South Wales Weekly Post

ENVER S .— —- TURKS' ROUT IN THE CAUCASUS. THREE ARMY CORPS CRUSHED. (Press Association War Special.) I rETK( HTKAL), J-iouaay. A communique issued from the Russian Army in the Caucasus- gives a detailed sur- vey of the crushing defeats the Turks have sustained in the operations in the Cau- casus. (Jnanuarv 4th the Turkish enveloping column was completely defeated at Saiy- kamysh. where the 9th Corps was sur- 5 ounder] nd surrendered. while the of the 10th Corps, leaving in our hands stores and convoys, retreated along a large front toward s the Turkish frontier, closely pursued by our troops, despite the bitterly cold weather conditions. The victory at Sarykamysh was, however, not complete, as the 11th Turkish Corps, whose effectives had been? doubled, and which was equipped with ample supplies ammunition from Er/erum, continued to at- tack our advance pests in the Kara Crgan and Khorum Dag districts. Before the de- bacle of the 9th and 10th Corps the 11th Corps was trying to break through and de- feat separately our advanced guards, and tiivis to join up with the 9th and 10th Corps at Sarvkamyeh. After the debacle, however, part. of the 1 It-It Corps advanced with fresh vigour to the attack in an attempt to cover the re- treat of the lOtli Corps- After the defeat fit Sarykamysh En vet Pasha himself arrived ot. the headquarters of the 11th Corns and Liii.If tool-- command. In view of his ar- rival it became necessary for our troop? to defeat the 11th Corps and thus to complete the victory over the 10th Corps. W'th this ob?ct our troops retired successfully, re-I p?ni:ig the furious attacks of the 11th Turkish Corp:: and after having carried out the necessary regrouping of forces took a decisive offensive in the Kara, Urgan dis- trict with the object or enveloping the Turks. I'c&pite violent snowstorms, which lasted from the 8th to the 16th of January, rendei ing the roads very difficult, our troops, by I dint of the grent.st heroism and extraordin- ary tenacity, progressed continuously with attack after attack. Near Altoun Boulag all entire Turkish regiment was annihilated, and these who. remained were taken prisoners. A strong, position at. divine w- c tir.t.'d fay the impetuous assault by one of OUT columns, widen captured two companies with guns, and following closely on the heels of the fleeing Turks took poesession of tiv? impregnable castle of Zivine. In this wa the centre of the Turkish position was taken at the same time as our other troops were attacking the Turks on their vwngs. The enemy's joress were com- pletely broken np and retreated precipi- tately, abandoning wounded and ammuni- tion, and FLINGING THEIR GUNS DOWN I PRECIPICES: I Vv o pursued the Turks indetatigabiy for five days. The enemy kept on making stands, clinging to any fresh position they came to in an endeavour to impede our pur- suit. but their tenacity availed them noth- ing and they were everywhei-c- driven back. They made a last desperate stand on the heights of Verkhnya, Khalik and Tchermouk, but they were once more sent flying, al- most annihilated by" our bayonet charges. We took the 52nd, 92nd and 54th lhgi. ments, with their commanders, and frag- mpnts of the 97th, 98th, and 99th Regiments, as prisoners, together with tlue-e camps. The operations at Karak Urgan com- T leted this part of the campaign, and the Turkish Armv, which had ado-otee a ra '•" offensive, was thoroughly beaten, though numerically superior.

"WISHED HE WAS 1 DEAD." INQUEST ON YSTALYFERA LABOURER. An inquest was held at tlle police Sta- tion, Y«talyfera, before the Swansea De- puty County Coroner (Mr. C. J. C. Wilson), on Philip "Williams (53), single, farm labourer, employed at the Alltygrug Farm, Ystalyfera. Evidence of identification was given by Margaret Meredith, a w idow, who said de- ceased (her brother) had lately complained of sleeplessness. and restlessness. Deoeased had never threatened to take his life, but often said "he wished he was dead." Allhen witness went to take him has supper on Friday evening (about 8.45), she found the door closed, and on going into the kitchen found deceased hanging. Jolm Williams, collier, also residing at the farm, said he cut the deoease d down, but life was extinct. Dr. William J. Lewis said the mental con- dition from which deceased was suffering would cause temporary insanity. A verdict of ''Suicide whilst temporarily insane" was returned.

'MIRACLE OF STRENGTH.' I FRENCH MINISTER AND NEW BRITISH WARSHIP. The Echo de Paris" publishes an! ?. terview with M. Augagneur, the French inister of Marine, on his return from his visit to England. 1%6 ?nistci- said that his interview .ithMr. ?°ston ChurohiH had left on hism? ? lasting impression of the con- ftd?n? +t cordiality which existed be-1' the two nations. The coltabora- tlOn of the French and British forces' land. Is cl",?ge on the ?? as it was on the Po?sn??? described his visit to Portsmouth, where he saw a new BntIsh! unit, which Was a ?'?itable miracle of ?strenSstl h i?TT?? that he crowed the? channel 311 'a French torpedo b?at! cle;;troyer onl", the previous day ¡ had participateh d a ? Previous day, the German POsitions or ??Sgifn coast. Th'Minjster nc1uded by sa"ying thatI the Germaf.I ('l'UIsers would roceiil-e a more drastic lesson if tT made anotherI atMmpt to r? ;h"? ? R?S??h coast.— (Central the ]  ti,,iish coast.-I

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THE SAVAGES. GERMANY'S LATEST OUTRAGE. TORPEDO AIMED AT HOSPITAL SHIP! (Press Association War Special). PARIS, Tuesday. The .Ministry of Marine makes the follow- ing announcement:— Yesterday, at 5 p.m.. 15 miles N.N.E. of the Havre Ljghtship, a German submarine discharged a torpedo, which, however, did not hit its mark, at the British hospital ship Asturias, thus violating the explicit provisions of the Hague Convention of October 18, 1907, relative to the absolute respect due to hospital vessels. The Asturias id a boat of 52.000 tons, which was constructed at Belfast in 1908, and has been converted into a hospital ship since the beginning of the war. "WE SHALL ACT. BRAGGART THREAT BY GERMANY AGAINST BRITISH TRANSPORT SHIPMENTS. (Press Association War Telegram.) AMSTERDAM, Tuesday. A further step in the German campaign to intimidate Great Britain is marked by an announcement in the official" Reiehsar- zeiger" to-day. The statement, which emanates from the (ierman Admiralty. is a, frank end open confession of ruthless- ness. and is couched in a spirit of bravado somewhat usual in documents of the kind. 11, says :— England is about to ship to France a large number of troops, and a great quantity of war material. We shall act. against these transports with all the military means at our disposal. Peaceful 'hipping is urgently warned against ap- proaching the north and east coast owing to the serious danger it incurs by doing 00. as it may be confused with ships serving warlike purposes. Ships trading to the North Sect ports a.re recommended to take the route round Scotland. :SignE'd\ VOX HEHUKE. "THREATENED BY MERCHANT- MEN. Amazing Excuse for Torpedo Attacks. 'i'he Kreuz Zeitnug" of Tuesday's date di.scusses in an article the tomedoing of British merchant vessels in the Channel by a German submarine. and saysIf the two English merchant, ships off Havre, of which the communique speaks, have been really torpedoed by our submarines with-' nut previous wan;,ins. it, is, doubtless. be- cause the submarines ha<i reason for such action, and were either threatened bv the merchant. vessels themselves or found themselves in close proximity to hostile warships. England and France cannot 'ann m all ciroumstanoes the benevolent treatment which we have hitherto élû- corded to merchant ships at sea. Certain 1 v the life of no civilian will be aaorificei without necessity, but as no one refrains F:ow bombarding a fortress or places on a oattlefield because civilians may thereby oe killed, and as England has not. hesitated to strew tlio North Sèa with mines, whereby "0 nves of neutrals are sacrificed, so shall '■v& not refrain front tcrpedoing English merchant shiix« simply because the lives of crews are thereby endansrered." »!i\»ATiONALi WAR PLANS. I learn from Berlin (writes the Copen- oon-espendent of the" Evening News ) that on Monday afternoon the held a oouncil of war, which wa,4 ?tt?de? by the wholo military staff. lleaded by the acting Ic?ei- of the G?ner? ?taJt; Genera'! F?Ikenhayn. A number of "dmirals were preMmt. as well as members r?ira Mnxstry including the Chancellor. It is riimouied that most sensational and enterprising war plans were considered.

A "NEW BEASTLINES,S EVERY MONTH." ORDEALS OF THE INFANTRY- MAN. The lot of the artilleryman is undoub- tedly more pleasant than that of the in- fantryman. The foot soldier is the real hero oi this war. In addition to the oft-described horrors of trench life, the cold. the wet. and the mud, he has a personal contac; with death unknown to the gunner. Here, a.t the battle of Soissons. he charged, stamp- ing and stumbling over the bodies of his friends. Every month adds a new beastliness to tin warfare he wages. While the aeroplane i l e tl)e a.e-,op aiie dropping daylight magnesium signals re- veals the position of the trenches to the guns, the sapper and scientist are, continu- ally finding fresh tortures for nerve.g. The French claim to have established a, an- peliority of their artillery. They will shortly add to the "cliche" of th", official communique a phrase to the effect that the-v have established + 1" ""Is Al)N-DAN'OY While the infantryman sits in his puddle ae may speculate upon the many forces which are, working to destroy him. There is first of all the, puddle; then there are the Germans in the trenches opposite, who may shoot him or bayonet him; there are the guns two miles away which may bury him; there are the mines sapping under- nea.th whAICII, unless his own sngineers get there first, may blow him and there is the most recent form of terror—the flying mine. This last device of science is perhaps the most terrifying. It is hurled from any dis- tance less than 500 yards by compressed air. and consists of a cylinder-shaped tor- pedo containing from 241 b. to 301b. of melin- ite. When it explodes near a trench it makes a most nerve-shattering noise; when ;t explodes on a trench its bite is as bad as ;t!' bark.

WE CAN TACKLE THEM! FIFTY TURKS ADVANCE ON EGYPT. (Press Association War Special). CAIRO. Tuesday. There has been no further fighting along the oanal. A few Turkish deserters have come in and have given a description of the march of the Turkish forces from Jerusalem via Beersheba el Arisjf to Nakhl a.nd Tor. Only fifty men. they state, ad- vanced from Nakhl to Tor. They were provisioned for six days only, a.nd were forced to buy provisions at high prices from the Bedouins. WTien near Tor a German officer told the AOWITS to cut the telegraph wire. The soldier replied that he was unable to reach it. it being too high, whereupon the offi- cer struck him with a, sword, cutting off 'his hand. The wounded man., together with three others, deserted.

CVERDOING ITS -0. 1 AMERICAN PRO-GER- MAN PROPAGANDA. WILSON KEEPING COOL. I Trying Political I Prisoners. I A great stir has been caused in the Uniited States by the meeting of German Americans conivened by Congressman Bai-tholett, wfhiLst d of repmsed itati ves a league has been formed of represen/tatives of Geo-matn-American societies, supported by Irish iiireccuicilables, with the professed pur- pose of influencing the next elections. The total membership of German societies is believed to be something over 5.00L),000. I Not only might such a vote be a factor in tlie Presidential contest, but, scattered as it is over the country, it is feared that it may be able to make things unplea?a?it for a 11l1Um:her of Congressmen Fhou?d their a<(.Mon not tally with the conceptions of the Ger- main-American .Xeutralitv .league, .1 THE LEAGUE'S OBJELTS. ,I J he first object of the ileagu.e. as oenneo I in resolutions, is "to re-estafciish genuine American neutrality and uphold it free from commercial, financial, and political subser- vience t.o foreign Powers. It demands "a free and open sea, for the commerce of the United States, and an unrestricted traffic in non-contraband goods a.s defined by inter- national law." It favours, "a.s a strictly American policy," the immediate enactment of legislation prohibiting the export of arms and nranntion-s of war, "the immediate estab- lishment of an American mercantile marine" —that is, the passage of the Ship Purchase Bill—and. finally, the laying of submarine cables between the United States and Ger- many. A number of the American journals— a,part from any Anglophil views they may possess, demand that Americans should at least lie loyal to America—are concerned and indignant. As the New York Tinice puts it:— I This matter is serious. Tt is deeply: serious. It is of grave concern to every American that men who have by oath re- nounced allegiance to the German Emperor should thus ignore these oaths; that men who have come here to escape the scourge of Prussian militarism should now, on our soil, exalt the Prussian ideal above the American ideal, that they sholi.M openly pro-j fess principles and counsel procedures that must, be described as seditious and dis- loval. The matter lias a bearing upon the, fate, of The Ship-Purchase Bill. The Times correspondent says:—"It is clear, at any rate, that various members of the Administrations are exercised by the discovery that the sale of German ships will help, and probably is already helping_ Ger- man propagandists in the campaign w the President, at the beginning of the war,' officially stigmatised as uneutral/ ttlid that it is going to support the political i movement which has been launched by German-Americans for the professed purpose of hounding; the Admin.istration into desert- ing the policies defined in Mr. Bryan's let- ter to Mr. Stone. "There is, in fact, a growing justification of the warning already registered against undue excitement over the Shipping Bill. The President, it must he repeated, is de- tRrminecl to avoid complication. and ail; suspicions of unneutral behaviour."

THE BABY WINS' f I I I END OF THE SLINGSBY i I CASE. JUDGE DECIDES IN INFANT'S FAVOUR. I ^lr. Justice J>argrave JJeane, on Wednes- day. in the Probate Court, gave judgment in Sliiigsby legitimacy suit. The object of the suit was to obit, it a declaration of the court that Charles Eugene Edward SlinigKby, aged four, is the legitimate son of Mr. l Charles Henry Reynard Slingsby, of Sci-ivan Park. near Knaresfcorough, t-en;alit for life of the Slingsby estate. The case involved the question of the child's .succession to the property. He was entered as petitioner, appearing by his guardian, Mr. C. H. R. SLingsby. The latter married Mrs. Dorothy iorgan AA,7,triier, a widow, in 1901, and they alleged the child was the issue of their niari-iage and was born at San Francisco in 1910. Two < brothers of Mr. Slingsby. parties cited in I the suit, Messi*s. Thomas William Slingsby and Ala/n Peter Slingsby, ALLEGED THE CHILD WAS NOT THE I SON of Mr. Charles Slingsny and his wife, but I was the ill egitiniate child of Lilian Ander- ?on and Paul Colvin, and was adopted by l Mrs. Dorothy Slingsby. j In the end Ms I?rdsiup decided in faNour I I I of the infaat petitioner.

| USING UP THE 1 J HEART. THE I HEART." I GERMANY AND OUR NAYALI "GAG." I Mr. Winston Churchill has grafted a.n interview to M. le HOllX, the correspondent oi' "La, Matin," in which he recapitulates some of the saJient facts of the naval situa tion. He remarked, apropos of submarines We have more of these vessels than they have, but how can we Eend ours out to attack their? Submarines do net fight amoJlg themselves. A single one of their submarines which leaves its refuge and can find targets in ou)' vessels, can naturally do more damage than ten of our submarines which are unable to encounter a single Ger- ma.n ship. "At the same time I have no illusions. I know that as long as there are neutral countries a blockade without leakagf's is an impossibility. Germany7 will continue to re- ceive secretly a small part of that. of which she has so great a need. But while you and we can breathe freely owing to the sea which we have freed and will maintain free. this is how Germany can maintain her breath." Mr. Churchill put his hand over the lower part of his face, and added "Well, you know tlie effect produced by a gag when one has to exert oneself at the safne time— it, uses up the heart. And Germany knows it. "This pressure upon Germany will never be relaxed until she has surrendered un- conditionally, for, even if our AHies, France and Russia., were both to give up the struggle—a thing which is inconceivable— we British would continue alone until the I bytter end." jT -—-

SWANSEA DISTRICT WRIT RECEIVED. I Swansea District, wr.it~va«< received on Wednesday, and was handed over by Air J. Howell (chief clerk, Posi Office) to the May.or (Aid. D- Jones) at the Guildhall. The nomination day was fixed for Satw-dav, and the election next Wednesday. Only Mr. J. J. Lewis (Agent for Mr. T. J. Wil- liams) was present, and the formality was but brief. His Worship had to sign for the receipt, and after the election the "TitwiJI be returned endorsed by the Mayor a re-, t urii"iig c)ttcer. There will be no contest, i V-. T. J. Williams being the only candi- date.

WITH THE BIG GUNS. 90 FRENCH ARTILLERY IN ACTION. A HUMDRUM BUSINESS The Finest in the World." A graphic account of a visit to a French field battery, and of, the famous French 75" field gun in action, is given by Mr. Sidney Low in the "Standard." Mr. Low- has been visiting in front as the guest of the French Government. He writes:- We halted our cars at the foot of a wooded hill and lunched. And still it might al- most have been a picnic party somewhere in the green heart of rural England, though it is true that our group of chauffeurs and mechanics were soldiers in uniform a.nd their rifles were on the driving seats of the cars. One of these soldier-drivers was a young musician of the most distinguished talent, who had taken the Grand Prix de Rome; another was the son of a millionaire manu- facturer. But these youths were eating their bread and meat by the roadside in complete camaraderie" with their fellow- privates, with whom they were serving in t,he ranks at three-halfpence a day. Demo- cracy, in its most practical form, i. the note of the French armv. The Note of Battle. \\e Illnchd and chatted by the hillside b¡ow the sheltering copses, where the keen and tonic air rusHed cheerfuDy among the branches till we were recalled with start- ling emphasis to the grim business which had brought us here. Of a. sudden a crash of imperative, overwhelming sound broke I over our heads, and then another, and an- other. It seemed close above us, though we knew the summit of the ridge was some fif- teen hundred feet high and it needed a stiff forty minutes' ciimb to reach it. We wind our way up among the birches and stunted willews, and M we go the thunderclaps split the air above and around us. We peer eagerly through the bushes, but can see nothing: the battery is well screened. We stumble on through the muddy woodland path, and then, so unex- pectedly that we start, we come upon one of the man-eaters. It is a big gun, a gun of 150 millimetres, so heavy that it has broad flanged wheels, like those of a (steam- roller, and needs a motor tractor when it. moves. But it has not moved for some time, and is bedded down upon a solid platform of planks and beaten earth, with the trees all round, and it long, greedy snout nosing in a carnivorous fashion through them in the direction of its prey. At a distance of thirty yards it is nearly invisible: it is quite invisible to the Ger- man gunners, miles away, though they have: a good general idea of its whereabouts, as the round holes in the earth and the broken trunks and branches testify. They have dropped shells into this wood often enough, but they have not yet succeeded in putting a battery out of action. At intervale of a few yards we come upon gun after gun; four batteries in all, with little dug-out chambers beside them, where the ammuni- tion is stored, "Il.d wbVre the gunners live. They are reservists, these gunners, sturdy fellows, called back to the olourg I mostly from machine shops and engineering factories Good-tempered they are, polite, cheerful, and even jovial; but they are suffering a little from boredom. And this is not surprising; for they have been up here on this lonely hilltop for weeks, with nobody to talk to but one another, "anil nothing, whatever to do except to eat and sleep, and to liiiDcJi: theiy,- shell at an enemy they cannot see for an hbijr or two every other dav. A Dull Business. The battle—for this is a battle bien en- tendu. or at leabt part of a battle—in which they are engaged does not excise them in the least. They lounge about their pieces, waiting for the order to fire or load, in unbuttoned tunics, or in shirt. sleeves and rubber boots, attending to their business in the intervals of gossip. Yon might think tlhem a group of intelli- gent, if rather casual," artisans engaged upon Rome entirely pacific, mechanical oixration. And the ugly mass of dingy steel, with its flanged wheels and chains and pulleys, that, too, does not look like an implement of war so much as. a huge, clumsy. powerful machine, which is, in fact, w'hat it is. But it has the strange, half-inanimate aspect of some other great machines, and grins down upon its human attendants as if in ironic enjoyment of its destined task of wholesale slaughter. The Roar and Howl of a Shell. A man in slippers, smoking a pipe, stands a.t the right of the gun with his band on the ifring-oard. Sharp orders from an un- seen voice--itself transmitting orders heard over the telephone—ring among the trees. "Preparez la qnatrieme piece" The man in slippers lies his pipe. on the ground a.nd tightens his grasp on the lanyard. "Prete la quatrieme piece?" "La quatrieme piece est prete." Officers, unemployed gunners, and visitors about No. 4 open their mouths, and hold their lingers to their ears, as a I useful precaution againsrt being deafened by the noise and concussion. Tirez la quatrieme." Number Four springs into sudden life with a gasp and a volcanic bellow, jabs its stiff tail a yard back on its stand, and spits a giant mouth- 1 ful of amber flame and sulphurous smoke j over the tree tops. You may take your hands from your ears now, and listen as the roar of the she!! passes into a, savage how!, and dies away into a long, whirring hiss, as if it were a colossol cobra in act to strike. And the sergeant of No. 4 picks up his pipe and resumes his part in the viva- cious conversation which this episode has temporarily interrunted. The Observation Post. I said, the town of B- was empty, but that is not quite true. For somewhere in among its vacant buildings we have estab- lished our reooniia.issance posts, and it. is there that daring officers from these bat- teries of ours are taking careful observation of the effects of the hostile fire, and letting us know up here, through the telephone, where the shells come from and from what range they are thrown. The Germans are apparently aware of these proceedings, and try to check them by directing a furious cannonade at B- itself, as well as upon the adjacent trenches. We oa.n see the splashes of red fire ranging about the roofs of the houses, buzzing round tlie black pointing finger of the factory chimney, throwing up jets of water as they fall into the large pond just outside the town. There must be an inferno of noise and confusion down there; but our observers live through it all. and go on calmly sending up their notes and reports through the wire, so that our skilful gunners up here can keep their fire steadily on the German batteries with damaging results. We scaii the opposite crests with our glasses and wa.tch the grey cloud gushing out. now from one (xviit. now from another, and mark the angry blaze and spnrkle where the missiles strike and burst. Sometimes we can see them jump perilously near the French trenches. But our stream of heavy projec- tiles is evidently disturbing the aim of the German gunners, and their fire is growing loose. Many of their shells explode harm- lessly far out upon the plain, and sometimes the trained eyes of the observers beside m can note, though we cannot, that they bury themselves in tlie earth without exploding at all. è' In the Conning Tower. I We step down from the platform into tht excavated chamber immediately below, which is a sort of conning-tpwer. as well as an office and living-room, for the officer in command. Here he can see what is ex mn.)

SIR GRIFFITH THOMAS I AS "FORMAL DEFEND- I ANT. REMARKABLE LONDON ACTION. r Late Brother and Young Lady. A breach of promise of marriage action of an itnutstia l character, in that the gentleman who was alleged to have ma.de the promise is dead, was heard on Wednesday in the King's Bench Division before Mr. Justice LuM-i and a special jury. The plaintiff was Miss Minnie Magdalene Quirk, a millin-ar, of St. Holbein House, Sloans-square, and the fonnal defendant was Sir Griffith Thomas (executor of Mr. Arthur William Thomas, deceased), of Court Her- bert Neath. Plaintiff allege-, that the promise to marry w:as made veribally about March, 1897, and the defence denies the allegation, and says t that the statement of Claim discloses no cause for action, wihile the damages alleged are too remote. Mr. Waugh, K.C., and Mr. J. D. Craw- ford were for the plaintiff, and Mr. Barnard lailey, K.C.. and Mr. J. H. Watte for the defendant. Mr. Waugh, K.C., in opening t e said the action was of all unusual kind, be- cause the defendant on the record was not the person who had made the promise. The defeddant was the executor and brother of Mr. m. Thomas, now dead. His Lordship a,sked if the cause of the action survived. Mr. Waugh said it did, in respect with special damage only. Mr. Riley, for defendant, said he did not admit that. Mr. Waugh said the damages which plaintiff claimed were in respect to tlie fact t)hat at the request of deceased she gave up a business which brought her in an income. Miss Quirk was the daughter of a ship- chandler, who carried on business at Swansea. Ho died, and the business was carried on by a manager. In 1896 the plaintiff was staying with a sister at Guern- sey. She there met deceased, who said he was an old friend of her father's. He VISITED HER AT SWANSEA, and on another occasion at Guernsey. On 17th March, 1897, Mr. Thomas proposed marriage, and she accepted him. Plaintiff's sifrter, Mrs. Harrison, was informed of the proposal, but deceased said tho engagement must not now be announced, as his mother had a strong objection to Roman Catholics, plaintiff being of that, religion. It seemed that one of deceased's brothers HAD BECOME A MONK against his mother's wash. There was also a Mrs. W illiamson to whom the same repre- sentation was made. In (Sept-ember, 1897, Mr. Thomas, under tlie most solemn promise of marriage, reduced the plaintiff aind glaive her an engagement ring. Phintiff was then about 24 and deceased was a-boirt '40. In 1900 deceased said he had TROGBLE AT HOME WITH HIS I BROTHFm, and though he still wrote to plaintiff he ceased to meet her. In 1901 he Wrote to plaintiff and said he did not intend to marry her. Plaintiff apparently acquiesced in that decision. At tliait time, ow ing to the misappropriation by a manager of her father's business, plain- tiff had set about to earn her own bring. She then started in the millinery business in London, and eventually it became worth Sdrlle £ 150' a/ year to her. Tn May, 1908. plaintiff saw the deceased somewhere,, and she wrote to him, and lie wine ovef and sa w her. She would tell the jury what happened on that occasion. In 1909 thev both went over to Harrow, and Mr. Thomas AGAIN OFFERED PI^AINTIFF I MARRIAGE. which she agnin accepted. In August, 1909, while staying with her sister, )trs. Harrison, plaintiff received a letter from Mr. Thomas, in which he said. "Before God, I intend to carry out, mv promise and repair the injury I did to you years ago." That letter was shown by plaintiff too her sister, and this was the first intimation Mrs. j Harrison had that there had been undue re- I lations between them. UHfortuna.tdy. that ktter had been destroyed. The deceased had written another letter in which he said when they were married he would not qiave her relations visiting them. This was because Nirs. Harrison had upbraided deceased for keeping plain tift dangling ¡ about him" for so many years. In Septem- ber, 1909, the deoeased requested plaintiff to give up her business in order that de- fendant might marry her. Later in that year plaintiff went under an operation for appendicitis and thought she would not live. (Continued on Page 8.)

FREEMAN SCHOLARSHIP." Deceased Swansea Lady's Legacy. I Through the death of Mrs. Freeman, Swansea, who sustained fatal injuries in a London motor accident, a legacy be- comes available towards the founding of a scholarship at the Swansea. Grammar School to be called the Freeman Scholarship." The legacy is under the terms of the will of her late husband, who was at one I time Mayor of Swansea. In his will he l left a direction that his trustees should pay to his widow for tho period of her life one half of the net income—dividend and interest—arising from shares in the Capital and Counties Bank and the Swan- sea Gas Co., and that after her death the whole of these shares should be sold and that one half of the net proceeds should go to the Charity Commissioners for the purpose of founding a seholarhsip to be competed for only by boys of Welsh parentage who attend the Intermediate School (that is the Grammar School) at Swansea. It is understood that the amount of money thus available will be something like £2,000.

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CELEBRATING KAISER'S BIRTHDAY. i BRITISH "SALUTE" 1 OF LYDDITE. ) COSTLY GERMAN ATTACKS AT LA BASSEE. The following descriptive account, com- municated by an Eye-witness present with General Headquarters, continues and sup- plements the narrative published on •Tanu- ary 318t of the., movements of the British force a.nd French armies in immediate touch with it. January 30. The lull in the action which took place on the 26th after the German attacks on the 25th has already been noted. On that day one of our aviators made a very suc- cessful reconnaissance over a section of the German line. Travelling at a low altitude, lie not only obtained much useful informa- tion. but. managed to drop ten bombs on the enemy's treoncheg, The 27th of January (the Emperor's birthday) was celebrated by a salute from some of our guns of several rounds of lyddite tired against a house in the neighbourhood of Messines much used by the enemy. At first the occupants of the place were seen to be running in all directions. Then the whole building blew up, and there followed a feu de joie of smaller explosions, the house ûpparentJy haying been used as a magazine for bom bs and grenades. It wan felt by the troops tha.t this display cf fireworks wa.s a fitting celebration of the day. On the right our troops gained a little ground. In the same quarter our snipers were very successful, aud our guns caused the evacuation of a saphead by the enemy. Otherwise there was no action of note. On the night of the 27th-28th some fur- ther ground was re li i,.ed by us near the -ga y us i"?. BeUiime 1? Ba.ssee road. The 28th passed quietlv. and hostile shel1ing was ler severe. I' TWO DETERMINED ATTACKS. I .1 .1 .1 1 Un the morning of J'riday, t.iie Attn, t-ne enemy again made two determined attacks about nine a.m. and 9.40 a.m. oil the centre and right of the line held by us between the La Bassee Canal and the Bethune road. In the centre our men, firmly established in brickfields, gave the Germans a very warm I rooeptlioll. and the latter fell back, leaving fifty dead in front of this point alone. To the south of it they temporarily gained pos session of a small portion of one of c trenches, but they were immediately counter trenches, but they were immediately counter-attacked with the bayonet, and every man in the trench was killed. The same thing happened close to the Bethune road, where the Germans gained another of our trenches, only to be bayonetted to a man. After the fighting was over the enemy's dead, to the estimated number of 200, lay thiok all along our lines. Onr casualties were slight. COSTLY FAILURES. ■ This attack, like those delivered at Givenchv and at Zonnebeke on the 25th, WK a costly failure, resulting only in great waste of life. It was made by some 300 men in the first line, 300 more in support bccupynlig the line when it moved forward. Prisoners I st.a.b thd there were ICO ?ead lying in ?1'? ?ti-e.,iioh before the Germans advanced, and that none of the t-yoops-makmg t}? assault had attacked before. The French to the south of us were also attacked, but repulsed the enemy. On tills day a German aeroplane flew over Bailleul and dropped four bonil-hs, killing a child and wounding another child and a woman. During the whole of the week up to and including Friday the weather has been bright and frosty, which has been a welcome change'. There has been some suggestion that the sudden- recrudescence cf activity on the part of the enemy which took placc on the 25th inst.. was due to a desire to gain a striking success to celebrate the Emperor's birthday. This hardly could have been the case, however, for the two attacks made— one against the French near Zonnebeke a.nd tihe other against us at Cuinchy—G-ivendhy —were isolated actions, separated by a dis- ?ivere i,-o l ?i  e d a- c t l o n .,z tance of nearly 28 miles, and having no tac- tical connection with each other, such as might be expected in any co-ordinated effort. This is no place to hazard any conjecture as to what these two separate operations por- tended, but it does not seem that t-h«y could have formed part of amy scheme to mark the birthday of the Emperor. HATRED OF THE BEITISlH. I The intense hatred entertained for us be- travs itself in many of the lett-ers sent to soldiers in the field. Here are a few ex- tracts from letters found on dead men:— Mulheim, November 4, 1914. Here in Mulheim everybody has been called out, right np to the Landsturm and the boys of eighteen. It is most interesting to visit Fried rich sf eld and see the prisoners. There are said to be 20,000 there, Zouaves, Turcos, French, and then the long-legged Englishmen. This damned pack is to blame for everything. When they are transported t'hey are put .in closed cattle wagons. The wav they ,iae treated is much too good. They should be put against a wall. You write that you are only lighting a,ga,inst the English, and have made 600 prisoners. Make them all into minced meat. They have earned nothing better. Muliheim, November 23, 1914. Everything is it-.a.rfnUlv dear here. We s i rid be glad to finish if only an honour- able peace comes with it. A fearful Jot of us must be falling, as everyone is being called ont. Everything is all right, only (tüd protect you from Rm-ssia. Tiie poor soldiers don't know what to do for the cold, and the Landsturm must go to Russia. The damned Engilisli. what are they doing with our prisoners, and we treat the swine dogs so well? But soon it will be different. A tratin was to have come here with 340 Eng- 'PI)e coiiiniaii d er lish. The train arrived The commander brought on:6 40 English. When he wafi asked where the 300 were he didn't know where thev had remained. I know better. That is wbLt, all should do. THE TRUTH. A card written home by a wounded Ger- man prisoner, dated January 25, .1915. is an interesting commentary on the above, and incidentally is a reply to the query, "What are the English doing with our prisoners?" I was wooiiided this morning in an attack, and was captured by the English. Those of the company who are not dead are prisoners. Am treated very well, so don't worry at all. Our lieutenants were also talken prisoners. 1 feel well. Tell my relatives.

COSSACKS WIPE OUT II CUIRASSIERS. (Central News Correspondent). PETROGRAD, Wednesday. The following semi-official statement is issued here:- During an attack on the village of Luto- 7.Íne (north-east, of Serpetz). some of our I Cossacks, besides taking prisoners the four officers and 35 men whose capture has already been reported, cut down the whole, squadriKi of 7th German Regiment of I Cuirassi ers almost t.o a man. On the right bank of the Vistula the •Germans, constantly harassed by cur cavalry, whioh his been attacking them without respite, have fallen back on the town of Lipno.

CAPTURED IN THE CARPATHIANS. 1 ik. STRIKING RUSSIAN SUCCESS. GUN BATTERY AND MANY PRISONERS. (Press Association War Special). PETROGRAD, Tuesday night. v The following communique from the head- quarters of tlie ""Army is issued ,hem-- Conflicts with the enemy in the Mlava division continue and are always favourable to our troops. On the left of the Vistula there was a ■battle on the Bolinoff road on February let of considerable violence, in which a large number of heavy and light batteries took a promin ent^pa rt. A German afttac? on the morning of February 1st in the region north of Berjunc?E was rep?ized with heavy losses to the e?emy. A very determined battle was fougfat south of the village of Goumine, where we reoccupied the advanced trenches lost by 1UI on -January 51st where there was a fight for the farm. South of the Pilitza, on the Donnactz, the enenw ha,f. made his fire more severe. KEEPING IT UP DAY AND NIGHT, but the efforts by his forces to advance have blOOll w ithout success. In the Carpathians fighting continues, On January 51st and February 1st our troops who adYRollced fighting along an extended front on the Dukla Pass almost in the in- terior. hriving traversed in the region of Jaslisii-Meso-Labocz (the principal height), then captured a battery of six guns, two howitzers, quick-firers and many prisoners. In the same region an offensive movement at Ysotzks. south-east of Uzok Pass, waa repelled with enormous losses. German advices from the Cairpatliiarm front confirm that on February 1st a bat- talion of the 224th German Regiment was annihilated to the south-east of the Beakid Pass.

HOW TO EVADE THE SUBMARINE. EXTRA SPEED WHEN NEAR- ING PORT. The destruction of several small merchant- men in the Irish Sea on Saturday by a sub- marine will be no surprise to any one who has taken notice of the threats of German publicists and naval officers, or has fol- lowed previous events. The presence of enemy submarines (says the "Tunes" naval' correspondent) has frequently been reported Sti lire the war began off the west coast of Scotland, in St. George's Channel, and in the Irish Sea. Grand Admirail von Tirpitz, in his re- marks to an American interviewer reported in these columns on December 24, said:- "We soon discovered that the larger types of these boats could go round England, and remain out for as flong as 14 days at a time." Since that date there can be no doubt that thw boats have been able to remain away from their bases for still longer periods. I explained an connection with Lieutenant Holbrook's exploit in the Dardanelles, how it was possible for a submarine to travel long distances and to lurk about for many davs in a suitable area, and to do this quite independently of parent craft or temporary bases. Naturadlv, it is to the advantage of a boat if it can obtain supplies in the neigh- bourhood of the waters where it de pro- posed to work, and the shores, of Ireland and Scotland have been searched for such bases. Moreover, from trawlers or other vessels under neutral flags supplies of fuel, food, or even ammunition may possibly be ob- tained but it would be well to remember that for such an achievement as that of Lieutenant-Commander Hiersing. an U 21 on Saturday this is not absolutely necessary. It is essential that the British publlic should remember the motive which under- lies all the policy of Grand Admiral von Tarpitz. The dominating factor in the war is the power of the British Navy, and the primary purpose of every fresh attempt- the invasion threat, raids by sea and air, and now the submarine block we-is to hamper the British Admiralty and bring about, if possible, an alteration in the dis- position of the Fleet. As Captain Persiiis said in connection with the new plan, it is cintended. to assist in digging the British Navy's grave. Therefore, it is necessary tn this matter to continue to I Exercise patience and restraint, and to baffle every effort to raise popular clamour which shall disturb the strategical arrangements of those who direct the move- ments of our ships. The appearance of the same submarine that 4destroved the merchantmen on Satur- day off Walnev Island, indicates that tho mere sinking of trading vessels was not her main business. The sinking of the Shaw Savill liner Tokomaru on Sunday morning may also have been the work of a. submarine, al- though from the reports of the crew who were happily saved the circumstances point rather to the use of a. mino. Ger- man torpedoes have not usually been so slow in their action and effecta.s seems to have been the case on this occasion, IIf the loss was due to a submarine attack, it might be significant of an in- tention. as part of the plan, so send ships to the bottom i-egardless of the fate of the crew and passengers. But. since this Callous disregard of tne iava OT humanity has happened over and over again, when neutral ships have been blown up bv mines, or as in the case of the Amiral Ganteaume. it would not be surprising. It is a hint to our American cousins which should not he lost upon them. It is natural that the nation should look for some reply to the new threat of blockading our ports by under-water craft. It is probable that at the outset there will be some demand for the Ad- miralty to act with vigour and take measures to lessen or prevent this raid upon commerce. There are two ways iu which this may be done. The one is for the Xavy to provide convoy for tt smaller and slower traders. It is not likely, however, that owners will look with favour upon this method. The other is in the hands of the masters of the merchant ships themselves. Now. that they are aware of the risk they must run, it is for them to exercise caution and to exhibit the traditional spirit which has animated the British Mercantile Marine. There have already been several cases in which merchant ships have saved themselves by acting promptly on dis- covering the presence c,f submarines in their vicinity. On approaching port it is evident that they should be put at the highest* speed possible, while it has also been proved that variations of course have before now baffled the efforts of the submariners. The. submarine, though deadly, is both vulnerable and slow. It can be run down and it would find it difficult to hit a merchant ship \<-hich either turned towards or away from it.

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(Continued from Preceding Column.) happening in safety through slits cut in the face of the cliff, and control the file of his guns. It is quite a commodious little a.partment, with a table, a cooking-stove, and a clwr or two, and a whole array of telephones. There are wires to the field telephone in tine advanced trenches, where an officer is sending reports on the effect of the shots, and wires to the posts in B-, and wires to the officer further back, and wires again to the sections doing the actual shooting behind us. A couple of artillerymen have their ears at the instru- ments; and orders and messages are wrapped out in ra¡,d succession. Num- ber One, more elevation." Number Two, prepare to fire." Number Two has fired.") "Number Three falls short." Number Four load with shrapnel." The trained telephone operator is a very essential unit in the personnel of a battery, for without him and his instrument artil- lery is almost helpless. It is machinery and mechanical skill everywhere in modern war. And the French-artillery, which is the best in the world, knows how to use both its machine.s and its men.