Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-06
Celebrations in Germany.

The war has for the time being united Germany into one solid body, but this unity does not alter the fact that the Prussians are vastly different from the Saxons and the Saxons diff ferent from the Bavarians. If chance takes one from Berlin to Munich just as a great victory is being celebrated, for instance, the full significance of the difference is apparent.
 The fall of Warsaw and Ivangorod was announced in Munich on Thurs day, August 4, and in half an hour every street in the Bavarian capital was brilliant with the German, Aus trian, Hungarian and Turkish flags, and with the colors of the various German states, the blue and white of Bavaria predominatiug.
 That is approximately all any other city in Germany did, partly because the rest of Germany is rather intensely practical and not given to wasting time over celebrations. But the Ba- varian nature had to have more than colored flags for an outlet. Not only I its intense patriotism but its deeply religious side had to display itself. Accordingly. the next evening, the | majestic Koenigsplatz, hanked by im- posing buildings and containing stand l ing room for over a hundred thousand persons, was filled to overf1owing with | devout band.
 Punctually, as all things German | are, a great military band fiared forth | from the steps of the art exposition 1 building-but the air was not patri- | otic song, it was an old hymn. Over head in the twilight hummed six war l aeroplanes.
 The vast crowd pared its head, and took up the words of the hymn, Great God, we praise Thee" The music rose
 and swelled until it could be heard in
 every part of Munich. The throng,
 uplifted and all but carried away by
 the fervor of its feeling, also sang the
 Te Deum. Still the aeroplanes wheel ed above. the setting sun glinting on | the lower sides of the planes and il-
 Illuminating the sinister iron crosses
 that each carried as distinguishing
 mark.
 The opening of the celebration with
 hymns was not accidental: it was
 and spirit took and take precedence even over an intense patriotism. The Bavarian soldiers in Catholic North ern France have more nearly bridge6
 the gulf between themselves and the | native population hY their piety thar any other group of life at home. , For a brief moment the Oberbuerg. ermeister or first mayor of Munich
 spoke to his fellow citizen in a voice
 that rang clear across the huge square
 At his command a "Hoch" that rem
 the air went up 3 times repeated, tt . the honor of Emperor William, Kinl Ludwig and Emperor Francis Joseph.
 The band swung in again at just tn
 right moment, and the crowd, hat waving, exhuberant with enthusiasm , sang the Bavarian national anthem : Hail to our King, Hail" The tun . is that of America. and the German Hail dir i'm Siegerkranz', impressiv
 exactly in the ratio of the numbe
 singing. The German national hymI Deutschland, Deutschland ueber al y les'' came next followed by 'Di . Wacbt am Rhein". And then tn h crowd concluded its celebration wit
 an old-fashioned song of thanksgiving
 The songs over. that portion of tn | crowd that could, went slowly to tn patiently beneath the balcony until g appeared and spoke to them.
 t Munich is possibly the only Germa
 city that has really celebrated a not
 able victory in such way. Certainl
 it is the only one that to any degre . has injected the religious element ir to its greeting of victory. The Nexple '- nation can lie only in the essentii n difference in the Bavarian character
 put it, the sky looks little bluer 1 ,r us Bavarians than to other Germans Italians Find Fortified Huts. n The Italian troops have had son ie extraordinary surprises in their mouI r tain warfare aginst the Austrians, sa,
 a special correspondent of the Gazet
 De Lausanne. of Switzerland, who hi 1t been at the Italian front. The pap I'd says: They have found at regular fl ,,. tervals from the Stelvio Pass to u .- Adamello Glacier, a distance of abo :, sixty miles, a series of nuts for lodi al ing Anime tOurists on and near il