Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-12
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A crippled American seaman told a curious story to the Willesden mag with travelling on the ra lway with out paying his fare and with failing to register an alien.
 It was said that he was known at the American consulate, where he had thrown metal disc at a high of ficial Because he could not get Wha | he Wanted
 He had been convicted in England and America as Rupert Clamp" and was in a Lanca shire lunatic asylum in 1917.
 Prisoner, who was evidently a man of culture. said his mother was an American and his reputed father a cloth nanufa cturer in the north of England.
 While he (prisoner) was escaping from a prison in the United States, he was shot in the hip and crippled for life. He said he raked up money to come to England, to see rich rela tives.
 Magistrate: Yours is a varied ca reer, but you are not quite the sort of person for us to, keep in Eng land.
 He was fined 4os. or II days for the railway, offence sent to prison for a month for not registering and ordered to be deported.
 Prisoner: All right; the next they they will do is to put me in a glass case.
 We publish today August 2o>. a summary of General Ludendo orff' $ Memoirs If the War" the first book to review from the German side the beligerent operations from 1914 to the armistice. General Ludendorff is credited with having attempted to play a political as well as mil itary part in the war, and his booK is much more than an ordinary as it takes account of the political reactions upon the campaign in the field. The difference. wide as the poles, between the spirit Of Ger is wildly illustrated by Luden- dorff's remark that the German extensions of the suffrage in the midst n. St. of h the war were confession believe that the Russian Bolshevik propaganda had made much more progress in Germany before the armistice than has been generally supposed hitherto. It is more than probable that in attributing so much responsibility for the German defeat to political causes, this eminent soldier is seeking to defend civilians.
 The reference to the placing by the admiralty in the Bressay Sands of a number of hydrophones capable of de- tecting the whereabouts of any ap- preaching craft goes to show that the
 
 Congratulations are therefore due to Mir. J. A Burgess formerly. science master of Bishop Ridley college, On tario, who is understood to be the in course. war measure against sub marines, but the admiralty decided to undertake six weeks test in the North Sea, which MT. Murgess conducted to value in peace times. and it appears that the invention has come up to official expectations.
 Is the Vicar Of St. Matthew's, EaIina, justified in using the expression, "a warm shade of white as he is re- ported to have done in an appeal for redecora ton funds? Scientifically, there may be only one white, but com mercial1y there are many.
 A linen handkerchief and a sheet of writing paper are white until com pared with new laid" snow which ata present. holds the record for white ness.
 Probably the warmest shade of white may be claimed by sunbeam but then again, can a ray of light be a shade?
 Thousands of Canadian and Aus tralian soldiers are taking back Brit ish wives with them. There is a smaller item on the other side of the account.
 Some of the flower of the Dominions' Europe Few of these plucky maidens who are fancy free viii be allowed to sail away unpledged. They must go home to be demobilized. but quite a number Are returning here in the spring to be married and others of the betrothed are being followed by their lovers as soon as shiproom can be obtained.
 Seven years ago today August 2o),