Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-01

retired, hereby inform you that IL is my desire that every person shall pursue his lawful business without ] fear of interruption
 Furthermore, since your city is re- garded with affection by three of the
 great religions of mankind. and it's | soil has been eonseerated by the prayers and pilgrimages of aerout people of these three religions fer
 many centuries, therefore, do make | it known unto you that every sacred building, Tnonum ent, holy spot shrine, 1 traditional site, endowment, pious be- quest, or customary place of prayer, | will be maintained and protected ac- cording to the existing customs and I beliefs of those to whose faiths they | are sacred.
 1 Guards have been placed at Bethle- i hem and at Rachers tomb. The tomb at Hebron has been placed under ex- elusive Moslem control. The heredi- ] tary custodians of the Wakf at the
 gates of the Holy Sepulchre have been requested to take up their ac- customed duties in remembrance of the magnanimous act of the Caliph Omar, who protected the church.
 l Proclamation issued by the head quarters of the German Military Gov | of conquered Italy.
 1 A house ito house search will be
 made for all concealed arms, weapons and ammunition.
 I All victuals remaining in the house Emust be delivered up.
 1 Every citizen must obey our labor regulations
 All work1nen, women and children over 15- years old, are obliged to work in the fields every day. Sunday
 included, from a. m. to 8 D. m.
 l Disobedience will be punished in the
 following manner:
 | CD Lazy workmen will be ae-
 companied to their work and watched
 by Germans.
 : After the harvest they will be i'm prisoned for six months, and every third day will be given nothing but bread and water.
 T (2) Lazy women will be obliged tt ! work, and after the harvest re. ceive six months imprisonment. , (3) Lazy children will be punished by beating. The comnandant re serves the right to punish lazy work men with twenty 1ashes daily 5 London Chronicle.
 Il Most people will agree with St i Arthur Yapp that fit would be a grea . thing if we could possibly establish
 great communal rabbit farm an l. they will wonder why. when meat l scarce and threatens to be scarcel , the authorities do not set about it a
 once. The rabbit is a by word fo q fertility; and it is reckoned that, un e der favourable circumstances, -th |. progeny of one couple would amour 0 in twelve months to between one an S two hundred: Such Tnultip1ieatio 0 might not be accounted vexatious b $ the January of 1s1s.-London Ob ]. l server.
 e According to Herr Potthoff, cor u ruption is devastating all classes i o Germany, and employees, not satis q fled with demanding extravagar I wages, are now taking 'erooke V paths" He proceeds:-- 7 The chief of these crooked path S is bribery. Throughout broad area # of our economic life bribery of em = ployees has become a reeognized trad V custom, without which it is impessihl a to obtain either an order or tho de l. livery of goods. A second method
 lembezzlenet1t or theft. I should nc
 like to go so far as to say that efn
 bezzlement and theft are dread y recognized as a. trade custom, bt n anybody can see that respect for tn n property of others has been badl !, shaken. If wagon is left for a shol
 time unguarded in the street or on tt e railway, it is certain to be ha n plundered. Consignrneilts of foo
 fuel, and all necessities of which thei $ is a shortage are reckoned as "fail $ game. ."-London Times.
 d "Dehrett's Peerage" for 1918 point Il that up to the present time the TO : of honour includes one member of u l. Royal Family, twenty one peer Y l thsrty -one baronets, eleven knight 'e eleven members of Parliament, hur 'e dred and thirty-flve sons of barenet IS and two hundred and eight sons = knights. The heirs to one ftlndre
 and fifty hereditary titles have bee e killed, and as an immediate result n the war the succession to teredital h dignities either has been preeipitats d tor the normal descent changed in evi h a hundred and eighty instance le During the eighteen peers, thirty. tv st baronets, and two hundred and ts
 knights were created.- London oi
 server.
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