Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-26

thanking himself. For he is a great
 shareholder in Krupp's. The revela- tions of Dr. Muhlon, a former direc | tor, showed only last week that the kaiser was working hand and glove
 with the head of the firm, when min
 isters were kept in the dark and the
 war plot was being matched. Herr members of the government could never hold their tongues. By speak ing they might avert war.
 Krupp's flourishes only by war and rumof of war. It had it's own press in various countries. it's own secret ser vice to whisper false rurnors and pro- pagate lies-ali to keep the continent l in a ferment and the nations re- arming-at Krupp's. It was master | of the defense secrets of all peoples, for it supplied arms to all The firm knew that way could be hacked 1 through Belgium, for the great guns ordered for Antwerp had been deliber- ately delayed; they were at Krupp's, ready for German use, and there were i dummy forts at Antwerp, where the guns should have been. 's. 1 Jerusalem must be rebuilt on lines entirely different from those that were followed at Athens and Rome, said ] Prof. Flinders Petrie at the Royal in- stitution. There must be no building
 on top of the ancient city. Not only would this be contrary to modern mo- 1 tions of sanitation, but the old asse- citations would clash painfully with the | growing needs of the new commercial | city.
 l Suburbs should be laid out on either side of Jerusalem. about two miles | from the center of the city, with which ! they would be connected by electric | trans. Let people be prohibited from : building in the old city and the whole Epopulation would move to the suburbs ] in a generation or two
 Ultimately public offices might be put up among the ancient buildings, and there might also be a rest house for pilgrims. and a hospital in which l the Jews could die within the boun- daries of the old Jerusalem.
 Was the boy who wanted to put I''perches' in a rabbit hutch right after all? At any rate, correspondent has items to his defense. He says: My latest Ivolume on Rabbit Keeping" instructs me to ''fix in hutches used for bucks a wooden platform little off the floor so that the animal can lie thereon" !" They are quite common here (Nor- foIk) and are to be seen in many a converted sugar box in back yards: locally they are known as "perches D My sympathies are with the small boy who possibly knew more about prac- tical rabbit keeping than his master. But perhaps it was the boy and not the master who gave 'the lesson in nat
 ural history" which followed. Let us hope so.-London Chronicle.
 l i as1 NnIL | tGermany, having drained the labor re- sources of Poland almost to the point
 of exhaustion, is now turning her at
 tention to the occupied territories of Russia, where German troops have al- ready begun to transport men to Ger
 many. Now that Poland is depopu-
 lated, it is hoped soon to get skilled
 workers from the densely populated
 Ukraine. Polish laborers on estates
 in Saxony are treated like modern
 slaves.
 I In spite of all it's pious phrases, the organ of German Liberalism is per fectly reeeneiled to the Prussian an nexatien of Courland. The Frankfurter Zeitung says:
 II Courland is only geographical and . historical conception. It was part of
 Russia, but Russia can dispense with il
 without injury to her vital system . Courland is inhabited by German
 minority and Lettish majority But i. the majority is numerically small-a
 few hundred thousand-and. while the
 Let's are nationality, they have
 never been a nation in the real and . political sense of the word The tear
 ing away of living limbs from a great national body like the Polish national
 body is something quite different from
 the incorporation of 8 little race with out any past as state.
 st The Scottish character is a com pound of vices and virtues in whicf "thrawness" {Anglice ''obstinacy"' : and modesty are strongly represented 5 The other day an officer was bidding goodbye to one of his men who had been awarded the D. c. M., and wht } had, in consequence, been granted ter } days leave. Well. corporal" said the 5 officer, tits proud mother that'n be
 waiting to greet you when you get :. home this tirne.' ''Whatll she bt . proud for?' queried the corporal, witt . a puzzled expression. of your medal of course" was the answer "But
 don't think she knows I've got it, sir,
 said the corporal. What! haven't yot , told herr" Well. no. sir. You see lit wasna my turn to write. ;
 ]. Some of our soldiers sleeves are be-