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N6TES AND GGMWi'6e-!-ITS?…
N6TES AND GGMWi'6e-ITS? NOTES km COMMENTS lionk,-megl,o, the smallest of the coim- bataats, haa gone the way of Edyinm and Serbia. The tafcnig of Mount j Lovchen was necessarily followed by the fall of Cotinj-e. Now Athens reports that the ra-mistice, which it was known Austria had offered, has been signed by; Montenegro. Pi-eenunably, King Nicholas has seen that there is no more he can cto. The first messages were vague enough. j And from the news, which camo about che same time as the Athens telegram, ifchat the MmtexK-grine were still main- taining their rfcidgtance, it appeared as if the alleged armistice had no foundation, in fivot. But a nuessage emanating from the enemy side, which is traosmibtenl from Amsterdam this morning leaves little room for doitbt. Count Tier,a, the Hungarian l'remier, announced on Mon- day in the Chamber that Montenegro had made proposals for the opening of peaco negotiations, and he added that th.it couiii ry had accepted an unconditional armietice. The Allies went to war to defend the righti of the fan-all nations. Two are in the hands of tite enemy, and their sad oase we know iuii well. A third is at the parting of tho ways. At pres&nt its friends eeem powill"lcæ to theIp. It is martyrdom, or a temporary htundliation. Whatever the little kingdom, d-ecides to do in its greatest hour of crisis, it is n{">t for us to judge. liathor, it is for us to intruire how for we are responsible for the pitiable plight in which the smallest of the naticeialitifis engaged in the war find, tliesmselvea. And here we aro instantly upon dan- gerous ground. "There is a. disposition in the jr1"ponsibe PreSBto turn, the finger of scorn to Kaly and ask: Why were you not ready wiion the hour struck? Why! did you not resist the a-tiack -upon MOldH Ixn^cheu? Why did yo-u allow little Montenegro, whose ooas-tline means so much to yon, to be over-run? The con- quest oi Montenegro is all inevitable phase of the general si tuation in the Balkans, which the Gormanio Powers, in accordance with their long-cheti-ishtid designs, have been shaping to eztft their; own end. The Allies ax-e, no doubt, col- leetiveiy Foepoasible for the general state of affairs, but (says a military expert more dogmatic in his view* than most in his profefci.'ion) the fate of Montenegro and j Albania, though inseparable from that of the Balk-ins generally, is an item which j the Italians, being more directly oaln cerned, might have been expected to make their special care, and to bring promin- eL4 iy from their own point of view before j the Allies' War Councils. j Squabbling between the AUtes, or e??cn betweem thPr&.>s of the Alli<-? respect-! ing the res]x>rt:?(bilitie6 of each cxmntry,' is rislcy work when, 60 mutih depends upon unity of purpejso. There is a. euperiK-iai case to be made againet the Italians, but it takes no cognisance of a number of im. porUuit, though dimly-eaen oonsidera- j tions. The Italian view, according to the « Timee cori-sprn(lemt i-u Borne, is that Italy's first duty is to be prepared for all; contingencies upon her own front. Cenoral ("adorna has to be l-eady iod- a big offen- sive when the Allies' WAr Co-unoil de- cides for a general move forward. He has! also to fsaco the possibility of a man-I Austrian offensive on a grand ale.1 Assuming that Italy has 300,000 troops toj spare at this moment, that is very far from moaning that she wouLd be wire, eiCK?r from her own or from the AJlied pomt of \dcw, to dispatch them. or balf of them, to another theatre of war. They must be kept in resarve to guard her wo miles of frontier and be ready to act with vigour when the time cc-meti. This qruto apart from any consideration of tho num- bers necessary to repair wastage. As far as war material is concerned, Italy does not possess any &uperfluity. And Italian politicians, be it noted, are disposed to turn the aocu&atioa. against the Allies. Aocor-ding to Signor Barailai, one of the Italian Minister's, the Allies failed to settle a common program in the and he maintains that Italy was not the meet responsible as regards this want of foresight. He declares that intimate and constant act-ion and con- cojxl are necessary- ilo eays that the Central Powers can no longer co-ont an inadequate coordiiiaiioii of effort on. tho part of the Allies. Tiio Italian news- papers, too, resent the &ug^as.tion. tliat Italy is alo.no, or oven principally, ile- spontiblo for the situation in Montonogro. They link it up with the whole of the Balkan situation. Thii was the Monte- I negrin. view many weeks ago, the view at least of man who wore Pest capable 01 judging the situation, though at the pre- sent moment in Montenegrin circles in Home the tendency is all to bxame Itnly lt,)Jalb tl"a je.1-i d eucy for the latest development. The fact of the matter eecnis to be that we are now paying for that lack of co- ordination which appeared to character- ise the conduct of the war up to recent days. We are facing a combination of Powers which has its strategy in the hands of one Staff. Wo are opposing—or wo formerly opposed—that unified stra- .c:.y by a ponderous machine whose various parts did not run smoothly. The advantages derived by. the Teutonic Powers from their central position and from the unity of direction which was ensured by the assumption of the supremo control of operations by the German General Staff could not be success- fully overcome by what one writer calls H the parochial system of warfare which I resulted from the independent pursuit of individual interests.? Aud he a?ds: As ? HiO more precise allocation of blame ,for thM state of thiR?s, it is necessary to preeerve an open mind till the cir- cumstances are fully known. The Messaggero, indeed, hints that things would have happened differently in the I Ualkans if the Allies had listened to the advice of Italy at the opportune time." This and many other matters which are now obscure cannot, obviously, be cleaned up till after the war. The whole business of the Balkans, political and military, indeed, is fa.r from baing a triumph for the Allies, although the retreat on vSalonika, in the firsjt place a desperate expedient, will apparently turn out a great thing for us, since the presence of a strong army there will always be a menace to the Central Powers, and may possibly result in disaster to their plans. But irom the start we have te-en unfortunate in the Balkans. Mr. John Buchan declares that we begun by refusing to take the Balkans seriously, and indeed by passing from apathy to hustle. Two policies might have been fol- lowed, each in itself reasonable. Balkan unity might have been secured in the first half-year of war by putting sufficient pres- sure upon both Serbia and Greece. ,N either was in a position to withstand the resolute representations of the Allies, Or I Bulgaria might have been isolated, and Greece, Serbia, and Rumania brought into active alliance. As it was, by urging concessions ineffectually, we did not satisfy Bulgaria, and we made difficulties for the leaders of the other Stateo. And the final tra.gedy of the little nation, the third to bo crushed, comes as judgment. Tho Prince of Wales comes into a heavy inheritance, but he is beginning to shoulder tho burdens of his high posiition with a determination which is beyond praise. It seems only the other day since ho ligured at Carnarvon as a charming boy-prince; to-day he has attained to manhood not only in years but in ex- perience. Soldiers who return from the front speak of his pluck, and his efforts to be where there is the hardest work to be done. On Monday he presided over the Statutory Committee appointed to carry out the prcvisione of the War Pen- sions Act. It is the outcome of a desire to co-ordinate various special activities and to direct and concentrate relief work in view of certain general ends. Apart from the nominees of the Crown there are upon the Committee six nominees of the Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation, in- | eluding the chairman, Mr. W. Hayes j J isher. Tho Soldiens' and Sailors' Familiea Association is represented by two nominees. In order, also, to make the Committee as national as possible, tho Board includes representatives of the Treasury, the Admiralty, the War Office, and the Local Government Board. The Committee could be widened to include more practical interests, and men who are nearer the actual lives of soldiers; but perhaps the broadening down" will come when tho Committee gets to rly-tl work. The Chancellor of the Exchequer li-as stated that he will recom- mend to Parliament and endeavour to obtain a State grtuit of a million sterling to be placed at the disposal of the Statutory Committee. It is none too much!
Coiwyn Phiiipps.1
Coiwyn Phiiipps. 1 One Who Went and I Returned Not. I Colwyn EnasamM Arnold Philippe, Oaipta.in ¡ Royal Horse Cuards, Elder Son of John Wynfoixl Philipp, lt Brauron St. Davcids; Smith, Elder and Co. HIS biography is brief. Born DaMm- ?'? ber 11th, 1888. Killed in action I near Ypres, May 13th, 1915. Born to a great inheritance. Eager to do good. A visionary; a poet; a lighter. One in whom noble impulses ruled; a simple, affectionate and fearless character who! wrote his mother before her daath in March last year: You are to me the proof that honour and love are above all things and a.ro possible of attainment." A of children, a hater of slauns in social and religious matters, a cheery good fellow. And, at 27, when man is about to enter upon his complete estate, aixi childish things begin to fall away, the thread is suddenly snapped. What are we to say of eueh a tragedy? How- explain it ae-cording to the natural code.? There is a verse of Lowell's which seems to divine the truth: I Happy their ecu Who vanish down life's evening ctream Placid as swans that drift in dream Round the next river-bend }Iano'ç- long life, with honour at the close, :FrjČls' painless tears, the e?te-nod pa'n?'t,;38 t?eai-,s, the wjfteuoi And yet, like him, to spend All at a gush, keeping cur first faith sure From mid-lifers doubt and eld's content- ment poor- What more could Fortune send ? It must have been of a y-juth with ideals as high as Colwy.n Philippa? of whom Lowell wrote. For his epitaph, too, may well be those lines: He leads for aye the advance, Hope's forlorn hopes that plant the desperate good For nobler Earths, and days of manlike m-ooo. HIS LETTERS. From this collection of his verse, his prose, and his letters, one can create for on-eself a delightful and altogether lov- able personality. Here is one edcie of Coiwyn Philitpps, shown in a letter :from Flanders to his people: I shall be very sorry to leave my farm. My old couple aro perfect dears, and their children al- most wept when I told them I was off. We have ma do considerable progress in each flier's languages, and we sit round and discuss farming eon-ditiorte and the war and our respective countries far into the n iglrt. The only embarrassment is ca-used by Maclarue, who appears with cups of ooffee at any an-d every hour, and is deeply offended if I do not drink thom." There is an. of&cer friend who has a common interest. We talk and play I draughts and read Browning, I think Browning is the perfect poet for lovers- he does not write about love as if it was a fever of the youthful which. most people do rillHI the writeI was only twenty- seven!] and he delights in the little eosy prettineeses of his lady without being fulsome or sticky." He reads Sesame and Lilies," liking the language, but finding- the rest "a little obvious; such, I suppose, is bound to be the ease, I as he is putting a case thal- I have long embraced." 11 is all very like the nobility of twenty-seven when it a And then there comes a Ilobe which, in a light- ¡ ning flash, reveals to U6 the clean, humble soul of youth: I am loging interest in ffie philoso- phers, I think—I agree or not as the ease may be, but none of them really tell me how to be anything, otPly what to be —that I already know-the answer is "good and wise. U He and Wells,- he writes home npon a. date in March, apropos the views of eome- one or other, He and Werlis agree on one point that I Icve—if politics are a dirty gaoie it is xtp to you to dean them, not I' to avoid them." This is the ideal strain through all these letters sent from Flan- ders. Ho doesn't want.any books sent him on philosophy. The air of the front » ssems to have taken the taste out of such writings. 11 i,3 i bracing air. "I don'.t think I care much for philosophers just now—they onlly tell you how you should live-well, I could do that myseli-the only difficulty is doing it. Also, I never met a philosopher who gave useful advise on the real conundrums of life—I mean < And what should A do thou? soIt: Cannot we see in lives such as these our lost selves at twenty-seven ? HIS VERSE. Of the poetical remains, one cannot say much mora than that Coiwyn Philippe had a well-trained e-ur, and a hu.ppy way of rounding a sentiment. Some of the verse is very charming. Here is one poem, fairly typical of the rest, and wowing his j strength and his limitations: If you go smiting down the street, Y<YjT,Ll see upon each face you meet There'll flash an answering smile. It seems a thing so very small It's scarce worth while to do at all, But yet it is worth while. For just that smile may cheer a heart To turn and make another start Upon an uphill mile. Thero are more ambitious attempts in- cluded in tho book., but it is in the lighter verse that lie sings truest, such as in the two following: w Remember your rosition Was a thing oxieo said to me. That is a proposition That I never yet could see. Position may bo something, I quite agree, and yet It seems to me the one thing To remember to forget! THE N.C.O.'S LECTURE. Room must be found in this review for the joliiest thing ÝIh the book, a record of the remarks nucho by a N.C.O. who had been told off to increase the esprit-de- eorps of three recruits by anecdotes and references: 'Ave you over -card oj th' Black Prince? No ? Well yon ARE ignorant blighters! *E was a covo what rode about in armour, "eavy cavalry was. and "o licked the French. Well, a pal o' 'is was St. George wat birthday to-merrow: Vs tho cove as (Coxdisiued at foot of next Column).
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Fat and Store Cattle, Valuable ShiN and oth-jr Horses, Pigs, Grope, Mocbera Agricultural Implements and Matchboard I Mr. Frederick F. a-eager I (2fe £ k?w of tho Auctioneea and JSstafca Iisetitiite), HAS been favoured wjih instractiom from the Traeteee of the late W illiem Sevan, Esq., to SEEL by PUBLlC AUCTION on the above date and plaze. the iolkxwinj? Hisrh-Ciaee Live and Dead Farming Stock CIBIOPS, KoaEa-Nl IMPLEMENTS. etc. 34 CATTLE IeoludiTiS -Pe"' igrIbO Shoiihora <Iio;Dû Gro«»>-il>reti^; rihorthora Milch Oowa and Ileilers jju-celf; ip" in for- ward ooadiiioa, 2 years-old Steers and iteitoje, aiao Cicts-Dred jSihorthorai Yearling; ?'?ee?'3 and .Hoiicra aj*d CaJy?a; 2 yea.r-oM Oroeb-hred. Jsihosthom. Bull {from Pedigree Dora); Sea and ?'Tii? T?Ai?in? 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TABLE, So?id Oak ditto., Handsome Drawing and Dining Boom Suite* limes i'endere^ Fire Brasses, Oari»et«» Hearth-ruse, B^aii-tifuliy Carved Solid Walniu Sidoooard with bevolled plate g?'es ba<?k, Walnat OveraianUdd, Walnut j OcLQ-gojuLl Tabie, MaEma?pt? TlQ,UK I L" L..UD BRASS-<. UXiElJ WHi'OW TABI^E, ;œ,lD MAHOGANY ?t. BOOKCASE SECRE- '1'L..H11.E, Solid Oak Ditto., POLLARD OAK 4it. DiN?BB. WAGON, J?c?ble PerambulatOr I wiÍh two hood5, AdjLX?.?h? Moaic S?c?. Dark Walnut Betirooca Suits, Satin Walnut ditto., Two Small liedroom S'uilee, Chest of Drawora, Stained WcJnut Bovkèaæ. Hall Siaiid, POLISIL76D WAXiNUTI* M:DSTEAD. Braes and Elczk ditto.. Wire-wot* liat- tressee, Wool Overlays, Beckvoai Ware, Trinke; Sets, Kitcheu Drosew Arza and 'cftlre Kk-oh-eu Tihiee, Dicaer and "Pta Services, Liuol-ftunit*, Tx^adl-e Sewing MawhiiiCB <e<iual 100 new;, l^uli-Oomixa^a, ¡ Iron Frnm,oo. PIANOFORTE, A IPIA-NO in. ROSEWOOD GASii ,by -ittatidoij, with Quantity of Boils. 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' TKE ^'SMEfrsSEIfTEMCE
TKE ^'SMEfrsSEIfTEMCE Funny Story J'old by Justice Dariing. Many complaints have been made by ^tinsel ixbout the acoustic properties of tho J uagc d Court at the Old Bailey, and Mr. Justice Darling tells & good etorv on the subject. Mr. 1 Lume Williams said it was a fear- ful experience to find his words being hurled back at him from. the docae directly th-ey have been uttered. Mr. Justice .Darling had heard before of the difficulties of oouneeL I have been told." ho added, that in one case where a judg3 pronounced (Sentence of seven ye ait,' pt-nal servitude the prisoner | I was paralysed by hearing a voice from the roof giving him another sentence.
ITHE PASSiNG OF THE TRAMP…
THE PASSiNG OF THE TRAMP -w Some Stnksng South Wales Figures. Mr. Godfrey L. Clark (Talygumj pre- sided at the meeting of the Glamorgan, Monmouthshire,and Breconshire Vagrancy Committee, head at Car-dili on Monday. the eoventh yu-arterly report was pre- sented, showing that .the number of admissions to casual wards is. the differ-! eIYt; mniona covered 1),y the district for the period ending December 31st, 1915, was 3,923, compared with 7,648 for the cori-e- sponding (IuAxtw- of 1914, or a decrease of 3,720. At the chief centres the number of admissions were:— Cardiff 51 f) against 1,114 Merthyr 139 534 Newport 228 „ 513 Pontypridd 240 „ 503 bwaaisea 348 „ 55S T J1 in vno eomtauea unions of Cardigan- shire, tho admissions totalled 507, com- pared with 2,960, or a decrease of :453 for the oorre«ponding period. Ileeognising the markofl dimiTLution in the number of casunie relieved, the com- mittee expressed tho opinion tha t the ei'siem of relieving in lodging-houses should now be abandoned. They therefore recommended that in unions where this method was still practised the metnod should bo discontinued, if possible, during or at -the end of the ensuing quarter. The different nmons were urged to detain tramps for two days in the event of their not being in possession of way tickets. It was fe-ltthllt by this means there would be a still further diminution in tho Tl-arnber of vagrants. Tho report war-: adopted.
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.=-=-. WELSH ARMY APKOTEKTS From a special supplement to tho « wIldoll G-azette n igsued on Monday;— Regular F c,-c L- I n ia n try. south Waias rel John Going D.S.O., to bo lieut.-eol. (Nov. 29). ,C, U L.- -) I (-Nov. Infantry Service Battalions-Lotal. Reserve. Welsh Regiment.—William Osborne j Chapman to be temporary eoc.-lieut. j (Jan. Territorial Force—Infantry. Welsh Regiment.—Sec.-liouts. to be1 temp. lieuts. (LVe. lG): Richard S. Evans,,  Fi'?nk Gurm, and Hopkin T. Morgan,
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I When before the Metropolitan Muni- tions Tribunal on Monday a worker said he had fifteen Army rejection forms. Fifty-three decrees were pronounced ah- aolute in the Divorce Court on Moaiday by I Mr. J ustitp Uargwye Deane.
GERMAN RELIGION - I
GERMAN RELIGION I I PROTESTAKT PASTORS' AMAZiHG i VIEWS Oil THE WAS I PERHAPS there is no better way of getting an insight into tho stmngely perverted attitude of the German mind touching the present war than by reading passages taken from the sermons of their great preachers, which have re- cently appeared in German newspapers. NO COMPROMISE WITH HELL Pastor Zoebel, speaking in the great Lutheran church in Leipsic, said:— "It is this deep eoseciousness of our mission that permits us to congratulate ourselves, and rest content with a heart full of gratitude, when our guns beat down the children of Satan, and when our mar- velloue sntjmarines—instruments to exe- cute the Divine vengeance—send to the bottom of the eea thousands of the non- elect. We must fight the wicked with every means in our power; their suffer- ings should giVle us pleasure; their crKe of despair should not move German hearts. There ought to be no compro- mise with hell, no m-ercy for the servants of Satan—in other words, no pity for the English, French, and Russians, nor in- deed for any nation that has svld itself to i the Devil. They have all been condemned to death by a Divine decree." A WORK OF CHARITY. Prafessor Rheinold Seeby, who teaches theology in the Berlin University, preach- ing in the cathedral of the city, c-aid:- We do not hate our enemies. We obey the command of God, who teUs -us to love them. But we believe that in kill- ing Lern, in putting them to suffering, in bvrning their houses, in invading their territories, we eimply perrorm a work of charity. Divine love is seen everywhere in the world, but men have to suffer for their salvation. Human parents love their children, yet they chastise them. Germany loves other nations, and when she punishes them it is for their good." THE DIVINE MISSION OF GERMANY. Pastor Fritz Philrppi, of Berlin, from his Protestant pulpit, among other things, said ;— As the Almighty allowed His Son to be crucified, that the scheme of redemp- tionmight be accomplished, so Germany is destined to crucify humanity, in order that its salvation may be secured. The human race can only be saved by blood, by fire and erword. German warriors do not fched blood with a light heart. They look upon it as a eaca-ed duty imposed on them, a duty they cannot neglect without committing sin. Oar beloved Emperor hates the horrors of war. Through long years he laboured to maintain the peace orf the world- Germany has never em- ployed force to menace the independence of any nation. It is really because we are pure that we have been eh-osesa by the Almighty as His instruments to punish thle envious, to chastise the wicked, and to slay with the eword einful nations. I TO CRUCIFY HUMANITY. The Divine mission of G armany, oh brethren! is to crucify humanity; the duty CfÍ German soldiers, therefore, is to 6trike. without mercy. They must kill burn, and destroy; any half measures would bs wicked. Let it then be a war without pity. The immoral and the friends and allies of Satan must be destroyed, as an evil plant is uprooted. Satan himself, who has oome into the world in the form of a great Power (Eng- land), must be crushed. On Germany is laid the Divine command to bring about the destruction of those who are the per- sonification of eviL When this work is finished, fire and sword will not have been used in Tain. The redemption of humanity will be achieved- The kingdom of righteousness will be e&iahiishcd on the earth, and tba German Empire, which will have created it. will remain its pro- tector." Teaching of this kind in the twentieth century of the Christian era is sadden- ing in the extreme. If this is Gorman. Kultur, as a writer in the "Methodist Times says, the lass we have to do with it the better. It savours more of Moham- medanism than Christianity; but it needs no comment. The Book says: They that take the sword shall perish with the sword."
ISiR ALFRED MONO'S BILL
SiR ALFRED MONO'S BILL ————— .———— NOW BEFORE THE CABINET WELSH M. p:S AMENDMENT TO THE GùMPUlSIOH BILL When is the Government going to move in the matter of a Moratorium Bill to secure freedom from the payment of rent and of life insurance premiums for house- holders called up for military service 2! Many thousands of married nien ara ay. ailing action OIl the part of tha Government. Sir Alfred Mond, whose Bill to re lie v a from contractual obligations, such as in- suiajifce premiums, mortgage interest, etc., men who liave jDin, or who may join, hid Majesty's sotroesi has been before the War Otnce, and is now before thtl Cabinet, 011 Monday handed in a question asking the Prime Minister whether it 14 proposed to introdmse legislation to deal witu tike matter. Mr. Walter Roch's Amendment. Mr. Walter lioch has plaoc-d. on tho paper the following amendment to the Compulsion Bill, the object being ta create a moratorium for civil iiabilitiea and premiums on policies of asettraaoa incurred -by or due from ItleD. serving iA the Army:— AU proceedings already instituted, on hereafter instituted, in any civil court and any right of distress for rent agamsS any person who has enlisted and ia serving in any of the armed forces of the Crown sinco the 15th day of October, 191.5, shall be suspended during the con- tinuance of the war, unless such persoa, or anyone aifting for him under a. powe* of attorney oblall have assented thereto. No policy otf assurance shall lapse by reason of non-payment of any premium dua thereunder, or any part thereof, during the continuance of the war, by any person to whom this section applies. Similar freedom from the payment of rent a.nd of life insurance premiums ia provided in France in the case of house- holders called up for military service. Mr. J. H. Thomas and Conscription of Wealth* 1 The clerks of the table at the House of Commons have. it is understood, declined to accept the amendment from Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P dealing with the ccuascrip- tion of wealth, on the ground that it doea not come within the purview of the Mili- tary Service (-No. 2) BilL. ML Thomas, however, is putting down a sweeping amendment to the £oo that a mora- tcrium should be declared on rents, mort. Images, interest, and, to use his own words,, everything else." The amendment is on the same lines aa that entered by Mr. Walter Roch. but ia of a more sweeping character. Wealth Which Couid be Utilised Wft Celerity, N If the OQascription of capiul 1s I necessary to "Win the war, then let us have if," says the Times," which proceeds t4 say: Before yon can cocscriba yoa sxtxist iin j serine. Who is to do it and how long wi_U \j it take., Several years and several Mil. lions have been spent on inscribing th* value of land, and it :is not tinifthart yet. How long would it take to value house* and their contents, factories, macaiuary. and so forth? There are, however, certain forms of wealth which might be ascertained and seized with comparative celerity. Inwo are funds and money assets. They imo.Lode among others funds belonging- to trads unions, co-operative societies, and insur- ance societies, savings banks deposits, and the hke. These are all capital or wealth, and as there is no distinctioai of classes under the Military Service Bill there could, of course, be no suclk distinction under the Conscription of Wealth Bill. Perhaps its advocates will think this over and draft their proposals. Then il will be possible to judge of them. 3ieaj3o time, let us get on with the vax.
IGOLF IN WAR-TIME I♦—
GOLF IN WAR-TIME ♦ — Langland Bay Club's Good Financial Year, Thp annual meeting of the Lsmgianfl Bay Golf Club on Saturday shows that in spite of tho war, a really good year. firancially and otherwise, has just been concluded, the membership having risoft to a total of H9, of whom 27 are ladies, whilst the links have been visited by fewer than 836 <4 temporary members." AU the usual trophies have been played for, exoept the club championship, and in view of the fact that over 30 monk* bers of the club are serving with the colours, this was not played this yeaJ- Mr. R. C. M. Ingram was elected captain for the ensuing year, with Mr. W. 1, Parr as vice-captain, the lather also bainS tho cJiosen president, and Mr. R. E. Goli still holds the posts of honorary seer* tary and treasurer. The loss of the late Lord Giantawe is keenly felt by tbA club, and a vote of ooOOoleDce -with t'.b.8 relatives was passed.
VICAR'S SURPLICE OR FME —————
VICAR'S SURPLICE OR FME ————— Exciting Incident in a Parisb Church. The congregation of Lyminjtoa PartA Church, Hants, was alarmed on Sunday evening to see a flame shoot upwards in the pulpit, from which the vicar, the Rtw. A. Bostock, was preaching. Electric light is installed throughout the church, and this having fused in the pul- pit the minister's surpti-oe was set alight- He fortunately noticed and extinguished the flames before any serious injury was received by him. He stopped the serviev immediately and called for help, and thtl current was vswitched off. The congwga^ tion remained seated and was perfectly quiet. The minister descended the pulpit and concluded the service. Part of thepulpil was damaged by the fire and discoloured.
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SMUGGLERS SHOT !■«>. I.i. Dutch Frontier Guards Kill Two Men. Rotterdam, Monday.—The first result of the Dutch Government's stricter measured against smuggling was seen yesterday, when two men were found trying .to convey rice across the frontier at Bergendal, in tho region of Nymegen. The frontier guard opened fira. One man was shot in the neck and the other in the stomach, both fatally. On Saturday night two Dutchmen at- t3mpted to carry a quantity of bacon into Germany along the railway dyke at Wcstervoort. Crorsing a small bridge one man fell into the flood and was drowned. According to the Amsterdam" Telegraaf," cats are disappearing from the frontier for the skin but also- as food.
Coiwyn Phiiipps.1
(Continued from preceding column.) I want to tell you about. Never 'eard tell of "im ? Why, look at the back of >arf a quid. There you see 'jm sitting on a nanimale a-fighting of a dragon. You will note as 'is thigh is in the c'rect posi- tion—but -"is toe is to the ¿<Jpresood-don't forget as tho eole of the foot is to bo kept parallel to the ground—however, e was fighting of a dragon which accounts for it. Well, this -r,, St. George is a Patron Saint of cavalry, and don't yer forget it. What's that? What is a patron saint? Now none of your back ansv/ers 'ere, my lad, or yo-u-and me will fall out. Carry on!" HOW HE WENT. He fell in action in an attack on the German trenches in the salient of Ypres. A brother officer says that his end wais worthy of his life, as he was the first man in the trenches and killed five Germans before ho was shot at close quarters and instantly killed. "The last I saw of him," writes another officer, was when be was 011 his knaes, in front of us and facing U6, waving his cap 'and eh?nting come on I b<)vs.' U Every time I Looked at him he was cheering the men on." And 6till another: I didn't know till I night time that the bravest man I ever met was dea(]. When his kit came home, in his note- book were found lines singing tho healing magic of the night, that hides away earth's stars. "Be still and loose the dense of God in you," is an immortal line by which Colwyn Phiiipps should be re- membered. No longer antlike on the earth to I crawl Released f rom time and sense of great or small. So we come back to Lowell, who of an- other life which went out at the crescent, sang that nobler shall the sun lfame in the sky of his dear"land. braver breathe thy air That thou bred'st children who for thee could dare And dio as thine have done. J. D. W.