Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27
CLEANED FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES

Der says they will make grave mis-
 take in Germany if they thlnk that public opinion in Turkey is insensible
 to this slight. Turkey cannat toler- ate such neglect.
 The Cologne Gazette says that the
 Bulgarian Crown Prince was present
 at Headquarters some days before the
 discussions were held and did not
 participate in them. There were no
 discussions upon South East European
 questions.
 A letter from tFe Russian Dowager Empress to the Tsar. written cn Jan uary II, 1906, shortly before the as sembly of the First Duma, is publish
 ed from the Tsar's secret diary by the Moscow newspaper Izvesiya. The ab- breviated text runs:
 Dear Niki;-We are deeply thank ful for your dear letter. It 6reathes a | new spirit, new atmosphere. If earlier we had been more energetic and had shown more tir1nness in the l exercise of power, much would have been avoided anl would no5 have ] happened. l don understand why l Wltte has lost so much time
 i Now to the question which greatly occupies and disquiets me-the ques- 1 tion of the cabinet and the crown do- mains which these swine want to take l from us, according to their various
 party programmes They mist be i'm 1 pressed with the fact that no one shall 1 dare to interfere with these personal
 rights of the Tsar and his family It l would be the greatest historical mis- take if we now gave way in the slight est point. Every concession would be interpreted as weakness. Our abso- lute principle must therefore now be a policy of ,unrelenting power
 The letter. which is written partly
 in Russian and partly in French, closes with a repeated admcnition to be strong-Reuter
 Other extracts from the diary in clude an entry on April 3, in which the Tsar speaks of preparation for his going to England, and says that news of this proposal was. epmmuni-
 cated to him by Prince Lvoff and M. JAerensky.
 On July 9 the Tsar wrote: Tt is now
 precisely three months since I left
 MohiIeff and since Nve have been kept
 nere as prisoners. It is hard to be
 without news from dear Mamma. As for the rest, it is all the same to me- Reuter-.
 Now that 1900 men of the Worces- tershire regiments are prisoners ot l war in German and Turkish hands the county is faced with the necessity of finding about S000O pounds ger an. mum to pay for their weekly parcels l; At county meeting presided over b! ! the Lord Lieutenant Oord Coventry l the question of responsibility for tn, maintenance of prisoners was raised Q and Major Reddie, C. B., secretary t the Territorial Association, explainet : that under the Geneva Convention l each power undertook to look after it d captives. The Germans had not don s so, and we were therefore obliged to d e so.
 O Lieutenant Colonel Chichester an = Major Beresford formerly prisoners il e Germany described the dreadful con y ditions under which both officers an men existed. It Lord Gotham said he was rot sat h isied with Major Reddies statemen n He thought that the state should un l. dertake the support of prisoners ( < war, as it did the charge of disable =. men who could not return to tn
 ranks. The action of the German n seemed to have knocked the botto1
 out of the Geneva convention. If tn ,1 government recognized the principle ( ss a grant in aid. it would encourage th If committees to do their utmost -d small area like Worcestershire coul