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A British force as laboriously winning cts way to Bagdad, overcoming in successive stages TurKish resistance. In this country the expedition launched from the Persian Gulf is an affair of minor importance—a mere incident in the wODld war. utun well-informed German circles there ? Uis- may and chagrin. It would hardly be n exaggk eration to affirm that the Austrian attack on the ostensible origin of the world-wide struggle, was meant to open -out a broad path for Germany through the Balkans to Asia Minor and the Persian Gulf. The foundering of these expectations ■ the result of the war is an c\ent more depressing to the German-, thpn the loss of &.U their colonies. For they have intrigued, worked and spent money galore to estab- iish a hold on the valleys of the Euphrates and Tigris, the legcndary Garden of Eden. Turk and Persian rule a.,¡; sterilised legions that have in the remote past ma.inta.ined ruling races dominat-ng the world. Expert-prospectors have discovered coal and oil deposits of'enormous value in these parts. Germany marked out the wide domains for her own. The potential wealth of the region is illimitable. Before the value of minerals was realised it was able by the sin-face cultivation of the soil to uphold such ornate and costly civilisations as those of Babylonia and Persia. Teeming millions have obtained sustenance from the wide spaces which are now deserts or the ruins of cities and towns over which the lizard sports and the jackal nightly makes its voice heard. And meanwhile British steamers are on their way to Bussorah- fated to become one of the greatest ports in the world-laden with Manchester goods, to take back dates, skins and barley, the chief products of a land thah is a desert a variable distance from its great rivers. ¡ But, considered all in all, the British force gradually n?hting its way to Bagdad I is winning for the Empire an asset of incal- culable value. The, Germans knew the potential richness of the region in minerals, oils and cereals, when they projected the railway to Bagda.d..
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When some months ago a protest was made iu these columns against thfe scandal of British and patriotic Swansea being misrepresented in Parliament by a member of G'erman origin-a foolishly indul- gent law admits to citizenship everyone born in these islands even though the parents pre subjects of a foreign State—who personally .before the war had peisistenUv ?d consi.s- ten?y endeavoured to persuade I'M public that no danger was to be: apprehended from our "good friends the Germans, and vliose j influence, as revealed in the newspapers .and hii, wau actively, fde'tirtified, was exPrt-ised in pro-! German direction to Bri fck-h national policy that if followed Would have brought us to the a by, and who in Parliament had as- ,,(, -e d for sented to AIKI approved the proposes for making our small Army- smaller, disbanding batteries of field artillery, and reducing, the vote for nnuiitions by £ 80.000. and generally contributed to the military unreadiness.;of i his country which precipitated the war, and had as consequence the loss of thousands of the heroic soldiers who fought in Flanders hopelessly outnumbered, out-gunned, and out-shelled, the local journal of Sir Alfred Mond complained that, the political truce was being violated. As if this were a matter of party politics and not of national patriotism. The vita! interests of Britain and its people demanded the elimination of guides of foreign origin who had misguided, ( and the curbing of influences that had proved detrimental. OJ Now in a question of £ s. d. Sir Alfred intcrad has been engaging his activities in organising a movement for fanning the dampeu-dowii fires of political controversy, exciting a ferment in the House of Commons —certain to be greeted in Germany as evi- dence of disunion in our raiiks-aii4 embar- rassing the Government. The proposal of a Radical Chancellor of the Exchequer—who declares it to be his own. not' suggested by or even discussed with the Tariff Reform mem- hers of-the Coalition Ministry—to check the tendency of money to leave this country isnd raise necessary revenue by imposing a duty Upon motor-cabs, hats, watches, and other foreign articles of luxury brought into this country, was resisted as an act of sacrilege against the Cobdenite sacred ark of the f,ovenani. The organiser of the opposition to the Government and the chief irjeiter of internal strife at a time of grave national stress is, Sir Alfred Mond. whose speeches are reproduced in their entirety in the paper Controlled by him, but not the replies it eli- cited nor the comments of the critics, who realise the insidious and far-reaching1 effects of the propaganda. The basic principle 01 Free Trade, and the chief argument employable in support of it, is that the free exchange of commodities and unrestricted competition secure for the con- j Burner that which he needs at the minimum cost. But Messrs. Brunner, Mond and Co. ama.ss coosal profits and pay out dividends on a grand scale by a -Y,-teni xvhich iso,,ha very negation of this. By an arrangoment ,wi ih producers on the Continent and elsewhere, they have eliminated competition all the world over by partitioning the markets amongst the various Trusts, with the result that the consumer of their sodas and other products is made ,to pay the price fixed by a combination enjoying the power of a monopolist &nd not the lower price that free competition would ensure. Sir Alfred Mond, when challenged to reconcile his Free Trade professions with the; actual practice of the company from which he draws an in- come admitting (without the slightest self- sacrifice) of generous doles right and left for personal and political purposes, declared, in effect, that the interests of the share- holders were not to be prejudiced by his fiscal, views. As champion of sacroscant Free Trade principles he now places the British Empire on a lower level than I the shareholders of Brunner, Mond and' Co The "Mccmng Post," edited by a highly gifted Swansea man—Mr. Howel Gwynne -and at the present time the most fearless t irid patriotic exponent of British feeling, has plainly intimated to Sir Alfred Mond that < the country is not in the irood to accept the counsel of politicians or publicists who, whether of German or other origin, were conspicuously pro-German up to the very I eye of the war, and that whilst there Is scope for b,)iiest differences of opinion amongst Britishers regarding the effect of the Free Import svstem noon this count-rv. there is not an atom of doubt that British Free Trade has been, and henceforward will be, advantageous to Germany, which, whilst jinTo!sinT heaw duties on our goods, has fault up a great over-sea rade by exoloiting the free admission of German goods into this country, our Ga|onies end dependencies. I. It used to be a Free Trade argument that British Tariff Reform would hit the Germans so hard that they would make war rather than submit to the losses it would' involve. Now we have Sir. Alfred Mend putting forth all his energy and his political influence to defeat the purpose of a Radical and Free Trade Chancellor to raise revenue for main- taining a war, the ultimate issue of which is to be determined by the number of silver bullets available. Iin the "Times" we have Mr. George Hamilton, an earnest Free Trader, ending a letter which exposes the mischief of the Mond effort to deflect British policy with the weighty wui-ds: Sir Alfred Mond's movement can 'serve no useful or national purpose; it will create discord whore other- wise agreement would prevail, a.nd raise a false impression r "rPrrrKwty as to the posi- tion which be ai.A his friends occupy as regards the vigorous prosecution of the war. I sincerely hope that, influenced by these incontrovertible arguments, he will not fur- ther prosecute his campaign. Mr. Maxse, in the" National Review," is more frankly outspoken :— The intrigues of Sir Moritz Mond are intolerable. Considering his ante- cedents, it might have been supposed that he would afford this country some respite from his counsel. There has been altogether too much of Brunner Mond of late J"e<trs." For the electors of Swansea is the humilia-' tion of the knowledge that Sir Alfred Mond owes his importance politically to their votes, and that but for the latter he could not, be- fore the war or now, be in a position to influence the policy of this country. There should be no roam in' a British House of Commons for him, or Mr. Stiau.?, the Con- servath'c member for the Paddington Divi- sion. The tolerance of the late Mr. Iveir Hardie as one of the members for Merthyr, and of ?ir Alfred Mond for Swan&l?l, has contributed with the readiness of the Welsh collier to t-trike when the national necessities call for the production of every possible ton of steam coal in producing an impression all the world over most flagrantly unjust to the patriotism of Wales. The effect which should follow from the splendid rally of Welsh lads to the colours is sterilised by political eccentricities—in one case affected by sentiment and in the other by dole.s- which give Wales a most undesirable ad- vertisement.
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Questions in Parliament this week elicited I statements upon a number oi interesting points. Lord Robert Cecil stated in the first j place that the Dardanelles expedition had drawn troops away from the Russian (Caucasian) and Egyptian borders. That is obvious, but it is a very minor advan- tage. We did not go to the Dardanelles to attack the Turks under the most dis- advantageous condition that are possible for Uj., to prevent the Turks from attacking us or our Ally under the most disadvan- tageous conditions possible for them. More- over. we diverted the Turks from purely secondary battlefields, whilst the Turks -have diverted British and French troops' from the supremely important battle- fields of Flanders and Champagne. Lord Robert Cecil's, reply was inadequate, to say letst. .¡, "I •' "Then t&s mystery of atty statement by the BrAish Admiralty as to the operations of British submarines in the Bal- tic was cleared up. Our boats are I a.cting under Jfyissian* orders, and report to the Russian, and not to the British AdmiraH-y, and it if therefore at the discretion of, tho Russians whether any account of their doings is made public at ali. We will have, there- fore, to be content with the knowledge that the Pom mem has probablv hoonunk and the Ioltke temporarily disabled. A point of even greater public interest that was touched c.n was that of the number of Ger-' man submarines sunk, whose losses have not been reported. It is the public impression that the Admiralty is keeping dark a long list of U boats put out of action in various ways. Mr. Balfour now states on behalf of the Admiralty that there is an element of uncertainty. That is rather an anti-climax, with a smack of bathos about it. I't is of course extremely difficult to say under many circumstances whe- ther a submarine has or has not been sunk; and the Admiralty prefers to err on the side, of caution in not accepting. circumstantial evidence as conclusive.
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i Om' insular position brings with it oertein military advantages of immense importance to us, and indirectly to our Allies, but never- theless seriously detrimental to the efficacy of our military intervention on the Con- tinent. We have, for one thing, to keep locked up iu these i&lands, where they may never Are a shot, a great home defence army. vWere wo gjfogpwphically part of the Con- tinent, we could send it all to the front, where it would be the best guarantee against invasion. As we live on an island, it is prac- tically put out of action, ahd the enemy has so many men off his back. Moreover, if we draw troops from our Colonies and India, we have oil the other hand to lock up in oversea ga-nriison duty a very large propor- tion of the. men we draw from the Dominions and our Indian Empire. Moreover, the Turks at the Dardanelles and in Mesopo- tamia, and to a certain extent in Egypt, draw off from the Germans large British forces of the first quality. Germany's mili- tary trade iloi at present all export and Con- tinental we have to provide armies to meet the horn) and oversea demand. And home and oversea there is either no fighting in progress or none that directly. affects. the Germans.
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The entry of Bulgaria into the war on the side of the enemy represents a failure of our diplomacy at Sofia. This is not sur- prising, as in the game the dice were loaded against the diplomatists of the Allied by the circumstance that King Ferdinand and his entourage are essentially German and the Entente Powers, unlike their rivals, could make no promises without regard for the interests of Serbia, Greece and Rumania. In permitting German and Austrian officers to supervise war plains, Bulgaria practically "cuts the l painter," unless at the eleventh hour the ultimatum, leads to the expulsion of these obtrusive guests aiming to repeat the same tactics as brought Turkey unwillingly into I the fray. Should the worst happen, and Bulgaria, under the direction solely of a pro-German King and Court-for a meeting of the Par- liament has been vetoed and neither Press nor public under the state of martial law proclaimed is permitted to -give expression to the national- feeling—decide to oppose in arms Russia, her liberator, and Great Brit- ain, her consistent friend, the immediate consequences may be awkward for the Entente Allies, but less so the ultimate re- sults. An attack on the outhern frontiers of Serbia, concurrently with an Austro- German advance via Belgrade, might be <trave, more especially if a passage through the forty miles of mountainous country be- tween Austria could be "forced before any other Balkan State was in a position to move effectively. As to this Rumania comes at once into the picture. For it can throw the whole "weight of her power at the crucial point, if so disposed, which she is, though embarrassed by a Ministry playing for safety. But Greece is pledged to ccme to the aid of Serbia, her Ally. Her co-operation, how- ever, can only be tardy so far as Serbia is j concerned. But it will be of enormous value to the AllIes if the grouping of Bulgaria with the enemy renders expedient the transfer of the attack on Constantinople from Gallipoli to a new front with Salonica as a base. Our Foreign Secretary's assurance that an ex- peditionary force of not less than 150,000 men will take the field in support of Serbia, in the event of Bulgaria proving a renegade to her friends and allying herself, a Sclav country, with the enemies of the Sclavonic race, indicates the increasing importance ol the Balkans. For from this side a stunning blow may be delivered against Austria; jusi as Germany may suffer her mortal wound in France and Flanders.
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I A "salient" is a military term that has be- come as familiar to the public in this war as "Outflanking movement" in the South African war. It may be defined as a wedge of territory driven into a position: and its value depends upon circumstances, for, it small in extent, it is more dangerous to the men holding it than to those into whose lines it has been protruded. The Ypres salient, which was natbeued out iu the fighting at the end of April in the German poison gas attack, is a case in point. It formed two sides of a triangle, and the enemy at the apex could fire down both sides nld could also deliver a frontal fire upon the fides dld take them in the rear by firing asrrws the intervening ground. When a, great force of artillery can be brought to bear, such' a pla-ce is speedily made too hot or too expen- sive to hold. When the salient is broader, these disadvantages do not apply. The battle line in France forms two vast salients —one French, and one German. The French salient is bordered on the north by the 'sectors of the Aisne, the Champagne, the .Argonll(-; Verdun (its llPcxianèión the east by the heights of the .Meuse, Lorraine and I Alsace. The German salient is bordered on the west by the Belgian. British and French sectors of Arras and the Somme; and on the south by the Aisne, Champagne and Argonne. The apex is near Noyon, Su,oh a disposition is not at all favourable, as a break iin the lines at certam points menaces the rear of the remainder. A break through near the junction of one of the sides and the base of the triangle is extremely dangerous to the whole of dt. The French advance in Champagne, if continued, I would cut off the whole of the Aisrie, Somme, Arras, and probably the La Bassee sectors. It would compel a rapid evacuation of the territory enclosed in the triangle by the Germans. Similarly, a German thrust at Noydn Would split the Allied Arm¿esinl, twain if earned otA. The British, and a porMon of the French would be thrown back on the Channel ports. A German break through between Epinal and Touil would compel a French abandonment to its fate of Verdun, and of the Argonn? and Cham- pagne sectors. The Germans &eem, however, in no case to deliver such thrusts, either near Noyon or in Lorraine; and the French attack is ppoceeding steadilv, '): '> A salient on g. smaller scale is tbà.t es{;a¡1 lished by the Germans at St. Mihiel, across tbe ,t footing on the heights | west of that nter* It is the Velic 6f a blow aimed at tli e..seveyanco of the southern I communications of the French in Verdun and the Argonne. It severs, as a matter of fact, I one of the two railway lines that serve the I fortress and base of Verdun, but a western line runs into, Verdun through southern 1 Champagne and the Argonne, an d the pos- session of St..Mihiel is of no particular mili- taxy value to the enemy and not a great deal I of an embarrassment to the French. It re- presents a success too incomplete to be stra- tegically important. The Ypres salient, aban- doned by the British in April, was, on the other hand, of no particular value of any kind. Sentiment probably dictated the re- tention of a position that, as events proved, was not tenable against a resolute envelop- ing attack. British and Russian military methods differ in this respect, though no dis- paragement is implied to either. The British attack, which reached as far as Hulluch and Loos, south of La Bassee, was accompanied by another attack north of La. Bassee, which came to nothing. Had that attack succeeded, another salient might have been established to tho north of that town, which, wedged between two salients, would have been turned into a salient itself. The threat to it is from the south only and therefore less serious. It has to be recol- lected, by the way, in considering the fight- ing now in progress, that the more im- portant of the two battlefields is that in- Champagne. A complete French victory there would have resounding consequences that would nullify the effects of the British check in Artois, and whilst the converse mi,ght be held to be the case, the greater magnitude of the French scale of operations offers the better prospects of an important 8UCCeS!'l. success. Poland is an example of 'a salient upon the grand scale, and as a result of its geo- graphical envelopment by Elast Prussia on the north and Galicia on the south, the Rus- sians at one time thought of holding the line of the River Bug, and the Niemen, which -runs roughly south and north across the base of the Polish salient, and would therefore compel the enemy to make a fron- tal attack-at every poind. The Russians, however, abandoned this plan and sought, but vainly, to hold Warsaw and the great military zone of concentration between the Polish capital and the Pripet Marshes. Sfhould our Ally win back to Warsaw a^gain, (lie position-will be less dangerous, for the enemy's offensive power by that time will probably have been fatally weakened. There will be plenty of time to discuss that stra- tegical problem when it arises, because a series of battles will be required to put the Russians into a position so favourable for attacking Germany as they occupied in April. e A
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The national Labour recruiting campaign has had a splendid "send off" from toe and ve are sure that its in- auguration will be welcomed everywhere, and that in ail our cities and towns and villages there will be a keen emulation to take a hand in the good work and to ensure a ijrapoirtionate response to the call. The Na-oional Governm^.«t, we are confident, have done well and wisely to taiko the responsible leaders of British Labour as fully as possible I U, Z xtl. miti- into their confidence with regard to the miLi- tary sitiiation: As a member of the Joirut Board remarked after one of the recent con- ferenoes with the Prime Minister and the War I ,ter ar? d the War Secretary:—" When we get our own men to comprehend the facts in the sama way, the Germans may as well begin to gather up eir'tools." The leaders of British Labour have been among the most persistant oppon- ents of the view that compulsion is necessary I either for the replenishment and mainten- ance of our fighting or for ixfereasing; our supplies of the munitions of war. They have stoutly ad »red to their liefinthe adequacy of the volutttairy system to meet all our needs both at;home-and abroad. They now -have the chance to put their belief to 3: practical test; they have been iriven the fullest possible information for shaping their appeal to the workers of the country; and witn characteristic British grit andaelf- aoniidenos they hav set forth upon a great vT-ampadgn, in which they have the smo&po good wishes oi: evefj* patirotic class and iy m tne nation. > The urgent heed of men for the fighting line is not, however^ the only problem which demands -attention. It carries^with IL, as t: a wnole country now realises, the need for an ever-increasing supply of thoae munitions which akne can give our gallant soldiers their chance to meet the enemy on equal terms. We WaGlt more men and more muiiitions. And we want more money also. It is iu this last .requirement that a plain duty is set before f> exy member of the OOID- munifcy, man or wuvian, rich or poor, old or young* As M: Steel-Mai tland, the Under-Secretary far- the Colonies, has re- minded-irus in his vigorous speech at Bir- it i:, jus*. to essential that we should husband om weans as it is that we should provide men and munitions for the success of our great cause. The sooner we take stock of our position the better for us all and for the country. Everyone must save as much money as is possible, even if, as Mr. Steel-Maitland said, it be only to put the savings into the bank for future use. The income of tho country year by year has been estimated at some two thousand millions; and of that sum we used to save, in peace ttines, somh 300 millions for invest- ment in <fe^opittg> countries abroad. Now, as the result, of the requirements of the war, instead of finding clirselves 300 millions on the right side at th& end of the year, we ax- 600 or 700 millionoil the wrong side. We have to find funds for a vast volume of im- ports,-and we neeætbese imports at a time when our capacity to pay for'them by cor- responding exports severely reduced by the dislocations of tradio ,which the war inevit- ably causes. As the struggle progresses, the fa.te and fortunes," as well as the duty, of the individual becomes increasingly merged in the progress of the national cause. In all things, and not least in our personal ex- penditure, we mui t think less and less of self and more and more of the common weal. Every shilling set By for the "rainy day, and, above all, eve,ry shilling diverted from the purchase of foreign imports to the main- tenance of British industry, is a shilling gnined towards thavic.tory for which we have not only to. light, but to labour andlto saVe. ————— < m )——————
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The military correspondent of the Mprn- ing post,no mean judg-is convinced that the situation of Bulgaria is the result of a German miscalculation. King F. erdm- and and his pro-German entourage find themselves 'in the because of commit- ments made some Vreeks ago, when it wa.s blieved in Potsdadi. and the belief was transmitted to Sofia, that the Russian armies were broken bevon.<f Tepair for iriany months, and that the Anfjpon the Western front were effectively ,<if»kmated. Furthermore, ■*fao$t Greece^ sb»t>}V pt the Raiser is ■ the-n of ttieldjng sovereign powers, be trusted to remain. passi ve. All such. calculations have been upset, j The Russians are either holding up the in- vaders or pushing them back and develop- ing on certain fronts such powers of offerit- sive as to place substantial bodies of Austro- German troops iiv jeopardy.. And on the Western front the Allies, instead of tolerating a sfeafemate, are with greiut determination penetrating line after line of the German trenches. Jotfre and French are biting deep ftnd along a broad front into the German field foriiffcatioaj?. Complete suc- cess sought for by the incessant attacks would involve the s-eveywice of the German commu- nications and the sterioue disorganisation of, the German arrangement for supplies of food and ammunition. The Allied aviators, by their attacks upon stations, railways, and munition stores, M'e lending meet precious aid. It would be absurd to anticipate, a con- tinuous advance on the Angio-r rencn line or the absence of in occasional check. But the main thing to keep in mind is that the Allies have- now the initiative and that they are pounding a way to Success. The Ger- mans realise the danger of a break through their lines and ate hurrying up troops to stiffen the resistance. As no man can be in two places the same time. these reinforce- ments must come from the sorely harassed armies in Galicia and Russia, or from the army assembled so overpower Serbia and win a way throtgh to Constantinople. If the mad scheme favoured by King Fer- dinand of Bulgaria, is launched when the Austro-Germans have not disposable the half-million required to effectively supple- ment the efforts of Bulgaria, the latter is liable to find itself assailed on three if not four sides, with the Austro-Germans still a far way off. King Ferdinand of Bulgaria is playing a "lone hand aii(I a desperate hand in op position to the overwhelming body of public opinion. Bulgarian soldiers, rbped in by the recognised official authorities, may yielr obedience to a dictator, but there cannot be enthusiasm for a war that sets the Bulgai against Russia or Gi-eat Britain, since thr former emancipa #d Bulgaria from Turing oppression and -riie other has consistenti} worked for the f-ecdoni of the Sclav. Kinr Ferdinand will tnd heha.5 an unruly. tearr to drive unless he knuckles down t6 tlir hard fact that the Bulgars have an iii- vincible objection to be harnessed with thti several centuried enemies the Turks, or t be arrayed against the armies of -Rusp;.a their liberators. frd,n1 Turkish oppressor The obstiiwT oi Ferdinand, a Coburger. i- breasting the full tide of Sclavonic feeillif is likely to cost him his throne.
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A misreportisi burglary .-—Thieves brok into a Mount peasant residence and had rich haul of a,haiin of lump sugar! The British a.iain defeated the Turks Kut in Mesopota mia. They made the Turk kut amd run, but. it may prove to be a case c kut and come ag-qin. !I Overheard a.t Swansea cafe. -lst girl "Don't you think there are just as got fish in the sea as ever were caught? 2n girl (pensively) I don't know. But the. are smarter, anyway!  )  -< >  < $ *< t A marriage arranged between two Belgia refugees at Swansea is leading to endle,- complications, for the parents of the bridi groom are dsn Belgium,-and their assent i essential according tt) the Napoleonic cod. The Petrogrs d correspondent of t} Times says:" The news of the brilliar success of the TVefich ;,nd English Armie has done more to hearten the people an the (Arcny than » iv otlier events since we b gan our retreat from the.Ounaiptz," JA didn't knov.* the Russians: f Jffick4ld so muc over thi" THTWHC^ affair.'
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"I used to feed on boneS/ess him," said Smithers wit,h a groanv bsit now a lucky dog i am if I get a Some people arL, f toy. A Swansea councillor yesterday found sixpence in Fisher-street. Now, then, whose sixpence is it ? Nearly a record was created at Swansea Pqlice Court on Friday. Five magistrates were. present to hear three cases, the business of the court lasting ten minutes. A Cardiff architect, visiting Swansea recently, declared that the two-storey dwell- ings were doomed. Afll the modern villas of Cardiff, he said, are on the one-storey pmi. ifri Supt.. Ben Evans had an Irishman's rise at the Neath Police Court on Friday. The de- fending solicitor in a motor-speed case fre- quently addressed him as "my friend, Sergt. Evans. Said a, defendant at Neath on Friday: "I have been driving a car for years and have never even been cautioned for furious or dangerous driving." To which the clerk quietly retorted, You are lucky then." As showing the extent of the Charlie Chap- lin craze, one of the candidates for the cham- pionship, in the person of Willie Regan, of Landore, has already been engaged at a good salary to appear next week at one of Messrs. R. E. Jones' Cafes in Cardiff. He is only 12 years of age. From the Docks.—"Don't you talk to me like that, young fellar. If you only knew arf the trouble ,g I've gone through you—— Yti!s, an', if you only knew 'arf the trouble as is in front of you, 'ole son, if you don't shut your face-" Pass along there, please." The most embarrassed individual in Swan- sea. this week-end is a staid business gentle- man who is kept. occupied in receiving con- gratulations on the announcement that he was a heat winner in he Charlie\ Cll-%Plin competition at the Empire. Similarity in the name is the cause of it all. the name is the cause of it, all. We reproduce the following from a Cardiff piapetr in dignified tiJenœ T.llg of motor-carss, said Jones, do you know why the letters C Y were adopted to represent Swansea?" N, I don't," replied Smith. Well," said Jontss, they are the first two latter* of ,u-. -c.ty¡nr.t" which is a young swan—-see!" j A young woman found a bag at Swansea the other day containing a £ 25 cheque, a half- sovereign, some silver, and other articles. On i retmniug the oa-mle to the owner-, living nearly a.mile from the centre of the town, a, reward of Is. was given. Subsequently, on a second visit, the finder received another 15. Honesty," etc. The announcement made by the manage- ment of- the musical comedy, The Country Girl," which opens at the Swan sea Grand next week, tliat the male members of the company have good and prifficient reasons for not being with the colours, will remove any misunderstanding and is a sensible pro- cedwe.-(" Dramaticus. ") It is not. often that a solicitor applauds his own witness in court, but such an inoldent occurred at Neath on 1 riday. Dr. Tumber, of Briton Ferry, was the witness, and he verv emphatically ste-ted that he perfectly remembered traveling the road and the whole journey, to which Mr. Bevan, the defending solicitor, exclaimed joyously, Hear, Private Reginald Mills is a man. Writing to his father, Mr. W. H. Mills, he said "I have been 'gassed' and wounded. Never mind that; I shall get over it. Let me get ab'therh again. I hope to repay with Ul- tevest—compound." This is the second time Private Mills has been wounded. He caught it hot with the 1st Gloucester* at Neuve Chapelle. The Grocer' s Magazine relates the follower.g: They axe telling this story tn South Wales. ■ A poor old man entered a grocery shop, said in a plaintive voice, Please help It pooT man.' Why don't you help yourself?' sharply rejoined the man behind the counter. 'Thank you, sir/ replied the old chap, and he .promptly annexed a piece of cheese and a smafl.1 Joaf, and proceeded to eat." < f -< -< A very pretty but extremely slender girl entered a Port Tennarit car this w eel: and nonaged to seat herself between two men. Presently a stout, woman got on the car, md the girl, thinking to take a rise out of lhe men, offered the stout lady her seat. "Thank you, miss," replied the lady of 'voirdupois, smiling broadly, "but. which ^en'man's lap was you sittin' on" It will surprise many to know that most' jf the poisonous-look in g specimens of fungi collected by the members of the British VIvcologists' Society, many of which have been on exhibition at Swansea this week, ire really edible. Usually the members nake a "dish" of them at their meals luring their forays. Still; as one member iut It, perhaps it » as will. that the general • vublicf are a hit over-cautious m the matter. Mv. Edward Powell, the well-known solicitor, liasn't been allowed to stop lushing for fully a mouth All the public anointment held by the late Mr. Huwd "Ilthberton. have passed on to him, aud. at 100Hng after meeti«a,' of these public bodies, e has been almost overwhelmeil with com- liments. Of course, all th members knew it was he (and not his late lamented artnev) who had successfully piloted them 'irough more or angry waters for very iany years. Of the long line cf Roman Catholic priests have graced the religious, social and iblic life of Swansea, not one has been held i greater regard- than • the Rev. Canon 7ilson. who has now c-ntered into the that passeth all understanding." His arming personality, overflowing with the ilk of human kindness, endeared him to his How-townsmen while he sojourned and mistered here in Swansea. And this sturdy lampion of the Faith in which he lind- id died—commanded always the esteem of who,, whilst not seeing eye to eye with m in gopie essentials, respected the trans- ■ jrsnt honesty of a dflvout'.Christian. Prrf«pero.") The new president of the Swansea De- vonian Society (Mr. Thomas Robert D. Gay) has four sons doing "their bit" for their country. ClcaminesR is a feature nxyre and more pronounced with county produce offered for sale at Swansea Market.- Even the mussels come up ready washed. The Square and Compass," one of the oldest licensed houses in Lbneily, has closed its doors, the Stepney Estate having refused to renew the lease. The gentleman didn't hear (I ulte dis- tinctly, and when asked if he was a dele- gate (to the Anthracite Association) replied, N°; my friend, I'm not delicate, I come from CwmgOTsc. 'I — "V* ¡' The .St.. Nicholas' troop of Girl Guic' took part in the parade on Saturday, and stuck "t to the last in a trying march up hill and down dale, on roads that arc Swans roads—no more needs to be sa"id. A boy was asked by his teacher: How many shirts can you get out of a yard?" .After a little thought he replied that it depended on whose yard he got into." That boy evidently has a future. "I wouldn't cry like that if 1' were voU." said a sympathetic Swansea ladv to a little girl in the street the other day. "Well," said the little girl, "you can cry any way yosu like, but this is my way." «»"» »»»<». Recruiting sergeants were busy on the sides of the road as the military parade on Sa-turday went by. It was wonderful how ekgible-s sneaked away unobirulively into their" dug outs and shelter trenches. '1 -<?- < x x$x:.   > Many street names and the names of pub- lic houses remind us of the Peninsular and Crimean Wars. Future generations will be similarly reminded of the Great European War. "Ipres" is the new name of a Swan- sea residence in Walter-road. Fighting between two fires is nothing to marching between two bands. The prob- lein of keeping step when the bands are in: disagreement on the question is one for a Charlie Chaplin to solve; it is insoluble by the normal man with but one pair of legs. Prospective Swansea employer (pea-using references): Have you any "knowledge of the silk and satin departments?" Appli- cant: "Spent my Jife among 'em, sir." Prospective employer: "And sheets and blankets?" Applicant: "Born among- 'em, ríÍ.r ■ It will uo doubt satisfy several curious passengers on the Mumbles trains to know i-bat the two. large cans painted with the Red Cross, observed travelling ap and down the line lately, contain Cray water for drink- ing purposes at the Mumbles ited Cross Hospital. > The upline paper that. the I mysterious discovery that the motor car in- dic atian C Y representing Swansea W$ sag- g<sied by "cygnet," might pursue It m- i vestig&tions and inform us whe>hei* K-O- was aHott-ed to CardiS because n is asao<?iated with "gooap." '?>?00-<?<?- The best of und'&rstandine (hl not &xc?  between the Clerk of the Cnurse at the AmmaBford ,ra.cœ on Sat?rdav, and his sturdy little steed. Seqt0l-tii?y :mdden]y parted company. This unrehearsed little incident added materially to the afternoon's merrisnent. l It rimy, of course, have been by accident and not design that a Swansea Docks office boy, in cleaning out 'the inkpot at a.n open window, poured the contents on to the head of a youth from an opposition firm who happened to be passing at the moment. In ¡ any case, considerable activity followed. During his address at Neath recruiting meeting on Saturday, the Rev. Degwel Thomas was interrupted by young men, I who call themselves Socialists. One shouted. ¡ "Why don't you go?" "Ah!" rejoined the rev. gentleman, I notice that the man who interrupted d-s of military age. Perhaps his conscience has been touched." Mr. Bevan, the rising young Neatli solici- tor, closely questioned witnesses at the Neath Police Court on Friday as to the oc- cupants of a car, the driver of which was accused of travelling at a speed dangerous to the public. Frequent repetition pro- voked Superintendent Evans to exclaim "Never mind about that; Charlie Chaplin ,vapn't there." < ??<tX!x ?t- Our cinema orchestras are getting on. One of them rendered last week, as incidental music to a long film, selections from Ricnzi," The Pilgrims Chorus" from "Tannhauser," the prelude to Act 3 Lohengrin," the Cossack > Cradle Song" from the 1812" overture, and a fantasia on the "Valkyrie." A good joke was perpetrated by the myco- logists who visited Swansea last week. Amongst the "finds" was a golf ball. This was duly deposited amongst the specimens of fungi that the members collected. Dr. Ellis labelled it lyocperdon scotium, and the specimen actually deceived more than one visitor to the exhibition. It heed hardly be said that no member of the society was taken in. The genial clerk to the Neath county jus- tices was surely wrong in his illustration of motor travelling the other day. He said The driver might have meandered all the way down the valley and then have dashed like fury past the brewery." Surely the sentence, should read: "The driver might dash !ik& fury down the vaDey and' then meander around the the brewery. < >-? The principal annoyance to pedestrians in Oxford-street, Swansea, on a Sunday night is caused by quite young girls frqm 12 to 14 j-ears of age skylarking with boys of similar ages, and they keep the police constantly on the move. More after-chapel enter- tainments, such as concerts, would obviate a great deal of this incipient hooliganism. But meantime, where a.? the mo" ?hoTs of th?M gLrls?—(" Mark Once, ) girls? ( ,lark On-.ce,, ) In conference assembly) at Port Talbot "The West Wales Federation of Free Churches" in their annual report expressed "dissatisfaction at the attitude of the Chief Constable of Swansea." The only public iii. terest attached to such vapouring is that it exhibits surprising lack of knowledge of life in Swansea in these war days, and further is tactless and presumptuous. When Captain j Alfred Thomas, Chief Constable of Swan-, sea., requires guidance he may commit the Home Office, the Swansea Watch Commit- tee, or the Officer Commanding, the Defence of the Port- He will certainly not heed fussy and interfering resolutions passed by J outside public, bodies even of such eminence as the West Wales Federation of Free ¡ Churches.—("Prospero.") I, iider the Schools Daylight Saving recom- mendations Tommy will get his dinner be- fore father comes home. -<:x< X >< Even small boys are suffering. JL youngster after climbing a wall found his "rents" visibly increased- > 0 <!><!>- The "Welsh American" publishes a hymn tune, "Llanelly," cpmposcd by D. E. Rob- erts, Baltioiorp, whose parents were natives of Llanelly. >-<$ x > <SxS* Last week four lady letter deliverers com- menced their duties' at the Llanelly Post Office, and ar doinn- their work in a most h eir wor k in a m-osti ^atiisfactory manner. A Swanfea man found h tnseif last, week tup' he.t of x-<ins, both boys. More -T re(- i: ,i for Kitchener's Army «S>»«3x5xs><%> The latest Tkldition to cur window "mu- seum"—easily th6 biggest attraction in the streets—is a Turkish bullet taken out of the arm of Private Tom Ford, of 10; Hall-street, Swansea. < X ><  -<  <  -< A tramcar that ran into a dock at Zee- brugge is said to have had "40 officers and 180 soldiers" on board. "Some" ear-that! A Port .Teiuiant tram on a Saturday night must look to its Icttirelst The £ 600 required for the Llanelly motor Llaiielly motor pmbulance has now been secured and the ambulance is actually at the front. I The cost was defrayed entirely by voluntary contri- butions. < t xt><tX  <   On the Mumbles-road last we.ek There isn't a drop "of petrol in the tank," sajd the chauffeur, after examining the machine weOl. Why don't you drive to So-and-So's garage Mid get some," replied the lady in the car. $) Mr. George Fox (Mumbles) and Mr. A. J. Cross (Swansea), two well-known local anglers, had some rare sport in the Bay on Sunday. Fishing from a boat they caught between them over 200 fish, including some fine congers. > 'Impossible!" exclaimed a defendant at Neath. "I could not have travelled at the rate of 40 miles an hour." "Why?" he was asked. "Becausc," defendant replied, "it was wet at the Brewery and the roads were greasy.  Some people have queer ideas of speed. For instance, a witness at the Neath Police Court on Friday, said that the motor-car travelled "like a shot from a gun," adding by way of qualification, we suppose, that it was going at a speed. or quite 40 miles iiii hour. Swansea has long been known as an enervating sort of place. Some say it is due' to the air. Others that it is because the Schools start so late in the. morning. Any- how, the latter are to begin half-ah-hour earlier, so there's a chanee of the ktw-ty point being decided once and for all. Alderman Devcnald cannot by any stretch of the imagination be said to be a humorist. Nevertheless, he is a little droll sometimes, and at the me"ting, of the' ^chool Buildings Committee he set the Íllembel1- tittering when, in the course of many ie- quests by a caretaker, he blurted out, Better give him quit, I should say. A well-known Swansea .man carried a stool yesterday from Oxford-street to High-street Station. He. stopped, to speak to a few people lie knew, and as he knows about four out of every five people in Swan- sea this gossiping took up about two and a half hours; These' little chats were made the more comfortable, a? the stool was in each case used to "squat on" by the stool carrier The. stuff that -heroes are made of! A re- servist soon after the war started signed on' at. Swansea for work with the trawlers. He <rave his age as 48. After six months ser- vice he was injured by a fall during a gale and came home, when upon investigation it. was discovered he was 70 years of age. Upon rnis recovery ho*again presented hiniseli at, the Swansea naval recruitin g office, bedeck- ed with medals won- in previous campaigns, and again volunteered his services. There is a queer admixture of coloured men in Swansea at the present, time, and they are composed of- Africans, Americans, Jamaifcans, and even Mexicans. They b.rought, over nearly 800 head of mules, and after being paid off in Swansea will be shipped back- to the port where they em- t. barked. Their garb caused much amuse- v | ment on 'Change when they were photo- graphed. Many of them carried all' their worldly possessions in their pockets. It was, in a Swansea .street, and a little Belgian woman was wending her way to early morning mass. Suddenly she drew a corner of her apron up to her eyes and wiped them, as she turned her head and i watched a. small boy, basket on head, who j was striding away across the road. Shrilly, 1 and with full enjoyment of the invigorating J notes, he was whistling for all he was worth, "La Brabanconne." That little Belgian woman must have seen visions over the drab Swan:-ta  Swan&ea hou-eto?- Mr. William Samueii, tlie- popular ban- I tone, whose parents reside at Ma-ekwor-th- < terrace, St. Thomas, took the part of Mer- cutio in the opening periormaiife of" "•Romeo and Juliet at the Shaftesbury ,j Theatre, London, on Saturday evening. He ? also one of the singers engaged for the iStLndav evening ballad concerts, which w?ll j be resumed at the Queen's Hall on Sunday, in company with Miss Niaxjorie Firangwn, v Davies and Mr. Walter Hyde. „ i Mr. Bottomley made one obvious slip on 1. Mondav evening He was referring to the changed attitude of public men to himself, --j and said that whereas formerly a difficulty was experienced in securing chairmen for his meetings, now these, like the chairman that evening, were ready to offer themselves. Whatever may be the case elsewhere, locally there was no offer. On Monday last week the representative of Messrs. Crea and Phillips, the agents for Mr. Bottomley. called at the" Daily Post offices and pressed the -editor of the "Daily Post to consent to take the chair at the Swansea meeting. The latter, who was then under the impression that the object was to stimu- late recruiting, suggested that the Mayor of the Borough was the appropriate person to preside. He was assured that his worshjr had been asked, but was unable to assen. beca/use of a prior engagement. In the cir- cumstances. Alderman Davies consented. Some days later, when it be<cam& clear that admission was to be charged for, a fact that caused many inquiries to be made, a tele- gram was sent to the agents asking if any proportion of the receipts was to be allo-, cated to some patriotic fund. This elicited, a reply-c.onfirmed later by the representa- v tive of the agents—that the surpius, after the actual expenses 'had been met, was devoted to the John Bull" Patriotic Fund, of whkh Mr. Bottomley is thf" founds And", ^minitrrriwww.