Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-15
CLEANED FROM F FOREIGN EXCHANGES
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 MT. Houston has recently been ask-s ing for an official. statement in regard to the value of the cargoes ofs.a ships sunk This subject has been YaAeaE with on several .occasions in ssf Ti5e, Times, ad the, loss which the country suffers was againa given nrominenee.. last week by V ease ,in the courts con-, corning the jettisonang. of a4shiploads of tea So muck cist saids aadz 5yrftteil about the sinking of ship f@E iitpnay be doubted if 1Ae Rnblies Rul lN@realizel the importance 9fsFhis aspec tsaef; tine submarine menaae@ aGaFryi1g tonnage may be made geods nbusv the saomma-i dities which haver gone to fheafottolr have perisheds fog eEstsra dS isssefdbfnd when vessel is lost that the nature try but the Germans V heneVer thAy. secure a ships papers before sending her to the bottof1i 6fo not sexercise the same reticenees Their newspapers revel in statistics supplied by the 'Ger- man admiralty stsetting fortH the 'valrl- able contents of a ship which has been destroyed Sometimes it is cargo of foodstuffs, the. details of which, must make their readers mouths water bstt a l.reference is shpwn < for. thes9;. kissd of list which purperted to deseribe Ithe cargo of a ship sunk some honths sage
 -fS5 field guns, 30 hoWitzers, 70, ma chine guns. 100000 rifles, 5o, ,09o shells, 160,00O bombs. I 1,50l, 900 cartridges, ; 6 rarmoured cars,s and II motor lerries
 It must]have taken Some time to man- 5nfacfure that. cargo. There gan be ssao question that Whether the cargo of a stricken ship consists of munitions or foodstnffs, the cumulative loss must have been onden Hines.
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 We are willing to beIieveAthat' TrotT sky is honest, and we imagine tfrat he will makera stiff fight ragafnst the corr tquerorrs terms on 5Which the Germans are resolved. If he would hold to his original position and defy them to do their worst against a disarmed, iise organized, and 11alf- starving Russia; he would plaRey them in a most seEi 2, Eous 'dileplnla and still emerge ase the hero of the situatien.s,, But he has, be-: hind him people who want. peace and liberty tp go home and stay at home. He has promised them that. .andtr if. he fails to Iedeepfl his. ..pron2is ss..she will probably bc swept away. But,the, sig uation is fortunately not in ,asy event an easy one for the enemy They want two things;eyto move rtheir army F.KOlI. tue EAdSIs Ali9ut dtlel +lO sS Sfal--1Vpu out of Russia. Fhe Russian. conditions are likely at the s.sbest to. 7ber:soe ,u,.- stable as to require them to; keep "a large part of the already large ly dininished-at present on the. Ea 5t- ern lines. The foodti only to be got from peasants who want inq exchange the particulas,s tpingsv-boots.s clothes, linen, wool. and the .f flike-7Wllieh the Germans thernselEes are, short of,s The German papers ecenplains that sthe ne- gotiations are. being spun out, and ;n particular that .no. progress is,f; being trade with the economic proposals which their commissioners took with the them l., to ,,s Petr2gsaa t ;o The latter are are
 German p.9ple. Thew want, food, from Russia to relieve their urgent heres sities. and they areSnets atgiall likely to fet in any 4quantityreTe inaapys time that is worth ohsidertng .-yW estmin- | ster Gazette. rng9 qAH3 hns ga-4s@s:ls ssE-STts4ee--et-T-as-~Y abfA3 sJI -tl.f