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CAPTURED ZEPPELIN CREW j .INTERVIEWED.I
CAPTURED ZEPPELIN CREW j INTERVIEWED. The special correspondent of the "N ew York American," who, with other neutral journalists, has been permitted to visit the crew of the captured Zeppelin L15 at Chatham, says Only one of the 17 captives speaks Engldï, Ober-Lieutenant Kuhne, the second in command of the airship, and he had little hesitation in telling what he considered the unessential portions of the histor'y of L15's last cruise. No one would say whence the ship started and little could be gained as to its actual course beyond the fact that the officers swore th? they were convinced St ?nly points of military importance Xk?d. Apparently while engaged in this task the Zeppelin came under heavy fire and was struck, but although it is admitted that shells were bursting all round it, it A-as said, only one of the crew was hit, sustaining a superficial wound on the aTm. The injury to the ship was much more serious, and the captain, a lieutenant,- commander in the German Navy named Breithaupt. decided to head for home at the be-st speed obtainable. For the first half hour or so the Zeppelin seemed to maintain its buoyancy, but with difficulty. Then something went wrong with the framework, and ultimately the monster, with a broken back, dipped now foremost into the sea. It was now just midnight and on no hand could the Huns see succour; but suddenly out of the mists of the waters appeared British patrol ships, and soon the raiders' fear of death was removed. The ships did not, as the Germans ap- parently expected, open fire on them, and terms of surrender, unconditional in every respect, were quickly arranged. As quick- ly email boats shot out from the patrol ships, and in twos and threes took the shivering, and in some causes naked, Huns to safety. One of the Germans slipped, and losing his foothold, fell into the sea. Efforts were made- to rescue him, but without aviail, and he was drowned before the eyes of his comrades. MARRIED WEEK BEFORE RAID. Ober-Lieutenant Kuhne was the last to leave the airship, and probably of all the crew he was the most joyful at being saved He made no secret of his reason he confessed that only eight days pre- viously he had obtained leave from duty to marry a Berlin girl. He was ordered back from his honeymoon to take part in the raid, and his nrst request on reach- ing safety was that a message apprising his bride of his rescue might be des- pat-chedat once. It is understood that the British Navy, ever chivalrous towards defeated foes, means to comply with his request. With but one or two exceptions, all the crew deny that they have ever raided England before, but Ober-Lieutenant Kuhne admits that he was in London on holiday a short while before the outbreak of war. He is a little jovial man of about twenty-eight, but the commander is at last seven years older, taciturn and truly Teutonic in appearance. He and his se- cond in com/mand did not discard their clothing in the panic wh>ch seized the crew, and came ashore in their warm pea-jackets with deep fur-lined collars. The crew are all men between twenty- five and thirty-three yealrfc of age, of splendid physique and evidently picked Navy men. There are three or four en- gineers among them, denoted by a thin gold stripe on their collars, but each and everyone feigns ignorance of 6uch things as bombs dropped on sleeping towns, kill- ing women and children and maiming non-combatants. LONDON RAID IRON CROSS. There. is a more than passing interest for British people in the Iron Cross which Lieutenant-Commander Breithaupt still proudl wears on his br&a?t. It bears the ?te "Oct. 13, 1915," the date, in the words of the official report, of the raid "over a portion of the London area" when there were "127 persons killed or in- jured," aJl but one or two being non-com- batants, meetly women and children. That the commander received the Cross for his part in that raid is cleair from his own admission that before the war he Was in command of a German destroyer, but since learnt to hflJidle a Zeppelin. Ober-Lieutenant Kuhne did not hesi- ig to tell of his own remarkable ea-  He said "I was in the water-tight c &o\& o hen the ship struck the water o a ?? went underneath. I should have ?" no effort to es-pe had it not been  thought of my bride wadting for for ei,ght days' bride. JJ1« n Germany—my eight days' bride. >J!he ifought of her and her grief broke termination to go down with my ?y id I smashed one of the heavy ship, wi?ndo" and, taking a deep breath, AS& t?o?' I fought my way to the g?o II aJi?' --ping the entanglement OU?ffoO Soa?ng on the water, seized ^*00 floating on the 'water, seize d ? { t??. of the ship and was dragged in- to t, _tatJve aa?ty, to be finally res- fo c??be British sailors. I was the IMt zerivtfr c°,i^ nPt-Jve British saiIora- 1 was the last 1,15, as my watch stopped at 12.15 that would be the moment at which I took my plunge." Ober- Lieutei.ant Ki.hne freely admit- ted that he was well acquainted with England, and asked that his compliments should be conv%ed to a well-known Lon- don journalist whom he met when in Lon- don just before the outbreak of war. He has a sister married to an Englishman who is understood to live in the neigh- bourhood of Cambridge, one of the towns which the Germans in their official an- nouncement falsely claim to have bombed in the very raid in which her brother's airship was wrecked. IMPORTANT CAPTIVE. Mr. John C. Van der Veer, London editor of the "Amsterdam Telegraaf," one of those who interviewed the captured crew of the Zepptlin L15, told a London newspaper correspondent that one of the L15 prisoners said ''Something much worse is to come to England." "He seemed to know what was being prepared in the way of Zeppelin inva- sions, said Mr. Van der Veer, "and I understood, from what he said, that larger fleets of Zeppelins were to come here, with more powerful 'bombs. '"My impression is that the capture of the commander Breithaupt, is an event of great importance for England. There is only one Zeppelin commander who has the 'Pour le Merite' Order, and this is the man. Therefore, apparently, the most enterprising Zeppelin commander is now a prisoner in this country. He struck me as being an exceedingly clever ma.n.
IA GROWING EVIL.
I A GROWING EVIL. GRAVE WARNING BY THE MAYOR OF SWANSEA. A growing evil was alluded to by I the Mavor of Swansea. at the annual meeting of the Cwmdonkin Shelter for Women. He said he had called at- tention t o it at a. recent meeting of the watch committee. It must be ap- i parent to anybody passing through the streets that the evil was becoming greater than ever. It behoved every- one who had the welfare of the town at heart to do what they could to pre- vent the systematic traffic which was taking place, and he hoped they would not hesitate to co-operate with the police and any other agency which could do anything to mitigate this terrible evil. He suggested a confer- once representati ve of that and simi lar bodies with the object of, if possible, bringing about a better state of things I in the town. -dim
AN IMPORTANT SCHEME.I
AN IMPORTANT SCHEME. I SOUTH WALES MOVE FOR HOUSING REFORM. A meeting was held at the City Hall Cardiff, on Saturday of the Women s Advisory Committee in connection with the South Wales Garden Cities and Town Planning Association. Mr D. Lleufer Thomas (stipendiary magis- trato) presided, and he, together with Mr Edgar L. Chappoll, Miss E. P. Hughes, and others, explained a scheme a scheme which is now being put forward. Under the scheme it is proposed to conduct an exhaustive inquiry in the i direction of securing information as to what improvements are desirable in the' construction of dwelling-houses from the woman's point of view. It is hoped by such an investigation to as- certain, among other matters, whether new forms of housing, such as flats, hostels for lodgers, and collective aI"- rangements, such as creches, municipal wash-houses, co-operative kitchens, etc., are expedient, and likely to be adopted if introduced; how to lessen discomfort and extra labour caused in houses by coal-dust, etc. produced in industrial operations; and whether there is a widespread desire on the part of women for kitchen gardens, chIldren s playgrounds, and allotments near their homes. It was further explained that the scheme provides the establishment of investigating committees, composed of a number of ladies, to conduct a thorough inquiry in all the populous centres so as to form the basis of a comprehensive report. I After discussion the scheme was adopted. and it was understood that the work will taken in hand
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Amongst prisoners of war in Germany I thero are nine well-known musical com- poa?. one of whom (Mr. Brynceson Tre- I harne) is a Welshman. Mr. Treharne is a native of Merthyr, and held an appoint I I ment ? PrOfe-Or of music at Ad<?do.
FIVE HUNDRED MILLION I WAR…
FIVE HUNDRED MILLION WAR BUDGET. < I MANY NOVEL FEATURES, j Britain's Huge Burden. It was very generally anticipated that the new Budget introduced I-v Mr McKenna, Chancellor of the Ex- chequer in the House of Commons nll Tuesday would contain many no. features, and that propœalB f< r tapping new sources of revenue wou?J be made. These anticipations h&\ ? been fulfilled, for cinema, theatre a.?d railway tickets, matches, and mineral waters have been added to the existing imports. In a speech devoid ofail1 rhetorioal flourishes, Mr McKenna announced a prospective revenue of no less than £509,000,000, made up as follows:- NEW TAXATION: On Incomes L43,500,000 Entertainments (Tickets for Theatres, Cinemas, Football, Matches, Horse races, etc) 5,000,000 Railway Tickets 3,000,000 Sugar 7,000,000 I Cocoa, Coffee and Chicory 1,650,000 Matches 2,000,007 Mineral Wa.ters. 2,000,000 Motor-cars '800;V)() Total New Taxation. £64.950,000 Excess Profits Tax (raised from 50 per oent. to 60 per cent.) E86,000,000 EXISTING TAXATION. (Post Office, etc.) £358,050,000 Grand Total £509,00,000 Of this immense sum, £ 7.000,000 b- been paid in already by forestalmeiiI eg. so that "the true revenue" is I £ 502,275,000. Details of the new taxatio-n are as I follows:— INCOME-TAX ("EARNED"). I Old New Scale. Scale, s d s d Not exceeding £500. 2 11-5 2 3 £ 500 to kl,000 211-5 2 6 £ 1,000 to £1.500 2 52-5 3 0 £1.500 to L2,000 2 93-5 3 8 £ 2,000 to £2,500 3 31-5 4 4 £ 2,500 and over 3 6 5 0 INCOME-TAX ("UNEARNED"). Old New Scale. Scale. s d s d Not exceeding L300 2 93-5 3 0 L300 to £500 3 31-5 3 6 L500 to £1,000 36 4 t) £1,000 to £ 2,000 36 4 6 ;C2,000 and over 3 6 5 0 There is no change in super-tax, and the above increases are subject to the usual abatements. On unearned in- comes the rate of deduction at the source will be uniformly 5s., and re- bates will be allowed, wherever pos- sible, on that part of the tax on earned income which is paid by direct assessment. Others claims for rebate are not expected to be numerous. Persons paying income-tax on the same income both here and in the Dominions will be excused additional tax in all cases where the Dominion tax amounts to ls.6d. in the L. ""fiat ever they suffer, they will suffer, but they won't suffer more," and no ad- ditional income-tax will be imposed on the pay of officers in the Navy and Army. I CUSTOMS AND EXCISE. Old Duty. New Dnty. d d Cocoa (per lb.) I! 6 Coffee (per lb.) .3 6 Chicory (per lb). 3 6 Sugar (per lb.) .1 11 ?uga<r is now soid from bond at 2,1(f .I a lb., which compares with 3d. in New York where no freight has to be paid. Mr McKenna is adding id. ENTERTAINMENTS. Tickets not exceeding 2d S ii 2d. to 6d 6d. to 2s.6d 2 2s.6d. to 5s q 58 to 7s.6d R 7s.6d. 'to 12s.6d. q 12s. 6d. and for every 10s. or part of 10s. afterwards i 0 IVI- I ill-u application 01 tnis tax to the racecourse was welcomed with loud cheers, and Mr McKenna explained that the estimated yield of £5,000,000 was conjectural. RAILWAY TICKETS. mn?Lo fares under gd nil Single f&res 9d. to Is  Single f&r? above l? s.??  ?T? ?bove 1..6: Id per K?™ or p?rt of filling. ? slulling For journeys ending outside United Kingdom: First-class fare 4s. Socond-class fare. 3s. Third-class fare 2s. LocaJ tickets are thus excluded and season tickets issued from to-day are to be taxed. MATCHES. Customs. 3s.6d. per 10,000 Excise 3s.4d. per 10.000 With Excise balancing Customs, this tax follows the strictest canons of Free Trade. TABLE WATERS. With sugar or fermented 4d. trallon Other table waters. 8d. gallon Cider and perry. 4d. gallon MOTOR-CARS. Old Scale. New Scale. Horge-power. E- s d £ & d Up to 6 2 2 0 4 0 0 64 to 12 3 3 0 6 6 0 12 to 16 4 4 0 8 8 0 16 to 26 6 6 0 18 18 0 26 to 33 8 8 0 25 4 0 33 to 40 10 10 0 31 10 0 40 to 60 21 0 0 63 0 0 Above 60. 42 0 0 :126 0 0 Up to 16 horse-power tne duty is doubled, and aftea-wards it is trebled. No duty is put upon bicycles, but on motor cycles the level tax <)f El will be raised to E2 2s. for horse-power not exoeeding four and afterwards to "three-quarters of the duty payable in the case of a motor-car of like power. I' READY-MONEY PEOPLE. In announcing his taxes Mr McKenna commented upon the won- derful readiness of the people to accept new burdens. He based his repection of a tariff on three grounds-first, that his sole object must be revenue; secondly, that the way to check luxuries is total prohibition of imports, as laid down by Mr Runciman; and, thirdly, that, just as r ranee cannot find the officials to collect an income- tax. so we cannot find officials to col- lect a tariff. He added that we must not "drive the taxpayer too hard." While justifying an addition of 10 per cent. to the excess profits tax, Mr McKenna sounded a note of warning. Great firms are encountering heavy risks. After the war they will have to meet the competition of neutraJs who have made large profits without suffering taxation. In the case of the proverbial rich man who makes muni- tions the tax on excess profits, on in- come' and super-income now amounts to 77 per cent., which, according to the Chancellor, is the limit of pru- dence. DECLINE IN BEER AND SPIRITS. A decline of P-3,WUIUUU is expect in the revenue from beer, due to the re- striction of imports, and for spirits the decline is put eA ;C2,0W,000-the reason hSe being Mr. Lloyd George s use of the distilleries for making t igh çxplo- gives. Large stocks of spirits ilre a\a 1- able for present sale, and no «pn s released under three years in bond. ^If the price is raised by the trad,, ^r..V c- Kenna will absorb the margin. Taxes, increased in September, exr.e Juiv and a second Bu.l-t wdl be introduced in a month or two for the purpose of renewing them FINANCIAL POSITION. I In conclusion, Mr. MoKenna .ummed uU,P n the financial p?iticnof H? e United Kingdom. I Sep?n??- the <-t.im?I ?x- £ l,^9-),Cn,OCO. p?nd?Te for 1915-16 ? ?1?9-),C?,OCO.  has been ?J, 000,000, or P?1 000 000 below the est!- mate. The chief been in loans Estim&ted. Actual. £ £ To Allies ™ ocn 000 264,000,000 To Allies .••••■ 52,000,000 rpG Dominions 68,ic>UqUq',o^qJU o 52,000,'000 Tot.al .?2 316,000,000  „/ 106.750,OOO. a. decrease ? ,jue to ?? C?diM This decre-aso '8 due to tbe Can-aiian Loan to the Anglo-French Loan in the I United oSjtfattees s and to the issue of a ?Fr" enc? h Loon in London. The real assist- French Loan Allies was ?ua not Mce to ?? 31, QOO.OOO. By the £264,000,000 but  By the purchase of dcllar Amities a large re- purch ?e <  built up in the United ?Sta? tes, and ?t?S ? item hM appeared in the expenditure, which is thus swollen by ????MO.OOO of un?nt money. IiLUOU." I MEETING THE DLMUix. I Af/-Kenna referTeà WJMI pi-ue w weaS Avenue of £ 337,000,000 which ? ??'000000 above e.stimatthis not  excess profits tax-and he stat- SrtTth. S <" ?'?.°0°.? h-? b<?n met thus: n W'M ??" 600,000,000 War Loan 154,000,000 Angl<)-FTench Lan ILS?JV?!nnn?fW)?; B-anan'ce Tr8asury Bills The national debt has increased thus B?rc the w.r ?-?.OOO fBieTfore lis 651,000,000 1915—16 (allowing for con- version .031,000 000 Total, March 31, 1916 £ 2,140,000*000 Of tb C368,000,000 has been ad vanced to Allies and Dominions, though, at the moment, we are responsible for the whole debt charge, amounting to E60,000, 000 for the past year, and £ 95,000,OX in a full year. On March 31, 1917, it is estimated tha-t the total debt will be £ 3,440,000,000, of which sum £ 800,000,000 represents ad- vances to Allies and Dominions. The net debt will be F,2,640,000,000, and the charge on it. including sinking fund, will amount to £145,000,000 a year. SURPLUS IN SIGHT. ine position after another year of war will thus be Peice expenditure (not rec- koning debt charge) .£173,000,000 Debt charge 145,000,000 War pensions 20.000,000 £ 338,OX,OX Revei,, ue (not reckoning temporaTY receipts from excess profits) 423,000,000 L= _1 I illcn, says :\ir. McKenna, leaves a sub- stantial margin for remissions of taxa- tion. "Here," he concluded, '-? have raiood £ 300,OX,OX of new ta-xp? sine e the war while Dr. HeHerrich (German Financial Secretary), doubts if he has secured £24,000,000. There is civic cour- age as well as military courage, and in neither quality have our people been de- ficient." Thc- daily expenditure of the State is. approximately £ 3,750,OX a day, or £ 5,0X,X0 a day including loans to Allies and Dominions. Mr. McKenna hints at considerable economies to be effected bv Mr Lang's Committee, but he fears that j the fruits of these savings may be swol- lowed up by increasing prices *—— ———
ISWANSEA SOLICITS S FATE.
SWANSEA SOLICITS S FATE. The supposed fate of Mr T. W. James, solicitor, of Swansea, on board the Sussex was sympathetically re- ferred to at the Swansea Group of School Manager by the Chairman (Ald. J. Jordan) on Tuesday, who stated that it was just possible that Mr James might have been picked up and taken somewhere, possibly on an out- ward-bound vessel, or he might have been taken to Fermany and there in- terned. They hoped he was still in the land of the living, but up to the present they were n the dark. Thev all knew the high esteem in which he was held in that body and in the County Council of Glamorgan and they all felt sympathy with Mrs. James in the ordeal she was going through.
TRAVELLED 20 MILES AN HOUR.
TRAVELLED 20 MILES AN HOUR. AMMANFORD DENTIST WHOSE CLUTCH SLIPPED. Samuel Francis Charles, a. dentist, of College street, Ammanford, was at the local court on Monday charged with riding his motor bicycle, with side-car attached, on the Cwamman road in a manner dangerous to the public. The evidence was that P.C. Edwards signalled to the defendant to stop, which he did. and he then ex- plained to the constable: "The clutch of the engine is slipping. I can't hold her back. I admit going twen+- miles an hour." Subsequently he approached the constable in Ammanford, saying "Edwards, I hope you won't report it this time, I have been driving the  twelve yea? without a co?vic?n Davies about ?." It defendant fifty yar& to pull ? a great deal do?in??' TheTe ?? much vehicular w other  on ?? road at time. P.C. W. J. Thomas corroborated and said the defendant admitted to Inspector Davies in his presence that he was going about twenty miles an hour. Defendant who denied the o?nce,  up in a veiT short di^ tance. That was his first appearance in any court, although he WorS every wS in his professional capac' -HH-? e was fined £ 1 inclusive I-
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The boys at the frofct have picked up a number of French words and phrases and to air his prowess as a linguist is one of Tommy's greatest delights. A AVelsh officer home on leave tells an amusing story in connection with this. There had been a little local "liveli- ness," and after it was all over a at diminutive Tommv returned proudly escorting a corpulent Hun, whorn he had taken prisoner. He marched his man along until he reac ed the colonel's headquarters. Mid then. grounding his rifle, he turned to the captive, and in a sten- torian voice, bellowed: "Al-kme-nd, 'altl"
I I END OF CLYDE STRIKE.
I I END OF CLYDE STRIKE. PARKHEAD MEN'S NARROW MAJORITY. The strike of' munition workers which commenced at. Parkhad Forge on March 17 a.nd spread to other munition factories in the Clyde area has ended. Mass meetings of nien were held in Glasgow' on Monday, and, after hear- ing the official communication from their society, they agreed to return to work on Tuesday. The Parkhead men. with whom the trouble originated,, decided to do so by a narrow majority, but the othens did so unanimously'. 1 1,500 DOCKERS RESUME WORK. The Birkenhead dockers, to the number of 1.500 returned to work on Monday. The men came out on Saturday as a protest against the arbitrator's award, which included dockers on both sides of the Mersey. No further trouble is inticipated at Birkenhead. —————— j ANOTHER MUNITITION I WORKER ARRESTED. The Glasgow police have made an- other arrest under the Defence of the Realm Act in connection with the un- rest in the Clyde area. The accused a munition worker, was apprehended on Mondav on a sheriff's warrant, and was remitted on Tuesday from the Central Police Court on a charge of having on the 27th ult. in Balmoral- street, Glasgow, atom pled to 'cause mutiny, sedition, and disaffection among the civilian population. It is alleged that in a speech to | munition workers accused advised them j to go out on strike. Pr^onor later in the day appeared before the sheriff, and was remanded in custody.
I FALLEN VALUE OF MONEY
FALLEN VALUE OF MONEY INTERESTING POINT IN WELSH COMPENSATION CASE. The Swansea Navigation Collieries Co., Ltd., applied at the Llanelly County Court on Monday for a review in the compensation case of David Reee. Mr Edwards (of Messrs. Gee and Edwards, Swansea) appeared for the plaantiffs, and Mr Marlay Samson (in- structed by Mr Jenkins,' Swansea) de- fended. Mr Edwards submitted that the man had fully recovered from the effects of his aocident and could now earn hia old wages, and in fact did so. E. Jenkins, in the employ of the company, said that up to March 25th rjpondent earned an average wage of 4(k.  Cxa.mined by Mr Samson, wit- ess said that Reee if he worked whole week was the loser bv 12s & ?k as oompoo with hi? earnings befwe the accident. The fluctuatiS in Et8gM aœounted for this to an extent. Mr Samson submitted that although ? *ar bonus of &.6<1. had been merged con?' wa?. his Honour Sd upon a review of compen?atio. regard it still as a war bonus. His Honour: I cannot do that in lace of views I have already he'd. Mr Samson further submitted that his Honour was entitled to take into < consideration the relative value of money to-day as compared with what it wae when the compensation was de- cided. His Honour I quite understand that but that can only be remedied bv new legislation. Mr Samson: I mention it in order that publicity should be given to it and also that your Honour might makJ. a statement, as judicial statement ha,d a beneficial effect- upon Ilgi-,Iat;on. His Honour: I don't think anvthins I might say would have any effect Eventually his Honour gave judg- ment for the applicants, with costs « Scale B.
NOTED WELSHMAN'S SON.
NOTED WELSHMAN'S SON. The death has occurred in  ??< Mr. Ivor Hughes, the son ? ? the 'faanm?™ ? Mr. John Hughes, who was p TaJkd upon to leave Dowl,ir v,-„ -?. ve place, and, with <?r W??J. 'T? S? 50'b to South Russia 'an/t" ed th< iron and steel works,which aftw warœ grew into a vt ? ?'Ler- Hngh!ffka., a p!?en? which ?? K. .eque?Iy bore. The d??d, althouA for many years rMid?nt in Hug-hesoffkT ha? bom H) the Metropolis f,,r a i?g.?- period and had attained to &n dvajiced age. He h&d suffered from illness for, wbilt and focaumbed to cancer.