Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-22

NaturaIists tell us that the missel- thrush, as well as the skylark, is somc times heard here during every month in the year, and this record has all but been kept for the last 12 months in London. He was silent in Septem- Der, but was heard in every other month, and in December, until the frost came, he was almost in full song.
 He began to tune up during the thaw
 last week, but the renewal of the frost silenced him, and he will presumably be mute now until the time of the
 singing of birds is here.-London | Chronicle.
 The Rewa is the sixth British hos pitai ship known definitely to have | been torpedoed without warning dur | ing the last 10 months. In each case | the crime was committed during the night. The following are the previous cases: Asturias-Torpedoed on the night of March 20-21, -917. Thirty-one of the
 medical services and crew were killed; | 12, including two women, were miss
 ing, and 39 were injured. The Asturias had-been attacked off Havre on Feb.
 1, 1915, but the torpedo missed its
 mark.
 Gloucester Castle-Torpedoed in mid channel during the night of March 30- 1 31, 1917. All the wounded saved. | Donegal-Torpedoed on the evening of April IT, 1917. Twenty nine wound i ed and 12 of the crew were presumed
 drowned.
 l Lafranc-Torpedoe on the evening
 of April 1T, 1s17. Nineteen British
 lives were lost; 15 German wounded were drowned, and 152 wounded Ger I v,ro1 patrol vessels, which ran the imminent | risk of being themselves torpedoed. Dover Castle-Torpedoed at p. m.
 on May 26. 1917, in the Mediterranean. At a.36 p. m. she was again torpedoed, i and afterwards sank. All on board were saved except six men, presumed killed by the explosion.
 On March 30. 1916, deliberate at- tack was made on the F'ranco-Russian hospital ship Portugal near Of, in Eastern Anatolia, and the vessel sank in less than 8 minute, over 100, includ- | ing many women, being killed.
 The hospital ships Braemar Castle and Britannia were sunk in November, 1916, but the evidence at the time was not considered conclusive as to wheth- CT their loss was caused by mines or torpedo.-London Times.
 I According to an article in Leipzig
 paper by Herr von Breitenbach, who
 until recently was Prussian minister of
 railways, the number of women em-
 ployed by the Prussian state railways
 Is now 100000. compared with hardly
 10000 before the war Herr von Brel
 tenbach says that in purely manual
 labor the efficiency of women is from 50 to 75 per cent. that of men, that in work which requires combination
 of mental and physical abilities womer cannot compete with men, but that ir the simplest forms of railway service women are perfect substitutes for men T Flax growing was at one time yer, , extensively practiced in this country ] and it Is understood that the new cen . ters will be chiefly situated in those
 districts where it fiourished in tht
 past. viz, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire Suffolk, Fife and Somerset. A nucleus for the new industry already exists ir the Yeovil district of Somerset, and a : Selby in Yorkshire. At these place! the British Flax and Hemp society ant
 the University of Leeds respectivel.
 have carried on both the growing 0 ] the crop and the conversion of th' . straw into fibre with marked success l for several years Other centers al . ready decided upon are Staddlethorpe . Yorks; Crowle, N. Lines; Plnchbeek
 S. Lines; and Leslie, Fife.
 It is estimated that 10000 acres vii be required to yield what the govern ! naent needs. and land for the purpos' must De found and suitably cultivated and cropped For the success of thu t undertaking it is essential to, secur'
 the cooperation of all farmers ivini
 in the neighborhoods referred to. Th' 8 terms that are to be offered. however a do not indicate that growers are ex ! pected to incur any sacrifice beyon, whatever departure from the ordinaI. . routine the project may involve. Tn, . task. indeed, is attractive by compari
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