Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-19
CLEANED FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES

Anton Vyg, 21 years old. and Hu- | bert Nieterau 20, who have escaped | from Germany, told the correspondent | of the London Times the following story:
 On September we were approach ed by a Dutch workman whom we had known and who said. Will you
 make 40 guilders a week?' We said office of a firm. blacklisted by the British as we heard afterwards. and accepted an offer to work in Germany as naVvies. Our wages were to be about IS marks (1Ss.) daily. We re- ceived a ticket by which we could get a photograph and ticket for pass port. On September 5 we found our selves in company with 23 Dutch workmen, mostly skilled workers in the iron trade. on the platform at 'Maas Station in Rotterdam. under the guidance of a member of the said firm. The same evening we were taken over by another member of the firm at Emmerich. who took us to Es- sen. The next day we were forced to enlist as munition workers at Krupp's works. On September we had to
 shells. No protest could help us. We
 worked with Belgian deported people,
 Belgian. French and Russian prison
 ers and German men and women. All
 were under guard of German sentries
 armed with rifles and revolvers. We
 were forced to work because, unless
 we worked. we had no food. We
 worked eight hours a day practically
 without interruption There were 12
 shell presses in our department. but
 two of them were not employed owing
 to shortage of men. The atmosphere
 was insufferably hot, and men occa-
 sionally tainted.
 Nieterau said that he had seen a
 German killed by the rough way in
 which girl had swung a hot steel bar
 towards him. The man was placed by
 the side of the gangway and remained
 there for four hours, as work could
 not be interrupted for the purpose of
 attending to him. Both Vvg and Nie-
 terau had been ill for about half the
 time they spent in Essen, as the re-
 suit of strain and bad food. The lat
 ter. they said, consisted of swillings
 twice a day and four slices of bread.
 Nieterau lost 22 pounds in weight in
 21 dayy.
 They were struck with the fact that
 nobody at the works spoke about the war. and that all Germans well as their prisoners were nothing but slaves who had partly lost their power of
 thinking as the result of underfeed- ing.
 The firm which engaged the two young men is being prosecuted by the Rotterdam police fer breach of neu- trality, as metal workers are not all lowed to proceed outside Holland.
 The Vorwarts calls attention to the official statistics of tuberculosis in Berlin. During March, April and May from tuberculosis. as compared with l 1,032 deaths in the same months Of | 1916: 1,00a deaths from inf1a ammation | Of the a1e lungs, as as compared nIs with S22 lung diseases as compared with 19O l deaths in 1916. Thus the total num- | Der of deaths from lung troubles dur | ing the three months was 2,952 in 1917, l oS r2 cd yyjfI in,
 It is not little singular that the ! oldest flag belongs, comparatively | speaking. to the newest nation. The United States adopted their present colors 40 years ago (June 14, 177D. 1 and the only change in it since has been the addition of now stars for every new state added to the Union. The stars and stripes were. of course, takn from the arms of General George iy is depicted on monuments in Erin ton church. The Union Jack, in it's present form, dates only from 1901. while the French tricolor was adopted in 1794
 To one of the casualty clearing sta tions in Armentieres was brought a boy of 19, who had been gassed. He like an old man. ard deaf and dumb. knew where he had come from or to whom he belonged, but he had one creature faithful to him. It was cher with him. sitting his chest. It watched close to him when he lay in the hospital. and went away with him, sitting on his chest again. when he was sent further away to another clearing station. This dogs fidelity to the paralyzed boy. who was deaf and dumb and gassed, seems to men who have seen many sights of war and Lhis agony in Armentieres the most pitiful thing they know.
 "A queer chance meeting took place n a South London tobacconist's shop ,n Saturday evening" writes eor a cor nan, who lacked his left arm. was serving me, another customer entered with a wooden stump for his left leg. A moment later a soldier came in with his right sleeve empty. All were obviously merely casual customers, or Tommy stared with amazement at he one-armed shopkeeper. the one egged customer, and then indicating lis missing arm, remarked: work they could make ione complete nan out of the three of us.' "-Londcn Chronicle
 The people of the United States were intensely peace loving. They had ried as hard as they could to main- ain a position of neutrality as long IS they honorably could but they had ,een finally forced to the conclusion hat this earth was no place for de- ent people to inhabit. If a single great lower could be allowed to go on un- hecked by whatever means-by force, | " treachery, by the use of actual or moral potson-Sweeping out of it's way ny obstacles which stood in the path T It's own inordinate ambition: and so le felt that their country and his