Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-08
The British at Rouen.a

Five o'clock teas, smoked fish, roast beef, boxing matches, cricket, golf, corned. beef, narmalade, pickles, Tom my Atkins and the Salvation Army Rouen that Richard the Lionhearted himself would scarcely recognize it.
 Since the second week of the war the streets have been full of khaki uniforms and from that time on the English English language has en- croached until French is rarely heard excepting in the cafes from which Tommy Atkins is excluded by order of the general Even the official commu- nique. is more English than French in Rouen. Ask a newsboy for a paper and he win inquire Daily Mail? Tele- graph2 Times? Here and there boy has a French paper, but seems to con- slider it scarcely worth mentioning.
 If anyone has a building or an apartment to let he hdyertises it in
 English, and it is promptly taken. Officers, subalterns and privates of the Auxiliary service lodged in town, while the fighting Tommies are camp ed just outside. The censor forbids mention of the number and discretion allows nothing more than the hint make a town Of 125,0o0 French popu- lation appear to be English.
 Rousen was the second English base in France after Havre: it was aban- QOnGQ TOT Nantes curing the InaTCn OI the Germans toward Paris, but since
 the battle of the. Marne the quays along the Seine where coal was for
 merly king, with wins as queen, are
 lined with piles of cases containing crackers. cheese, marmalade, corned beef and other essentials of British soldiers fare. Where there are To
 cases there are fiocks of sheep and goats freshly arrived from the slopes of the Himaiayas to feed the Indian corps. Quiet crowds of French people
 Watch the arrival and unloading of supply ships with about the same cu-
 riosity as that with which English tourists watched the movement of vast cargoes of wine before they own ed the town. When the Saint Patrick,
 the Saint Andrew, and the Saint George steam into port these crowds
 watch the ambulances bringing the
 wounded to the dock and as the hos pital ships drop down the river wave 1 them a feeling adieu.
 'Eere we take English money;' Ifs
 announced in some places; unneces- sarily, for English copper and silver
 circulate quite as freely as French money. Freely is the word for in the
 early days of the occupation" the Engiiea were accused of throwing money out of the window. Their ex- the people of Rouen have learned that < though the War office pays hberally | it is not without counting.
 EnSnmy Atkins real ations with the | French population have become fa- miliar if not cordial He did many things in the beginning to raise diffi- entities. The side" brought by Eng | fish officers particularly caused amaze ment. btIt that wears off and the men of the expeditionary corps have found
 many ways of dispelling first impres- 1 Eions. Two hundred of them saved l the bulk of the contents of a big ware house destroyed by fire and were | thanked in official order by the French general commanding the district. On | Sunday afternoon many a Tommy may be seen showing the camp to a | French family. generally taking charge | of ycrnger members. He Is not al- l ways sober and is often over gal lant, Kitchener's orders notwithstand- l ing, ard he Is so conspicuous that ev-