Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-27

l tA PIOSlNt. III two cases Ile rect were | affected through irritant matter in i the streets In one case simply han 1 ding powder picked up was the the cause.
 exactly similar in all cases On the l hands the palms and fingers were
 stained a deep orange color The hands were very swollen, and patients
 complained of intense burning and ir-
 ritation. In some cases the condition
 was already septic
 i From the scraps of the Army mess l es. at home 1,250 tons of gIycerine a year are being extracted. That pro- 1S-pounder shells at the Germans said Lieut.. Col. T. Leigh Wood at the Economy Exhibition on Saturday. Women fighters have through Rus sia's history figured in all great pa
 triotic rallies when the national cause
 was at stake. Hundreds of women fought Tn the Russian ranks in the
 Napoieonic War, and it is said that
 today there is hardly a regiment in
 the Russian army without one or two
 women warriors. This is the first
 time, however, that Amazon units have
 been formed.
 Vaforous deeds have been performed
 by the Russian emulators of Joan of Arc during this war There was Sis
 ter Myra 1vanovna, who, when the regiment to which she was ttached was outflanked, and the officers had all fallen, rallied the soldiers in a successful dash on the enemy trench and died in the moment fvictory
 Many other Russian nurses have been killed or have died of wounds sus- diers under fire.
 Marie SmirnOff, q girl Cossack of 21 has won the medal of St. George and two St. Georges Crosses for cour- non- on-commissioned rank for taking prisoner an Austrian officer of the General Staff
 Anna Zeppek enlisted as an "an1bu- 1t did not satisfy her, and she received permission to join the con1batant forces. She was wounded and cap tured in the great retreat. and while a prisoner was sentenced to death as a spy, but the sentence was not carried out, and she was afterwards released While in captivity she threw hot soup in the face of an Austrian officer who tried to make love to her. She was given the St. Georges Cross for bray cry In the capture of a machine-gun | and five men.
 The German aeroplanes that are now being used for long distance erful type. described as follows by a | writer in the Swiss paper, Gazette de | Lausanne'':-
 These are the flying machines that l were put through numerous trials in | January last at Doeberitz, when mem | bers of the Reichstag were among the ] spectators.
 These machines are driven by twin | motors and propellers. They have a l very high speed, and can moreover be 1 made to mount with exceptional rap- idity. thanks to special device of | the rudder. They conduct their bon- bard-nents at heights of 10000 to | 12.o0o feet, and so are pretty well in- to anti-aircraft guns.
 Their speed is so great that 20 min utes after leaving Ostend they are over Margate and Ramsgate. Going and coming, the journey to London takes only an hour and a quarter Not l being meant for fighting, these ma planes for their defence.
 Europe has often carried war into China, and China has sent war into Europe. Gordon looked upon the Great Wall, built 2,0o0 years ago, over noun ain and plain and river for ,50O miles | He remembered how the conflicts, be- gun along that wall, 16 centuries be- lore prOpagated war from people to | eop4e, and brought Afaric to the Sal ,rian Gate of Rome. The Chinese had and a mariners compass housand years before ours. and when ,ur Forth Bridge builders were asked he question they said, "The Chinese yere centuries i nadvance of our can
 lever bridge. Theirs Is on every old willow pattern plate."-London Chron- cle.
 During the first five months this ear 57,056, coo gallons of petrol were imported as against 49,65s, ,000 gallons {. n the corresponding period of 1916. II