Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-28
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Addressing the Rotary club of Mon treal, Harry Lauder said that if the French of Quebec refused to fight, they were not of the same blood as the peo- pie of France, but of bastard blcod He had noticed that the French were a wee bit ssow in joinig the colors- He advised them not to let their religion interfere with liberty, because II they did they would be always fighting. The Fsrenchmen of Quebec were not asked to fight for France, but for themselves. He saw a wee bit hill near Vfmy Ridge where 10000 Frenchnen died. Quebec was a big country, but how French of Quebec might think the Frenchnan of the old country was an infidel. If he was he was the pest man the world ever knew, and they were all following him because of his
 great qualities. Any man who would not rise today and go to the front was not natural. He must be dreamer or a schooner. Dreams and schemes would not save them.-zLondon Times. Describing the' retusn to home port of the British light forces after the scrap" in the Heligoland Eight, special correspondent of Reuters writes
 suddenly the curtain of mist and spray was broken by the form of a big i gray ship looming up. More followed. cruisers stealing along quite silently on the waters. And then from the 1 bellies of the ships at anchor, which were taking in coal. men poured, and | instantly the gray scene was alive with i blacllened men m grey ships, cheering. But there was absolute silence from l the fighting victorious force. sThe sight of the burnt paint and 1 the marks of shellfire. and the muzzles I of the uncovered guns. yellow and i brown and burnt sienna, told of the 1 fight; the once experienced, unforget- table smell of scorched paint and pow der was carried along on the wind; | mast heeling over a little, the slight drag in the water, the suggestion of 9 1 limp. Wind and tide and sea and | spray, and with it all a picture thfi will be forever unforgettable to every ! man who saw it. a picture with deep l historical meaning-the British navy 1 returning from a victory at sea.
 1 "An American congressman. stand 1 ing on the deck of the motor launch 1 which swayed and swirled in the wash l of the returning ships. held his hat at i arms length and cheered with the 1 tears streaming down his face--cheer- 1 ed till lie said in a broken voice: My God, I wish I could cheer as loud as l those boyS!' !'"-London Chronicle.
 1 The pamphlet advocating plurality of wives, which is exciting Germany, is not the fount and origin of the l shameless scheme. The idea reached Germany from Constantinople. Major /. General Endfes of the Bavarian army, chief of the German military mission l attached to the Turkish headduarters, I seems to have been responsible. He 1 surveyed the harem system of the l Turk, and. 10. it was very good. He reported that it's extension to Ger I many would be in every respect excel l lent with view to increasing the 1 birth rate. That was months ago and
 the pamphlet seems but an echo- London Chronicle
 1 The gun was so well concealed that l six feet away no one could tell it was I there It was a French T5, pointed to- | wards invaded country. as are and have been many thousands of it's fel-
 lows these past few years. The inter est in it lay in the facts that it's crew | were khaki clad "Sammees'' and that :! at exactly 6-25 o'clock upon a recent l October morning it's lanyard was pull ed by an American gunner, launching 1 the first hostile shot in the war de- lending American honor against bar l barism and the kaisers' rule.
 1 Later in the day, as we stood ankle l deep in rich red mud amid a driving rain. the young lieutenant command :; ing the gun team told us the story: It was raining like this, onfv harder
 
 1 the gun was in position. But the mud was so thick it was impossible to pull 1t to this place with our horses. So in 1 their eagerness the crew unanimously agreed to drag it by hand if I gave permission. It was the hardest job perhaps that we ever tackled together l The morass was as deep as the hubs l and over our knees. But in the dark i and the rain we succeeded. We jam med a shrapnel shell home and let it I fly beyond No Mans Land over there 1 We wanted to beat any other battery, i and we did. We used all our shells lSwfthin given range after the first one. I Every man is glad to be here. The weather is nothing. It rains every where. here Or at home. We wish we could stay instead of going back after a while to give place to others.--iscn- don don Times.
 Tho form ef writing which the
 Fiinders Petrie expedition discovered I in Sinai will probably prove to be the l origin of our own and most other ,al- phahets. Professor Gardner thinks. It will aasuredly be Semitic, as the earlf- est alphabets are. It is curious that although the English one can most certainly be traced through the Creek and Latin to these sources. yet these last contain only one form which wo use, and that Is the capital l. corrupt ed by the LAtins and after them by ua into 2. It is true they asso have some sz.zs..ss..z