Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-03
CLEANED FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES

! Every day the Army is disgraced by men in uniforms to which they have i no right. Deserter, civilian, profes- | sional thief and cheat can go to a rag-and- bone dealers and buy | secondhand military clothing Men | home from Gibraltar and other over sea stations marvel at the sight. We have to return everything matter l how ruinous it's condition-tO be pulp ] ed, though the things would be use- | full to make clothes for the kiddies," :" they say. Why should not it De for | bidden to sell secondhand uniforms in shops at honae9-a question that has been asked more than once in th.s column.
 We are evolving a raid sense" The mother of a large family in a very small cottage abutting on main road observed one of her children about to creep out by the front door to see how things progressed. Not that you goes.'' said she. Them Germars know our front door; they don't know as we've got another at the back" little girl, whose parents and broth CTS were out, plunged under the table and sought safety on different lines; T kept saying Our Father which art as hard as l could, and I knewed that would keep you safe. And it has, you sec"
 It is always Baby Week nowadays to the mothers of our incredible he roes at the Front. The V. C. may be a deni- god to us. but to his mother he is just her own bairn, and she ex- poets him to be known as such- delightful old woman was found last week wandering in the crowd outside one of our great military hospitals, lost, but quietly confident. Meeting
 cl1 tall where I shall find Sonnie?" The old lady was greatly surprised when the nurse gently sought further parttcu- lars. To the proud mother there was boy, wounded and home from the wars.
 Nearly every weapon used in an- cient and modern warfare was con- demned as inhuman on it's Its intro duction. Even the crossbOw came under the ban and. was stigmatised by the Lateran Council in 11S9 A. D. as firearms were invented, the Chevalier Bayard held their introduction to be unfair, and ordered all musketeers who fell into his hands to be slain shared the detestation in which the musket was held, and did not come into general use until the legitimacy of firearms was recognized.
 The new Germany will want ships, | and. what is more, she is going to take them. I do not pretend to know l how Herr Lehmann arrives at his 1 figures dealing with tonnage, but q S his Pan-German admirers have hailed i them both as war and ma gnif1cent, they must represent to some extent 1 what is wanted. Here they are: 1
 Before the war
 The Central Powers had 6.s0o,ooo l
 tons. and
 The Entente Powers (excluding |
 T.. S. Al had 2S,400,000 tons.
 After tSa Scheidemaun Peace"
 The Central Powers would have ]
 4,700,000 tons, and
 The Entente Powers 24,o00. 900.
 But after "a German Peace
 The Central Powers would have
 17,S00.00O tons, and r
 The Entente Powers 10,9o0, 900 f
 tons.
 Then comes the question of an in demnitN. Before the war the Ger man Empires National Debt was merely z 250, o00,0 900, and Herr Lehman wants her to end the struggle without | really owing any more. That is to say. Gernany's enemies will have to pay-at present-day figures. which are naturally constantly increasingEt a sum of z .000, ,0o0. 900 to Germany.
 Two thirds of that amount is to be |, paid in money, and the rest in raw