Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-27

on the western front and Of the dlS- covery that German nerves are not proof against defeat in the field. the Reiehsbote, the kaiserins favorite evangelical organ, is provoked to the following pulpit outburst:
 German people, full of envy must thou regard thy mortal foes, who are being urged on to- victory by strong willed, ardent patriots. Clemenceau sends every traitor and aiarmist to the gallows or to penal servitude; but thou dost tolerate openly treason within thy borders and dost suffer systematic depression of the general spirit. Curse all those hyphenated ones worthy of nothing but death, who, in the sense and also it may be in the service, of our false friends and of our enemies unceasingly undermine the will Of our field-g gray warriors to fight and win, and who. out of ugly party infatuation or from manifest hostility to their country, would hinder the rise of Ger many to be a world power-our real aim in this war. German people, go into thy churches and pray to thy God that His grace may be full and that He may give thy kaiser strength to wake our Bismarck from the dead, to renew the spirit of | this Hercules, who shall purge Ger many's Augean stable, slay the Hydra | of dissension, and save his people from faintness of heart treachery, and ruin.
 The technical department, aircraft l production, of the ministry of muni- | tions. has prepared a detailed report l on an example of the new German 300 h. p. Maybach aero engine taken from | a Rumpler biplane which was brought down in France in January last. 1 These engines are described in the report as undoubtedly representing a great improvement in general design l and efficiency as compared with the | old 240 h. p. Maybach engines found in Zeppelin airships. The quality ot the workmanship of every part, in- cluding the exterior finish throughout is exceptionally good. and the working clearances are carried to very fine linn its. Every part, nevertheless, shows the usual German characteristics ot strength and reliability, combined witt standardization and ease of manufac- | turing in preference to the saving O. | weight.
 The engine has six vertical cylinder! l with bore of 6.5 in. and 8 stroke 0
 7.09 in, and weighs 911 h. complet'
 with propeller boss and exhaust mani fold, but without fuel or oil On al
 
 speed of 1,400 revolutions a minute,
 gave on the average 290 b. h. D., tn
 weight being thus a little over II per h. p. The consumption of petro was 055 pint and of lubricating oi 0.038 pint per b. h. p. hour.
 The CA type of Rumpler nachin from which this engine was taken is
 two scatter biplane designed for long
 range artillery reconnaissance an photography. These machines are sai
 to be generally flown at high altitude
 -15,000 fit. to 1000 ft--until over tn ] lines, and from French reports the 30 ? h. p. Maybach engines are more f1exi ble and regular in running than tn 260 h. p. Mercedes engines general
 fitted in them. Their armament cor sists of one Spandau gun fixed in fro1 2 of the pilots seat and firing throug f the propeller, and one swiveling gu l mounted in the observers seat behin Mir. Hoover, the United States foe administrator, writing from the Amel 0 ican embassy to Mir. Clynes, the Bri
 ish food controller, on the terninatiC e of his mission to Europe, says: s I would like to express my person q appreciation for the many kindness
 that 1 have received at the hands
 yourself and the food ministry, ar y the hope that we may be long col ,- nected in a common cause, which 0 regard as the most humane of all tho
 growing out of the war. It comes ,- but few of us to have the opportuni if of service in the alleviation of distre :. that arises out of the conflict itse 70 and with this common ideal in vie there can be no difficulty in any c l. operative arrangement. You have on fr- O1N5 d Ia n n best.
 Mr Clynes replied:
 st I wish to thank you for your gene " ous letter. It has been to me a pc ' sonal pleasure to meet you here London and to tell you by word
 mouth how deeply this country appr le ciates the valiant help America G al spired by the common need in gre tn cause and by your own advoeacy) h ,k given to us in the solving of anxio
 problems in regard to food suppli II, None of us forget your work on beh; III of Belgium, nor is the righteous em 10 ton forgotten which was reused in or all by the German invasion of B 50 gium and the ruthless doings of t
 Prussians there. You have helped an make the food front secure and I 10 et forward to fellowship and c6-operati sa effort which shall become ev stronger.
 A Cologne telegram says that a .. cording to the Cologne Gazette | cn Turkish paper Seman deplores tk D. Turkey was not invited to parti ay pate in the important discussions nd Main Headquarters. The preteXt t!
 they only concerned Austro> tIungs or ian and German affairs is inadeaua VI. as the solution of the prebfens volved affects the general situati' as and therefore Turkey. Proof tfat m; 't- ters affecting the East were on oh egenda is afforded by the presence
 the Bulgarian Crown Prince. The I