Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-16


 Russian manufactures are gathered at this depot for Persian and Asia Minor consumption.
 Government of 5aku-A little penin- sula jutting out into the Caspian sea which fs one of the centers of the pe- troleum industry of the world. It is called Apsheron and belongs to tlte Russian empire For hundreds of miles up and down the water, departing from Apsheron, the coastal lines of the Cas- plan sea are almost @sternly self-re- pressed, meeting in the oil region to form the fartherest easterly projection of the west Caspian coast. The penin- sula Is dry and monotonous distin- guished for three things-its oil, it's sand wastes and it's wind storms
 Department of Pas de- -CaIais-Most Americans who visit Paris pass through the territory embraced in the French maritime department of Pas de-Calais. for it's port cities, Boulogne and Calais, are the two great tourist gateways for transoceanic admirers. Still. few who have gone this way will remember the country we'll enough to be able to picture 1t as stage for stu pendous military operations. The Ca lais- Basic express is one of the fast est trains on the continent of Eu- Switzerland and quaint southern France before. few have left occasion | to loiter on the law, damp northwest ern plain. These lowlands, now creepy with winter chill, have become a focal point for world attention through the German efforts to master the seacoast nearest England.
 s-de-Calais is typical of all indus trial France. The department contains 2,6O6 square miles, and supports more than a million people. Its channel coast is thickly settled with villages of fsher-folk. many of the French her ring and mackerel sold in this country | by dealers in fine groceries coming from there. The greater part of the ! French coal output comes from fields | Tn this department. In that particu- | lar, it is the Pennsylvania of France, and, like Pennsylvania, has it's great Pittsburgh iron foundries. Much beet
 sugar is manufactured, and brewing and paper Naking are the two other | important Industries. Most interest | ing. however, is the machine made | lace industry of Calais which is chief ly lace town. Nearly everyone there | earns his or her living in some branch of this industry. designing the lace sorts, tending the almost-human ma chimes which weave the complex pat ! terms as handily and as well as could | be done by hand, finishing, dyeing, carding and selling the output to buy CTS from all corners of the world. Af- | ter taking rank as a tourist port and ! as the nearest foreign port to Eng land, Calais is known to the world as the center of manufacture for the
 Calais woven laces.
 Boulogne is g miles from Calais. and is the leading port of the depart ment. Between these two cities is | Wimereux where a harbor was eX- | cavated in 1903 at the order of Ma poleon I, preparatory to his projected | invasion of England. In 1904 he as sembled an army of 1I2 900 infantry
 and 5000 cavalry on the tableland to the north of Boulogne, and collected in the harbor a sflotilla. of 2,413 craft of various dimensions, for the purpose of the English invasion. The troops IaHaited only the arrival of the fleets from Antwerp, Brest, Cadiz and the lharbors of the Mediterranean. which were prevented from coming by the lEnglish fleet. Two miles from Bou- llogne stands a great Doric column 1I2 fleet high. commemoFating the expe-
 dition, although it never got under way The First Empire left the mon iument unfinished. but nearly a hall century later it was completed.