The Glamorgan Gazette

PEEPS AT PORTHCAWL. I (ByMARtNER.) I "Who have you got on the list this week ?" waa asked as I walked down John Street one d&y. It would have deprtved the que.. tioner of half his enjoyment if I had told htm so I rep'iod, '-Who would you like it to be?" He gave the name of one he thought deserving, but out of pure cussed- ness I will chooae another just to disappoint him for <moe. I have to introduce to readers this week one who has only just sought the limelignt that public service Baches upon one. I do not know whether he has get used to it yet, b.ut from what I know of him I am inclined to think that h. would &oon get used to anything, even to r<?ughing it in the trenches if he had a mind to. He is a typical Welshman, who has not lost the accent of the langhage of Para- tMae, although residence in Porthc-awl has brought him into contact with more English- speaking Welshmen than his former abode. A sturdy frame, inclined to corpulency—and by the way, he reminds us a little of Napo- leon as he stands facing one to put forceful arguments: his frame is somewhat similar—a. strong face, a keen eye and a vigorous man- ne'r, be gives one the impression that if the electorate place their faith in him when next he appeals to them for their rotes, he wiH play a prominent part in Porthcawl's future, and a part that will not be unworthy of the reputation that he has already made during his short connection with the Council. Fer be is one of our youngest men in point of public service, although his years are ap- proaching fifty, if I dare judge by appear- ances. w I suppose we would still call him a young OMtn. and I know that he thinks he is. so I will say that he is. He is not a man of honeye d phrases, but a John Blunt, and the sort of man that we all like to have on our local bodies. The ratepayers generally know where they are with men like him to make a nmtter when things fün't please Mm. He ftaya what he means and means what he &aya. He calls a spade a spade, even if it means the disclosing of facts that some might think the public need not know just at that mo- ment. In his eye there is a merry twinkle when a colleague moves a resolution, and then votes against it. but that twinkle won't last long—hie characteristic mood must have play. and he bursts out into hearty laughter Md i* that laugh you can sum up the man— one in whom reliance can be placed and con- ndence â¥en. Guess who it is. Shall I tell you? Mr. Daniel Davies. w The Council are confounding their critics. They are doing what was not expected of them, and. of course, there has been a little questioning. The cause of the latest topic of conversation is the decision of the Council to J'e(I"C6 this half-year's rate to Is. 10d.. being a r duction on the corresponding half-year of M. It is a matter concerning which con- gratulations should be poured into the Coun- cil Chamber. Just at this time the poor ratepayer can appreciate all the relief that can be given. Times are hard and are go- ing to be harder before the winter is passed. and &uch a substantial reduction must have a great innuenre upon the future of Porthcawl. This wiotej- will probably be the hardest that I Porthcawl is ever likely to experience. The summer season was a disappointment to everybody, and it is a fact that some of the oldest business men and boarding house keepers have never known such a time of hardship and shortage of cash. The winter „ rate of la. 10d. will do much to level things up by making the call in the quiet time cf the year lighter in view of the losses of the I'.mmer. Everybody who has to pay rates direct will rpjoice. but it is a question whether the poor folk will feel any benefit. < < Will landlords, who put up rents when rates increase, lower rents now that the ratea have been lowered? It is a question. I fancy that I know landlords sufficiently well to say that it is not in the least likely. They will reap the w hole benent of the Council's well-intentioned effort. In order to make the benefit more general, I have heard it suggested that the Council should have made the reduction less of a sensational one, and carried out improvements in the town that arc- badly needed. A 4d. reduc- tion in the rate would have been a great re- lief to the ratepayers, while the other 4d. spent on works like erecting lavatories would moan employment for a number of men dur- ing part of the winter, and renue in the summer. Other works could have been put in hand that would have absorbed money equivalent to a 4d. rate. and the benefits to &1I those who have to pay rates direct or in- direct would have been more generally felt. But the rate has now been sealed, and we must be thankful that the Council considered it possible to do what it has done. The only suspicion that exists it whether they have put any money away to the sinking fund. I ahbuJd have pointed out that thia happy con- eumma.tion is largely due to the increase In the assessable value of the town. Dr. Forsdike has left Porthca-wl to join too P.A.M.C. at Salisbury. The doctor takes with him the best wishes of the inhabi- t&nta of our town. with whom he was de- oervedly popular, and their hope ia that bo wi!! bring credit to it, and come home safe <tn<i covere<} with glory. < < It ? gratifying to nnd that Jopa! !j not lacking to ma-ke the lol of the soldiers in the town as happy 3$ possible under the ciroumstan in which they find themwlvft. A band of iccal ladic-s hav€' interested them- <te!ves in the good work-ff providing for the) r comfort and arnr,(,ni<-Yit. have be<-n organised a.nd a,re hel(I twicp or nioi-<? a A-ic-ek, while a number of the iadifs have a,!rpady tftacted a campaign for the raising cf a fig- a.rattc fund. Among th.e r.îí1.1 -e folk of the town th'?y have met it.h a good response and there need be no fear that th(x,4o who have given up the comforts of home will go short of the.S(' rUle luxllri th;n go to ri.)k, life as pleasant «.s the a.How. < < The Belgian rt'ief C'ommittet:, id continuing ita good '.vork tb.(, are trying to express their gratitude fnr aU tl,;¡t ha-, been done for them i'r(,in a strong ,elI of duty. At a mooting nf rhe I C'1 v it WP.. stated thnt a %um rf t:140 h.Mt p.e.e.n reeg %d en P.N"ÛU!t of the fund arv-1 t20 had been spent Th<! question 0.1 providing em- Dk-pymont was but no <1" (Conti n If'r! on bottom oi ufxt C)J¡HII n.) t

KENFIG HILL PAINTER'S MISTAKE. FARMER'S SWEDES MISSING. At Bridgend Police Court on Saturday, Wm. Eraser, painter. Princess Road, Kenfig Hill, was charged with baring stolen a quantity of swedes valued 3d., the property of Rees David. Complainant, residing at Aberbaiden Farm, Kenog Hill, deposed that he saw defendant coming out from the field in the evening. Witness spoke to him, but defendant hurried on to get his bike. Witness overtook him, and asked him his business, and he replied, HI did not think I was doing any harm." Wit- ness asked him what he was doing with the swedes" which he had under his arm, and he said he could not buy any at Kenng Hill. The next morning witness went to the field and found the leaves from th& swedes on the Bold. Defendant: This is absolutely blackmail. He came to me and tried to extort money out of me. The grievance is because complain. ant's family owe me money for work I did for th<m, and they won't pay it. I never took any swedes, and was not on his land. Defendants wife said that complainant earn. to her and told her that if a substantial sum of money was paid nothing would be said. Defendant put in testimonials testifying tf his good character. The Chairman: We are satisned that you took the swedes, although you may not hare reaUsed the seriousness at the time. You wiU be bound over for six months.

YARMOUTH'S UNPLEASANT EXPERIENCE. tNHABtTANTS TALK OF )NVAS!ON. Several letters from correspondents living in and near Yarmouth express surprise that the newspapers have not sufficiently appre- ciated the unpleasant experience of the townspeople on Tuesday (last week), when the German ships appeared off the coast. In one letter it is said: The German fleet somehow or other had got to these shores, and began pounding away from below Cais- ter right up to Great Yarmouth Harbour, with the intention, one would judge, of des- troying the wireless station at Caister and the air station at Yarmouth, near the har- bour. By good fortune, and most provtdem- ti&Uy, the range of the shells was short, but the bombardment was very nerce whilst it lasted, and shells fell thick within a short distance M the shore, and some on the shore. Another letter refers to "the peril of Yar- mouth." It is, of course, contrary to inter- national law for an unfortified town to be shelled, but the restriction rests only on "a scrap of paper." East Coast towns must be prepared to suffer during the course of the war. Not only is it practicable for the en- emy's naval forces to appear practically in British territorial waters, but the Germans may attempt to land raiding forces—by way of a desperate venture, just to frighten us. The feasibility of German raids has always been admitted by the highest authorities. The incident off Yarmouth may be of use in con- vincing young men that it is their duty to enTst. Lord Kitchener wants more men- in thousands.

DRINKING AMONG WOMEN. NECESStTY FOR STRtNGENT ACTtON. Replying to a deputation of women on Mon- day in regard to drinking among women, Mr. McK.ftum alluded to the suggestion that the sale of liquor should be prohibited to all per- sons up to noon. The initiative, he said, lay with the licensing justices, who acted on the recommendation of the chief police authority. It had been rightly said that very varying opinions were held by police authorities throughout the country, and that they had no uniformity under the present Act, but it would require a new Act to enable them to close all public-houses until noon. That would be a stronger measure even than he had originally proposed in the House. As his experience had been that he could not get his less stringent measure through the House without material alterations, he very much doubted whether he could obtain unanimous consent, as an emer- gency nica-ure, to a Bill which prohibited the sale of all intoxicating liquors before noon. So far as could be ascertained by official re- turns, whilst there was a reduction in the con- sumption of alcoholic liquors in the country, there had been an increase in consumption by women.

I TRADING WITH THE ENEMY. -——— ? ———- I FtVE YEARS' PENAL SERVITUDE. In the High Court of Justiciary at Edin- burgh on Friday, William Drummond Dick was sentenced to nve years' penal servitude for attempting to obtain orders for coal for a Berlin Srrn. Dick was convicted on a letter he had written to a hotel porter in Gothenburg, enclosing an- other -letter, which he asked should be for- warded to Berlin. In the enclosed letter offers were made of large cargoes of coal.

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YOUNG MEN OF THE VALEi REMEMBER "WE WANT MORE AND STtLL MORE." THE RECRU!T)NG CAMPAIGN. On Friday evening, the Town Hall, Llant- wit Major, was crowded with young men, men of middle age, mothers and sisters of those who have already joined and those who contemplated joining the Army. Mr. Illtyd B. N'chol, who on taking the chair was loudly cheered, said they had met on that occasion as a united people, irrespec- tive of creed or party, and he thought their nrst duty, before entering on the business of the meeting, was to offer Mrs. Capt. Mer- vyn Crawshay, Mr. Tudor Crawshay. and Mr. Cra-wshay, Dimlands, their sympathy on the death of Capt. Mervyn Crawshay, who fell fighting for his country. He had re- ceived a letter from Mr. Craw shay, wMch was more eloquent -than any words he could utter of the spirit of fortitude Mr. Crawsbay was showing. It read :— Dear Mr. NichoI.—WilI you convey to the meeting my regret at not feeling able, under the circumstances, to be present with you. My son died for his country, a.nd was a real good soldier, devoted to nm country. Now l; our time to show the Grerma.ns that even in a small place Hk-o Llantwit, we can send young men willing to leave their homes to maintain the hon- our of Britain. The mating rose in stance when the re- solution was put. A CAUSE WORTH DYING FOR. I Co!. Gaskell, who was visibly aSected, for he had just heard of the death at the front of another personal friend, Lieut. Hancock, on *rising, saa-d Capt. Crawshay and many omcers and men who had been killed, had died the death that all were wUling to do, nghting in tEe c&use of their country_a righteous cause, a cause worth dying for. The German natton had been militi?,'ng for. The false teachers Mid a hatred of the English race had been inoculated into their biood. This war was a long organised thing, begin- ning with the gradual growth of the ambi- tion for the conquest in Prussia from the unjust war on Denmark, the filching of two provinces, so as to ga n a fortined positi<m m the Nerth Sea. the war with Austria to consolidate the German States to prepare the wav to crush France, helped in their diplom_ atic duplicity by the short-sighted policy ot Napoleon; after we saw the continued pre- pad-ation for another and greater coup, the subject on of Great Britain, so that Germany would fill the roll of the world's dictator. That was the situation that faced us. WouLd we accept the position of being a vassal Mate in the German Empire. He ventured to say never; and he believed that he voiced the determination of the British world. His appeal to the roung men of LIantwrt to an- swer their country's call would, he was sure, not be in vain. WAR OF I. Alderman T. W. David endorsed every- thing that Col. Ga&kell had said. The ex- tracts given by him from the book of Von Bernhardi proved that this war was a deli- berate war of conquest; that we were the nation Germany wanted to conquer, The Germans had become arrogant and brutal in their lust for power. They called themselves cultured Christians, but through theteach- ings of Neitzsche and his school they had be- come barbarians and lest every Christian vir- tue. This doctrine of force had been taught in their elementary schools, their in- termediate schools, and th.e,'r Lniversities, until the whole nation was impregnated with it. And with premeditation this war had been entered into with the object of dictating to Europe and then to our Colonies and the United States their own terms We had first taken up the defence of small States a.nd.our solemn treaties which the German diplomat- ists called a scrap of paper. By defendi.ng these we were defending our very existence; for it was plain that &t a convenient season every treaty made by Germany with other nations was a scrap of paper and nothing more when Germajiy thought the hour hal come w hen she could gain power and posi- t.'on by breaking a treaty. It was to plaoe the position in its true light theywere there. Their responsibility was tremendous, the welfare of future generations depended on everyone doing his duty. The number of recruits from the Vale had not come up to expectations. He had faith that the reason forthat was that the young men 'in the rural districts had not realised the danger to thei-Y liberty and independence, but now tha-t this was being done he felt that the appeal would not be in vain. WALES' HEROISM. Mr. D. Ree&, B.L., in a spirited addre&s, said: "We arc at the parting of the ways. Our liberty, won by the struggles of our fore- fathers is at stake. Will we be worthy sons of worthy fathers. Our soldiers in the trenohea a.re calling for help, will we give them that help to sweep the enemy back from the cities and villages (}f France and Belgium that the Huns have destroyed? We have plenty of voung men in E-ngland, b?coti?and, Ireland a.nd Wales to send not one but two million men to help our brave but tired trooDS that are stemmt ng the merman hosta_ As ? Welshman. I have faith that Wa;es win supply its quota of men wanted to secure v-1,0- trry We are determined to win. we will win and it should never be said of our native land that Wales showed the white feather in the greatest struggle for Honour, for Hight. and For Liberty in the world's hist-ory." I I SIR EDWARD GREY THE PEACEMAKER I Mr W. Mrace. M.t aescnut-u viLLt7 "\lu.p" t-- dous efforts of Sir Edward Gr€.y to maiutam peace, the eScrts of the German Foreign of- fic,e and the Kaiser to force Austna to go to war. and how all our efforts for peace failecL We were determined as a nation to make it impossible in the future for Germany to Europe 'nto the slaughter of human lives" This was not a party war. it was not a class war: it was a war of all classes in r'I _.J.. -L. -J France in HeLgium, in ureau ordain &nu her Colonies, for existence as free people. We had no quarrel with the German people because they were Germans. only because they allowed themsc'ves to become the in- struments to forge a military yoke on the necks of all the world. It was to prevent that yoke being forged he appealed to them to answer their country's call for more men. They must have more men and would have them. He had been against Conscription all his life, but if the voluntary system failed now how could he in the House of Commons vote against it. If recruits could not be got to satisfy the nep<l. then jf would be the most cowardly en<x-h in the history cf England. Their children, in years to come. would look back with shame on 1914. But bo had faith in the people of the land and they wouM come if the need was placed be- fore them. The colliers had nobly respond- ed and made great sacrifices and he was cer- tain the rural districts would do equally well now that the mer'ts of the case and the da-n- ger of delay was brought home to them. At the close, in answer to the Chairman's invitation, fourteen young men handed in their names as recruits in the new Army and have since the meeting deter- mined to join this contingent from Llnnt,\ft and the adjoining villages. ———'—

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l Spoken and Written. I VtEWS ON THE WAR. I I A Holy War. I Mr. W. Brace, M.P., speaking at a meeting I of the Gospel Forward Movement at Newport on Sunday on the international situation, said we seemed to be in the days of the anti-Christ that the Bible had warned us against. Ha believed that it was a holy war, and that Bri- tain was God's instrument to chasten Germany and Austria. Britain w?s getting set backs because the nation had sinned and deserved set backs. But, in his opinion, Britain had not only to push back Germany and Austria, but also to defeat the advocates of conscription in the land. He commended a petition which the audience were invited to sign in favour of payment of -61 per week to wives and widows, and 3s. 6d. per week to each child of men who fell or were disabled. Throughout his life he had opposed conscription, but if a voluntary army could not do what was necessary at this critical period, they were face to face with the fact that there were people in the country who would urge conscription, and Parliament, if it desired, could carry a Conscription Act in two I hours. Germany Doomed. I Mr. Churchill said: We were transport- ing great armies to the decisive theatre of war, endeavouring to preserve the whole trade of the country in all parts of the globe. We hd.d convoyed expeditions to attack or take every German colony. (Cheers.) The British public had taken for themselves the motto, Business carried on as usual during the alter- ations to the map of Europe." (Cheers and laughter.) They expected the Navy to make that good, and that was what it was actually achieving. (Cheers.) The economic strin- geucy of a naval blockade required time, but the results would eventually spell the doom of Germany—(cheers)—as surely as the approach of winter struck the leaves from the trees. Further, the Navy gave to Britain and the Em- pire the time necessary to realise their vast military power. It gave us time to organise, equip, discipline, arm, and place in the neld a million men of a quality and power such as had never been employed in this struggle. (Cheers.) At the end of a hundred days the Navy, in spite of losses, was actually and rela- tively stronger at every point and in every branch compared with our enemies than it was when war was declared—(cheers)—and was stronger most particularly in those branches of the Naval service which all the circumstances of modern war prove to exercise the most powerful influence upon the struggle. (Cheers.) Lord Setborne and Conscription. } At a recruiting speech at Chiswick Lord Sel. borne said the answer to the Empire's call had been the most wonderful voluntary response of free men recorded in history, but every sound youug men who had no one wholly dependent upon him and who was not serving in the .Navy or the Army was a proclaimed shirker, and should be made to come forward if he would not come voluntarily, because the existence of the nation was at stake. They must look to his Majesty's Government, under Lord Kit- chener's advice, to tell them if the number of volunteers was, or was not, sumcient for our utmost needs. On them rested this tremen- dous responsibility, but they might feel as- sured that the country would support them right through to the bitter end, and in impos- ing compulsory service if need be, for there was no sacrifice they would not make to insure vic- tory. WhoDiM? I Speaking at the Mayoral Banquet at Cardiff -on Monday, General Sir Francis Lloyd said let them look back ou the long roll of what the British Army had done—to days when the long- bow was 6rst drawn by the Celt in Wales; to the battles of Cres;y, Agineourt, and Mal- palquet, down to the Peninsula and Waterloo —a gallant roll of those who had given up their lives for their country and made this great na- tion what it was. (Applause.) To-day, stand- ing face to face with the greatest enemy that probably we had. ever fought, the thin red line had done its duty as gallantly as ever before. (Cheers.) Then came the force in v.'hich he had always believed greatly—the Territorial Force. (Applause.) The nrst contingent of that force was Gaelic. They would not tell him that the men of Wales were behind their brothers in Scotland. From the point of view of infantry there had been few finer, but there had been many as Sne, as the charge with cold steel delivered by the London Scottish. (Loud applause.) And now the Territorials Divisions i were about to take the neld to fill up the gaps. Death had taken many of their best and brav- est. One of the nnest things said in this cen- tury, or last century, was said the other day, Who dies if Britain lives?" That was in their minds when they gave up their lives for their country. He could not believe that the old Celtic spirit was gone. It was not gone in bodies like the Welsh Fusiliers. He would quote to them the last Bavarian order: We must conquer, we will conquer, and we shall conquer." Let them take that to thesmelves. and let every man, aye, and every woman and every leader of spiritual thought, help. This was not a war for any sordid motive; it was a war to defend hearth and home, and for the very name of Great Britain. (Applause. They must rise and show that Britain was still what Britain always had been, and that Wales was a very great part of Britain. He hoped that every Welshman in the Principality would live up to the traditions handed down by Llewellyn, Owen Glyndwr, Pieton, and others. (Loud applause.) I Woutd Perith by the Sword. I At the Guildhall Banquet, Mr. Asquith, in the course of a stirring recital of the causes that had led up to the war, dealt with the situ- ation as it affected this country and Turkey, and said It was not the Turkish peoptf ,)t was the Ottoman Government that had drawn the sword and would perish by the sword. They had rung the death-knell of the Ottoman dominion both in Europe and Asia. As he hoped and believed, there would disappear thereby the Might which for gener- ations had withered some of the nnest regions of the world. Nothing was further from their thoughts or intentions than to initiate or en* courage a crusade against the creed, but the Turkish Empire had committed suicide and dug with its own hand its own gve. Germany's Spy System. ) "Germany's spy system, says Dr. Duton, in tRe "Contemporary Review," is a. dissolv- ent -)f truth* honour, and the holiest human- ities; it is no exaggeration to affirm that after the railway system, the greatest adva-n- tages enjoyed by the German neld armies have come from the intelligence department as served by spies." Gladstone's Demand. I "Forty years have passed since Mr. Glad- I stone demanded that the Turks should be ex- pelled from Europe 'bag and baggage,' but tha.t day has now arrived, not at the initia- tJve of the Allies, but on the hopeless folly of tiLe Ottoman a-uthorities" says the "Star." "The late Lord Salisbury publicly avowed at the Guildhall that in upholding Turkey this oopintry had 'backed the wrong hor6C/ and events have justined that admission." War Lords and Ctergy. At the Ethical Church, Bayswater, on Sun- day, Surgeon-General Evatt gave an address on Th< Deadliness of Militarism/' He re- marked that evidently people were thinking about conscription for this country, but its adoption would be the most fatal step that could be taken. An army was presumed to be chivalrous and honourable towards women, but II he wculd ask where were the chivalrous actions of Germany, which was considered to have the most intellectual form of militarism? It was we who were devoted to freedom and liberty who were looked tipoiii as enemies by Germany. What the world needed was the enfranchise- ment of men and women, and by means of edu- cation to lead them to become good citizens. He had been in the army for 40 years, and in his service in various lands he saw two great forces that were constantly working together to destroy humanity-clericalism and militar- ism. At the present time the German Em- peror was urged on by the war lords and the clergy. Lord Seiborne and Prince Louis. "I have read the announcement or Prmce Louis of Battenberg's resignation with very deep regret," writes Lord Selborne. "As every&ne knows who has worked with him, be is a naval omcer of very great ability, who has devoted the whole of his life to the ser- vice cf England. I would as soon mistrust Lord Roberts as Prince Louis, and that any- one shouM have been found to insinuate sus- picions a-gainst him is nothing !ess than a national humiliation." "Prince Louis has been attacked by the baseness of clamour, and we regret profoundly and with the sense of national humiliation expressed by Lord Skiborne the withdrawal from the Admiralty in these circumstances of a loyal and gifted man as devoted to Britain as. was his heroic brother to Bulgaria, says the "Observer." "We confess our astonishment that the resig- nation was accepted," says the "Nation," "considering the sources from which it was pressed, especially in view of the letter in which Mr. Churchill gravely recounts Prince Lcuis's exemplary services to the Navy. We are glad to see the King has made him & member of the Privy Council." tnVain! In the "Fortnightly Rev iew," Mr. ArcM- bald Hurd contributes an article entitled, "No Naval Battle—Why?" ''Our margin of safety at sea ha.s, indeed, increased since hostilities opened," says Mr. Hurd. "In- stead of the enemy wearing duwn our super- iority. we have ncreased his inferiority. When the war opened we were almost in the proportion of two to one against Germany; we have not lost even in the proportion of one for one, and we have passed a larger number of new ships into commission. After nearly three months of war we are actually stronger in material than we were, and the chances of the German or Austro-Rungarian fleets endeavouring to resume the use of the seas has decreased. Week succeeds week, and we enjoy all the blessings of maritime communication, white, the enemies' fleets re- main impriaojied.. Aftor fifteen years of u? P.,r-l ?l-d sacrifice of treasure, and after fifl years of pin-pricking and mail-nsting, Germany realised in a nash, ?n the early days of August. that she had not only missed 'the goal. which had been set,' but had so aroused ttM nervous fears of her neighbours that, in the circumstances which came immediately into view she was relatively a little stronger on the sea than she had been when she em- barked on her schemes of naval expansion." Non Combatants. The War Omce being asked as to the pro- per conduct of non-combatants in the event of an attempted invasion of these shores, sent & reply which said: "There is nothing in the present situation which would warrant the assumption that invasion is probable or imminent. The various defensive works, constructed in the United Kingdom, are only the normal precautions taken by evert mari- time Power in time of war. In the event of the enemy attempting to invade this coun- try instructions will be issued by the proper authority. I Another Netson. Mr. W. T. Stead saj'd of Lord Fisher, the new First Sea Lord, on his retirement in 1910:- "Fisher was a great man-one of our greatest men. Long years hereafter, when all the controversies which have raged round his na.me hava sunk into oblivion, the name and tho fame and the high renown of Admiral Fisher w:'l! be tilings to conjure with in tha I Service which he loved so wel! and served so long. We all felt that in him there was the potentiality of a Nelson." Nibbting Them. r "General Jonre, the idol of the French na- tion, was met the other day by an old friend, who greeted him with the usual question, 'Well, how are' things going?' "The gen- eral's eye tinkled as he replied. 'Laissez- moi faire. Je les grignette.' (Leave me alone. I nibble them.) "This little story," s'ly Mr. G. Curnock. in the "Mai! "told to me by one who had it 'on the best authority,' is worth a line in the aunals of the war. The nibbling of a mouse may not represent the hot work at Dtxmude and Ypres. but it ad- mirably describes the process which is going en from Arras to Roye and Novon. from Reims east to Verdun, and south again to Bclfort. Everywhere JoSj'e's men a.re nib- bling like industrious, untiring mice at the long German front, taking here a'trench ard there d'estroying 'many batteries. 'J NewDevHry. j The sortie of th", German squadron into the North Sea and its retreat "shadowed by British Hght cruii-ers" was notable for the fact that the enemy threw out as they re- tired a number cf mines. Submarine Do exploded one of these and &ank, but four men were saved. "This incident," says the "Telegraph's" naval correspondent, "reveals .l- new piece of devilry en the part of the Ger- mans. Never before has a ship in retreat thrown out mines—apparently without any form of anchor. Unless they were constructed so as to become innocuous after a short period thev will continue to be a menace to all shipping in the North Sep.. This:5 but a further act of barbarism on the part of the enemy a.nd ,)ther indication that the war is cue in which the British Navy must nght 'with its gloves off.' With the weapons and by the methods that Germany is employing. we must fig4t her-reJente<sly and ruthless" !y." Result of One Man's Deed. I "In the turmoil of the wor Id-wide explo- sion. we bad almost forgotten who sent the spark into the magazine," says the "New Statesman." But whilst the cannon have been roaring from Calais to Warsaw, the half-forgotten Austrian court at Serajevo has < been trying, in the leisurely forms of peace ) time. those implicated In the plot which re- sulted In Franz Ferdinand's death. Five prisoners have been sent to the gallows, and eleven more have been given various terms of imprisonment. Curiously, Princip, who nred the fatal shots, and Gabrinovitch, who threw the unsuccessful bomb. escape the capital penalty-which rai&es the interesting question of whether they were agents provo- cateurs or merely turned King's evidence. Princip will therefore survive to see the full results (for as such he must regard the whole war) of his deed. His experience will surely be unparalleled in the history of mankind." A Traitor's Tongue. I If Christian de Wet had only been true to himself he need not then have been false to any man," says the "Saturdav Review." Shortly after the Peace of Pretoria in 1902 he said to the Dutch: To my people I ad- dress one last word. Be loyal to the new Government. Loyalty pays best in the end. Loyalty alone is' worthy of a nation which ha& shed its blood for freedom.' Turkey Herself to Biame. I By joining our enemies and attacking our Allies, Turkey has forfeited all claim to our support, now and hereafter," says the Times." She has proved herself an un- faithful warden of the great position of Con- stantinople. and can no longer be left in oc- cupation of it. The Allies will mete out punishment for these follies in their own time, and Turkey will have no one to blame but herself. for the consequences which will -foHow. Whatever may be the immediate consequences of Turkish intervention, there is a general consensus of opinion throughout the world that it means the end of Turkey." I A Curse. I We have befriended Turkey in the past in vain. The Ottomans have pronounced their own doom," says Mr. Lovat Fraser in the "Mail." "They will be swept out of Europe, where they have been a curse for 500 years." I The Effect of Paiture. I "Day by day, as this strgugle goes for- ward, we see more clearly that failure on our part would mean the total eclipse of Liberal ideas in Europe," writes Mr. J. A. Spender in the "Westminster Gazette." I am not now using the word in a partisan sense, for I believe that most of our English Tories ane enlightened progressives compared with the Prussian Junkers; And I do not doubt that they share your sentiments and mine in this respect.

I GLAMORGAN TEACHERS. I POSITION OF MARRtED WOMEN. I SCHOOL OF MINES.  The Glamorgan Education Committee met at Cardiff on Tuesday, Dr. T. H. Morris pre? siding. The question of an agreement for a managing body of the schools of mines at Treforest and elsewhere was referred to a sub-committee for cona deration with power to carry on negotiations with the Coalowners' Association. The sub-committee appointed consists of A!derman W. R. Davie&, Alder- man John Jordan, Alderman T. H. Morris, Alderman the Rev. D. H. Williams, Alder- man Morgan Williams, Alderman Fleming, and Councillors Win. Jenkins and D. Lewis. Dr. J. James, the director of education repcrte-d that the Board of Education stated that they had received an application for the recognition of the Treforest School of Mines for the purposes of (a) a technical in- stitution, and (b) day technical classes. In view of the Board's regulation that before recognising as eligible for grant undeT their regulations, any school not working under the direction of the local authority, they invited the authority to give them observa- tions on the question of the necessity of such a school, and having regard to the co-ordina- tion of all forms of education in the area of the authority they requested the observations of the comm ttce within a month. It was resolved on the motion of Alderman D. H. Williams that the sub-committee should meet without delay to frame the Education Committee's observations on the matter. T. MARRIED WOMEN TEACHERS. I it was resolved that during the contmu- I a-nce of the war married women teachers whose husbands are serving with the colours should be elig'.ble for re-appointment to any authorised vacancy on condition that their service unde'r the Committee œasec\ immooi- ately on their husband's return. The Committee agreed that the positions of head teachers joining the military be kept open until-thci.r return, but with respect to other tenchers the Committee were unable to guarantee that their existing posts should be reserved, but they were prepared to under- take to reinstate all who were on active ser- vice In posts of equivalent value and status on their return. SOLDIERS' EDUCATION. The comnt ttee considered a communication from the Board of Education suggesting the orga.nising of evening instruction in camps and other places where large numbers of recruits and other men serving with the colours are already concentrat.&d cr wtil be cnnc-entrated within the next few months. Alderman D. H. W'tliams said there would bo a fairly large camp in Barry during the winter months, and a lajge majority of the recruits in training at Cardiff were men from the county. Possibly, they might come to f';ome ,arrazw"ment with CardiS and carry out the suggestion. The ("lirman (Dr. T. H. Morris) agreed, ard a committee was appointed to deal with thi< matter. CENTRAL WELSH BOARD PRECEPT. f Th-e liability of Glamorgan towards the Central Welsli Board formed the subject of a report from the cterk as to the basis upon which the Central Weish Board was entitled to levy their precept on the county of Gla- morgan. The Clerk reported that he had considered the liability ot the County Council to pay a percentage nxed by the Centra! We'sh Board on the full amount of the Council's receinta under the Welsh Intermediate Education Act. including the gra.nta from the Board of Education under the rules for seeojidH-ry schools, and it appeared to him that this liability under the present scheme W:JS a bso- lute. and must be borne at the percentage nxed for all the counties of Wales. The county representa.tives on the Centra Welsh Board are requested to move the Board to revert to their fo-rmer practice o! exacting a. capitation fee for the examina- tions and reducing the percentage ra-t-P of tax upon the revenues of thp counties undo their &obMM8.

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BLOWN OVER CLIFFS. GLAMORGAN TERRtTOR!AL KtLLED I I WHtLE ON SENTRY DUTY. I A Territorial belonging to the 7t/i Welsh Cycling Corps met his death under distres&- iug circumstances near Arbroath, Scotland, on Monday, being blown over a steep din' in a, heavy gale. He was L'lnce-C&rporaI Hu&- &ey, a native of C'ardiS'. 22 years of age. and was at the time on duty at a part of the For- farshire coast known as the Hc-d Hend. On the cliff head were a number of corrugated iron sheets intended to be used in the erec- tion of shelters. It is supposed that one oj.the sheets had been blown away, and tha.t us- sey, in endeavouring to stop its progress, had been hurled over the cliff, as the body of Husaey and the iron sheet were found toge.th- er on the beach, about 300 feet below. The body was brought to Arbroath.

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TRADE UNIONS AND 80LDIMB' ALLOWANCES. £1 A WEEK. At a. j-onference of the Workers' N&tioB&l I Committee and the London Trades CounS on Saturday afternoon in London & res?olu- tion was adopted in favour of full nrovi UUv or puouc funds tor soldiers and sailors. of allowances of Li a week for wives of nri vates and 5s. for each child under sixteen be- ing pajd and Ll per week for disabled soldiera and sailors during total incapacity. A!so pensions for wives &Tid dependents of privatea ?ing their lives. Unmarried wives and t_heir children a.nd unmarried mothers to be given the full status of dependents. The ? payments to be administered by State mach- inery. At Liverpool, Mr. James Sexton, secretary of the Dockers' Union, said it was the inten- tion of the Allied forces to get rid of the infernal arsenals of Essen and the crea-test military tyranny that ever threa-temed the world. Surely that was worth a pound a week. At Plymouth, Mr. Ben Tillet said if the Government met their demands they would within the next month he able to command & minion men of the nnest fighting type in the world. Without concessions they could ex- pect no help from Labour organisations.

The County Council of Lambton. Ont&rio. jntend ending lOO.OOOIbs. of dried apples to the so!drers at the front. Tons of the nnest fruit are now being picked. The growers will give the apples and the County of Lamb- tou is furnishing jEl,200 for evaporation ex- penses. The Town Coun<tl of Thorold, also m Ontario, will give a carload of flour to the BeIjLj an Government for those in distress on account of the war. Thorold Township lias augmented this gift by 100 bags.

I (Continued from previous column.) cisicn w'a& arrived at and the matter is still undetr the consi,dcrit ion of the committee. This question !'s a difficult one and should be a.pproa<-bed with caution. The Belgians are with u& and have got to be maintained until .s-ueh time as they desire to leave for their own country. It is. ne doubt. hard for the-m to remain idle, but wou'.d be harder if. by giving them employment of any kind we were putting a number of our own fo-'k out of work and throwing thorn in the ever-in- creastnn army of unemployed. There ar<' basket makers in this country, there are cabinet makers and wood carvtrs. and al- though t!ip footings of :)H Britons towards the brave &tg;Ïan nation and their rt'pre<;entar tive6 are weH-known and lipve ocn demon- ff.rated. it would be,economically unwise to p!a.ce them in work which cur own country- me'Tt a.re trying to .secute. It is a national que-stion to which much attention is being give-n by the Government and J't can be re- lied upon that as soon as the plans of the Government have been mad e they will make ó,n:11e announcement. Local effort in this direction at present, therefore, should not be ,e,i,couri_ed as even en'ort of this kind must of necessity an'ect some branch of trade in the oc.Utntry.