Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-17

rice. tobacco. chestnuts, together with l mulberry leaves for sillSwornns.
 Many of the towns of Venetia arc manufacturing centers, the chief prod- | ucts being glassware, woolen, silk and cotton goods, paper and candles. Vene- tian lace has become so widely known as almost to have lost the geographic significance of it's name.
 The territory derives it's name from the Veneti. the tribes which inhabited this region during the early Roman days. When the barbarians poured over the Alps and Atilla sacked Lorn- bardy, the people of the interior lied to the Adriatic coast, taking refuge on the low islands which cluster around the mouths Of the numerous rivers, It is to this hegira that Venice owed the initial impetus for it's rapid rise to. power. beginning in the fifth century. Her fortunes finally waned with the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope lane to tIle Orient striking fatal blow at the island eity's supremacy as a trade center. 4 large part of the Med iterranean traf7o was quickly diverted to the Atlantic seaboard, establishing England's dominance as the worlds greatest commerce-carrying nation.
 Tn 1797 Napoleon gave Venice ana a large part of the contiguous terri tory to Austria The city and province were incorporated as a part of United Italy in 1866. after the defeat Of Aus tria by the Prussians on the field of Koniggratz in the Seven Weeks war
 kavaIa, the walled Aegean seaport for Seres, the commercial center Of northeast Macedonia, is the subject of today's war geography bulletin pre- pared by the National Geographic So- ciety at it's Washington headquarters. Concerning this historically inter
 esting town of 5000 people which is
 situated on tbe mainland across the
 Bay of Kavala from the island of
 Thasos, and which is connected by
 rail with Salonila, the bulletin says: 'The ships which frequent Kavala
 for cargoes of the finest Turkish to-
 hacco in the world approach the docks from both the east and west for the | town is built on a promontory which l juts eoutI1ward into the bay. The port is 80 miles. in an air line north- east of Salonfka and is about 250 miles
 west of Constantinople. In the sum- doubled for winch America and Europe
 paid more than $6.ooo.000 annually De- fore the war.
 @Whatever may be its role in the present encroaehment of the BulEar- ians on Grecian territory, Kawala's place in modern history is secure as 1 tie birthplace of Mehemet Ali, the re-
 markable son of an Albanian farmer I whose career as viceroy of Egypt dur 1 ing the first half of the 19iil century I almost precipita7ed Europe into @ war l of nations such as is now being fought on battieaelds fhroughont the world. The house in which fhis witty, willy pasha was born in 1769 Is in a narrow, crooked street not far from the Turk tsh school which he founded although he himself never learned to reAd or write.
 i at was during afaheme& AlE's acttv- ities from 1880 to 1s41, as a rebel vas- sal of the Ottoman sultan, that Russia, Turkey, Prussia, Austria, England and I France were kept on the vaxge Of wal HI in their determination to prevent 3 | disturbance Of the balance of power I on the continent During this perllouz period the ambitious pasha, who had T made himself master of Egypt by . massacre of G1e MAme1uke, was thf erux of the Egyptian Question, and his claims to over-lcrdship of Syria.
 where his son Fbrahim was constantly operating with a weli-trained army gave. rise to international complica. 1 fions winch for e decade 1axed thu diplomatic resources Of 4etteTnich
 Pa1merston, Thiers, Ponsonby ant .l Gu1zot.
 Il .Tn the Roman days Kavala wal
 known as Neapolis. and 1t was hers that St Paul landed on his way fruE Samofhrace to Phtlippl, where fhefs was a thriving colony of Christians ts whom the Eptsf1e to the Philippians was addtesaad- Prior to the begin