Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-14
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II CLEANED FROM FC i German art critics devote entbusi- Eastie articles to Rodin, whom they igenerafly consider one of the greatest !sculpters who eyer lived, and certain fly the greatest France ever produced One writer says: "Rodin, like Shakes Ipeare and Michael Angelo, belongs to great art creator is one we will never allow anyone to question"
 1 The Berlin Academy of Arts is t. discuss at its next meeting the advis, ability of sending through a neutral tcountry, q message of condoience to Rodin's family.
 On October 2, with three hattalions and two special assault troops in the front line, determined advance was made between Hill 344 and SamioG- ineux, and our Allies then lost a short piece of trench. On October 21 q on the flank of the Chaume Plateau l The usury of enemy strength has certainly been higher than last year We know that while T6 German divi- sions were used upon the Verdun front last year, that is eight per month for the active period, 24 divisions nlNe been exhausted in two months of thls lautumn.
 There is a significant difference b. ftween the tactics of the opposed arm lies, which largely accounts for this difference of results.
 Among all she notable events 1tth
 which the Bible links the name tf iJeppa none captiyates the imagination so pleasantly as that letter of Hiram King of Tyre. declaring his majesty
 readiness to assist solomon in ere building of the Temple. Not ea'y T +, 1n,,d hi n tifieers, but we will cut wood our ot
 Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need and we will bring it to thee in floats
 by sea to Joppa and thou shalt carry lit up to Jerusalem" No man now lknows how or when those royal letters vanished from human ken. but JeSs- phus may have seen them. for he rec ords that in his day they were pre- served in the archives of Tyre.
 Purchasers Of Ameriea's Liberty Bond among the foreign-born employ lees of the Pennsylvania Railway, east
 strange facts. Nearly one in thres tboHsht a bond, says the New York l'Outlook," and among these were 97 Turks, of whom 44-nearly one half !man employees also invested, and 25 l per cent. of the Austro- -Hungarians i employees. ' GoHeFQt 6yd9S great NtSt9Fy PTOVStS ! once more that the element of surprise lhas not been eliminated by aircraft
 from war. We have had surprise af- fter surprise First there were the 1 big German guns, then the immortal Itaxicab Army from Paris, which saved { the French capital. then the invasion of East Prussia and it's horrible Tan lnenburg surprise sequel. The emer- lgence of Mackensen'S phalanx from behind Cracow was a surprise, though | that very manoeuvre had been carried out, not long before the war, by Aus ! trian troops. In each case it was the
 unexpected that happened.
 The manner in which the Italians
 reached their frontiers at the word tof war found the enemy quite unpre- pared; the attack upon Verdun was
 planned and prepared to the last de l tail, in secrecy. Serbia was swep. away by storm which had long been l brewing unobserved across the Dan ube, and the entry of Bulgaria was not was surprise. as was liquid fire and I the tanks. which have made Byngs i astounding stroke possible, were the greatest surprise of ail.
 l Not only is there battle in the blood
 strafford of the present creation was that Sir John Byng who achieved l fame in the. Peninsular War, but even
 paca wsa. st rnra does net know Wpotham Park. which lies on the high road between Barnet and Potter's Bar? Outside it's bordering wooden fence stands the obelisk which marks the. site of the Rattle of Bar net in 147i.-Lendon Chronicle.
 1 We seen, . century removed from | the age of Telstoy, yet it is but ten
 years today since he died His dreams
 iessly remote. from the horrible times l in which his Russia lives. His male descendants fought in the Russian
 army 50 lang as that army did fight. he loved. carrying weapons in their
 hands, broke in and nillaged his es- tates,. and the family had to appeal
 to such authorities as be to afford the resistance which the seer deprecated. Ths 4hiddes hsnas ir Esuedor7 We have heard little of the furious rev.
 olutien raging in this South American ttrace the long arm of Germany up to tthe capital A few years ago
 English began te De taught in ths
 schools. with Anaeftcan teachers iR aitered; the Germans took control and the schools passed to German mission, whose members were person ally. chosen by the Kaiser. And today
 Ecuador is rent in twain.
 Mir. Rohsrt Benson hes teId us that l we must not Faersiy inprsase preduc-
 ton and diminish consunption. but the nation,- he eays, must associate
 himself with the soivency of the state. You know" he said to me the other day how Frsnee wac ohls to sustain 1 ed in Waterlpo; how the Germans sus- tained theseven Years War: and hew Italy during the last 90 years. under Gernan s9idanee and in spite of that ! redeelnfns all her per cent taxable rentes which were held abroad and replacing them with 3 1-2 per cent, free~ef> income<tax rentes held As home. The, peoples in these three eases arc. frugal thrifty. and wise. They work hard, live carefully, and save money. fhese sAvinzs are an ifHRertant part of the stato wealth. They are taken eIaf faf fiae atfrbifae in