Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-01

But what has happened this time? In spite of the most desperate efforts efforts in which every part of the ra- ton was ultimately involved--the aim could. not be achieved, and the pros- poets at the end of 1917 are gleomier than ever before. The enemy could not be beaten. The working classes, who in the mass have observed an eK- traordinarily patriotic attitude, had, instead of gaining, to stake more and more. First they lost the;r rights, then they lost their profits, and they had to give their own flesh and blood for military service, and they had to put up with restrictions on all sides and with the profteering of the food deal-- CTS. The munitions legislation of 1875 was the beginning, and the economy edictS of the autumn of 1917 are the last stage-for the present.
 The English character is tough, very patient, but absolutely determined when once it has arrived at certain conclusions. The dreams of interna- tional socialism are a matter of su
 preme indifference to the English workman. But he feels in his own person that his position has deteriorat ed from month to month. The soldiers returning from the front will find among their fathers and their brothers ferment of which there could be no question IS months ago.
 The Cologne Gazette says that iio- body, even in England, can define the existing system of government It re- views developments during the war. and, after making adroit use of news paper quotations about the loss of frA dC
 l The cabinet gives no regular &C., count to parliament, does not cNpsult the party leaders, and hardly answers the questions that are put It governs l England by means of a new ou1eau- cratic machine, which interferes in everything. controls everythin, and is l itself as good as free from parliamen- tary control. At the head of every th.ng is the influence of the prime minister, Lloyd George, who of course l will disappear at the moment when parliament succeeds in recovering its
 lost power. Lloyd George has tried tc strengthen himself by an electoral re-
 form which greatly increases the num- l Der of the voters. But this is double edged weapon. Of the new votes as
 many will go against him as for him ] as soon as the country has had its l which it has sacrificed without getting the political and military successes
 which Lloyd George promised a year ago. As to this we must never Iese 1 sight of point which the English dt l not bring out into the light-the faet 1 that tn ewholeeconomic system of tht country, it's business, it's shipping, and 1 its shipbuilding, was most closely link. l ed up with the former method of gov
 ernmeat.
 An interesting service ioe.S niaes
 Jan. 10 at the historic St. John'i
 church, Cierkenwell, when the Knight.
 ef St. John of Jerusalem returned
 thanks for the reeapture of the Hel.
 City. The Duke of Connaught, al grand prior of the order in England
 was present, and the sermon wa!
 preached by the Archbishop of Yrss the prelate. All that remain of tn
 famous Priory of the Knights Hosni tallers are the choir and crypt of 'st
 John's and the gatehouse, now knowl
 as St. Johns Gate.-Lon6en Chronicle -Scotsmen should have a particula
 interest in Finlands declaration of in
 dependence. for many of the princips
 families in the new Republic bea
 names of purely Scottish origin =
 Ramsay, Douglas, Fraser, Mentgena
 ery, Hamilton, and the like. The req son for this is that hundreds of Scot fought under the banner of Gustavu Adelphus of Sweden during the Thirt Years War, and many, gaining dis , tinetion on the battlefield, elected f remain in their adopted country, an , settled in Sweden and Finland - the understanding the families whie today form a great part of the aris , tocraey of the two countries.
 The Austrian Court has an intere, l in German New Guinea, to whicl !. though it has been annexed to Austra