Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-28
Cleaned from Foreign Ex' ', changes

A study Of the great pook centei' Leipzig, is very interesting, writes German correspondent, Never, am assured, have books and pamphlets been produced in such quantities.
 The ponderous volumes now being issued by the. prominent figures under the old regime-Ludendorff Tirpitz and others--are, though somewhat ex- pensive for the German, less expensive than similar sized volumes published in England-say for example. Lord Jellicoe's recent work. Cheap editions flow from the printing presses in al- most undiminished floods. and the number of pamphlets is simply extra and economic subjects is going on to an extent never before known in any country. and the amount of excellent paper available is enormous.
 Reaardina the 'seizure" of the Ger man fleet in Holland. the Dutch have 1 sent note to the Paris conference stating that-they had purchased the {, ships from Germany. and that there 1 fore, these could not be taken by the ] allies.
 1 The reply of the supreme council overrules the protest and demands that 1 the German fleet in Dutch ports be surrendered
 This is the story of the Alsatian telegraphist's heart cry - As readers will have observed. the Daily Chreni- cle's well known special correspondent. | MT. Donohoe, is now in Stfasbourg, A 1 long cable from him was handed in at i the office window last night and as a lfootnote, in the familiar black type writing on blue tape, was the follow i ing addition-1ot necessarily for publi- l cation;
 Fl a kekes W de mauvais anglais i conme vs voyeZ mieuX ke moil''
 Remembering that in Strasbourg they speak a patois into which Ger man enters. one translates "kekes" as the French "quelques.' ''w'' as an ab- hreviation for the German ''worter'' and Ike" as the French @que," giving us, in English, There are some words 1 of bad English. as you see better than l."
 I The spectacle of our friend and col league MT. Donehoe arguing the ques- tion of his bad English" with d Stras- I bourg telegraphist is one of the things
 We should like to see at the cinema.
 kubeIik. the famous vioInist, was due to play at Oxford on the 18th. but
 he has sent a message saying he is
 unable to leave the country"
 He is in his native l,tid of Bohemia
 and apparently cannot get the necessary permit to come to England. Before
 the war he purchased fine estate out of his great earnings on the publit
 platform, but he has not been heard oi
 lately, and now it is unlikely that he
 will be here for some time
 Admiral Sir Montague E. Browning ; who has just been promoted to ful rank, provides one of those instances
 where the son of soldier has not only
 chosen the sea as profession but has
 succeeded in passing his fathers army rank. A good deal of the credit for tht
 record gunriery of our navy was due tC
 Admiral Browning's work as inspector l of target practice, it being the proud boast of our warships that they coult
 knock the mast out of fishing smacl
 when it was almost out of sight. This remarkable marksmanshiI proved useful in the war, not only al big fights like Jutland, where the Ger
 man ships were hit when they resem
 bled a sixpence on edge, but in th . numberless little contests where tn r only target was the periscope of
 submarine.
 The first of the war leaders to talk q ulS SSdl III lHG mousse Oi f0rQS VIII b i Earl Beatty. who makes his maidel
 appearance in the legislature this af :" ternoon, and thus gives parliamentar,
 representation once more to the sailor E on the board of admiralty. The frs sea lord will be followed in his presen . tation to the lord chancellor by two e
 the western front commanders, LOT
 RawlinSon and Lord Byng. z f Every newly created peer has to b f introduced by two old members of tn : same degree. who conduct him to hi seat after he has had the paths admin
 istered to him and delivered his WIT
 to the clerk of the house. Lord Beatt S has made a pleasing choice in select y ing a colleague at the admiralty. tn d Earl of Lytton. to assist at his initia
 ton.
 This chilly weather seems to be n premature arrival of the cold sna # which almost invariably occurs durin # the second week of November. . usually begins about the 9th and last 'S until the 11th or 18th of the month.
 Why this cold period so regularl
 occurs meteorologists seem unable y explain. It is one ot the nine or te n examples of orderiiness in our way J. ward weather, but becomes doubly UT h welcome just now by confirming 0, Fs present Persian and Arab guests in u unhattering and rather undeserved b, lief maintained by most foreign vfsi
 Tors about our British climate, whic