Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-28
FACTS AND COMMENT

Inside Germany there is growing dread of the commercial hostility that will inevitably follow the war. In
 1911 there was little to be desired in
 international trade that was not com ing her way; her dyes. her toys her cutlery were in universal demand eE- eT in England, the home of Sheffield steel. and in America, the land of au- tomatic machinery and Yankee ingenu- ity. But like thes South in 1881, in seeking for more territory for her pc cuiar kultul' she lost all; and now her far sighted bankers and manufacturers are in despair of ever regaining their
 hard-won commercial supremacy in
 the face of the necessity born inven-
 ton of a world of enemies and their
 new found independence of Ger1manic kultur.
 in even considering the taking of a strilSe-vote, the four brotherhoods of railway engineefs, fremen. con6 and trainmen showed either a surpris- ing ignorance of Americas critical sit
 uation or absolute sel1shhe3s. It is scarcely more than a year since these
 same men received by act of Con- gress an advance in wages which their
 employer could i'll afford to pay; but public opinion, in view of this recent
 increase and likewise of the patriotic service the railroads are rendering
 was so decided to leave their case in
 the hands of the president; yet they only came to this after the railroads
 had announced their own intention to accept his decision, whatever it might
 be.
 Yet the railroad men are not the
 only ones who fail to appreciate the seriousness of the national crisis. ing their lives to their country, there
 is only too general a desire on the part of all labor to make money out of the nations necessities. Demands are foA frs1 1a1 at prices of labor and commodities should increase in time of war is inevitable,
 but it is the part of each true patriot to curb his desire for higher pay. even as it is his part to refrain from the purchase of luxuries, the manufacture of which makes it harder for the gov ernment to secure the labor necessary to her very life, We are planning to spend nineteen billions on army and navy the first yaer of war. All the ex- penses of our Government for the en- tire 126 years of it's existence even including the staggering cost of the Civil War. have amounted to but ss
 billions. There are not hands enough
 in the entire land to produce the enormous quantities of goods needed
 by army and navy, and at the same
 time continue to turn out the host of convenience and luxufies that we, as
 patriots can fell do without. It is not
 in food alone that we must Hoover
 ize," but in every single thing that we can possibly 1orego. Ever since the battle of Vinsy ridge last spring, the British had been pounding away on the Flanders line, uncon8prtably enough for the Germans who were vain1y trying to maintain their positions. and yet tAAying per spread throughout the Fatheriand that England cares only for her own mari time supremacy, and Is only spurrinE sn the ethsr allies to aid her .n he5ains
 ridge. commenting the entire Flanders plain, was entirely in the hands of
 British and Canadians; the next move would be to secure the railway j,Inc-
 sn sssea 's on ss aoas ssa sraps
 wera being ruahed across from the Russian to the Belgian front to meet
 the expected assauit; when. sixty
 miSes . to the sensh aaa such s sisw fe 2. fare began three years ago.
 Out of the morning mist unaAraid- cd. on a thirty-fivo milo front, rolled forth the British tanks not the twen- dn army of them, On they came. great thirty-ton monatera. roiiirg down the eiahernte entangienontG, postx. bashsa xlro and all. pa.in=s = nov to machine gun post. and in their wake, iaushins and cheering. followed ths cavalry. Six miles deep tho wedge was driven into the tirnpreHnab!e linden burg line and tho way wna shown to Accomplish the tmpoasihie. Twenty four hours at Cambrni had produced greater resuits than three months at Xpres.
 The battle Of ths TanI<s b sianifeant in that there was no preliminary bom-