Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-22
CLEANED FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES

euired to undertake, and the new de- partment is to be congratulated upon the businesslike nature of the terms and contract.
 The government are to pay { 8 los per ton for the total crop of. seed and straw, and as a fair yield is from two to three tons per acre, and the seed for sowing will be supplied free. the prospect of profitable return is en- couraging. A feature that will in- spire confidence in those without ex- perience is 8 guaranteed minimum payment of 214 per acre for all land suitably managed irrespective of the return of flax.
 The German newspapers still ut1earth from time to time Lutheran sermons which far outdo even the blasphenies of the kaiser In the course of ser mon at Bukarest, which has been printed and distributed to the German troops and has now reached the Der liner Tageblatt, a chaplain at Mack ensen's headquarters named Hecken-
 roth said:
 People are talking about peace al any price-even at the price of renur1- citation of a greater and niightier ia.
 therland. The millions of the best ot our people are to have bled and died l in vain!> My German people, the blood for vengeance For me it is as if all those who rest in the cold earth, un-
 der the banner of loyalty, were rising from their graves and marching 1 through the land with appealing ges- lures, saying: German people, it will not last much longer hold out but g l little, and the final victory and ar honorable peace will assuredly be ours.' Yes, for me 1t is as though
 Almighty God Himself were marching i through our land, pointing to all the 1 innumerable signs of His help ane ] salvation, and making against us tht terrible accusation: 'SWhat have done i to thee, my German people, and how
 have I wounded thee, that thou re.
 wardest Me thus with want of faith
 want of courage and faint hearted ness?"
 At the Central hall, Westminster, re gently General Booth dedicated a con l tingent of male members of the Saliva tion army who are leaving shortly fo ambulance work in France All hay, 1 seen considerable service in the or
 sanitation, several as many as 8
 years, and they have been careful! selected from Salvation army station in different parts of Great Britain While coming under the British Ret
 Cross and being under the reeognizei conditions of active service, they vii retain their distinctiveness as Salva tionists and wear the badges of tn organization on their khaki uniforms General Booth recalled an observa
 ton made by Queen Alexandra on tn
 occasion of an inspection at Maribor
 ough House of a previous unit of Sal I vation army annbulances. Your fde
 is splendid said her majesty. ''No
 only are you sending over the tigil
 kind of ears; you are also sendin
 them.' The Salvationist driver would use the many opportunitie
 which presented themselves of i'm pressing the men placed in their chars ] with religion The Salvation army car
 already at the front had carried some
 thing like So,600 wounded men, som
 of whom had been converted by time
 ly words mad plsayefs.-5London Time. AI5.f -4---------..-.. II We are advised by temperanc
 writer to drink morse neck" a potio made from lemons. But lemons are 6t } apiece! Moreover, if the desires of a hearts were made known we sheul
 probably find that our flying me , would be glad for us to leave lemon !. to the Flying Service. The lemon zoe
 to furnish part of the liquid fuel Of tn aviator's internal economy. "FIC squash, plenty of hot lemon squash , that's the only thing to keep 70 warm" says one who files big bomb er NO mascots, no swaEk, n ] 'booze,' but hot squash; yes, as he ! and as often as you like"
 ! Coming over on leave an Austral ian soldier found himself next to khaki-clad Scotsman whose shoulde : straps bore the letters F. s. c. "Sa. , uate," he inquired, what regiment that? Never heard of yon before. !. IsQh" laughed the Scot sI.m a foreies