Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-15

crippled soldiers.
 Marching up a side street, under guard, iss a large number of Austrian and German prisoners, just in from the front, some of them ragged, thin, unclean and disheveled, but all appar- ently happy at being relieved from the hardships of war. In another section of the city. accompanied by several armed soldiers. is a small company of deserters or slackers. most of them de- tected and spiritless. with crowds of curious onlookers commenting deri- sively on the lack of courage which | made them seek freedom from mili- tary service.
 At the railroad station long train l or cars enters, bearing hundreds of Rumanian Transylyanians captured l by the Russians from the Austrians and now turned over to the Rumanian
 military authorities for service under the Rumanian flag. The men seem | happy at the prospect of serving the country of their nativity, but are con- scious of the grim fate that awaits if | any of them are taken prisoners by the Germans or Austrians; for if re- taken by the Teutonic forces they will be sumInarily shot as traitors.
 No far from the center of the city are the residences of the kAng and | queen, which in times of peace were the quarters of military companies. IT keeping with the tendency of the times, they are severely plain in al
 their appointments and surroundings and it is difficult for the visitor tc realize that within the plain, rude walls are housed the sovereign heads
 of nation. The queen may be seer almost any day setting out from thu
 royal residence in an automobile, un,
 guarded, and attended only by one O.
 the ladies-in-waiting from the court
 The king likewise is a familiar figurt
 on the streets of Jassy. He usuall.
 travels by motor accompanied by on,
 of his generals or military aides. Tn | royal family is much loved by tn people, and both he and the queer
 nlingle among their subjects with
 spirit of democracy and catho1icit,
 that is deeply impressive to the visto
 from other countries.
 In the poorer quarter of the provis
 ional capital is large public market , place where hundreds of farmers an' peasants gather daily to dispose o ; their meagre wares. Of most strikin , interest perhaps is the fact that tn . ordinary method of paying for good . with money has given way in man
 
 ter and exchange; for in the presen e scarcity of food in Rumania none . has come to have but little value. A . this market-pl may be seen a.
 itinerant merchant trading a bushe I of potatoes for a quantity of wood, f peasant woman exchanging a poun i of butter for package of sugar, c = a farmer swapping a sucking pig fo e a few pieces of leather
 While the city has many pictures Q que aspects, it is not without ii scenes of sorrow and depression. Max
 ing it's way slowly along & narrc- n street is a shabby, dilapidated, box a like vehicle, so small that it resem V bles a toy wagon. which the native z generously call hearse, and which f bearing to final repose the body ( V one of the late residents of the cit, ,fl Drawn by a single horse, pitifully de e crepit and lame, the hearse is follow n ed by young man on foot. The i in turn. comes a crude gray cart, Q if which is seated a patriarcha1 figur bent with the weight of years. ,fI The spectator inquiries the detai .o of the sombre spectacle and is is g formed that a young woman has fai '- en victim of typhus-that terrib l. scourge which with bowed head ": ,s the young woman's fiance and that u ls old man on the wagon, who Is tc d feeble to walk. is the last of the fan V. ilw of the deceased. Scores of mi " itary officers and soldiers bare the m heads and stand in silent attentic e while the little procession makes 1 l. way to the local cemetery.
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