Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-01
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Huge quantities of household uten- sils and clothing from the Knockoles detention camp are beiPg offered for sale at Douglas. Isle of Man, by order Of the disposal board, and excellent prices are being realized The auction sale is one of the largest ever held in the British Isles.
 Thirty thousand lots are cata1ogued, each lot containing from 100 to 1000 articles. Opportunities are given to the public to buy in small quantities, and until small buyers are satisfied no large amounts are offered.
 Should the experiment be successful it will be repeated by the board.
 The commander in chief of Admiral KcItehAk's Siberian army. General Gaida, is a soldier of great character to have achieved what he has at so young an age. for he is still under 90. He is a Czeeho- -Slovak from Bohemia, and was one of the 2eo. poo Czecho- Elevak prisoners taken by the Russian army from the Austrian forces. Most of these went over voluntarily and surrendered to the Russians.
 When these Czeeko- -S1ovaks took up arms against the Bolsheviks. Gaida was chosen as their leader. He came into prominence after his famous drive through along the whole 4,o09 miles of railway from the Urals to Nladivestok-
 After returning to Ekaterinburg with his forces. he was chosen by Admiral Koltchak to take command of the new Russian army. and his first great vic tory with the rev army. was the taking Of Perm.
 I've hundred young maple sapliass, 8. gift from Toronto. are being planted on Yimy Ridge in commemoration of the exploits of Canadian batfaiions during the war Simple unaffected memorials of this description seem more in keeping with the tone Of de- vastated trenchland than the costly and elaborate erections in marble and h G0 hApn posed. 8
 Tree memorials will be not only an aesthetic but a practical way by which to honor the heroic dead. for vast ex- panses of the old battlefields are de void of ali life. No living trees break the rnonotony of the tortured Somme country, while in the Salient the shat tered trunks have long since disap- the east of Noyon every tree was fell ed by the retreating enemy and around Arras waving branches are the excep- ton rather than the rule.
 Sir David shackIeton was a cotton weaver until he was 2e. SHe then be- came an official of his union. and was elected NJ. P.~for a Lancashire division, after several years service as a town councillor and justice of the peace. He was twice president of the trade union congress, and was knighted for his services at the labor ministry.
 A burly. genial man. and unspoiled by his success. he is still David to his multitude of friends in the north of England.
 Our own drought troubles are i'm significant when compared with what happens in the Southern seas.
 A colonial office report from the Gilbert group on the equator shows that at Ocean Island the rainfall was 137 inches in fS14-15. following fall in the previous year of 131 inches. The 36 months ending in June last year and 20 inches of that came in the last two months. when the three years drought was officially regarded as be- ing at an end.
 x-ray photographs, which, as dem versazione, can be used to detect de- fects in aeroplane wood. have also been accepted in a law court as proof of a mans age. The case in question was heard before the subordinate judge at Aliahabad. who had to decide whether one of the parties was under or over 2l years of age.
 Skiagrams of the elbow joints and knee joints were produced. and two X-ray experts gave evidence that the plates showed that ossificatfon of the place. and that they hnd joined the shafts of the bones. This. it was saiA took place between the ages of 14 and IS, and the experts placed the age of the person concerned as over 1e and less than 1s 1-2 years.
 Another claim made for X-rays is that by exposing to their light a good modern violin it will acquire the