Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-26

from you, but my thoughts are all I ways with you. Every day is Mothers Day for me, for think or you by day and dream x you at night Don't wor- ry about me, for I am getting along 1 fine" Pretty good doctrine for all Of us of the A. E. F., enlisted men of efieers though we may De, to "try on. 4.n Alad
 may i dAery: Was ahy letter to Moth 1 er horiisWard bound oh that famous ship, truer in it's ring or Iendered m 1 it's sentiment than these three picked l at random from the oatgoi1g mall pr a l 250-man company? Could any one or us do better. than to trim his sails ae I cording to the second sentence or that last extract?
 1 TAe AmgFieah people are being if-- structed by their government or tne M need for economizing cotton by the following telling statistics A 12 inch gun disposes of half bale of cotton with every shot fired. A machine gun in operation will use up bale in three months. :. In a naval battle, like the one oil EJutlahd. from five to six thousand
 pounds a minute are consumed by each
 It takes more than 20 900 bales a year to provide absorbent cotton to
 stauneh and bind the wounds, of the one change of apparel for ali the
 troops now engaged in the war repre-
 sents more than a million bales. > The U. s. A. is now turning a nlilllon bales a year into explosives alone. Verify, there is nothing new under tte sun. Doubt has even Been thrown ! Ali the Originality of the precious words our Lewis carroll inVehted for ouI pefpetnsl delight. "Snicker- snack was at once proclaimed to Be a mere : development of the old time ''snici and snee;;" 'choftle" was declared te . be current slang, and rof the Clapflarf 2 election reveals to US "Beamish, whose forebeArs must have been 1T existence when Carroll as he thought I coined the word. After this we mas 3 expect to hear that "Jaboerwocky' ] was the name Of a. Choctaw potentate 2 that tiifn ttifn trees grew in pfineva g forests, and that gSrifg and gimblins 5 were popular pastiries among the an 2 cient Britons.
 e We hope that the wildcat captured q by a shepherd in the Grampians vii y pass the test of wildness, if only U s prove that a species known in thes | n moth is not yet quite extinct. Tn
 majority of the alleged wildcats sho e or captured in scotland in recen [, times have proved, of expert e&arfii nation, to be nothing more than stra T members of the domestic type, wh Q have obeyed the call of the wild o ! which, as Kipling reminds us, l
 stronger in the cat than in any ethe . dofnesticated animal
 II How would you pfonounee the nam
 H Of the new shipbuilding rhateria
 II punice? Webster rhymes the fir
 II syllable With "hufn," as the manner.
 | the multitude is; but Nuttall. reminde
 of the derivation "punlex," would hay $ us call it "pewmiss." From the work II shop pronunciation we get nothir "a authoritative; it is just ''pumfns,' fe II short.
 ', In connection with the splendid rt F marca of salVing torpedoed ships
 our home waters. it has been state s that the divers, cannot work at S' greater depth than 15O feet. Unle! a their duties differ from all others ft a which divers have been trained, t} to figures afe surely at fault. The at o0 fairalty tables for diving provide fs ,,+ ures down to 2n4 feet. and fix F mil - utes as the period man may rena |" , there at work But 204 is the lin iI only for the generality of the gre; li a, divers. in 1903 Lieutenant Damaht ,,, N, worked at depth of 216 feet, u = record, under the supervision of Pr e1 lessor Haldane.
 af Lord Denbieh wat the guest of u ds American Luncheon club recently he their weekly luncheon, at the Save nd Responding to the welcome extend as to him by the chairman, he said tn he we should devote more censidera ti ou to what were the war aims of Ge 5g. many than to what were our ON 1u. Germany's ambition was to donina as the world. and that could not be eft strongly impressed on the peoples
 the civilized world. American fore d. were developing in a most remarAal ter way, and America was now in the co ad test with bealo and talons. The ends aft Germany were directed against Anne IT, ica just as much as against Ffar
 and England and other parts of E
 rope The people should uhdefsta nd that the whole Prussian system ng Hundreds of years has been to terror ,ur and to make war a paying busine ,ur The war problem was simply whetl yer humanity or ''Germanity" should f ry- the world. If we were so foolish as re, give Germany at the conclusion art peace a free hand in the east and be Russia, then in a few years we sho' rou be faced by a greater war and perhs
 ruin. He hoped that America woi ark not lose sight of that fact.
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 for Seventeen Ki!keeI and Ardqlass fl.
 ing boats have been sunk off the Ir for coast by German Submarine.
 Details show that while the Do the were fishing off Kilkeel on the evt ew ing of May Sl a submarine appeal a suddenly, and the commander ordel
 the crews of half a dozen of them ray take to their punts. The skipper