Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-14
CLEANED FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES

A Letter to the Emperor of Austria l Tarcits Venetiae-spare Venice. You are a Christian Monarch. spare San
 Marco. itself symbol in it's History.
 in it's very pillars of the triumph of ! Christ. Venice Sire, is not a city but | a shrine. Her marble palaces are in i stinct with beauty, her stones still echo the footballs of Petrarch. Will it be
 nothing TO you in the days to come to
 rejoice hat you preserved this pearl ed it under heel?
 l I appeal not for the backyard, but l for the Ca'd'oro; not for the Arsenal | but for rhe Frari. In the name of the l Artists Of the whole warId, in the name 1 Of your own eountrymen. ask you to spare the treasurers that can never be replaced. Spare eiso Verona. Spare the statue # Can Grande smiling i1 defiance of death. Spare the tomb Of the gentle St. Anthony at Padua.
 And 1 will venture to address also your Prime Minister. Count Moritz Els terhazy. In the name of the hours we spent together at Queens College, OK ford in the name of the beauty, of her buildings, I apeal on behalf of the Art treasures of the world.-I ondon Ob- server.
 The public does. not know a tithe of the terrors behind the scenes where misnamed sportsmen rule. A great Scottish hillside, supporting fine flock of sheep was rented by a thriv ing man. But numbered deer were
 allowed to trespass on his holding and
 to starvr out his sheep. Nothing must
 be allowed to interfere with the deer"
 he was told; you must give up your
 holding. And he did. and had to sell
 his sheep at knockout price. The
 prosperous farmer desenerated into a
 hawSer and a local industry was crip-
 pled, in order that once a year a few
 people mlght visit the scene and shoot
 the half tanned deer
 That new, pest now doing great
 damage 70 "potatoes planted in newly
 broken-rp land and neglected gardens
 of allotments" is the caterpillar of the
 rosy rustic moth This pretty moth.
 with the romantic name (hut bearing
 a terrifying Latin title) appears
 throughout late summer and autumn
 and, has been taken in most English
 counties. It has hitherto made raids
 mainly on weeds" not garden plants, and is particularly fond of sedges. But
 now it -seens this caterpillar has
 caught the fever of war, and is attack
 ing the laulrns of potatoes. The rem edy is to spray.-London Chronical
 The Vorwarts- calls attention to as- tonishing statistics of sentences to penal servitude in Germany in the sec- ond year of war; the figures for the third year are not available. There was a diminution of crime in 1914-15 but in 1915-16 the sentences to penal servitude increased from 4,297 to 5.421, and the increase was almost entirely due "militarS" crimes Moreover, the sentences passed were much long CT; for example 51 men and eight wo- men were sentenced to penal servitude for life in 1915-16, as compared with a total of IA in the first year of war. A few weeks ago I received from a Canadia1 friend a letter which first startled and then sent me forth hot foot in ,,uesf of authentic information. He is the mildest of men, but his let ter is not mild as these extracts will show.
 What on earth are you thinking of should not like to repeat ev on paper who come back home after spell of holidays in Englandl but I can tell you the mothers of Canada are sore and angry, and if things are not mend | ed there will be trouble. It has come to this, that they would rather have the fury and savagery of the Huns l than have them running around loose 1 exposed to the deadlier perils of Lon don. Why, in the name of common ! sense, don't you put down your drink l traffic and reorga niZe your morals? We l does it control? Manifestly not strong | drink. And why do your police allow l birds of prey to swarm in the streets | we call it disgrace and an outrage. l Are you really out to win the war. or | are you only pretending ?-Correspon | ence to the London Chronicle.
 The Popes peace proposals are view ed in competent quarters here with | sus spieion. While the document is lated from the Vatican. if is averred that it was drafted at the Roman