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Notes from South Wales. (From our Special Correspondent). Aberystwyth Paper's Cynicism. In its last issue, that weekly collection of cheap cynicism called the Cambrian News sneered at the London Welshmen as "men who love their country passionately, at a distance, and who come down to Wales with an eye on some place of honour, yelling frantically Cymru am byth. I have met many London Welsh- men during their visits to Wales, but I have never heard one of them yelling frantically." Silly C!ap=Trap. The precious print alluded to never misses an opportunity of attempting to ridicule London Welshmen, who, it need hardly be said, are highly amused at the "frantic yelling" of the Aberystwyth Lancashireman. The London Welshman is a patriot in the true sense of the word. And he can well afford to laugh at the silly clap-trap of the Cambrian News. We who reside in Wales well know the many excellent services rendered to our country by the London Welshmen. We are proud of our compatriots in the great Metropolis, and are impressed with their devotion to the mother tongue, and the church and chapel in which they were cradled. We also know the Aberystwyth cynic and his frantic yelling newspaper. St. David's Day. It is evident that this year's celebration of St. David's Day at Cardiff will be one of the most interesting celebrations ever held there. At a meeting on Saturday, a strong committee was appointed to arrange for a great banquet at the Town Hall, and it was decided to ask Justice Vaughan Williams to become the guest of the evening. It is also probable that the Mayor will officially attend the St. David's Day service at llandaff Cathedral, accompanied by Members of the Corporation. Never before has such enthusiasm being aroused in reference to St. David's Day at the principal town in Wales, and this augurs well for our gallant little nation. Have the Welsh been "Absorbed"? A friend has sent me a copy of the New York Sun, containing an article advising England to grant Ireland "complete separation and liberty." There is no way," remarks the writer, "and there never will be any way, of turning Irishmen into Welshmen or Scotsmen. They are impos- sible of absorption." The inference of the above statement is that the Welsh have been ab- sorbed." But have they ? Most emphatically no. Due to Ignorance. The New York Sun is a powerful American journal, but I am informed by a Cardiff gentle- man who was born in the States, and knows Cousin Jonathan well, that the staff of the New York Sun do, s not contain a single Welshman, and when the person who wrote the article just referred to inferred that the Welsh had been "absorbed," he was only displaying that igno- rance of Gwalia and her people which is so characteristic of the modern English and Ameri- can newspaper writer. "I he Welsh will never be "absorbed." Indeed the events of recent years certainly indicate a greater national

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Notes from South Wales.