Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-12

Private Parkhurst (Canadian), On-, tario.
 All the Canadians are single men.
 The deiiberation with which Japan is proceeding with regard to Siberia is not to be mistaken for inertia She moves like a tiger when necessary, as was the case fourteen years ago. On February the Russian fleet at Port Arthur withdrew, under the protection Of its shore batteries. Two days later Japan broke off negotiations That same night her fleet left Sasebo On the night of tht Sth-9th they attacked the Russians in harbour and torpedoed the battlesfips Retyisan and Tsare- witch and the cruiser PaIlada. The Russian Far Eastern fleet was crippled within 48 hours.
 How splendid has been the spirit of the old people. the aged danes, in the They seem like Anne Procter in action Anne Proeter, Barry Cornwall's witty indomitable widow. To her said Tennyson, as he rose to leave, T am 78 and you are ST. and in all prob ability we shall not meet again" Don't you young folk be impertinen+ to your elders" quoth she. Of the lady at Hui who. when here house dis appeared under a Zeppelin bomb, ex- claimed I'm S2 but the Germans have not got me yet We may sey. as Tepnyson said of his heroine, Gallant old grip
 One of the worlds greatest adver- tisers, MT. James Munyon, has died in America, the land where advertising 1esJ 5s{ +a yen spent about { 800 900 annually in advertising his patent medicines, and he found that he sales matched the advertisements in g regular proportion. It was an American journalist who said that religious newspapers must take pills, or die" referring to the offers of advertisements of patent medicines which were made to such periodicals. MT. Munyon enabled some of them to live.
 The HFrankfurter Zeitung" states i that 5,00e men belonging to the Polish Legion, recently Incorporated into the Austrian a9my. have escaped from 1 Austria and got into Rumania. Their l departure was due to tht Polish abita- 1 tion connected with Cholm.
 | The "F'rankfurter Zeitung" adds thai l every man of this number will be pro- 1 scribed for desertion.-Wireless Press Germany, with touching soiicitude l declares that she must protect Russia 1 against Japan. We have heard some thing like that jest before. Did not the German Emperor cause an ale gorical picture, "The Yellow Peril" tc be printed on the subject? In the foreground stands a very Prussiar Archangel Michael, inviting group o 1 mailed ladies to leap down a preeipice in order to reach a sort of "Arabiar 1 Nights'' genii, engaged in a most un.
 common act of leyiatation, ridine placidly on fire and smoke through tht
 Eastern sky.
 Germany grips her shield ana clutches her drawn sword, and seem,
 only restrained by Russia from takins l the leap. France. with eorselet O. steel, but in a skirt so doWdy as tC
 constitute casus belli against the ar.
 tist, scans the horizon warily; Austria
 tugs at the arm Of Britannia, who ap. pears to see no cause Of quarrel. No] do any of the nations, save Germny So on the margin of the picture the
 Kaiser has written, Nations O
 Europe, defend your holiest possess ions" Which is truly Pecksniffian
 TOT aI the Iln1e the only trouble wal I that Germany had seized a slice of tn,
 holiest possessions of China!
 I In a recent note we referred to f board erected in a garden bearing message of good luck to our lads leav ing for abroad. It seems it is not th,
 only valedictory placard. There is on
 on the south side of Warrington Sta
 tion, in Lancashire where a firm ha,
 had painted on the gable end of thei
 Works:-
 ,I All you who travel past to fight Il For us in foreign parts
 T We wish good luck and safe return,
 And thank you from our hearts.
 London Chronicle. During my last weeks in Germany i
 was becoming daily more apparen that the confidence in victory-an
 with it a renewal of arrogance-wa
 again permeating the whole Cerna, people, They have once more becom very confident that they. will win tb war and impose a German peace upo, the world. No doubt this is nartl,
 due to the knowledge that their arm in the East has been liberated by tn
 collapse of Russia and has now crosse to the West to make that front strong
 CT than ever before. No doubt. toc this spirit of confidence has bee, cleveriy fostered and encouraged b
 reports of the coming great Germa1