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lest letter from Mr. Webb (Sate "of Port Madryn), to his Mother. APRIL 21, 1915. I suppose you saw in the papers about the attack on Hill 6o, after it was blown up. Our Brigade had to do the attack, which was done end the Hill taken with the loss of only three men. We were at rest, but were moved up in support. We arrived at Cloth Hall Town just as the artillery bombardment started. It was simply terrific. I am told that we had 300 guns going and everyone was blazing away as hard as they could go. No one who had not heard it could believe what it was like. It was continuous for about four hours, and then slacked off again until early morning, when it started again. We were not disturbed during the night, but at seven a. m. the order came for us to move out at once, to a sheltered position and there await orders. This we did, and at about deven a. m. we got orders to move right up to support the attack. We went up just behind the Trenches at the back of the Hill, and there waited until four, when orders ame that we had to attack at six. The Germans all the time were sheHing as hard as they could go. At five we moved into the trench from which we were to make the attack, and after we had got our men into their positions, we had half an hour to wait. That was beastly. Personally I would not allow myself to picture what it was going to be like, but just strolled "up and down the trench talking to the men, and doing my best to pretend I wasn't the least bit nervous. At six the signal was given, and we up and over the parapet. Our heads were hardly over the top when hell was let loose. Trench mortars, field guns, maxims, rifles and gre- nades. God alone knows how any one of us got across to the hill untouched. One of our regiments was holding the lower slope of the Hill, and at six they too moved forward, but were checked and our coming up to them, our rush was stopped. However, in a short time, we got our lot going and got right up to the German Trench. A short pause there, while we gave them hell with our rifles, and then I went over their parapet, and got a bunch of ours to folow me. That was THE worst moment, as I wasn't at all sure that the Trench wasn't full of Gei mans. But Cod be praised, it wasn't! No one was there- Alive. The blighters had funked and were getting away down their communicating trench and into cover in the woods behind as hard as they could go. I hadn't enough men with me at that moment, otherwise we could have scuppered a lot more than we did However, there we were, and there we remained, although they shelled us like hell until about twelve midnight. But without much effect, as I only had four men wounded from their fire, but it was a damnable night. The weather was good, but bitterly cold. When we charged we had to leave our great- coats and packs behind, and it was impossible to get them up afterwards. It was nervous work too, as I felt sure they would counter- attack during the night, but they didn't. We lost terribly, during the attack, seven officers killed, and eight wounded, only six of us who went in come out untouched. Rank and file 263. Congratulatory messages have been pouring in, from French downwards. Our people think an awful lot of the position, and it is a great feather in our cap that we took it. Another regiment relieved us in the early morning, and we went out for rest into dug-outs in a wood some little distance in rear, where we remained for about thirty hours, and then march right back to our rest camp, where we are now. The Germans are still doing all they can to get the Hill back, butarenot making headway. We are going back to the Trenches to- morrow, but not to 'the Hill, to the same trenches where we were before, and, I think. we can look forward to a peaceable time. It was a really terrible experience to go through, as bad, so it is said, as anything that has happened during the War. I wasn't frightened or nervous, but I felt damnable sick. However, I hadn't much time to think of my feelings. I was too busy. I hadn't enough amunition in the trench, and there was great difficulty in getting any up, as the communicating trenches were so narrow, and moreover they were blocked with wounded. But I found about ten thousand rounds of German ammunition in the Officer's dug-out, and there were plenty of German rifles, so I served these out to them, and we pumped their own lead into them all night. The men were tickled to death. I must have fired about five hundred rounds myself The nights on the Hill were not very nice. I shan't tell you anything about them. At the, start, when we got up to the lot in front who were checked, and had to halt for a few moments, a bit of shell or something hit me on the left "sitdown." I didn't feel it at the time. I thought someone had kicked me. During the night, I felt my trousers damp, put my hand down and found blood. Then I realised I had been scratched. I have been chaffed about my "base" wound. When I get home, I will give you more details. TED. (Tray law Mr. E. B. Theobald.)

Nodion Rhyfel. Yn Mhrydain, yn ol Mesur Cofrestriad, cofrestrir pob un rhwng i6eg a 6;ain mlwydd oed. Amcan hyn yw cae! allan nifer y rhai sydd abl i weithio yn ngweithfeydd cad- ddarpariaeth, ac hefyd i gyrhaedd amcanion eraill ynglyn a'r rhyfel. -0- Dywedir fod arfdy lyngesol Ffraingc wedi gwneud rhwyd wifr fawr, ac yn ei rhoddi ar ei phrawf fel moddion i ddinystrioy mwnau. Hefyd ceisiant ddyfeisio moddion diwifr i feddu llywodraeth ar y torpedoes; a gwneir ganddynt hefyd fath o long tanforol nad oes ei thebyg ar gael yn awr. -0- Adroddir o Berne fod y Llywodraeth Almaenaidd wedi rhoddi archeb i gwmni yn Switzerland am bymtheg mil o gerbydau- llysg inodur, a dengys hyn fod parotoadau yn cael eu gwneud gan yr Ahnaen ar gyfer rhyfel dros y gauaf. -0- Mae Miss Olwen, merch Mr. a Mrs. Lloyd George wedi myned i'r ffrynt fel gweinyddes gada'r Groes Goch. Y mae gohebiaeth yn myned yn mlaen gyda Rwssia ac Itali ynglyn ag i Rwssia ryddhau y carcharorion gymerwyd yn y brwydrau gydag Awstria yn Galicia-y mae oddeutu 6000 o'r carcharorion o darddiad Italaidd, a bydd iddynt ymuno a'r fyddin Italaidd. -0- Dywedodd y Kaiser wrth frenhinoedd Bavaria, Saxony a Wurtemberg, ac wrth amryw bersonau eraill fod cynlluniau ar fin cael eu gorphen trwy ba rai y byddai i'r rhyfel gael ei therfynu erbyn diwedd Hydref nesaf. Y mae'r wasg Brydeinig yn ystyried fod hyn yn rhagarwyddo ymdrech ffyrnig arall i dori drwy iinellau y Cydbleidwyr yn Fraingc a Belgium. -0- Dywedir fod colledion y Ffrancod o ddechreu y rhyfel hyd Gorphenaf iaf yn 400,000 wedi eu lladd, 700,000 wedi eu clwy- fo, 200,000 yn garcharoriou. -0- Dywed yr awdurdodau fod gan Ffraingc yn awr ddigon o ddefnyddiau rhyfel yn ystôr, a chaniattau fod dwbl y swm ddefnyddir yn awr yn cael eu defuyddio yn y dyfodol. -0- Dywedodd Arghvydd Curzon yn Nhy'r Arglwyddi ei fod yo argyhoeddedig y byddai, cyn diwedd y rhyfel, y fantais mewn dynion a defnyddiau ar ochr Prydain a'r Cydbleidwyr. —o— Cyhoeddir o Berlin fod trefniadau wedi eu cwblhau i'r Almaen a Ffraingc gyfnewid carcharorion ag sydd wedi eu hanalluogi i gymeryd rhan yn y rhyfel.

LLONQAU* ARGENTINO i'w disgwyl o Buenos Aires 3-11 Madryn ar y 24am cyfisol. QUINTANA i adael Buenos Aires ar y 2.pin cyfisol am Madryn.

fwyaf o'r safleoedd gyferbyn a Monfalcone Sud, Goritzia ac yr ydym yn gosod amryw batteries o ynnau trymion arnynt. GWEXITH A HAIDD. Swm y gwenith ddisgwylir gael o'r cyn- hauaf yn y Deyrnas Gyfunol, ynol y wifreb, yw 1,718,000 tunell, a 1,000,000 tunell, o haidd. Gorphenaf 22. LLUNDAIN.- Y mae Gweinidug Nwyddau Rhyfei, Mr. Lloyd George, wedi datgan bodd- had mawr oherwydd terfyniad y streic yn Deheudir Cymru, a dywedodd fod yr "ail ddechreu gweithio" o werth anrhaethol i'r Cydbleidwyr, yn arbenig am fod y gelyn yn meddu y rhanau glofaol o Ffraingc, ac y mae Ffraingc felly yn dibynu ar y glo Prydeinig, ac nid oes unrhyw wlad wedi gwneud mwy dros democratiaeth na Ffraingc, ac yr oedd yn ddyledswydd amom ddangos iddynt y byddai i ni eu helpu yn yr ymdrech am ryddid led-led y byd. Yn Nhy y Cyflfredin dywedodd Mr. Bonar Law, fod y gweithrediadau yn erbyn y Tref- edigaethau Almaenaidd Samoa a Togoland wedi bod yn hollol Iwyddiannus. Yr oedd safle yr Almaenwyr yn y lleoedd hyn yn dra pheryglus. MELBOURNE.—Y mae'r Llywodraeth wedi eyhoeddl deddf yn ymwneud a marchnad irneteloedd yn y fath fodd ag i wiieud i fhvrdd yn hollol a'r dylanwad Almaenaidd. DURBAN.—Y mae'r agerlong Benalla wedi cyrhaedd boreu heddyw, nid yw y dwylaw wedi bod yn abl i ddiffodd y tan. Yn y Cape darperir arddanghosiad mawr o barch acedmygedd o'r Cadfridog Botha. NEW YORK.—Dywed newyddion o Constan- tinople fod y Cydbleidwyr, yn ol pob ym- ddanghosiad, wedi derbyn adgyfnerthiad ac yn adnewyddu eu hymosodiad yn Orynys Gallipoli. PETROGRAD. Swyddogol.—Yr ydym wedi gwrthguro yr ymosodiad ar ochr aswy y Vis- tula yn nghyfeiriad Lublin. Cadwasom y gelyn yn ol o flaen Choclelpasi ger Patrurjiza gan gymeryd i,oco o garcharorion. RHUFAIN. Swyddogol.- Y mae'r brwydro ar yr Isonzo yn parhau ac yn cynhyddu mewn fFyrnigrwydd. Yr ydym yn mynedyn mlaen i gyfeiriad Goritzia ac wedi cymeryd liawer o garcharorion a liawer o ddefnyddiaurhyfel. ————— M