The Cambria Daily Leader

fBUNS' PROGRESS TO-DAY Enemy Nearer the Marne. rBUT GAIN ONLY SLIGHT. • ~— — Rheims Position Improved. 1 iTO-DAY'S FRENCH OFFI CIAL. I France, Friday. 1 The enemy has prolonged his efforts on his right as far as the Oise by violent attacks in the region of the Ailette. Our troops fell back fighting to positions to the. north of the line Bleiancourt-Epagny. In the region of Soissons, further to the south, enemy attacks were shattered by the heroic resistance of our troops, who maintained their positions on the western outlets of the town, and along the Cha- teau-Thierry road.. ._f- In the centre the enemy succeeded in making a slight advance in the region to the north of the Marne. Further to the east, as well as to the llorth-west" all the efiorts of the enemy were in vain. A counter-attack energetically carried out by our troops enabled us to re-capture Thillois. [The recapture of Thillois, about four miles west of Rheims, slightly im- proves the position of that city, slightly relaxing the German grasp upon it.] IT- O-D AY'S BRITISH OFFICIAL. ( General Headquarters, France, Friday. 10.50 a m A party of our t-roops wrecked a German post south-east of Arras during the night and captured a few prisoners. A few prisoners a.nd a machine- gun were captured by us also in patrol encounters north-east of r prrs. The enemy raided one of our posts north-east of Robecq. A few of our men are missing. Hostile artillery has been active in the Villers-Brettoneux and Albert sectors. an d between Festuber ? aut the Clarence River. Albert sectQr$r and.  Festuber, and' the Clarence li\'er. "DISTINCTLY ENCOURAGING." Paris Friday —>1. Marcel llutin an interview with th" "Eho de Paris" on his return from the trout, from which we extract the following What I can confide to you is this, the bend is slightly extended to the south. Our troops are resisting superbly on both wings, and at the close of the day the I impression formed by myeelf, as well as those we saw on the spot, was distinctly encouraging." BRITISH OFFICIAL. I Thursday, 7.35 p.m.—A successful local fperation was earned out I*st night by  "reneh troops ^ast of Dickebusch Lake, esulting in an improvement of our position in that sector.  On the remainder of thQ British front I there i$ nothing tOleport beyond artil- I3(,ry activity on both sides. f FRENCH OFFICIAL. I France, Thursday, 11 p.m. —The battle I continued during the day of the 30tlx t-with sustained violence on the whole front. Our troops holding on 'to the exit west 10; Soi-ssons prevented on this side all en- my progress. !• To the south we held solidly the left J>ank af the Cme. In the centre the struggle has con- tinued with undiminished intensity. The Germans captured Fere-en-Tar- "nois and Vezilly and redoubled their Wfforts in the direction of Ville-en-Tar- Ulennia. ■ i On our right we maintained strongly our positions right up to the north-west I of Rheims.. GERMAN OFF I CIAL. I The number of prisou?rR has increased to 35,000, according to a Cfrma? commu- nique issued yesterday afternoon. The Franco-British forces hare beer, thrown back across the line Vniemontoire-ypre- en-Tardenois-Coiilonges-Brouillet Brans- court. The forts to the north-west of Rheims have taiicn, and the northern parts of La LVaviilette and Betheny, close to p, citv. have been captured. Groat claims arc made by the enemy of the cupturV of material, which, they say, includes guns of every description, in- cluding railway guns of the heaviest calibre. Large depots fell into their hands at Soissons, Braine, and Fismes, including munition depots, railway trains, and hospital establishments. An aero- drome. with machines ready to start, was also captured.

SWANSEA UNIVERSITY DISTINGUISHED COMMITTEE TO i ADVISE £10,000 FOR MUS!CSMEME | Y,10,000 FOR MUSIC SCPE- I (By Our Own Correspondent). CHESTER, Friday. The admission of Swansea College to Jthfc University of Wales tus a constituent ullge, was one of the subjects before a meeting of the University Gourt held at Chester to-day, when a letler was read 4ro in the Clerk of the Privy Council cal- ling attention to the recommendation m tHe report of the Koyal Commission on liuriiversity Education in Wales as to the appointment of a special committee to Advise upon the qualification of the Swan- tea College for admission to the Univer- sity as a .constituent college. 'I'lle Lletter requested the Court to sub- anit the names of persons suitable to form .l!eh a committee. Ilrof. Angus {Registrar) moved that the special committee consist of hve persons yepresentathe of the the chief depart- ments of study, and that the following be the five members:—Principal, Sir Alf- ffed Ewing, Edinburgh, or, failing, him. flJrof. J. D. Corinack, professor of eiv il. ^engineering, Glasgow. Prof. J. 0 Arnold, Sheffield, or failing tim, Prof. H. C.R. Carpenter, professor ref metallurgy, South Kensington. Major P. A Macinahon. or, failing him, Bomeone to be nominated by Sir Joseph SLarmor, of Cambridge; and Prof. W. J. Pope, Cambridge, or, fail- ting him, Prof. E. C. C. Baley, professor I Wh chemistry, Liverpool. The motion was unanimously adopted. 1 £ 10,000 FOR MUSIC. I A letter was read offering, on behalf of Anonymous donors a gift of £ 10,000 to «?- tblish a 'nusic directorship for WaIN> -en the lines indicated i th? r?potT of th Royal Commiesion on Uuniversity duoation in Wales.

IAIRMAN'S TRAGII"l' RECORD. I Capt. W C. TMe-n Svmonds, Berkshire, ?at killed ?n Thur&fbT a< the result of a *'a,- li-,Iled ,ii 'J.'hum(- e-oach?d Enp?nd 0111? a?o?? ten weeks e.go, having escaped from Germany, where 9had been a prisoner sines August. 1915. I {He married a month ago. He is one of I ftour brothers wh o hav. lost their lives in the war.

MOTOR MISHAP. I Consulting Engineer Slightly I I Injured, VYivue -Mr- night, consulting mining enginJ.r or Cardiff,. wrus travelling in a 4taxi t. the Tirdonkin C?Hierv on FridaT ■ morning, the dnver, when opposite the TinieuTiaw Post Office, swerved the car to avoid running over a child, with the re- sult that it ran into a hedge, and Mr. iwight sustained facial injuries which, hafjjpiiy, are not Kriou6. The driver was Also fifaghtly injured.

U.S. LOSSES. I OVER 6,000 CASUALTIES TO I DATE. Washington, Thursday (received Fri- I flay).—The United States tvar casualties i up to the present are announced as fol- lows ::— Killed in Action fcOO Accidentally Killed 261 Died from Disease 1122 Other Causes. 84 Wounded 3598 Taken i'risouprs. 99 Missiuir 208 THE GAS DEFENCE SERVICE. I Washington, Thursday (received Fri- day).—Mr. Baker has announced the appointment of Major-General Sibert as Director of the American Gas Defence .Service.—Exchange.

AIRMEN'S HELP. — —————— Their Part in the Great I Battle. Low clouds prevented much air fighting on Wednesday. Five German machines were destroyed by the British, and one was driven down out of control, without I loss to our airmen. Bruges Dorks and the JJetz-Snblon railway triangle have again j » Seavily bombed. The French report on Thursday night showed that our Ally's ariatoi* "have taken part with an en- durance and an audacity beyond all praise in the battle now in progress. Our squadrons have fought against enemy machines which were very aggressive and very numerous. Flying low, they attacked with machine guns enemy troops, carried out reconnais- sances in advanted enemy lines, and played an important part in the liaison service.

QUAKING GERMANY. I Air Raid Panic at I Mannheim. Geneva. Thursday.—-Eighteen women and children were trampled to death, and many others injured; during an air raid panic in Mannheim on Tuesday. Aecord- ing to a dispatch received from Baele. the streets of the city were crowded with people when, juet at mid-day, the air raid alarm was sounded, and was fol- lowed by a mad rush for shelters and cellars. The alarm was entirely baseless, so far as the Allies are concerned, the sole cause of the panic being the return of a squadron of German airmen to their base near Mannheim. COLOGNE'S NERVY NIGHT. I Am,.t.erdalll,ThurBday. Tlle Cologne Volkzeitung apologises to its readers for the unpunetual delivery of the journal and explains that all the printers and workmen had to leave work and seek refuge several nights in succession owing to enemy air raids." The journal adds that the delivery was solely dolayed by enemy action.—

NEAR THE MARNE Germans 7 Miles From Famous River. i A RACE WITH TIME. The deepest German advance up to yesterday morning was 18 miles. They were 7 miles from the Marne and 60 miles from Paris; but it must be remembered that the Germans at Noyon have been for some time less than 60 miles from the capital. At. Fere-en-Tardenois, (Ill the Ourcq, they have reached the point where the French in September 1911 struck at von Kluck's flank and set the German Army reeling back to the Aisne. As the Marne is thus brought into the picture it is. pertinent to point out that in the famous battle of September 1914 the Germans reached to more than 30 miles south of the river in this region. This is at present their strongest pu. The road from Soiseons to Compiegne is closed to them, but further south they have got to the road Soissons—Hartennes. FIGHTING FOR THE MARNE LINE. The latest unofficial news, at the hour of writing, is contained in the message of the Press Association correspondent with the French Army. Thursday evening's communique reported that the Germans had captured Fere-en-Tardenois, which is on the river Ourcq, seven milus north of the Marne. Dated Thursday, Noon, the Press Association correspondent wrote: Held on his flanks at Soiesoos and Reims, the enemy is throwing his whole strength this mowing into the thrust to the routh, obyiously with the Marne for his goal. During the night and early hours of this morning he pressed forward about fiv-e miles towards the river, ad- vancing his front to the line Fere- V priII.y. It is probable that the Germans hope to be able to establish themselves on the Marne with a view to turning the direc- tion of their main effort westwards, trust- ing to the river to protect their ris-ht just as they used the Oise to screen their right wing in April during their thru; t against the line of the Avre. The hottest fight- ing is proceeding along the whole southern front of the advance. This morning for the first time we hear that our reserves have been enyaged in .support of the divisions who have borne the whole weight of the German onslaught I since (lawn on Monday. A RACE AGAINST TIME. I As tl t' French communique of Thursday afternoon said, our Allies are resisting ■' with untiring tenacity" and arc already being reinforced by the reserves, lne aim of the Germans is to reach their objective itcre tiit-sJ fresh troops can be brought up in force, while that of the Allies is to delay the advance until the .German cali. be met uvn: j There i" it race against tune in the battle now raging, as there is a laca against time in the campaign as a whole. Every day that the decision is LkL u-:d is a gain to us and a loss to our enemies. Serious difficulties* of transport have had to be overcome in order to effect a rapid trans- fer of rpserves to the threatened point, but there is eveiy reason to expect that within a very brief space the men will be in the field. The German parade of booty i I., doubtless exaggerated, but the Times points out that it is inevitable that a re- tirement on such a scale should involve heavy losses, particularly in munitions and guns. The enemy had the advantage of surprise, of interior lines, and of excel- lent communications. With the&e factors in his favour it needed no stroke of genius to asserurble overpowering numb^is on the sector chosen for the attack. All that was required vras thorough and careiul pre- paration, qualities in which the Germans are seldom deficient. A SERIES OF VITAL POINTS. Apparently the British armies arc still held on the defensive round Ypres, Arras, and Amiens by masses of 'Germans numerically superior. The Oise valley has also to be guarded, constituting as it does the direct road to Paris, arid a mili- tary writer points oyt. that with German heavy batteries planted within twenty miles of the capital the situation would be further complicated by the distress of its vast population under effective bombard- ment. Thus the Allies are tied down by having to defend a series of vital points— Calais, Amiens. Paris, Verdun, are all pivots or the defensive system. Nothing but a general Franco-British offensive aimed at the enemy's vitals can reverse these unfavourable conditions.

POISON FOR PEASANTS! 1 Anotiisr Example of Garman I Kultur." I PetTr,^Tad, May 27 (deiayed!.—Ger- many'' barbarous use of poison gas against the rkmine peasants, whose only ofteno-e is that of defending their lights and propft. t.y against a merciless foe, if revolting the whole Eussian people. It appears that in their reprisals against the population the Germans have drenched several villages near Kietf with gas, and whole communities have been asphyxiated.

PREMIER & ABBEY SERVICE. Mr. Lloyd George has decided not to read the lessons at the Welsh service to b? held at Westminster Abbey on Corona- tion Day. The 61?t chapter of rs?Mh wil! be-read by Sir F. Edwards, M.P.

UKRAINIANS DISARMED, I Moscow, Wednesday (received .Friday). —The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, M. Doroscdcinko, has officially left, the' Social Federalist Par'y. At Odessa Ukrainian troops were (farmed by the Germans During the course of the disarmament firing too place, whereupon the Haj- damaks, partisans of the R.ada, were arrested, along with the leader-, and tak-n to the German headquarters. The disturbances among the tHasan's are spreading through the entire PodoHa Government. 1 n the district « <. Techi-1 geryne a strong revolution army, com- posed" of demobilised soldiers and peasants, provided with machine-guns and artillery, have risen in order to eeke power. •

CORRUPT PEACE' AMAZING ALLEGATIONS IN BILLINC CASE i WITNESS"S MEMORY AT FAULT I (Special to the Leader.") London, Friday. The sensational allegations of the de- fendant, Mr. Pemberton Billing, M.P., in the libel action brought by Miss Maud Allen, the dancer, has attracted wide- spread attention, and the Old Bailey Court was again crowded this morning when the case was resumed. At the outset, an application was made that Mrs. George Keppel might be called to say that she had never been in Holland I since the Qutbreak of the war, and this was granted by the Judge. Counsel then further c rose-examined Captain Spencer, *who said it was his firm belief that Mrs. Geo. Keppel had been to I Holland since war was declared. There tiie saw a certain Baroness. Counsel: Is it your intention to say that Mrs. Geo. Keppel is a German spy ?—It is nnt. a Witness believed she interviewed Baron Kuhlmann at the Hague, but he did not euggest she was in the German paw. Witness said he dhered to his ansffrer yesterday. The principal messenger be- tween the Camarilla in England and Ger- many was Mrs. Geo. Keppel. He did not mean that she was acting in the interests of Germany, but as a go-between between these people in England controlled by Germans. He did not know the motivo, nor 'did he suggest anything. Further questioned as to the secret book he mw in the possession of Prince Wil- Ham of Wied, witness said he had only seen the one copy. His. notes from the hook consisted of some names on a sheet or two of paper,' which was in another book called "Albanian Personalties." All that reached this country, to his know- ledge. was half a sheet of notepaper with a few names upon it. • Asked how a dossier could be prepared if there was nothing but this half sheet of nofepaper. witness sirid that before the article was printed, Mr. Billing repeated a great deal of it over the telephone to Mr. Arnold White to have it confirmed. Mr. White was a gentleman who had been fighting German agencies and operations in this country for many years. AMAZING ALLEGATIONS. I Counsel later proceeded wh the ques- tion: "Mr. A-quith was to return to V r lo make a discreditable and corrupt pe'ce with Germany' Witness: A sudden peace. Witness added that he got the informa- tion from politicians during his duties political officer. From ,WhVUl;' insisted Counsel, and witness hesihited. The Judge (sternly): Answer, pleas*?. Witness replied that he got the informa- tion from certain French Deputies. Ital- il'n Deputies, and representatives of the American Fmbassy who were present at ,(; house in Rome in May, 1917. He could not remember their names. (Proceeding).

DARING AIRMEN. I Adventures in German I Territory. From the P}"{><; Association's sj>ecial correspondent, American Army, France, Thursday (received Friday).—Two British airmen have just achieved an exciting adventure. They wero returning^ from a bombing expedition when 1.1ieir machine was disabled by anti-aircraft fire, and they were forced to make a landing in Oerman territory. They crashed into a quarry in landing, which. however, had the advantage of completely concealing their machine. Only slightly injured, they started at once towards the German lines, running niost of the way. Their onh' chance was to reach that before day- break. The distance proved to be over :M miles, in the course of which they had to cross a river. One of them swam the river three times to ascertain the conditions on the further bank, and returned to bring his companion over. On reaching the enemy communication trenches they had (several breathless escapes from discovery, but they succeeded in crawling through the barbed wire into no man's land. They spent the day in the thick growth beneath a hedge, one watching while the other slept, and when darkness fell made their v-ay without further adventure into the French lines. I

SWANSEA MAJOR. I Mentioned for Services I on Italian Front. tiios,<!I mentioned, on Friday for I vB-luali a services on the Italian front is Capt. acting Major) D. Percy Davies. He i* the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Da\id I Davies, the ex-Mayor and Mayoress of Swansea. He served in the Army Cycling Corps, and some time a.go was repAted to be a prisoner of war. with some™ other Swansea boys." lIe was previously mentioned in dis- patches in France, and a few days ago Mr. and Mrs. David Davies reoeived a letter from him from Germany. Among the cyclists also mentioned are Lieut. H. D. Collis and the Rev. H. Mar- shall (chaplain). Brigadier-General T. Inee Webb-Bower, is also mentioned. He is one of the fighting sons of Mr. Ince Webb-Bowen, a I former, chief constable of Pembrokeshire, and has been previously mentioned JIl dispatches in France. He was wounded some time ago- • MORFHSTON MEDALIST. News has; been received by Mr. and Mrs. Jjowen. 2, Ash down-terrace, Morris- ton, that their son, Pte. G. A. Bevan, Welsh Kegiment, has been awarded the Military Medal in recognition of his gallant conduct, and devotion to duty during tho operations of his division be- tween March 21st and 26th, 1918. He ie at present in hospital in Essex suffering from a gun &hot wound in the right arm. lie. is 213 years of age. Previous to join- ing be. was employed as a doubter at the Forest Tinplate Works.

FALL AT LOCAL COLLIERY. I On Thursday, at Tirdonkin Colliery, near Swansea, J. L. Matthews, a oollier, a married man, received injuries of a more or less alight character consequent ,ii,ln a fall

CORPUS CHRISTI. I ————— q. I Germans Shell a Paris Church. The Germans, having obtained through I the Vatican a promise that Cologne should I not bo bombed on Corpus Christi Day, were true to their character. They shelled Paris upon the day of tlii-, sacreti celebra- tion—Thursday—and succeeded in hitting a church. The news is contained in the following I tciogra \'i:— Paris, Friday.—It is reported that one of the shells tired by the German long- range gun to-day fell on a church in the Paris district. This is a fact to be noted in connection with the request made by the Arfchbishop of Cologne that that city should not be bombarded on Corpus Christi Day, and, as it is knoy-n that the British Government acceded to this re- quest, this is another illustration of Ger- many's contempt for most sacred en- gagements. The least one could have looked for was that the German Government should öbserve towards Paris on the feast of Corpus Christi the ;same. La t ion as had been solicited on behalf of 'Cologne. According tu a later message 18 persons "Were -kmd.

TO-DAY'S NEWS IN BRIEFj Lieut.-General F. C. Shaw, K.C.B j Q.O-C- the Forces in Ireland, has been made a member of the Privy Council. "ondll Colliery. Glamorgan, which was cl osed 25 years ago, when 116 men per- ished in an explosion, is to be'reopened. As a result of the matinee in aid of the Wels11 Prisoners of War Fund at the Palladium on Thursday, between C6,000, and £ 7,000 was obtained. • Counsel at Sboreditch County Court: Somebody is telling a lie. Judge Cluer: Somebody is always doing that; that is why I am here. Since, the beginning of the war to Feb- ruary 21 last. Ell,660 was paid by the Ministry of Munitions in grants toward? day nurses and instit-utions. The quarterly meetings of the Zenana Mission for the Gowerton District were held at Bethania Baptist Chapel in the afternoon and evening of Thursday. On. Sunday the fiist four of a, series of forty-eight concerts and cinema enter- tainments in aid of the Ix>rd Mayor of Liverpool's prisoners of war fund will be held. I hope the seriousness oi the military position has not arrived at a stage to justify our sending a father of eight chil- dren, the youngest four months old, into the army."—Sir D. Maclean. I don't know what you me/Ill, au: either wilj <y" said a woman witness Shoreditch County Court, on Thursday, when asked if she wished to take the oath on the Old or New Testament. 1 thought the war would soon finish and wanted a bit to go on with," was the excuse of a man of 73 sentenced to three vears at London Sessions, on Thursday, for the theft of two fur coats value .£60. Members of the Associated Iron Moulders of Scotland have been informed that the executive disapproves of profit snaring schemes, which are described as usually attempted to bolster up capi- talism."

BACK TO WORK. I Welsh Colliers to Resume To-Riorrow. The conference of the South Wales Miners' Federation having received the reply of the Coal Controller to the reso- lution passed by the conference on Thurs- day, it was unanimously decided that the arrangement for a meeting of the parties take place this afternoon, and a general resumption of work at all collieries, in- cluding Tredegar Collieries, on Satur- day may be accepted. The conference further decided, unani- mously, that the night shifts at all col- lieries go to work on Friday night.

TROUBLES OF KARL. Secret Visit to Hungarian I Capital. Genera, May 29.—It is announced from Budajvpst that the -.J,sit of Kaiser Karl and the. Empress to the Hungarian capital was a complete failure. They reached there OIl the night of May 26, but I the hour of their expected arrival was kept a strict, secret, a^ hostile demon- strati y rerq feared. The station was guarded bv a strong force of troops, and only Government officials were admitted to the platform. There was rone of the customary cere- monies, and the Emperor and Empress drove in darkness through the-silent and deserted streets. The people continue to manifest the-r indignation at the servile pact which the Government has con- cluded with Germany. ——————————

A SWANSEA WILL. I Mr. T. P. Sims Leaves Be- I quest tb Technical College. Mr. Thomas Pulsford Scm, of 2. The promenade. Mount Pleasant, Swansea, nssaver and analytical chemist, trading I as Messrs. J- S. Merry and Co., Bath's- yard, Swansea, who died on the 20th l December last, left estate of the gross value of £li.!21, with net personalty £16.5SR. The testator left his residence to 1116 wife, and the income from 85 per cent. of his estate, the remaining 15 per cent. to accumulate during her life, and at heT deatb he left. £ 500 each to Elizabeth Reynolds, Elizabeth TIoyd, and Margaret Patrickson, X10 to his servant- Martha Knight, ^40 each to Emmanuel Griffiths, James Morris, Wm. Jeremy, Rol>ert Jen- kins, Bertrum Reos, and Edw. Jones, in the employ of Messrs. J. Sfl Merry and Co., £200 to apply the income in paying the expenses of distinguished ministers for the Unitarian Chapel. High-street, Swansea, at least once a year, and the residue to the Swansea Technical School for three two-year scholarships, one for the best student in chemistry, one for the best metallurgical student, and one for the best student in modern languages for commercial purj»c»s#s.

KNDCKtD DOWN BY tAl N. Aberavon Girl s Dea^ Alice Elsie danghtar of Joan Fleming-, Satv&tkm Army ac- futaut, redding at ford-TWid. Felin- d. 4berarm, died at Jbera'vo H<v- pitiil on TL'tfroday nig&t. Sho knocked by the 6.24 passenger traaa of B. and S.-B.fi. at Foliadia Crossing on Wednesday hile on her way to t6, -with her three little tie- tere. She. fas tauten to the Ijospit-al wilem ahe was under tic care of Dr. SaUysr. M.M. FOR ABERAVOM MAN. Guaow Hawdd IfeTies, ybwoot 1IÐJ1 of Yr. ani Mrs Eliaf Bari* lfar £ aai-tarTa<#, Aterarrn, b", bftu »T»rded tfca Military Sfedal for ^allAirtr? la Fraaob. B* is OM of serdm. ad wu far- sm»V WoWbOO aaiftegt is .1het. ,v V a ?.  t??-r-? ''? ?.??  ? ? 3, METAL XAEKLT, r and .three month. thiee months Foi-ei '.fl. .+..

TO-DAY'S ALLOT WENT HINT. « — At the end of May or early in .lore jt is always advi««abl»> to nialce auotiM i ingot dwai-i ind runner .K-aii*. Tin v. i give a useful crop of pods during the !at< summer aud eurlv autuiuii. A sowing »r. peas should a lso be mad e, chuosii.irf IJm" d ¡ the tir^t early varieties for tlie piirpuM Regular I'lllull "owings Ot!ptll:C(,. I'ad ishes, and spinach should also i>v iui.d<- t<) 1,(Wl) III) I ciil)ply during (he sum- mer. I:i many gardens the carrot tiy i- alieady causing a good deal of trouble. This can easily be noticed by the foli- age turning yellow: slightly earthing the young plants up after thinning, is a fairly good preventative, but a sure way to check this pest is to mix about half a pint of paraffin with a bucketful of sand, allow, the sand to become thorouglil Iy saturated, then sprinkle it carefully along the rows ot carrots, close up to the young plants. If this is done once a fortnight. very little danger of the ffy need be ap- prehended. It occasionally happens that the para- ffin spoils a few carrots,-especially if used too strong, but it never does so much harm as the fly. Dusting soot along the row6 and over the foliage early in the morning, when the dew is on, often proves effective in keeping the pest in check. Grower.

MISSED THE, MARK. German 'Planes' Attempt .to Reach Paris. Paris, Friday.—Some ;enemy aeroplane.- crossed the British line and were pi o- ceeding ill the direction of Paris The moment they were signalled they were immediately cannonaded' by our d-efence battalion. The alarm was given at 10.59 p.m.. and thf "AU r" sbunded at midnight. > Bombt;.were dropped outside- Paris, but no victims are reported.

THREE SHIPS A WEEK, Expected Output of One U.S. Standard Yard. New. ') Tlr -sdayjreeeiied Friday). -A new st-andardisatiou plan of s-hip- building at Port Newark, New Jerse* U.S.A., includes the use of plates of shapes hitherto Used in building rand • bridge construction., The new method." it is expected, will enable production at1 the :tate of two -ol three ships weekly., from- this one yard alone.—Reuter.

NON-GRADED MEN. A Local Government Board communi- cation says il highly, desirable that men whose cases come before local Tri- bunals Bhould' M\'<e¡.' heen, Dledicål1y"e);- amined and placed in,a grade or cacegnr^ hefore the Tribuna Is decide" t kei r cases When this has not been done the Minister of National'Service • has agreed'to gfiyc special facilities for examination. A new form of cc-i-tificate of exemption, which eupersedesr'-l>oth 'R38 and R50. now available for the. use of Tribunal, and should be'used -in tlie-'cac;L-s of lmtl. attested and unattested men.

FINNS AND GERMANY. New Government's Policy Favours the Hun. Paris, Thursday (received FridavV— A telegram from Stockholm states: It is belifeved here that the policy of the new Finnish Government will be directed more and more in favo-ur of Germany. The Senate has just met. From July 1st Gnan officers will replace Swedifai officers in the Finnigh Army, and Do ex- port permits will be granted to merchants without a German visa. The relations between the Finnish and Bolshevik Go- vernments have recently aswimed a character of extreme tension, marked by the 'expulsion of the Russian representa- tive at Qelsin$fors.—Heutcr.