Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-07
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this fine spirit animates letters coming from the front Officers and men are confident and gay. One young sub from a hunting shire feels that things must go right now that he is again astride a horse. But fear his sister displeasure. T would rather have you swear a little than worry at all" he informs that God-fearing young lady
 Official statistics published in Berlin contain suggestive figures regarding the profits made by German heavy in dustry firms interested in the manu- facture of war materials. Thirty seven firms whose aggregate capital amounts to G83.500,000 during 1917 made e17,650 coo aggregate profits, an increase of 75 per cent on the pro- | fits in 1916.
 | May 7th, was the third anniversary ] of the tcrpedoing of the Lusitania without warning, by which 1 198 men, women and children were murdered. ] Lord Rhondda, who with Lady 1 Mackworth, his daughter, were on i board, has sent a "Dusitania Day" 1 message to the National War Savings Committee, of Great Britain in which
 he said:-
 It is still well to keep in remem- i brance the tragedy of the Lusitania,
 a tragedy enacted by an Emperor and a people who flung to the winds
 all restraint of honour and ehivalry, | In time to come the Kaiser may be
 known as the Herod of the 20th cen ] tury who caused Rachael to weep for her children
 1 Worse even than the sinking of the
 vessel was the sinister way in which ! it was planned and the shout of ex- ultation that afterwards swept through Germany. A medal was struck, d
 medal in commemoration- of crime. To rejoice ln doing evil is surely the
 depth of degradation. The sinking. Of the Lusitania made the world plainly
 see the inherent eriminality of it's foe On the brow Of Prussia was the mark of the beast.
 Germany has cot changed. Let us
 not relax our efforts until we have
 destroyed the evil spirit which plan
 ned and rejoiced in such crime.
 "It is the magic Of hope" says sil
 Arthur Pearson, which. makes this heroism possible on the part of the blinded men who came to St. Dun- stan's."
 How much they have to hope fol
 may be gathered from the third an.
 nual report of the work of the Hostel : written by Sir Arthur himself. The , story of the pathos and tragedy 0
 the hundreds of brave fellows wht
 have been blinded h our wars is tolC in masterly manner. They learl r what others, blinded like themselves t have done and are doing; they ar told of men wounded in this same wa 1, who have already learned to live live . of independence in the darkness. 8 Fortunate, indeed is this great ant
 beneficent undertaking to have secure, 0 as it's director a mat vt, can blen, l. intense sympathy with splendid or d ganizing ability.
 e Since the hostel began it's work 4s e men have passed through it to becom n useful citizens once more and 57 : others are how being trained-"taugil : to be blind" as Sir Arthur puts i ,, They are taught to read and write
 to use a typewriter to write short S hand. they become adopts at sue r manual operations as mat-inakin Q hasket-making, joinery, and poultry it keeping. And they are taught to pla e as well as to work.
 There is about to clear from north '- east port a British ship described g d the largest electrically driven craft i e the world. She is 8 6,400 tonner. I'll l. largest in the world? Has not An Ie erica completed her electric battleshir y, Has she not turned out any of ht l. amazing battle-cruisers, which, wit
 their turbo- electric system, develo
 or will develop. 200, 900 horse powl le and speed of 35 knots? America Id proudly silent about her big boats, bi " they are to be wonder ships. So al ss her new dfeadnougfts.
 A day or two ago up in Flande le writes Philip Gibbs to the Londt t. Chronicle a wagon drawn by tv ,d mules dashed into our lines. The sn drivers had been killed or scared ly harassing fire and so these mul es came to us. In the wagon was Ge IS man mail of unopened letters. Tho B. letters reveal the agof1y. the spiritu d. revolt of people who understand som ne thing Of the truth and see hothii Id but death in ali this
 Do you think you won't be ceflil
 on leave soon now? (So one lett ..1 says.) It's high time you got awI ". for it is past your turn. Oh! h5 us much longer is it all going to las .. It is full time the wicked hurabug