Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-05
CLEANED FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES

A Bulgarian dispatch to the Lon-
 don Times dealing with the enforced frecruitment and general treatment Of ! the Serbians by the Bulgartans re- fsh, and translation of It is issued
 by the Serbian Legation. The dis- | signed by the Chief of Staff, and Is addressed to the Headduarter Staff, ] Kustendil, and shows that the Ser 1 bian popuIat tioff in the districts affect ed were reduced to a condition of slavery.
 The dispatch begins by a reference to reports Of iH-treatn1ent of "the peaceful 1aborers'' by the Serbian lab 1 orers deported from the Merava val ley, and goes on to say that since the arrival of the Serbians from that re- zion assertions had become very fre- | quenf. The document continues:- Recently the War Minister gave orders to the authorities of the Nor ava districts to arrest the deserters At that time all such persons were sent to Pashmak1y and Shiroka Luka, where they were punished by hard labor on the roads and by whipping; but afterwards a telegraphic notice was issued and communicated to all Serbians, those who were prisoners as well as those interned and recruited from the districts of Morava- that anyone who tried to desert would be shot. his house burnt down, his, be- longings confiscated, and his family deported to the districts Of KrpaK; the companions of the fugitive would was pot given (to the authorities, by them as to the intentions of the fu- gitfve.
 At the same time an order was giv- en to all persons employing Serbians as faborers to remove them during the harvest time to depots. and afterwards
 to use them for work in ports, on
 the roads, and railway lines. Be-
 sides this an order was given to
 distribute arms and munitions
 amongst the Bulgarian population all
 along the old Bulgaro- Serbian iron
 tier, as well as to those persons along
 the roads wherever assertions were
 possible.
 M. Brantins's newspaper Social
 demokraten says that the German
 statement is exactly what might be
 expected. Germany attempts to
 ples right, mantle which no coun-
 try has so often torn to shreds as Germany. Now that Germany has spoken, our humiliation is yet great cates who carefully ignore the nature of the te1egrams sent would be for all
 Swedes perfectly disgusting The Foreign Ministers attempt at a de- England and America, and the For eign once stock has sunk so low that bankruptcy seems inevitable. Even the most faithful Press orGans are not satisfied, as the Foreign Omce leaves the matter in an impossible situation.
 In a dispatch received by the Can adian War Records Office MT. Stewart
 Since the heavy fighting in the fail ure of the enemy's effort to win bace< his lost. ground north and west Of Lens the Canadians holding the line there have had an extremely quiet | time. The cleaning up of the battle field has revealed some strange incl dents. In one case the body of 9 Can adian who had penetrated the enemy line alone during an attack was found by the bodies of Is of the | enemy, whom he had killed with l bombs or his bayonet before he him self was slain. No other instance is | known in the annals of the Canadian l Corps where one man accounted for | so many foes 1
 Practically the whole German Press ! is still required every day to denounce President Wilson's interference" with | Germany. The announcement from f that the United States is | not tying itself down to a demand for 1 the removal of the HohenzoIleArns is displayed by the Bcrfiner Ta&eb1att 1 as a retreat" The Frankfurter Zei- l
 The German people will make it's State institutions in accordance with the high level of it's political, moral and intellectual strength, and accord
 ing to it's needs-not as seems good to the patronizinE narrowness of Herr Wilson and Herr Lansing. These changes in our constitutional life can- 1 aot have anything whatever to do with the peace. Peace will come when when our enemies have Accllstonzedk themselves to the thought that no conditions can be dictated to us, but hat they muet come to aM aertomeut