Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

Bivoucking superceeds the usual system of permenent billets during the summer months in France. Given a little ingenuity it is wonderful how comfortable a home can be constructed by the aid of few strips of timber and a piece or so of corrugated iron 1 The interior is lined with ground
 sheets, an Gpturned empty ration box serves as a table. a shell case does duty as a vase for a nosegay of pop l pies and cornfiowers. To be complete
 bivouac must be named In cer- 1 tain vale in PicarGy may be found, Cafe Praps Knot" "Rhododendron Rendezvous "McKoniky Lodge 7"
 Liars Lair and the "Wirewasters' l InStitute"-the latter being tenanted
 by linemen of the Signal Service. Tobaccanaiians who complain that i they cannot get matches where they 1 buy their smokes should remember 1 that seldom tried to do so before the l famine began. It was only when they
 forgot to borrow from the domestic
 reserve that they made a purchase. 1 The result was that tobacconists stock 1 ed comparatively small quantities, and as they are rationed on their 1916 or i ders they are unable to meet the pre- sent demand. Grocers and 0ilnen from their plenty dole out supplies in proportion to orders for other goods
 Mistakes of military signailers are sometimes amusing. A German pri- soRer escaped from an internment camp. and to facilitate recapture de- seription of the man was circulated The description contained a success
 sion of sibiiant sounds, which render
 ed it's reception by telephone some
 what difficult One signaller after struggling Valiantly with the prison CTS name appearance, &c. finished the message with height 5ft. all beard
 and moustache." The possibility of 2
 5ft, beard wandering about on its
 lonesome was questioned, with the re.
 suit that the following correction wa:
 circulated: Please read small fol
 all
 Coleridse, his grandson has been tell
 ing us, wrote The Ancient Mariner to get e5 note to enable holida, te be extended. Johnson wrote ''Ras selas' in the evenings of a week t
 pay a dead mothers debts; Poe offered
 his Gold Bug" parent of all buriet
 treasure stories, to win a G20 prize . We owe much to the drive of neces sity.-London Chronicle.
 In the Zukunft of May 4. Harder gives a characteristic sketch of tn
 extrava gances of Pan Germanism, an, proceeds
 Those who are openly and alway
 n-German. those who are conscious ly Christian, please me thousan times better than those who are al { ways watching which way the win
 i blows: these people, when it rains l shower blessings on mankind and be
 stow the right of self -determinatio . upon every people and then, when tn 1. sun shines, they gulp down the Bres
 treaties" or. like the demo patriot , DaVids and Scheidemanns (the Social
 ist Majority leaders,, they tinidly re
 frain from voting upon questions whic ? intellectually. politically, and econo :. nicaliy are the most important of a e questions I like the Pan-Germans te :; thousand times better than the news e paper manufacturers who, until 191 y attracted customers with their war CT r against "sabre-rule," and since 191
 have attracted them by the deificatio = of generals.
 :, In the zukunft of NVy II Harde [. continues the same argument, an c says:-
 y Am I to help build a pyre on whic Pan Germans" shall be roasted a They are by no means worse than an 7. Herr Kaempf (the Radical" Presider | of the Reichstag whose death has jus g been reported), or von Payer 9th :. Radical" Vice Chancellor; nor ar
 they worse than the swarns of Christ
 ians and Jews who three times a da, s before and after cockcrow, betray tn d truth and betray the Saviour. Tn = Pan- Germans, indeed. are more cour f ageous, for they stick to their pos e even when it halls, and when tn e others bend their knees and pour ol f their courage in lamb like resolution d Look about you! The sun is shinin c again. Now count heads, and see ho s many are still not wearing their ha. y in the Pan-German fashion.-Londo o Times. p Trust the Y. M. C. A. to overcon IS a difficulty. There are many lit t groups of soldiers and sailors doin e duty on anti aircraft and other serviG g in out of the way spots and practica
 ly cut off from the world. It Is in
 possible. of course, to erect a Y. d C. A. hut for these scattered units, b, le their needs have been overlooked, an l. within the past few weeks many e them have received a miniature mod g hut costing about ten guineas. ar = containing stationery, games, Sc, ar le a small library of books.
 ,f The King helped to cut soldier n shirts yesterday. when accompanied