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Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-19
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
One Who Disaqrees.

Mir. Editor: I note that Uncle Billie has overfiowed once more, but see nothing in his statements likely to up- lift humanity. I venture to state that I entirely disagree with his remarks Possibly a woman occasionally has the last word Why shouldn't she? Hasn t she as much right to the last word as a man has? I want Uncle Billie to write again and state exactly why a woman cannot do as much good with the ballot as without it, and will he also state how he happens to know
 just wherein lies Woman's greatest happiness? Why, too, is there any
 thing of notoriety in the casting of a
 ballot by a woman? I have cast two
 ballots and I saw nothing notorious
 about doing so any more than in at
 tending church. Wilf Uncle Billie ex-
 plain how he knows who wants the
 ballot and who doesn't want it? Has
 he made 8 house to- house canvass
 He is worried about the time required
 to fit women to vote intelligently. Does
 he think that all male voters are vot-
 ing intelligently, and is he worrying
 himself sick over those who don't, or
 is he thinking of limiting male suf
 frage to the few who do vote inteAi
 gently? I want him to write again ana eApld1n th1S Slue ol the 4ueSt1oH
 He is also worried about congress be- ing overwoFked. If they had attended to giving women the suffrage earlier before the war-they wouldn't have the matter on hand now. Uncle Billie is quite willing. I see, that woner should be put off forever. There are many of his type. He wants everyone to do his bit, and we hope he has done his. If he would knit more socks fol the men in the trenches, possibly his time would be spent to better purpose than by writing such articles as this in The Bulletin today. AUNT SALLIE.
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STORIES OF THE. WAR
How The Generals and Staff Officers


 Live.
 Correspondence of The Associated Pressl:
 The idea that generals and staff officers live in mansions and lead their regiments from behind" does not apply to the British army, as anyone can testify who has spent any con- siderable time in the war zone in France. Staff rank is no passport to safety, least of all in these days, when the belt of the danger zone is many miles wide and over vast areas of shelterless and desolated countryside the best cover that can be hoped for is the ruins of an old dugout or the crumbling cup of a shell hole.
 A concrete illustration of the fact that the senior officers are as ready to face the dangers of the battlefield as thir comrades of the rank and fife. is found in the recent award of the Victoria Cross to an officer who holds high command in the field, Brigadier General Clifford Coffin of the Royal engineers, General Coffin was already the holder of the prized Distinguished Service Order. but the award of the V. c. is made specifically "as a bright example of how a commander by his own fearlessness and devotion to duty. can inspire his men to face the most trying situation"
 One of the chief difficulties in any attack is the maintenance of com munications. As soon as an attack commences. the enemy drops a cur tain of shells between the advancina troops and their supports, to prevent messages getting back or reltefs coming up. Telephone wires are cut by shell fire and runners take tre- mendous risks while making their way through the barrage.
 Knowing this. General Coffin de,
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DANCING AT PULASKI HALL
 FRIDAY NIGHT SWAHN'S ORCHESTRA

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 and National Army Camps
 in America. "SmiIeage Books" issued by Federal Military Entertainment Council, pro- vide free admission to these theatres. Send one to YOUR soldier or to
 ANY soldier.
 Price $1. For sale at the following places: The Porteous & Mitchell Go. < The Reid & Hughes Co. (Boston Store).
 Rathbone's Drug Store. Ricker's Drug Store. The Lee & Osgood Co. The Wauregan Hotel Office. Mara & Eggletop. George Madden (Clgar Store). Engler's Pharmacy. K of c. Rooms. Ring & Sisk, Druggists. The '. M. c. A. Office. H. M. Derou. J. c. Macpherson.
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A SLIP OF THE PHONE

think passed us with the coidest bow imaginable? It was Phil! Honestly my heart just stood still when I saw hirn. could scarcely be- lieve my eyes, but it was Phil, and oh, he looked so big and handsome in his uniform! And he didn't pause to speak! I stopped walking and guess turned white because MT. Hilton looked at me in alarm.
 "'Are you ill?' he asked. | ".No,' I answered. but please run after that army officer who just passed | us and tell him I must see him at once. Please go! Hurry! Quick! You might l lose him in the crowd SHe Sobeyed and I stood perfectly still, thinking that neither his opinion of me, prop riety nor anything else in the world
 mattered.
 l 4.Oh, Phil I cried when he came back with MT. Hilton. Where did you come from?'
 "From the door of your studie' he answered, where I've been doing sen try duty for forty-nine minutes "sBut when did you come from
 camp? didn't know you were here.
 "'At II o'clock you engaged by
 phone to go to lunch with me. I went to your studio, found it locked and 1 "tOh, Phil, why, MT. Hilton. I-you didn't expect to take I began,
 ".Aw, it's perfectly all right said MT. Hilton, I was delighted, I assure you. Awfully jolly time, but fl, you'll excuse me now I'll run along to an engagement was about to keep when I dropped into your studio quite ac- cidently, you know. I got the numbers mixed. meant to go into the drafts mans office next door. If you'll excuse me I'll hurry on. I may be bit lata but I dare say it's of no consequence. Jolly old boy remarked Phil amia- | bly, as MT. Hilton disappeared But how in the world-did you ever@ I "'Why, I thought you were a thou sand miles away, and why didn't you ! speak in natural tone and say you were you?
 "Because I wanted to surprise you i Eve been trying to get leave for months
 to come up here on very special busi- ness. can stay only four days. That.
 ninety-six hours and, subtraetins
 thirty-two for sleeping and dressing leaves sixty-four only.'"
 !! Well he figured it closely enough, said Laura.
 "Yes. and he'll be here for dinner in just a few minutes said Helen
 DO have Sally make something eXtr; and may as well tell you now that that the business he came up for i
 already settled and I am the happies , and proudest girl in the world and l oh, there he is Snowi'-Exchange
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FAVORABLE TO THE ALLIES.


 There can be no denying the fact that the central powers have been gaining ground 1lonG the western front from the vo-y day that their present offensive r.as opened They have been working to schedule but no one knogs better than they do that they have failed to keep up with it. They have secured torritory which they did not previously hold. Ut they have rot secured what they ai.aed at and what they have obtained has not been . gotten '-t- 70 -~Derted. But on tol --e not been able to hrca'. '' ,u aHied lire at any enc lto.n
 In the sue nss vn5 C -.,anv and it's allies have secured sight cannot be lost ot ihe tremendous sacrifices 2 which have been made. , Division af- ter division hHs rN~- .'--C--G into the ], confici for Ire uur.a t'-vshing 2 the enerv. The lo ,srning which there is as yet e.. ,..; LoGnite, have been appalling. Troops have been sent forward to @r~,,tered for ground gaining purpy1cs. Had the .allies been willing to msl," ~" great sacrifices it is entirely probable that they could have held their adversaries without as great a loss of territory but land bv them is considered cheap Ter than funanity. however Germany may look upon #.
 The situation today is therefore one (which seems to be working out favor sably to the allies. to the extent that they still possess their large reserves and an unbroken line. Germany's gain for the losses which it has suffered is small and the allies have in reserve the strength which should tell upon the gradually weakening forces of the enemy
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cided it was his duty to be in such a position as would enable him to get very quick and accurate information Of the way in which the attack pro- gressed. With this object, he estah- lished his headquarters in a shell hole which, although exposed to heavy sniping and artillery fire, had the ad- vantage of being close to the front line.
 Later, hearing that the advance had been checked by very heavy machine gun and rife fire from the front and right flank, and that his men were digging themselves in on a shell-hole line on the forward slope of a ridge, he determined to go forward person all and inspect his posts.
 Accompanied by an orderly he went up to the new line, where he found that owing to serious casualties among the officers. and the deadly fire that was being concentrated upon the po- sition, the ground that had been won was in grave danger of being lost Though under the heaviest fire from both machine guns and rifles, and in full view of the enemy, he fearlessly | walked quietly from shellhole to she'll hole, giving advice to officers anl cheering the men by his presence. He was IIl6 lilOSt COnSplcQOuS figure tneFe as he made his way from one end oi | the line to the other. Men were falling all around him. but the General ap- peared to be unperturbed.
 | A company commander who wal
 present said that when the men saw their General walking calmly round
 the post in the face of the enemy'i 1 fire, they were encouraged by his ex.
 ample to work all the harder at theil | task of digging themselves in. STht
 General he said, ''has gained the con
 fidenee of every man, not only of my
 company, but other companies.
 have never seen a. brayer or cooler off
 eer than him, for he cannot know wha l fear is.'
 His very gallant conduct had thu greatest effect upon all ranks, and i i was largely owing to his persona
 courage and example that his com
 mand held on to the shellhole line il | spite of the heaviest fire. It wa.
 generally agreed by his presence il
 the front line at such critical time General Coffin saved the situation.
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heap of debris thrown up, and looked up, and looked down to the crater be- meath which the explosion took place, and the distance from the top to the bottom is over eighty feet. The great mountain of rubbish, together with the crater, covers several acres, while be- heath it all lie hundreds. perhaps thousands, of human bodies.
 This is war. This is the thing by which Germany set out to conquer the world, and it is this we are called upon to destroy. Chronicle.
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THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Society.

DuImen, German Prison Town-The National Geographic Society issues the following war geography bulletin, on Dulmen, the German prison camp town where a large number of Am erican civilians and soldiers are inc termed than in any other Teuton camp. according to information furnished the United States Department by the Spanish Embassy, through the latter's legation in Switzerland:
 The town of Dulmen, where more than 100 American prisoners of war are being held by the Germans. is a ants situated in the province of Vest phalia. IT miles southwest of Munster, the provincial capital. and about 60 miles in an airline north of Cologne. The Holland border town of Winter swyk lies about 25 miles to the west, There is little of interest scenicallY l or historically about Dulmen. It is merely one of the many small towns on the railroad which runs from Ham burg to Cologne by way of Bremen and Munster. Many Americans have probably passed through it raveling on
 the famous Lloyd's Express, which carried through coaches from Hamburg Ito Genea daily from December to April before the outbreak of the war
 but doubtless none ever took note of it.
 "The only point of interest of which 1 the town can boast is a chateau be- | longing to the Duke of Croy -Dulmen The nearby city of Munster with its
 90,000 inhabitants, is of great historic interest, however. It was here that the Anabaptists, under the fanatical
 leadership of John of Leyden, commit- ted so many excesses during the Re formation. and in enumeration of those days there now hang from tower oi
 the Church of St. Lambert three iror
 cages in which the bodies of John ant
 two of his associates were exposed fT 1536, after they had suffered crue
 torture and execution in the markef place"
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Maximilian Harden, Zukunft, de- clares, "The German plan of-detachtng the inhabitants of Lithuania, Livonia and Esthouia from Russia is contrary to all reason. It will prove far less in furious to Russia than to the German empire, because out of these large and small .Alsace- -Lorraines torn from Russia there will arise a new Balkan group forming itself on Germanys flank.
 "Already the treaty with the Ukraine has wounded the Russians as well as all the Poles and the Ruthenians of Austria. Throughout Europe the re- port is spreading that Germany has arrayed the Ukraine at the back of the Russians with the object of mutila- ting what remains of the Russian en- pire.
 This is a foretaste of the devils kitchen which will arise if the Balkans extend to the frontier of Pesen, of Si- lesia. and Prussia What is the use of piercing our flesh with the claws of fresh foreign tribes and of laying new fires in our midst which would only break into flame at the first op- portunity?"
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MT. Editor: If you will Kindly al
 low me the space in your valuable pa-
 per I should like to ask "Southerner" a question or two: Would we know America at all and would any of us be living here today if it were not for the first .'foreigners'' who put foot on Plymouth Rock in 1920? And why did they come to America2 For, the very same reason that they have con- |tinued to come ever since. and the very cause of the worlds greatest war
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".Are you really?' he asked.


 "Tndeed I am, I replied. laughing. You mustn't expect any food con- servation from me. to-day. Let's go right out before I get hungrier and then I should love to have you come back and see some of my work, if you will
 And away we went. We had very pleasant little party. I exerted my self to be entertaining, as l wished him to realize that 1 appreciated his friendliness, and he did me the honor to say that he had never met any one like me; that I was even more jolly and original than any of the other charming American girls he had met since he came over last spring. You can imagine that I was decidedly pleased"
 Yes, sis" Laura looked up with a smile and a sigh from the half lnitts1 sock in her hand. But what about Phil? His letters"
 'Lettersl Letters g/3-hut never mind. I suggested to Mir. Hilton that we take a little walk down the avenue after luncheon. but he said he was awfully sorry he didn't have time that there was some one he had to see on important business. I gathered that the business had something to do with his war mission over here and felt proud.
 "As I sailed along toward the studio with my head in the air, who do you
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The people of Karlsruhe may ciamor for the abandonment of the uniustified warfare but the imperial German gov ernment cannot be turned away from it's baby killing
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own frying pans to carry home the bacon"
 There is rare appropriateness in the popularity of Annie. Laurie" with our soldiers-'it is the queen of songs in the trenches" says Sir Alexander Mathematician tradition has it that the author, William Douglas, of Fin land, was himself a soldier who fought and died in Flanders two centuries ago. The original song, however, had but two verses, and was revised and pro vided with the beautiful third stanza by Lady John Scott.-London ChFoni- cle.
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Germany made no effort to stop the Russian fleet from going to Kronstadt, feeling certain no doubt that it is only question of time when Lenine will hand over Petrograd and all it's defenses to the kaiser.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-19

While the effort is being made to Keep those suspected of being crimi-
 nals out of the country, increased ef- forts might be turned toward helping out some of those who are already in.
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It required tremendous loss o9 German lives and the crippling of q great many more to cause those in Germany who stood for peace without additions or indemnities to join the junkers.
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Joseph Rocking, the well-known novelist, writing of the territory con- quered by the Germans in Belgium and Northern France, says:-"We have heard a good deal about Thiepval, for example. To-day there is no Thiepval- Literally not one stone, not one brick is left standing upon another.
 You ride mile after mile and it is the same thing. Ever and always is the same ghastly desolation. As foI the country side, where in the past were farms, orchards, gardens cot ,tages, yeu see only shell-tornN stretches of land. Mile after mile, league after league. and still the same dreary death pail reigns over the landscape. sNoth- ing grows, save kind of starved desert grass. Scarce a foot of earth has beer left untorn by the wild tornado oi explosives which were hurled herS during the great battles of the Somme That is the picture which greets yol to-day.
 And the people. The farmers, thu shop keepers, the merchanics, the la bourers-what has become of them
 Where are the happy, romping boy and girls who learnt their lessons 1T 1 the school houses and played in thu village streets? God only knows! Fol all we can gather, the one time pop | ulatien of this region have not onl, l had all their belongings destroyed, hu 1 they themselves have become tn
 slaves of the invader, the sport of tn,
 lust, the cupidity. the passion of
 people whose motto was "Deutchlan, | uber Alles."
 | But what impressed me more thai
 all was the shastly crime of the Ger
 mans in forcing this war upon tn world.
 l T stood on the top of one grea
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-19

It is reported that the United States Steel corporation will turn out ship every ten days. Let us hope that such a promise is put forth not solely to please but to be kept.
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The selection of Count Czernin to command Austrian forces on the Ital- ian front shows that he is not so much of a pacifist as he would have the allies beIiave.
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CLEANED FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES

The Duke of Marlborough, who has just resigned the position of Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture, explained in the House of Lords last night that he found it quite impossible to defend the policy of ploughing grass land in March, while in his private capacity he was trying to bring about the abrogation of the unwise policy which was being en- forced upon him as a farmer.
 # Germany fuIfiIs her intention and occupies Petrograd, it will be the first time the city has been entered, or even attacked, by enemy forces, This dis tinction-almost unique among Euro pean capftals-is due partly, of course, to the modernity of the city, for it was not until May, 1703, that the first building was erected on the site. The British is perhaps the most vocal of all the armies. said Sir A. Mackenzie, speaking at the Royal In- stitution yesterday on war music. Tommy would sing according to a plan, but when on the march on in his dug out he choses his own songs, making not a few of them himself Annie Laurie" was said to be the queen of national melodies in the trenches. "Tipperary'' had never been much in use. although it had travelled over five continents.
 Mention was made the other day in this column of a Chinese practice be- gun in the reign of Kublaf Khan and ended in the closing years of Queer Victoria It would be interesting tC +Io eli "a, 1 their charm for cFamp, for if so that /; would he q l:I1k with days of $50 year: 1 ago The petition was employed 1T l the t'-9e>cs ColeriGge. who said that il i lad been in the school since it. 1 foundation in the time of Edward VI. l The sufferer had to hop out of bet ! and say
 1 The devil is tying a knot in my leg! Mark. Luke, and John, unloose it i beg!
 Two for the thieves, and one for Chris ] Crosses three we make to ease us, Jesus!
 And really, upon getting out of bed
 said the poet, pressing the sole of tn loot on the cold floor. and then re beating this charm with the acts con fg;Irative thereupon prescribed, cal e5Stl0lY dlllI HI lIldl uo nOl ISLHctLDO an instance in which the cramp did no go away in a few seconds.
 Our Belgian visitors are rapidly ac quiring an adequate knowledge of ou
 language, but they are occasional, baff1ed. The other morning one 0
 them, reading of futile effort of tn
 Germans, was uncertain whether sh
 should srieve or rejoice. and therefor
 asked a compatriot the meaning c
 futile" "Ah!" was the answer.
 do not know the other word for it, bu
 it is what the English call the marie
 lady when there is no family. Lon
 don Chronicle.
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Weiare told that there are plenty of substitutes for wheat but strange as it may seem all these plentiful sub stitutes cost more
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With 25 trainloads of wounded Huns soing east every night it is plainly shown what price the British are ex- acting for the advance of the Ger mans.
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The great trouble with the story telling of Count Czernin was partly because he allowed himself to be found out. but more particularly be- cause he barred the hands of the em- peror.
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The man on the corner says: The fellow who has a reputation for verac- ity never thinks of offering to pro- duee the proof
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T came dangerously near to losing two of them to-day said Helen.
 Oh, dear with man friends so scarce in these parts now, you shouldn't be so reckless" said Laura.
 T wasn't exactly reckless, but l was something. I was alone in the studio all the morning painting fn- riously on my patriotic poster. At about il o'clock the telephone rang.
 "Will you lunch with me at the Sky High?' somebody asked.
 "Yes, thank you" I replied.
 "'That's bully!' came back a hearty answer in a half familiar voice, which I suddenly realized that didn't quite recognize.
 ~sBut-' I began. and then dis covered that the connection was broken However. there was a pleas ant dash of adventure in not knowing who my cavalier was to be. was just getting the paint scrubbed off my hands at 12 when in walked MT. Hil- ton. I was awfully surprised because I had always thought him very dig nified and ceremonious in his English way, but I really like him ever so well. Before he said word I re- marked gayly that was delighted and 1 was simply starving.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

Don't let it be said that you were the cause of any letting up in the sub scriptions to the third Liberty loan.
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The April showers and a little warm sun are going to get things in readi- ness for the big floral display in May.