Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-02-21
Cleaned from Foreign Ex-
changes


There must be at least 100000 tons
of barbed wire buried in our own lines
in France alone" said Colonel Stanley
Smith of the war office salvage COM
mittee to a Daily Chronicle represent
alive 1--WE hope to recover practical
ly the lot"
The task of salving by hand was
found impossible. The salvage com
mittee designed a machine which alb
serbs the buried wire as neatly as a
vacuum cleaner absorhs dust.
The first machine was recently sent
to France in charge of two officers of
the committee, whose report came to
hand yesterday with an order for 40
more wire consumers.
One lorry and trailer carries the
whole of the plant, which can work on
the most uneven ground. A stout
wire rope win number of hooks is
worked by a winch. As the harbed
wire is drawn up it passes through
two sets of rollers and the salved
metal appears in blocks weighing from
a foot to Is inches square and weigh
ing from 70 to so pounds. For smelt-
ing it sells for s25 a ton.
Latest issues of the Russian news
papers contain Il decree issued by the
Soviet authorities in Petrosrad which
pOlttlS W itIS IlEENGlSnc6 Dl uTunFSn-
ness among BoIsheviks in high posi-
ton. The decree says:
THE reputation of the Bolshevik
party will be seriously jeopardized If
members of the Soviet administration
and Soviet deleFa tes continue to be
addicted to drunkenness"
| The decree proposes to increase the
leave of Boishevik officials, but
! threatens that if this does not prove
an effective remedy inehriety will be
punished by death.
last evening Hon. John w. Davis,
| the American ambassador, took his
| seat as an honorary bencher of the
Middle Temple. IT was a happy &C.
| casion, recalling the pleasant eircum-
| stances when Mr.. Choate took his seat
| there in earlier days.
Mr.. Davis, much younger than when
| Choate came to us, is only Is. and
was called to the U. S. bar at %, and
to the professorship Of law at Wash
ington university the year following
| Yguthfulness III manner, which means
vitality and enterprise, has always
shown itself in Mr.. Davis, ana it did
SO last night.
His Highaess Reha Sultan Sir No
manned Shah, better known here as
the Agha Kahn, NAV, 1t is said, follow
Lord Sinha in being raised to the
British peerage.
If that be so. most people, wher
Trey recall what his hjshnass has
done, will aeree that it would he ar
honor well bestowed. His counterblas
rallied the whole Khoya Mollammedar
faith to the allied cause, and made
loyal men Of many waverers. His
founding of the Moslem university O.
northern India has proved a publ,
benefaction. His handling of delica t,
matters at King Georges Durbar wa:
tactfulness itself. He has beer
awarded the great honor of SALUTE
of guns.
1t should be realized that there 1,
nothing really surprising about thes,
strikes, and they are only what tn
public had a right to expect. Publi
opinion, on the whole, has made up it
mind that in the future WORKINGS
} ought to get a larger share than the,
: have had in the past of the profit 0
, industry without hindering that in
dustry, and employers themselves ar
ready to take that view much NOR
readily than at any time in Twin!
! memory.
} But this is quite impossible unles
production is kept up, and one Of Ii
great evils of these disturbances lie
in this direction. The theory has bee
represented by nearly all responsible
leaders of trade unions that labor /
to be relieved by limiting outpu,
That is fatal.
At the end Of war like this, whe
so much of the apparent prosperit
has been due to the spending of Dor
rowed money, there must be a yer
I difficult situation. The one hope c
relieving it is by keeping up produc
. ton and making it greater than eve
" before.
: Employers are naturally afraid, wit
/ the present high prices, to spend cap
5 ital in charging their works, and, in
l deed in making large contracts. Tha
{ is inevita ble,>but in view of the cessa
, ton Of industry for the last four year