Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-12
A lieutenant, writing to friends from

Palestine, says:-
 Did I ever tell you what an effect it made on the native mind when General
 Allenby walked into Jerusalem. They looked upon it as a pilgrimage and called him The Pilgrim Queerly enough his name is very
 much in his favour. The Moham-
 medans are very superstitious about names and tho nearest Arabic rendering of Allenby,s name would be Alla-Nebi, which means the Prophet of God Also if they take the name and read it baclzwards-as Arabic writing is done it reads Ibn-el- Ala, or the son or servant of God The Secretary of the Admiralty makes the following announcements On March F two British seaplanes encountered and attacked five enemy aircraft in the southern part of the North Sea.
 An engagement took place, which
 lasted 30 minutes.
 One enemy wo-seater was shot down and destroyed. the observer of a second machine was killed, and a third seaplane was driven down on the water.
 The engagement terminated when I l their ammunition.
 | Both machines returned safely. I ---7- Cardinal Lucon, Archbishop of i Reims has issued an energetic protest against the statement in the German l eommunique of March H., which was 1 to the effect that during the German i operations to the north east of Reims l 9, French optical post had been several l times observed at work on the l Cathedral.
 Neither on the Cathedral. declares the Cardinal. nor on any of the churches in Reims, is there any post o1
 observation or optics or any instru.
 ments of wireless telegraphy or any apparatus whatever for military pur, poses. There are no cannon within 800 yards of the Cathedral. a fact te which I can personally testify. as live close by.
 l His Eminence points out thst tiht
 Germans may have been misled by tn. fact that a few workmen have latch been employed on certain measures O l preservation by building brick and ma sorry round statue on the summit
 of the North Transcript.
 l Lest year, similarly, precious stained
 glass of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries which had escaped total de struction was taken down bit by bit
 the great clock also and the organ ! which were suffering greatly from tn
 gas and dust raised by shells, were re moved.
 The Archbishop's explanations ar 1 countersigned by the General Com , manding Reims.
 Not the least interesting aspect o the success of last weeks War Saving
 campaign was the substantial re
 duction which it rendered possible i1 r the floating debt. Last Saturday, a ! is shown. in the Treasury return, tn } amount of Treasury Bills and Mean advances outstanding was reduced b
 e38,1S0.00o. Since the beginning o
 the year the amount of Treasury Bill outstanding has been rtduced by 2 S4, $50 900 to z 1 ,023, 695, 900. A still large ? reduction has ben effected in Ways an Means advances, those having been re , duced on balance by 52, 300 000,. nnak
 ing a, total of s 9S7,5S0.000. In the cor
 responding period of last year tn amount of Treasury Bills was reduce , from e1,115, ,S15 900 to e576. .191, ,00(
 Of course during that period the sale | Of Treasury Bills were suspended i
 view of the foatation of the War Loar
 which brought in about 1000 million
 of new money. Since the beginning c ; this year approximately 9426, 900, ,00 5 has been raised in new money. Bu whereas last year more than half c the new money subscribed to the Wa Loan was reflected in a decreast i
 the floating debt, on the present oc
 casion only about one-fifth of the ne, 8 money raised is reflected in that wa, a | The London Times. Eight British soldiers, ineludin
 some Canadians, who have escape
 from prison camps in Germany, hay l arrived in London.
 Their names are:- Sergeant Ollerton, Coldstreal 0 Guards, whose home is at Ludlow -roat t l Guildford
 : Corporal Guy, Coldstream Guard b whose wife lives at Factory -roat
 Nortfleet
 Corporal Dorman, Canadian Infantr,
 native of Newtonards. County Dow s Ireland.
 n Corporal Horne (Canadian), q 1 Prince Albert, Sask = Private Wilson cCanadian), of Hirs Q I Eicerton
 Private WigIy (canadian), native ( < Wynnondham, Norfolk. Private McGonnaghy Canadian native of Bushrnilis, County Antrim
 Ireland.