Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-22

of aviators who have never been traced is also very high.
 The appeals of mothers and children are arranged alphabetically in huge cases and constitute the most touch ing feature of the work. GIancing among these appeals one could see the agony each one had for some stricken home. One French mother wrote the king:
 "I suffer night and day in not know ing what has become of my dear boy and I would prefer l believe, the cer- tainty of his death and of having a tomb where I could go to pray, rather than to live in this endless and cruel uncertainty, which consumes me as by a slow fire. It is horrible, Monsieur the King, for the brothers of this pocr boy have already died on the field of honor, And if our last son Charles is dead we have no more sons. A weep ing mother puts her supreme hope in Your Majesty
 A wife made this simple appeal: .Seigneur, appeal to your kindness for my husband, missing the 27th September before Souchez"
 A little girl wrote this letter: Mon sieur, I have the honor to ask some news of my brother We are all in cannot be consoied. Will you give us news. Here is his address,
 Another wife wrote: If at least I could only know that my husband
 
 baby-sirl that the father has never yet seen, and this baby -child pleads to your good heart
 These appeals do not always follow the niceties of diplomatic communal cations. Some of them are on rough paper bought at the country store, and are in trembling hand writing of old persons. But the king does not see these defects, and his greatest satis- faction is in sending a personal tele- gram to some mother or child telling of the successful result of his search. When long telegram of gratitude came recently. the king himself an swered:
 Thank you for your felicitations. am very happy that my efforts have been satisfactory"
 It is not as easy to convey the news when a son or father has been killed. in its brevity-"todt" on tfe German reports, and "decede" on the French. But the king, to avoid shock to the family, has adopted the delicate for mula of first sending notice of a death to the mayor of town, asking him to adopt suitable means of conveying the news to the family. The letter in that case reads:
 q regret to inform you that, accord ing to a letter received from the ann bassador of his majesty at Berlin, de- spite all the efforts to gather infor- nation concerning -.......-........, they nave been able 10 learn only that he is dead, in offering his life glori- ously for his country
 ''Will you kindly convey this sad news with all the delicacy possible to ............ and at the same tine in the name of the king express his most sincere condolence and sym pathy."
 There are some 150.o 900 of these dead and untracable missing in these pal ace records-an army greater than NapoieOn's army at Waterloo. To mark the soIemnity of these 150, 900 cases, the king has placed above the records a gold framed scroll, a wreath of laurel leaves entwining a cross.
 The king has attached to the staff of the Spanish embassy at Berlin for ty persons who are making these in- vestigations in all parts of Germany. It is growing so. that another seven teen will be added soon. The same kind of inquiry is being made in Aus tria, Italy and France and other coun- tries
 There are two large maps of Ger many and Austria which the King comes in often to inspect They tell at a glance, by means of hyerogfy phics the exact state Of each of the many prison camps. Those in Austria indicated by a star, are almost all l good Many of those in Germany fn- dicate, by a hollow square, that the | condition Is bad.
 There are many notable names in | these records One of them is Mime. l Carton de wiart, wife of the Belgian 1 member of the ministry. She was de- ported and imprisoned at Berlin. re-