Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-15
Cleaned from Foreign Ex.
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Fl. Llandyssul, in attacking, in his annual report, our funeral customs, condemns the associatio of healthy people with infected corpses and the "closed ed1- flee" during the progress of what he described as "supernuous relglon ceremony"
 .The whole procedure" he adds, "is only a crude remnant of the customs of previous ignorant ages, and Is not only extravagantly wastefuL but is presidential and conducive to the spread of disease.
 The R34 carried a ."Decca" on its trip across the Atlantic. This port able gramophone was given the crew by the w. R. A. Els stationed at East Fortune. From the diary kept during the voyage by Lieut.. James Shotter, the engineer officer, is taken the fol- lowing:-''Our gramophone has been a godsend to us. I saw four of the younger members of the crew dane ing d sort of rag just now"
 The "DaiIy Chronicle" has the orig inal version of a set of German vers- es headed "At Last It has come!" ("Endlich. Ists gokommenl"), which were found in the possession of a Ger man sailor at Scapa Flow at the time of the sinking of German ships on June 21.
 The translation given below is lit eral.
 At last the great time has come,
 The end of. Junkerdom-and of ty-
 ranny.
 It has come to fearful end,
 An end-that at last frees us.
 Militarism, which has long oppress-
 ed us.
 Finally breaks down completely in
 a storm of of tumult.
 Servility-and drill, which has so
 long dogged our steps,
 At last is passed-today it is fin
 ished.
 What we have won in days of great
 bloodshed we will hold with
 an iron hand.
 No one dare whimper, complain, or
 refuse even if he doesn't t
 find things quite right. Freedom and Equality are to-
 day the passwords,
 Stand fast and strong is our mot Full steam ahead" on new course, Clear" to the fight for our pur-
 chased right!
 Lancashire. and week by week one or more of the great industrial towns Blackburn, Bolton, Oldham, Preston take their turns to Close down factor ies. mills and shops, and ernigrate, practically -en bloc. to Blackpool or other favo1rite resorts for seven days strenuous enjoyment.
 Save for GlosgoW Fair Week. there is nothing in Great Britain quite to compare with the Lancashire wakes In preparation for the one week s holiday the operatives and others pay into wake clubs throughout the rest of the year, and often enough thrifty families draw as much as 50 at the waketide distribution.
 Lord Grey, presiding over Old of winehester sforty years back" in7 l7 stead Of forty years on." He was a rather shy boy at the great school. but his love of Nature revealed itself in his delight in long rambles
 Mir. Roosevelt always recalled with delight d night walk with Lord Grey when his acquaintance with the birds was made evident. In the anxious years of the foreign secretaryship Lord Grey used to go for peace and rest to a small cottage not many miles from Winchester. No living man is a more enthusiastic wykehamist than he.
 It 6 being urged in some quarters that the Atlantic airship R34 loses in some respects By its numerical desig- nation, and that name would be a better vehicle for handing down it's great accomplishment to posterity. Why not his Majesty's airship Scott |? That is the name of the commander. started from Scottish aerodrome Be- sides, the suggested name would com memorate that great figure Captain Scott, the Antarctic explorer, in whom was embodied the best spirit of the adventure seeking Englishman, and who gave an imperishable example of stick it out"
 But while on the subject of boots you may notice that the ministry of munitions will this week be offering more than a quarter of a million pairs af army boots of all grades, lin lots to suit buyers" Like scores of thouSa nds of other army boots disposed of during the last few years, they will probably for the most part be snapped up by dealers and resold to the pub1ic-at market price.
 Yet of1e would have thought that some of our trade unions, strong de- nuficiators of profiteering in all it's forms, would have been we'll in the running for some of tlies bargains A