Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-22

 service conscript; there's lot of us remark, i've don't mix with your sort," and thereafter left the north countryman severely alone. Just as they were leaving the ship, however, Jeck touched his neighbor on the sleeve. "Dfnna get alarmed, laddie," he exclaimed. I'm only one of the Field Survey Company-I thought ye'd know a Scotsman better than to think he was shirker." An out stretched hand expressed Colonial ap- proval.
 But there are other persons in Pal estine besides the Jews. The most numerous element of the population are Arabs. Most of them are Mos-i lerns, but whether Moslen or Chris tian, they have no liking for Turkish misrule. have often been astonish- ed at the attitude of detachment shown by the Arabs towards the Turks. Even in Damascus found 1t Moslems, but the Arab considers him. self greatly superior in intelligence. Between the attitude of the Turk and Arab towards their religion the difference is very great Though the Arab of Syria does not possess the fiery fervor- of his brother of the des- i ert, he yet takes his religion seriously. It is an Arab religion. born of his country and race; it's sacred books are in his language. The Turk, on the other hand, has never taken his re- ligion seriously. He is a Central Asi.
 atic; his race has never produced a religion or even a heresy: he becomes conservative as to what he has re- ceived but never questions its truth. He remains a Turanian. While tho
 Arabs have produced many forms of dissent, it can hardly be sold that the Turks have even invented a heresy.
 The Arab independence of view as shown amongst the Wahabees, the Se-
 nussi, and other dissenters, has al- ways taken the form of returning to the simplicity of the early faith. The result of the divergence of attitude be- tween Arab and Turk has been to i11- crease their mutual hostility.-London Chronicle.
 | Weeks go by in certain country par-
 lshes when neither coal nor parafin are obtainable. This scarcity of fuel is not so badly felt in woodland dis
 tricts, but here again, owing to the scarcity of labor both cutting and l; carting are difficult, and wood is deal
 IO puS. SUtldG6TS Sd1l Uuy three Klnus of f1rewood; cordwood, which consists of the stout branches of the trees cut
 into three or four feet lengths; house
 faggots, which consist of thin, crook. l ed branches; and spray faggots, whicl
 are used for lighting fires, and thes, | are almost entirely twigs, Kiln ol
 bush faggots are rarely cut nowadays | War has raised the price of all thi.
 kind of fuel. yet it is not the wood ] man. but rather the wood merchant il
 farmer, who gleans the extra profit : Cottagers have, unfortunately, to pa! dearly nowadays for any kind of woot kfor fuel. Before the war household
 faggots were 1Ss. or 1 pound per 10l bundles; now they are 30s or more Spray faggots were 12s. to 15s. per 100 ? now they are 26s. Cordwood was 18s l to 20s. ,now it is 26s., or if sawed u 6 SGs. load.-London Chronicle.
 There is nothing in Sir Dousla : Hais's last dispatch to show that tn n moral of our armies has. been any d thing but superb throughout the wal e If the last phase of Cambrai cause
 disappointment We must attribute tn
 cause very largely to the ease wit h which the German positions were cap s tured. This easy success certainl s caused our troops to become careless : and severely they paid for it; but thi n lesson is not likely to be lost. Tn Ii question whether numbers are mair, = tained is not one that can be discuss : ed but any failure to nlaintai = strengths will be dereliction of pub
 lie duty on the part of the govern t nlent, which alone knows the facts an . can produce men from our still abun : dant reserves whenever it So wills. f The writer's view two years az d was, as he stated at the time. that W d should have added 30 more division n to our armies in France, and had thes Il been present at the So11lme battles " - lmigh. have finished of the Gerfna g armies in the west when they wer g crumbling under the losses of Verdti E and the Somne. It was the German Il who added some 700 900 men to the a fighting strengths, while we did littl n Or nothing. afid for this reason a yea e later, the writer asked for 60 fresh al h visions in France. Failing them, ou 2 armies in 1917 had to fight I5l Gel e man divisions with less than half the d number, and the whole explanation ( e the failure to reach a decision iri thes Ie two campaigns is to be found in u " fact that we never had the men j. do more than was actually accon h, plished. It is rather a question whetf i. CT any other army would have done {
 u1uch.--London Times Military Col
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