Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-14
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Schemes for the ideal public house, like the poor, are alWaysV with us. We have been disruSsin@ sre subject for years, and experimenting in a ten tative way. Lord LamingtCns bill in the House of Lords appears to provide a diversion from drinking rather than | impose restrictions. This is certainly q step iA the right direction It must be remembered that i'll a great many cases the public house serves as a kind of club and common meeting ground, and there !s no req son why this tendency should not be catered for and encouraged under good ! conditions. But no- improved public 1 Eouse will fulfil it's expectations so ! long as it's customers have to pay 1lore for tea, coffee, and Cccoa. and soft" drinks than for beer or spir- 1 it's.
 1 James Russell Lowell, whose cen 1 tCnary of birth is being celebrated | here this week tF-eb. 24th), was a | lover of Lonton, and could praise t i like a true poet
 After alluding to his affection. he l continues: One other thing about l London impresses me beyond any oth- tPr sound l have ever heard. and that i is the low unceasing roar one hears 1 always in the air: il is not mere ac- | Cident like q tempest. or q cataract, ] but it is impressive because it al Ways indicates human will and i'm ! pulse, and conscious movement: and 1 confess that when ! hear it I almost feel as if were listening 10 the roar iLg loom of time"
 Has anybody seen a man wearing a white armlet with royal crowa sm- broidFred in red? It has been salp- piled to all fitting hospitals for issue 10 men who are so incapacitated as 10 need protection ill crowds while travelling.
 i Over :, thousand have been issued from Rothampton alone. But it is found that as q rule men decline to ! wear them. and in many cases fatlv
 refuse to accept them. One must
 honor the pride that impels men
 broken in the war 10 refuse to ad-
 vertise their disability. but it makes
 '+ ? little difficult for those who wist
 pay them honor and do them ser
 vice.
 Sang in the course Of debate is be-
 6.0.aiUg al eVer~ day matter in the
 house Of commons. On Thursdav Lord
 Robert Cecil, newly back from his di-
 lion -i" work lr Paris. introdure red ahe lawor but ua.aH ssicol Wort ,4 wauEle into tue discussion on the 7. .Docu3ure resClutions. Under tn, ] Kangaroo closure he declared tha1 members were apt to try to ''wangle' tAe chair into putting their amend irlelts.
 On Friday. in the final stage of the
 procedure discussion. Major the Hon Hugh O'Neiu Unio-Et member fol
 Mid Antrim startled and amused tho
 house by using the word ''flummoxed. , The Matin Of Paris puoIishes a de. ,, scription of a remarkable invention l which, it is said will enable aero. planes to fly at enormous heights ant at a great speed.
 When a plane reaches the height 0 15,000 feet above the earth the air be gins to get markedly rarided, and tn
 further it ascends the more rapidI7 F does this thinness of the air increase , Consequently an insufficient amour of oxygen is supplies to the engine t
 insure the effective combustion of tn
 mixture of air and petrol yapor, an ) the machine loses power. = M. Rateau, the inventor of the de vice. who has just been elected
 member of the French Academy c Y Science. has overcome this difficult in a most ingenious manner. The ex , haust from the engine is utilized t drive turbine at some 30,000 revolu
 l tions per minute. This turbine drive t q centrifugal air pump which keep S up to normal pressure the air supplie n to the carburetor
 It is asserted that aeroplane engine c fitted with this invention will main tain their full power at the greateS heights at which it is practicable { fly. And owing to the rgduced air re
 | SlStance to the forward motion Of tt y machine at these attitudes enormou e speeds are forecast. NJ Louis Ere I guet believes that within five year n aerOplanes will be doing 300 miles a
 hour. .. s By the time the British had take Valenciennes the. First Army was feeC s ing over 200, 900 civilians and trans U porting crowds of them to their ow s localities. By November we wei
 feeding 256, 900.
 = Up to the end of January over half ;+ million people were cared for and rt
 patriated
 The army acted as British arm tt would. For example, the 9th Corps (
 one occasion gave up their rations f. IS two days. On other dates units t, other corps went on half rations. O. e men bought out, at their own expens a everything they could get from Il
 divisional canteens, especially tinne
 milk for the children, and gave the own rations freely. Battdlions res B. vularly gave up Z5 per cent. to 30 p' r. cent. of their rations. And this coI e tinued right through the advan, wherever the organized supply hs not yet overtaken the distress al "a reed