Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-15
CLEANED FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES

London did its best on "Our Day." Thursday, Oct. 24th. to help exceed the total of ? 12 millions raised on the same occasion last year for the Red Cross.
 As result of world wide collec- tions more than G1, 800, ,000 was in sight by the afternoon. A cable from Sir R. Wingate. the high commission CT, announced that Egypt had broken al records by subscribing over { 1S0, COG. The sultan opened the fund with Q gift of G1,090.
 Everyone in London was buying the little silken flags with the Red. Cross or the black cat mascots.
 The "camoufiage fair" in the mid de of the ruined village in Trafalgar square attracted large crowds. The idea was Lady Sybn Grants, and friends who had come to help her oc Cupied caravans and performed gypsy tricks in the good cause. Munition ettes from far-off industriaI towns came to London to sell in the square ingenious trifies they had nlanufac- tured and after the opening ceremony
 by Sir Arthur Stanley Mir. George Robey started an auction.
 Daisy" the pig which an anotment holder presented to Queen Mary, was sold and resold till e321 had been raised for the fund. A war bond at tached to a Nelson letter was bought for z 200 and given back for resale.
 In the endeavor to give the public some idea of the stupendous nature Of our war effort, MT. Alfred Mines, featuring on the evening of Oct. 24, at the National Liberal Club. said that 1885 tons of 22-carat gold would be required to discharge our expenditure. for the current year.
 If it were possible to pay for the
 war in gold as we went along, it would require II. 792 coal carts to convey the bullion. Another method of estimate give the cost of the war for the cur rent year at 2 95 per second, or Z 942,- 465 per hour
 It was. as matter of fact, impos- sible to pay for the war in gold, as all i the gold in the world totalled only D. 000 millions, or about thirds of | the amount required.
 In Germany there is now no milk ] for adult consumption. Berlin allows ! milk daily only to chiiGren Up to six years, at which age the ration is an 1 eighth of pint An ounce of cheese I per head is the week s ration. and but \ ter and margarine run to 2.4oZ. In 1 Austria and Hungary adults also have 1 to so Inllh, ana H. valids getting 7-16ths of a pint daily. 1 AIstria's weekly ration of 1.4oz. of butter is not always issued: in HuB-
 gary the amount is usually l 34oz. | Cheese is not rationed in either of 1 these two countries.
 The record price fetched by the late Lord Rhondda's Hereford herd will ! give sparse satisfaction to the con-
 sumer, for Herefords as the veracious | west countryman is never tired of as
 sorting. are the largest beef-makers l Of their race. It is true that similar l claims are put forward on behalf of the Norfolk steer and the Shorthorn, l but whichever be the better beast, it
 should check local pride to recall the fact that but for the introduction of Dutch sires we should get no more | and no better beef from our cattle | than our ancestors did from theirs | when George III. was king.
 Meanwhile, the sorrow;ng consumer sees no hope that the family joint will be cheaper.
 Now that the embargo against for eign matches is removed, it will be interesting to see how many matches
 each imported box contains. The pre-
 war box of safeties held just six dozen
 matches, and the price of a dozen
 boxes was never more than twopence