The Carmarthen Weekly Reporter

Llanelly Council and Boxing. At a meeting of the Llanelly Town Council on Monday, the Mayor (Councillor Dan Wil- liams) presiding, Mr J. Morris, the secretary of the local Discharged Soldiers and Sailors Federation, applied for the use of the Market Hall on October 21st, for the purposes "i holding an assault-at-arms. In reply to a question from the Town Clerk he explained that it would be purely an ex- hibition of the art of boxing, lonsisting of bouts of five rounds each, for which no purses were to be offered. Councillor T. H. Samuel, in proposing that the application be acceded to, said no objec- tion was taken to the boxing contests that had been held in Stradey Park. Councillor F. J. Rees seconded the motion. Alderman Joseph Roberts strongly pro- te.sted against the granting of any public building for any form of boxing. He believed the time had come when something shoull 1), done to prevent the young men of our country going headlong as they were doing Anyone who went about the country as he had been doing during the last few years, c(luld not but be impressed with ivhat fol- lowed a boxing contest in such places as the llhondaa and Pontypridd. The language heard and the betting were disgraceful. Anv man who has the moral welfare of the public at heart, must feel that parents and public bodies should do everything they could to prevent such conduct. Boxing contests did not end at the building where they were held. "Let me give you an instance," he said. "There was a boxing contest at the Halfway Park, Llanelly, but it ended. in the People's Park that night. From 200 to 300 young men were found in the People's Park fighting each other, the majority of them stripped to the waist. Are we going to support such exhibitions and have such results in Llanelly?" Personally, addd Alderman Roberts, he would do any- thing for the dicbarged soldier, whom he greatly admired, and he would be prepared at any time to sbscribe to any fund, but he could not support any boxing contest or a.ssa uIt-at-arms whwich they promoted. lie moved-an amendment that the application be refused. Councillor J. Walter Thomas seconded the amendment, which was carried by 11 votes to five..

When Germany Nearly Won. That the alarming success of the U-boat campaign very nearly won the war for Ger- many in the spring of 1917 is made clear by Admiral William Dims, of the United btates iNavv, in the first instalment of his war re- miniscences which appeal's in the October issue of "Pearson's Magazine." He reveals in fulness of detail the critical situation which was produced at that time owing to the volume of shipping which German submarines wewre then sinking. This is the story of his first meeting with JelUeoe "After the. usual greetings, Admiral Jelli- coe took a paper out of his drawer anù. handed it to me. It was a record of tonnage losses for the last few months. This record showed that the total sinkinps, British and neutral. had reached 536,00. tons in February, 603,000 in March, and that sinkings were taking place in April that indicated losses of nearly 900,000 tons. These figures showed losses which were nearly three or four times 33 largo as those indirated by the very inconclusive statements which were then beinng published by the .ress To say that I was surprised by this disclbure is expressing it mildly. I was fairly astoun- ded in my wildest moments I netrer ima- gined anything so terriible. I expressed my consternation to Admiral Jellicoe. 'Yes,' he said, as quietly as though he were discussing the weather, and not the future of the British Empire, 'it is impossible for us tOo go on with the war if losses like this continue j 'What are you going to do about it?' L asked. 'Everything that we can. We are -_n- 0:: K increasing our anti-submarine forces if every possible way. We are using every possible availaible craft we can find with which to fight submarines. We are building destroy ere and trawlers and other craft as fas as we can. But the situation is very serious, and we shall need the assistace we can get.' 'It looks as though the German were winning the wa,r, I remrkead. 'They will, unless we can stop these losses—and stop them soon the Admiral replied. Admiral Sims makes a very full survey of the outlook of the spring and summer of 1917, and quotes a memorandum which he himself wrote to W askington, in which he declared that "briefly stated, I consider that at the present oment we are losing the war." Hq adds this final reference to the danger-whieb threatened the British people: "The fact is that no nation was ever placed in so tragic a position as GrcaJ Britain in the spring and early summer of 1917, and I think ristory records few specttaeles more heroic, than that of the great British Navy, fighting this hideous and cowardly form of warfare in hadf a dozen places with pitifully i-nodequato forces, but with an undaunted spirit that re- mained firm even against the fearful odds which I have described."

Englishman Lost in Russia Mr W. T. Goode, a newswpaper correspon. dent. who was captured by the bolsheviks, has ent the following letter to Mrs Keeling, whose husband is missing in Russia:— "Deat Mrs Keeling,—Your husband left Reval with me on July 20th, and we crossed the frontier between Pskoff and Ostroff. 1 got him through with considrable difficulty as far as Volikie Lakie, which is one train stage of about eighteen hours from Moscow. There we were both held up while discussions weet on by telegraph with Moscow. In the end 1 was told to go to Moscow myself, but he was to remain at yelikie Luki, but to send all his creedntial with me. The people in Moscow- promised to discuss his credentials, and send word what he was to do. I took his papers in a sealed packet, and handed them over to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow. At the same time I made the strongest effort possible to get them to allow him to join me in Moscow. "The same night I fell ill, and was in the doctor's hands for some days. When I got aibout again I went to the Foreign Ministry to ask what decision had been made concerning him. I was told that the credentials he had sent were useless, and that orders had been forwarded to send him back again to the frontier by the same road that he had crossed. I1 roan that day to this he has disappeared en. tirely from my knowlwedge. "When I returned into Esthonia I ex- pected to find him waiting for me ;it Reval, and my first business was to make enquiries concerning him. To my atonishment I found that no one liacl seen him. I went every- where—Consulate, Iltt-lioiiiaii Foreign Minis- try, hotels, English Mission—everywhere, but without success. I was reluctantly driven tlI one of two conclusions—either he had come back into lieval and had crossed by boat to Stock holm without making his presence known or that he had crossed the frontier to Pskoff, and relying on his knowledge of Russian, had crept in some way back again across the fron- ttier, meaning to make his way either into Moscow or some other port of Russia alone. If he did that I expect lie was caught in the act and put into prison. Even in that case J do not think you need have any fear of his safety. He would probably be interned until condtions are changed. At Reval I sent a radio to Moscow asking for news of Keeling, but as I was imprisoned the next day and after that held up on a Brit- ish wasrhip for three weeks until I arrived in Hngland naturally I have not yet kad a reply. 1 wish I could tell you more, but I think you I have no reason beyond your natural ansiety to have aay fear."

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