marked decrease in any one week, it is not to be accepted that the menace has been entirely overcome. Condi- tions vary and have a bearing upon the number of ships destroyed but it is apparent that the submersibles have not been drivet from the high seas even thoush their effectiveness has been diminished Steamers however continue to be sunk, but the statement from Von Tir- pitz makes it plain that Cireat Brit- ain has thus far been successful in overcoming the object of Germany. This has been accomplished throuch the methods employed in attacking the submarines and also by the speed- ing up of shipbuilding with ‘the re- #ult that the ships Taunched practica Iy equal those-which are being d stroyed in tonmage if not in number. That is the end to which the allies have been working and tiis country is getting to the point where it should be an important factor in not only equaliing the losses but outdistancing them. This method of striking at ths bmarine warfare from two direcs tioms gives excellent promise of sue- cess. EDITORIAL NOTES. The iceman isn't offering dny com- plaint about the weather. His chief worry at the present time is help. It theré is coal sitvation sion 8 going body in town. not relief soon in the the local fuel commis- to be the busies’ war The man on the cotper says: The weatherman could Perform a great service now by postponing winter uh- 1l comditions improve. ’ Have you joined the Red Cross yet? It is a maznificént cause which every resident of the city should be anxious to back with his collar. It is claimed that cigarettes are the only things not curtailed in Beriin. They probably feel the need of those to keep their courage up. “There are all kinds of appeals be< ing made for financial assistance these days, but they are so worthy that everyone is anxicus to do his-bit. It is the optimist who calls atten- tion to the fact at this season of the year that every day brings us -that much nearer to the beautiful spring. If the report that Generdl Kajedines 1s giving orders in the Don region is true, it is easy to understand where the story that he was captured came from. The announcement tfiat the output f the coal mines this year fs’ above he average fsn't keeping houscholds warm where nome of the fuel is cb- tainable. The opportunity to do your shop- pifig early has ‘pagged, but there is still a chance to aid yeurssif Znd the clerks by getting it done before the last minute, “Before they got waked up,” said the youns biology teacher to her vis- a-vis, the successful insurance sales- man, “they shocked me every day. Of course, that was because they did Aot understand. They were all right at heart, but for a time I imagined that they knew more forms of camoufiage than are dreamed of in Gen. Pershing's philosophy. “This gows exciting” said the in- surance salesman, “How did you find P “Oh, I found out all right,” explain- ed the young biology teacher, briskly. 1 even did a little federal investiga- tion stunt of my own on the matter, and, take it from me, I'm a consider- ably ~wiser woman. It was the sweaters thev made before they found that we were at war and that the country needed them “I saw a little peaches and cream blond in a lizht green sweater once,” said the insurance isalesman, “with some sort -of flufiy white coliar and she looked like—" “A hyphenated little idiot,” inter- rupted the young biology teacher, em- phatically. know; thex were cominz to my classes with a,different colored one on every day! I :Dorothy wore an old rose thing on Monday, she had on a white angora one Tuesday; if Mildred sport- ed a striped affair Wednesday she came in smirking on Thursday in an i orange colored garment that would have dimmed an Italian sunrise—it was like being surrounded by a rain- bow pattalipn! I tell you I wore my- self neariy to skin and bones wonder- ing how they did it. The young biology teacher! nibbled ferociously at her salad. T found out dt last” she said, ‘Susan Waters confided the secret to me in a burst of approval after 1 hed marked her botany paper ‘A’—the girls swapped _each other's. They had a regular schedule and stuck to it with the adhesiveness of flies to flypaper. There was a fine if anybody was caught wearing the same color’ two days in succession.” “Waell, I'm_jiggered surance salesman. “Oh, but the finale to the sewing bags is much more tragic,” said the young biology teacher, relaxing slight- ly from hef heroic mood. They ap- peared everywhere with.them, chureh, school, theater, social affairs. I sim- said the in- “Oh. I tell you, I ought 6| A LITTLE CAMOUFLAGE led = ply knew that they didm’t all carry sewing for the army in them all the time. "So one Tuesday at a sophomore reception 1 determined to clear up_the mystery once and for all. 1 waited up in the dressing room until all thé sirls had gone down and then I started in on my investigation. The first flowery creation contained a powder puff, a manicure set, an eyebrow pen- cil and a pocket ‘handkerchief—also some knitting. The second had a bit of knitting and a three pound box of homemade fudge. The third contained bundle of soiléd linen, evidently on its way to the laundry. The fourth was full up to the brim with grocery bundles, a carrot top mingling artis- tically with a cretonne chrysanthe- mum. There was a knitting outfit al- s0, but crowdede. The fifth contained knitting, but it was a brilliant yel- low with angora trimmings and it dn't coincide with army regulations; stop!” begged the insurance salesman, feebly. “You are shatter- ing my exalted ovinion of your sex.” The young biology teacher, who had drawn on her gloves and fastened her fur scarf, reached down to her side and broughf sayiy tonne bag. that was she said. “Things are different now.” She followed her es- cort down the crowded main aisle of the restaurant. ~Opposite the door somebddy jostled against the youhg Dbiology teacher and the flowered cre- tonne bag flew from her grasp and lay sprawling .on the floor. It dis- plaved the green feathered, black rib- boned outlines of the young biology teacher's last winter's hat! Some time later the insurance sales- man said possessively to the young Dbiology teacher: “T should never have screwed ap courage to speak to vou, Jane, if it hadn’t been for -that sewing baz You've always seemed to dwell in such an exalted atmosphere that I've bee: afraid even to think of reaching up to you. ~Now I know tath you're only AT AUTOSTROP .. EVER READY .. DURHAM DUPLEX wees...$5.00 to $6.50 MARK CROSS ............25c to $2.00 ‘There is an actual need for gifts of this kind The Lee & Osgoad Co. “NORWICH, CONN. PAGE & SHAW and PARK & TILFORD CANDY RAZORS humpn. It very comforiable- our being human.” “Well, said - the young teacher, “you needn't think I'm not exalted just because that o3 hat hop- ped out. There was the beginning of my third khaki sweater under it—and you never saw it. Perhaps,” she add. “things bave turned out all fer the best.”—Chicago News. biology Not Open to Public. Answers of registrants on the se- Jective draft questoinnaires relating to health and answers under the head “dependency.” with the exception of the names and addresses of persoas claimed tq be dependeént, will not be open to imspection by the public ‘without the consent of the registrants. Imprisonment for not to exceed one year will be the penalty imposed on anyone connected with-the administra- tion of the selective draft law who shall make t¥is information public. 20,000 Graddate Nurses Will be Re- quired in Army Hospital ‘With a continuance of the war, in the next year at least 20000 nurses will be needed i® Army hospitals at home and abroad. Of the 80,000 grad- uate nurses of the country only 3500 have so far been assigned to duty in Army service. and of this number 1,300 are in France. An army nurse must be a graduate of a training /school for nurses and must have served for two years in a hospital. They are assigned to duty in the United States or abroad, and preferences are graited when condi- tions permit. Nurses who prefer not to have service abroad will have their ?relerences respected. Decrease in Demand for Manufactured Articles Releases Labor for War Work. Weavers laid off by carpet factories because the war has caused a sharp decline in the purchase of floor cov- erings are demanded by woolen and cotton duck factories because war orders have so increased their busines: Factohies making gears and other ar ticles for pleastre automobiles are la; ing off help, and service cars are calling for mo: Iaber. - Other industries suffering losses in commercial business which result in freeing_a large part of their working forces for war work are manufacturers of fine kid gloves, fancy sweaters, brogms and brushes typewriters, and high-grade woodwork. Extracts from Diaries of German Sol- New War Publication. The 94-page bookiet- “German War Practices,” published by the Committee on Public Information, devotes one ssc- tion to extracia from German war di- among them being the follow- burst near'‘the Eleventh and wounded - seven men, three very severely, At 5-o'clock we were brdered by thé of in ~com- mand of the regiment to shoot all the male inhabitants of Nemeny, because the population was foolishly attempt- ing to stay the advance-of the German troops by force of arms. We broke in. to the houses, and seized all who re- sisted in o to" execute them ae- SO e it Ba housés W] not been already destroy- d by the French artillery and our own Wwere set on fire by us; o that nearly the whole town wis reduced to ashes. It is 4 terrible sight when helpless wo- men and children, utterly destitute, are hearded together and driven into France.” (Frem the Fischer, th Bavarian Regiment of Lnl'll;try. irty-third - Reserve Divi- on. L Cobies of this booklet may be secut- od free of charge By application to the Cothmittee on Public_Info; n, 10 Jackson Place, It may be well enough to lay plans|. for conservation of food after the war when tlie proper timé comes, but just now the present situation requires all the attention it egn get. Spain recently. protested the sink- ln{floneflmlmlwtfltmm sul ne. Another = has been dis- rosed of in the same manner but there is mo assurance that Spafa will. ac- cept ‘this as its reply. Attention is being called to the fact that a York woman has applied for & job as snow shoveler. There is many @ housewife who well under- stands that the paths would not be shoveled if she’ feft it to George. When the suggestion was made that churches consglidate for fhe purpose of saving fuel, it was only to be ex- pected that someone would bob up: ‘With the sugwestion that the same idea e carried out in regard to saloons. P e Men at tl cantonment buy articles at lv:fi t ex s bm money than ‘would have to pay in their home-town stofes. At the - exchange max is ity !d%- statement that 40,000 men e a mendous demand for 5-cent packages of candy. About 4 o’clock in the aft. h;::on u:eraB is ; general rush mflg’: ap- ples sweet brackers _and or P, Geopite the Jact that big. Gisners 'l#hbe Te;d}' a of hours later. e problem of si e men in PRt P R e sities and luxuries which the Govern- ment @oes not furnish is met by the Commission on Training Camp Actiy- through these post exchanges. are be found at each - ment, ‘thers being Fole ome ox- basis. Men ‘obtain cent ‘coupons and pay. end of the month. day. Some Answers by Draft Registrants i f WAR NEWS DIGEST es and Conditions Throughout the United States and on the Battle Fronts, there are about 250 in operation. yearly business will millions of dollars. Gymnasiums and Workships Included i s for Care of Injurcd Soldiers Plans for caring for members of the expeditionary fofces who may be re- turned from Europe unfit for further service include, beside the necessary surgical anl medical attention. in- struction in the use of injured and ar- tificial limbs, and vocational training. The experience of Canada and Eu- ropean allies in this work has been of great value to the United States Gav- ernment in arranging its plans. Equipment for heat treatments and electric and hydro therapy” will be pro- vided; gymnasiums will furnish op- portunity for special exercise for.re- education in the use of joints, muscles, and nerves which have been affected in service; in curative workshops the man_will perform useful work which at the same time will bring these parts into activity. The aim will be to return every man into civil life able to be self-usport- ing and useful. and not dependent merely upon the pension he will re- ceive from the Government. . ‘Godmothering’ 'cf soldiers and sail- ors is not officialiy sancticned. Neo postraster's pay will be increas- ed during the war, according to an order by the Postmaster Geperal. ‘The Red Cross has asked for pumps to, be used in France, to iake the the ageregate many place of those destroyed by retreating | Germans. Many officers of the Marine Corps and the Navy are members of a class Teceiving instruction at Washington. D. C., in defense against the use of while makers of trucks | gas. The woman's committee of the Councll of National Defense has ar- ranged to furnish a badge to every wo- man who registers to work in co-op- eration with the committee. - In five years the portion of world’s gold monetary stock (coin and bullion used as money) held by the United States has increased from one- fifth to more than one-third. The retail price of milk in England has been advanced from 14 to 16 cents a quart. The sale and use of cream has been prohibited, except for invalids, mfants; and for butter mak- ng. . ‘Work of the woman’s committee of the Council 'of National Defense has al- A Petrograd meéssage announces the abolition “of all elass titles, privileges, and__distinctions”; so that we may rresently have a Russian version of the old story of M. de Saint Cyr, who applied for a passport in the days of the French revolution: “What is your mame?" “M. ge Saint Cyr." There are no more mons “Very well; de Saint Cyr. “There ure ng more De's.” “Good. Saint Cyr, then. ‘There are no longer any. “Then I am simply Cyr.” “No, for there are mo sives: are abolished.” . Colonel Archibald Young, V. D., in a lecture given a few days ago in Fdin- burgh, mentioned a curious incident of the recent British advance towurds Palestine. When the British troops were approaching a certain town in the desert a deputation of the natives came out to meet them. The head- man of the deputation asked for an interview with the British comman- der. In the course of the interview he urged the claims of the natives to kind treatment, and mentioned that he had brought with him a document Showing how well and honorably they had behaved on the last cccasion on which their town was visited by Eu: ropean troops. He duly produced the document, which was found to be all that he represented it. “Napoleon Eonaparte.” eurs.” Saint: kings Valona, or Aviona, where the Ttal- ians seem to have had a successful fight with the Austrians, exported to London before the war the tanning aterial called “Valonia,” made from husks and cups of biz acorns, which s preferred to oak-bark by the tan- ners of Bermondsey. It lies in a part tof Albania seldom visited by British travellers, two of whom, Lear the ar- tist-parept of “Limericks,” and Colonel Leake the soldier-antiquary, were both pestered “by the inouisitive populace. Lear finally put his tormeators to flight by bouncing on the zround a bit of india-rubber, then a novelty in the Balkans, which they suspected to be some new imp of Satan. Hell is not only a German surname, but the mame of the general who was mainly responsible “for precipitating the declaration, of war. Accordinz to a Berlin journal, this “fiery” soldier, now Mackensen's chief of staff, was the | Stationed_on the Russo-German'fron- tler in July 1914, and assered von Moltke by telephone that the Russians were mobilizing. And Moltke prompt- ly decided to give them—*Hell.” One may note that the adjectival form of Kirriemuir is “Kirriemarian,” not “Kirrfemuirian,” as the London papers print it. At least the “Dundee Advertiser.” which ought to be th better authority, gives _the forimer spelling to Sir James Barrie's tele- ready been started in Porto Rico, and |Sram- 2 plans now made include its introduc- tion into eévery Territory of the United States. A nétion-wide campaign for econo- my in the use of coal in steam plani has been nndn,;nmby the Fuel Ad- ministration. The Bureau of Mines ‘is conducting the campaign, with the help of the American Society of Me- chanical TS, At a children’s hospital recently es- tablished by the American Red Cross in France, an average of.350 boys and Eirls are being examined each day. In -conmection is a dental dispensary located. in an oid kitchen, with a den- h.ldlll’impmfindm a wine bar- rel. % for the saving of he Amlfl::.ll oni’ Super- heated. Eminent Ameri physi- clans are quoted as saying that a Toom above 68 degrees Fahrenheit is too warm for health and exposes the to hal - SEupaol fil-tl'l‘ ‘m.m‘ Among the speakers to be heard in the war " conferences, which are to be held in every State in the Union dur- Rabbt 8. Wise, Bishop. les D. and Lieut. Paul Perigord, of the French Army. . M« than _of 1,250 col nden Who compl the course at the réserve officers’ training camp at Fort Des Moines_Iowa. have been commsi- Tb"oo cmmmh i fi:mw . Nearly | surgeons have peceived. in the Medical Rese ?ns'nuu force of Muu o m-nflkrh representatives in ch- e e oo = n & taffed ‘for duty in' France under Ge; Pershing. - p P Could End it All. v At | Two men at the club were talking yesterday of funny groups of names. went to school,” said one of them, “with three boys named respectively ‘Trotter, Walker and Gallop.” “And L” said the other, “served in a department which had to settle queries. and three clerks there were named How, Wenn ana Wage."—London Chronicle. It has eame to my knowledge that gn Sunday, November 25, the polige in Beltast discovered an attempt td im- port into freland a larze. quantity of high explosives. On the arrival of a -odnger in Belfast .@m Ardrossan tWo who are, to be members of the Sion Fein Boy Secouts, came ashore carrying a large iteau. They were follo by the police to their destination, the portman- teau was found to contain a sufficient lquantity of high explosives to' blow up a whole street. An arrest is reported to have been made in Glasgow; and the authorities n thke a very serious view of the matter. One of the Boy Scouts is said to have beei g dispatches, Shion were fastohed 1hside the Haine o eoraine Gther rt the boy: According to an be boys aro staved to Lhni 3 m&_ Marckie- viez's Bay St London Times Dublin corres; ‘ Rather & charming suggestion is poade tn @ “Spectator ariels on the x!;m “Nurse' ;nch'!‘l;.ur of wmc:. course, * more popular Fich the' soldlers: < be thi e what an. Been tempted to is tratarnal term : Ky ~us has R e of greeting—" e.’ RS e oot T e o delta between the ’a”mm-u of the GLEANED FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES It was signedy river-mouth /were yosterday destroyed by the British monitor Picton with big gun fire of remarkable accuracy. The range was 18,000 vards (10 1-4 mlles), and the three bridges which were the target lay 200 vards apart. One was a stone bridge, which the Austrians had repaired; the other two were threc sards wide. On these slight maris the monitors’ suns put five direct hits out of seven chots. The very first shot was on the target,” and the pontoon bridges were each hit at either end, one of them being so effectively cut in two that the acroplanc observer reported that the middie part of it floated down down stream. A shell was also drop- ht into the stone bridse. ler guns mounted on rafts, which are towed in pairs by launches, re scattered about the waterways rearer to the front. I quote from the Manchester Guard- ian 2 motorifz story with a moral: A noble lord when leaving one of the official motor cars asked the woman ariver to come back at a cerfain hour. She replied: “All right” The noble lord then said: “I am accustomed to being called ‘My lord.” The woman driver replied: “Angd I am accustome to being calied ‘My lady.”" & The winning of the V. C, by a man from Thrums has brought the follow- ing_telegram from Sir-J. M. Barrie to a Forfarshire newspapér: “Very proud to hear of Kirrfemuirian's Victoria The soldier’s name is Melyin, lana his mother thus expresses her views: “Aye, I am proud of the boy. {He was a fine Jaddie—no’ a wild loon, though he had a bit o' temper, too— lan' he’s eertainiy had his share o’ the htin’. Tve only seen him twice since he joined the sojers an’ went to India. Honors are a' very fine, but i Youg_Sides FOUR SHOWS SATURDAY REE THEATRE * VIVIAN MARTIN “FATTY ARBUCKLE ——N— A COUNTRY HERO A Picture That Will Make You Hold With Laughter. —IN— Little Miss Optimist A PRETTY STORY OF LOVE AN D SACRIFICE HEARST PATHE NEWS TODAY and SATURDAY 4 SHOWS SATURDAY See This Picture and See if Can Recognize Any of Your Friend or Relatives at Camp Devens,, Mass. , 1.30, 3, 6.45 R R ,.8.30 - [AUDITORIUM] THEATRE _ REPULSE OF THE INVADERS William Fox Presents WILLIAM FARNUM THE CONQUEROR The Most Realistic and Beautiful ization Ever Shown 350 FULL-BLOODED INDFANS IN THRILLING BATTLE SCENES ROARING LIONS and WEDDING BELLS A Wonderful Comedy i | NO ADVANCE IN PRICES ' Pictui French Steel for Germany. A visiting French representative de- Germa. Frenc res that largely in a fa: tcipate. Too Big to Miss. to get hus had a lot of Frer ion she did not exactly an- Chicago Herald THE B “THE CRISIS” In Twelve Parts America’s Greatest American Story by Winston Churchill EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION ia tha City NO ADVANCE IN PRICES Red Cross. CHELSE went to war iron. Well, ske iron and steel and have enrolled as members of the Norwich Chapter of the FIRST PICTURES OF THE HALIFAX DIiSASTER Showing the Terrible Havoc Wroug 't i Under Which the Rescuers Laborad. Don't Fail to See This Picture. the Difficulties A RED CROSS CHRISTMAS HONOR ROLL Firms, all of whose employes LEE & 0SGOOD CO. THAMES NATIONAL BANK DIME SAVINGS BANK SAVINGS BANK MERCHANT NATIONAL BANK UNCAS NATIONAL BANK JOHN & GEORGE H. BLISS UTLEY AND JONES Among Forgetten Things. i Now_that National Guardsmen Anyway, it cannot be said that con- |every state have arrived - in hout knowing what | who remembers the controversy ove gress is meeting wi its .war aim fs—its war aim is at our pocketbook. and it's going to hit it, too. —XKansas City Times. whether they zette-Times. could on forelgn service? lawfully Pittsburgh would rather see my laddic hame."— London .Chronicle. It was in the apen country to the west of the Bourlon weod that the most extraordinary fighting went on. How many massed waves of Germans came on hére no one seems to know, but from half past 9 until dark they never stopped. ‘Wave after wave, at- tack after attack, mass upon mass, our gunners and obsérvation officers say that the ground was simply black with Germans. You could not miss them. And by the end of the day much of the ground was still black with dead. At places fleld suns were brought up with the infantry, presum- ably with some idea of their being useful against the tanks, and our guns 5ot on to them and knocked them out in some cases before they had fired more than a single- round. Our guns, machine gans, and rifles were all bus It was like fighting suocessivs swarms of bees, -and, if the bees come on long enough und thiek enough, some of them will ultimately get somewhere. So there was a time when some of the Germans actually got forward nearly 2,000 yards, and are said to have touched the Cambrai road at the sugar refinery abave Graincourt, but they could not stay there. It was only the apex of the swarm that reached that point. Both to the right and ‘the left the oncoming fiood was held, and then tne apex which had thrust forward—I know I am mixing metaphors—was forcéd back again, and the flood retreated on itself until, by the end of a dreadful and bloody day, the whole gain that the ememy had’ made at the price of so awful a number of lives was represented on the map by a little bay or dent in_our positions in the open country where it means.nothing. Rarely have a few yards of ground been won at Such a terrible cost—Cor. Londen Times. 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