Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-08

Wales for the year 1917-1S show that S,2S1, ,0e0 acres have been harvested welding 4S.557019 bushels. as compar- ed with 3.521,0 900 acres. yielding s. 600 900 bushels in I916-17.
 In it's report the French Budget Com mission has adopted the suggestion to authorize the Government to withdraw from circulation and melt down all the coins of .2f.. lf soc, and 2ac. bearing the head of. Napoleon III.
 Although tlse Pope. generously as- sists needs among the beIligerent poulations, says the Corrier d Italia. a semi official Vatican organ, recourse to an international loan in favor of the Holy See. as asserted. will not be necessary.
 Count Andrassy's Constitution Party and Count Apponyis United Indepen- dence Party have resolved to enter the party Of the new Hungarian Govern 1nent. Five members of the Apponvi Party refused to fall in with the re- solution.
 The Egyptian Government has taken over the telephone service as from January l, and will pay interest at the rate of per cent until the com pletion of the purchase. The Council of Ministers has approved of the trans action.
 Signor Constantine Lazzari. the of flcial secretary of the italian Socialist Party. was arrested in Rome on Jan
 uary 9. In the course of a search at the office of the Socialist. Party and
 the residence of Lizzan numerous do-
 cuments were seized .a The death in London is announced
 Of pr. Jechiel Tchlenow. virtual head
 of the International Zfnist movement. His official connexion with the move
 ment goes back to it's initiation by
 Theodor Herzl 21 years ago. and at the Zionist Congress in Vienna in 1913 he was elected second president. It is announced in Paris, that air 1 raid shelters for use both day and night are being established in ali parts of the city. use being made more par ticularly of the underground railway stations. crypts. Sc. The lighting of
 Paris is to be further reduced. M. Kaufman, Luxemburg Minister
 of the Interior, announced in the AiIdIuOCI Ol IgcpullES that G6IIQaIfY would furnish Luxemburg with grain for making bread until the new har-
 vest. Luxemburg, in return, had agreed to provide Germany with cioy- CT seed.
 The King of the Belgians, who has gone to the South of France to join the Queen, passed through Paris on i Sunday. where he was required by M. Poincare to hand to the Queen the | Metallic de Ia Reconnaissance Fran
 caise on behalf of the French Govern
 ment.
 Baroness de Ronsard died in Cairo on Sunday, aged S9. She took part | in the nursing of wounded in the Prusso Danish campaign of 1S49 and | in the Crimean and Franco German
 campaigns. She was several times
 wounded, and was decorated by Presi-
 dent Thiers for heroism under fire. Cp the New South Wales Legislative Assembly MT. Storey, the leader of the l Opposition has given notice of a mot | ion censuring the Government in con
 nexion with it's administration during
 the industrial upheaval and with the | alleged violation by certain members
 of the Cabinet of their pledges regard | ing conscription.
 Socialdemokraten has interviewed M. Garin. the Charge d'Affaires whom Nj. Lennins representative at Stockholm | M. VorovslSy, has sent to Copenhagen. M. Garin said that Nj. Vorovsky him
 self would come to Copenhagen next week to hand his credentials to the King. He also predicted that the De-
 wager Empress of Russia would in the
 near future arrive in Copenhagen from
 Livadia.
 An order has been published in tue
 French official Gazette imposing re- strictions, inter alia. on the thickness
 of paper for printing, on the number
 and dimensions of posters, on the di-
 mension of theatre programmes, and on the employment of large characters in the printing of books The oraer
 also compels the declaration of al
 stocks of paper over 1,0a0 kilos ensar- | R one tunl.