Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-09
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It was stated in an official quarter that the Germans were still attack Ing the Esthonfans, and from the fact that they are ,concentra ting arnoured cars and other war material on that front they evidently intend to occupy
 all the Esthonian Baltic provinces Marshal Foch has issued a direction
 to the Germans, supplemented by an
 order from General Cough, instructing
 them to withdraw imediately to the south of the line already laid down.
 The new Loan, when it's suhscrip-
 ton list Is opened. will probably beat
 all records and make. the loans of an
 earlier day seem Insignificant in size
 But in speed it may have to go s.oll
 out to rival the Loyalty Loan of 1796
 This loan of G1S.O00.000 for carrying
 on the war with France was fully sub
 scrlbed in exactly l , hours and 20 min
 utes from the opening of it's lists.
 The present appeal to the sporting
 instinct is something new in British loans, but added inducements to invest
 were once common In them. A flaw
 ourite form was a small annuity for a
 term of years in adition to the perr,a-
 nent interest. The Crinea War for
 instance, saw the issue of 3 per cent. loan with an annuity of 14s. 6d per cent. for 30 years.
 Friday, the thirteenth day of the must be a doubly unIucky day on which to essay any great task We wonder whether this was not the un- derlying cause of the first postpone. ment of the Allies reply to the GermaA counter proposals, which was to have been delievered yesterday.
 No such notion seems to have tener- eG the heads of those who are reSpon- si.'ie for the issue of the great Vic- tory Loan, nor is it at all likely to give pause to the Transatlantic f1iers, wait ing for a favouring wind. One won ders however what the seafarers of Newfoundland think of it. There is no belief more firmly rooted in the minds of those who do business in great waters than that a Friday sailing is simply asking for trouble. And Fri day the 13thi
 Our recent note on the ex- -kaiser's yacht eneeds an amendment that we haSten to give. We said that the Me t cor was lying in Southampton Docks which is the case. But it is not the sailing yacht, schooner rigged vessel, or this name which belonged to the eX- Raiser, but the Meteor of the Ham, take passengers to the Scandinavian f1ords and to the Mediterranean.
 The ex- Kaiser's yacht was, of course, the Hohenzollern. General Sir Philip Chetwode, who today succeeds General Davies as Mil- 1 itary Secretary at the War Office, be- i longs to a family which can trace it's 1 history back to before the Conquest. l He was one of the leaders of the Brit 1 ish Cavalry in the fateful days of Au- l gust, 1914. and to him and his troopers | fell the duty of covering the retreat i of Sir H. Smith -Dorrien's army, dur l ing which they completely routed an 1 enemy mounted column near Cherisy.
 Dorothy Britons who have spent part of their Whitsun holiday toiling 1 through torrid heat in futile hunt l for beer can reflect sadly that the present week brought the time of l their lives to our bibulous ancestors. | At this season were held the Whit i sun AIes," or Church Ales' when | beer bre7ged with malt collected or sold to the faithful laity. and the pro- ceeds devoted to church purposes or the leittf of the poor.
 The beer was drunk in the tithe- bar. or some suitable place, and the 1 stivities-corruptio optimi pessima, often degenerated into drunken or yies, which caused the custom to be supo, essed after the Evangelical re- viyal.
 It has been revealed that old cinema films are used to make "Stiffenings" 'or the toe caps of boots and shoes.