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At: SaEaic >^ 1? i?a? J?"? < ?''? j;}" ttes w*u. tM??A m.?. rl.t ;¡';Ô!0c'di)'I¡ »•« tbfv -b?? -[osnt-?-. ? -as?-"?' it ?' &*> (..f ?m? ? ?.?"? C. i ? W i? -A?t pM??as  !-? (H t* tfe ?M?? ? t??.??-ms m ??y ?? •tteatee. 1?.. ? .?   through ifef: «MB* ^pan)ius<& :aJÃ oi t, Fiaiacf, Rnssie- aH >>n;d CCU' 1K3X2S os 4iDmb- «BSl hare bad lo explain at length vriy W have not dssn»? mmrai tettiwex i £ rs?a nave ?.?mf., Kod thai ?f ?e d6ing ?ttsi' '??'" jw* aaem ?. ?. P?rci?TLL?? ?s t?s h.. t? mse jLh Ea^JIsaHS,, "wiwae aaye bf»en p?o?dy &?? to banes! mis- ?.p?-ebaBs-m)? <sm-??-?et MN t? ca.s& of ? N l n?ks-c. ? ?s ?3S9 ? ? h;npmnJi Majiestv i4u> 0»a- by 6R 19na (?ide Times"" canMBpondawW <2k& a called .Euglaiad ei st?,. Italy may be assured that tfe moyd viLl p-iss. As to the fust point it should be observed tkmt a mass -of the I kalian peop-Je in thf-, smith have no jaztfcalxr sxraDooty against the (rfi-mgii.;■: but the Aotdawiss are, j arid, tluoHginDUi Italy. always been, tn& j heredinfcsury object os n?.ticiDal «idiinofitj. j Tiat: 0ual interests are not jj the least to be furtbared by an ati-ack upcai Germany: they lie wholly in Austrian terrifcoiy acxiiss the Adriatic. There were ajf/i poiitirall and fi-oisxicia] reasons why thu Italians should nol go gratuitously out of their way, at a tangeoi to liiejr D-aiiral line of attack, to make war on Germany. There Ls. for example, the German financial peue- tiatioii of the coantry s interests; and an Italian in one of tlia monthly magazines biimtly says his countrymen arc not un- gratefoi ior it; German help has enabled j the Italians to develop those modern activi- tie of which they we H) proud. Much of this German penetrativin," moreover, be- gan and ended wit.h the aim of simple money- making, and, advantageous to the Germans, of course it advantaged the Italians as well. .is to the slow progress of the Italians, the lattei' may retort tartly that it is not. for England and France, which have stood still, or Russia, which ha« gone back. to criticise Italian plowness. The pfeographi_ (;al difficulties of the country explain it. In most regions of th<; frontier attack on a serious scale is dimply imi^os- > si'bie. arid the few uineraWe points are fortified to the teeth, and exceptionally j favourable to the defence—in mountains such as those of the Austro-Italian border, for time immemorial a handful of defenders i have held off a myriad of attacker: So tlic great Italian advantages oi a be.L,v nu- nK-rical .superiority, of a very great artillery cumasiiioii .sapenori^y of vigorous!, youthful troops, have been Us>§eiy neutralised. We British have fought in mounitainowg country in Gailipoli. Oqii, fr- perimoes shotild ry;oilf-; ,iii, as to the rate of the Italian advance. True, mountains did not stop the Austria^ns and Germans in Serbia and Montenegro, but that is another story. Our Allied armips have yet to do what the enemies' have done, As to Italian refuel to co-operate on any other fronts than those concerned with her ov.n interests, an Italian again might remark with terseness and force that it is better to be Fupertluouwly strong at one point the important point-rthan to be too weak at half a dozen placcs, only one, o!' them vital to the enemy. And, as we have pointed out before, the Italian war reacts directly upon the Russian front, a no upon that alone. Counting the men* engaged and i In' f t- 1 11- the losses, fit. least half a. mrlh« •> ie be"t of the Austrian* have been t.i'ien on the Rusfiians hands. Without It. would not improbably be nearer Kief and Odessa to-day than Lemberg and Czs.y- nowitz. With Italy off her hands, Austria would have been able to face a renewed Russian offensive in the corresponding ssa- son of 1916 with far greater confidence than she can to-day.

The Cologne Gazette laughs at the heated efforts of Britain to fight •aga-.nst German trade. When the war is over, it says, our merchants will welcome German travellers in our towns, and German -in our poits. It is one of the 11 aJduciuations of the Teutonic mind that after the war Germany will dominate Europe, hut that, with this difference, economic relations will be as they were between her and the Allies. The Germans, who stand apaxt from the civifced nations in their fiendish cruelties*, cannot understand that the people of the British Empire will never take the hand that sank the Lusitania and murdered Edith Cavfl). With honourable fries we have fiver been ready to make friends, and Jet by-gones be by-gones. General Botha is a. living testimony to this spirit, which lias built up the givatness of the Brit:<s]i j EmpiTe. We could even shake hand& with j the Turk. Ifad it not been for Britain. Turkey would have disappeared from the hiap of Europe in the nineteenth century. The Turk, like most other people, does not Snderstand the memMng of gratitude, and is record in Armenia is a terrible one, but he Otbomcm is tAught from his youth up $mt the ;;daymg of Chr?tians is no crime. ? ig, however, unlike the Germans, clean ?nd fadT j5ght?i\ and as ?uch we can respect i rn. N0t 6.0 with the Roches, arid at all casts they must be shut out from our economic life and development. Comnwru aJ cuacses are t prone ? put prc-nt be fore patriotism, but ?v mu?t be prevented from dm.ng l.ha. Th?ro ? ?tt? doubt they M'e doin^ th;A very thmg now in furnishing huge supplies of food and other good s to Denmark, Hol- land, and Sweden, which, it is known, find their way to Germany. British shippers are upplyiiig these neutral countries with mAny times their normal consumption of txxwa. It is difficult, if not impossi ble, for tuir Government to prevent Scandinavia from drawing supplies from America and else- where, but it could prevent our traders, British or ajien. from supplying food for Germany, via Denmark, Sweden or Hol- land, Strong Government measures are neces- sary both now and for depriving Germany of after-war trading facilities in the British Empire. It is upon the commercial privi- jeges aire has enjoyed under the British flag that Germany lias built up her aggressive Tnilitaiy st«rength. We must not permit her h) do that again. The war has raised the qinesti^11 far above the pros and cor/s of Protection'-st formulas. We want a reformed banking system more acces?ib? to rornmerria! enterprise.; sy?t?m?ti? scientific nT'tfan?'?"'? ??? rese».reh: ?nd the rceap- ?;t? .f Jotl -n'!u»+.r;P5 -? t 'i.- mfta? t??!?, ;f' r¡r.¡'t:f' t:'lJtntt(;:r:' ?<a?.?oaa6!??' _%5.pa.et, much :ill, d-?|«nd individual e.iitsgj prise iiutia- bet, must change the old policy of v%om^ ooÙQn and on Uè psrt *?!<• Btt." H all, \1r. Ru-aoixnan has said., :i1"t ta to it that h xviv jf (v1dd the \Vl" x"ctorious?y.v We da not, gn;t> Geff«ta»y ». of mjonswatji- her vammercial '"Ustsaaay ife&s b.3tp.r fw war for yaars," T the tnttfe of this stale- meat* »dva»s<?d ikos.+ai^d Un<2 siuee Au-- Mi is uaiverssl R is t;, wtitfassi aeraas £ urope iu Jesters el blood Aad generations the bavc cheiris&.eii dr-ewtrus: and wckM S» st» good$hni th jahsaKf,* is used to oxc^jse milv- '»; fai?.»v^s it » time to protest JSuah I if to be atti-ibed soldty to « ottlpcJUta ??Mf't".? ?? H!&t??!?? cr f.? do^ .:J I l« £ >fdersj5iv>» tvkicb. more dd?c?t to avert by ')?'?<. V hfrs a. prolonged epidemic of criaMe breaks in a city/and its pro- grtKss is jcwlswtac! by lti»cnfa»bly incom- petoct poHca force, cilxEtais vaold cam- pl-?ent ?e chie? c?ust?b? aad W&?h Com- M???e or th?? hih ideeb of liujiuvr. m?ya, :!?t!s wh'ch !?d ?hcm t? d?y that 3n.?b<?d? ccuM pc?tMy be ?o wicked m to phl tha commission of rubbery llièd morder, but I would rather seek to turn tbeax out as in. eompetaafcx and a civic danger. It was the business of the Uftvaaau. Arniy to beat France pnd Bi>ssia, It was the bueinues of the Freucti and the Ra^ia,- arm- to Km! Oer- nif.ay, Tiieee objects havo been tlieii" 1)1 « justifleataon fur existence for forty yeiirr-, uiJd a" the Gen'^ns have been preparing for that period !'o have the Freuoh a-nd the Ruasiana.. Wheji the plauae is eisrniued, tedinioally, there is auiasingly iitfcle in it io the way of advantage to be securer by any Power bent on winning world dcminence. To begin with, the Germans are not using forty yetu* old personnel or materiE.), There has been no steady cumulative collection of men and equipment for four decades in preparation for The Day." The Germans have simpiy kept.,81 army of certain proportions in ex- Ltanoe, with a certain amount of stores, re- newing both, in a certain proportion nn- nually. There was nothing particularly alarming about the scope of their prepara- tions in time of peace. They trained fewe1 of their annual contingent than the French did. They maintained in peace a much smaller army than Russia, and not a, particu- larly larger army than France. In point of Army Corps, the French had 2U and the Russians 27 (in Europe, 10 mere in Asia)- total 47; Germany, 25; and Austria, 16— total 41. In point of numbers of men the German Army's peace Austria's. 315,009; Russia's, 1,400,000; France's, 600,000. The figures are difficult to give with precision, approximately, but these totals afford a good idea of Compara- tive strengths. In paiiiv of mousy expenditure aigain, Germany was not particularly prodigal, in •comparison with her rivals. She spent in .1910-11 (the year of Agadin 37 millions ",?.): ? V}a9?M'? .? and Rua?i?.s 55: A?tna. ?p?ttt a mdŒt 14m1llio118aJf Ðl'i:taift'S1 expenditure. In resped of naval expendi- l ture, that of Russia before the war actually exceeded that of Germany. In wlmt respect has Germany sho wn teclmical superiority in this war? She seems to have mobilised her reserves far inate quickJy and to a much greater oxt-ent than France did at the out-1 set. or Russia; but that again is a matter | of peace time organisation, and presumably I the French and the Prussians provided for j an expansion of their forces from a peace footing to a war footing, and the utilisation of their reserves. As a. matter of fact, at a very early date (end of August, 1914) we hear of the presence of French territorial (reserve) divisions, under General I)'Amade, near the ocnftemptible little army" of Sir John French. Russia, on her part. did ini- prove her own reserve organisation! after the Japanese war, when the reserve troops were put to the test and found want- ing. So there was nothing G'eiman about the idea of .utilising the re- serves. As a matter of fact the French had nearly as many trained reservists as the Germans, through the latter only training a smaller proportion of the annual contingent come heore the r.?oruitin,g boards. Germany s superiority in heavy ordnance, tion (which ran out about Christmas), the tion (which run out about Christmas), the provision of a far more efficient aeropiane service than was ever suspected —all this is simple efficiency, proof of superior foresight and insight. --k Again, the French and Gei-rmn Staffs had for many years oast thrashed threadbare, the problems likely to ensue m the event, of a war; and the time and tlr., occasion of that war were essentially unimportant, for the problems wou^d be i?.?t the same what- ever year the Franco-German war broke out. The chancre of a German irTupt?'n into France through Be?ium, and the strategic .effd of such a? an expedient. must have be.en discussed to the point orf exhaust ion by the French (Jenera! Staff. How slight are the advantages of making war at one's own time. when one's oppo- nent's forces are efficient and novmaHv a'e.rt, is well shown in tl)e Qase of the British Navy. Our Navy had not been preparing to make war on Germany for forty vpars: i.t "s doubtful indeed if it ha.s con- sidered the German Navy as a serious dan- ger for more than ten years. Yet, when +1,e Germans chose the moment in August, 1914. for snringing trouble upon Europe,• the British Navy was ready so were the French frontier corps. The bare facts are—and thev are ciedr'ta ble to French -and Russian military eiffciency—that though Germany was the aggrassor in the war. it was German territory that was first seriously invaded, ia .Alsace and in East Prussia. What then is the secret of the German successes ? Iyargelv it has been a ouestion of generalship. The first clash of arms along the Franco-German frontier resulted at every jxnrt in important defeats for our Ally, from ('harleroi to Met.?. A^ a. result the Firmc-h were rolled badk to the Marne, I to avoid worse things, aind though the Ger- j man invasion was there checked for and all, the invaders, on the other! hand, wfpre no more than checked, and were not ex'vislled. So fM as questions of materiel contributed to the FrencJi mlsfc<rtun.rs which led to a shedding of j ^eneralls like leaves in these j' were matters in which our Ally had had f]. fffT- cha.nce to put herself on a plane with, the enemy. There do seem to have been defic ieno'es nid | negligences, whoce origin 1iS prcbahly to be 1 traced to-the ixilitie-d sv?tem. with its -nd- less*, clianges of ministries, "ts quarrels that; echoed even in the rant-3 cf the officers, the rabid "1111 fatuous nacfi^t "gi- tations that obtained in France to a degree incredible in a country with her exoerien f and her warnings, and whose effects could not be shaken off .in a, day. Franrv may well find that she suffered terriblv from he? politics, a.s England suffered from htrs. io wbo?. i'.?..?pstber??\")s ).u !t I. 1 h, t.. "t't!' t G up to the twelfth hour itself. German -uc- cesaes in tnp early stages of fht? war are to be a.Mnbut?L le?s to fDrty years p!<epaa\v tion tlla>n to superior unity, eiffciency, fore- slghi, and pi-^iy.Ucdilesa on well-thought, (Jut .——————— .—————

Except for the week-long attock ùt>liv6!d by the CWrmanst rsgeiust fetors of the Allied front in Frao.ee R-sid Flanders the purpose of which pus-zled the military critics, since the efforts were too local in ex- tent to suggest ft cerious attempt to effect a penetration—there hee been an ai ntcet «iit:re absence of Mghting in every theatre of the war. Four of five miles away the writer, on Saturday last, heard the furious can- nonading w?oujid Ji'daû with which the iained combat ended, with results that, can only be conjectured, so conflicting have II. .•<?r ial reports issued from Paris 2nd jJei'lsn, This strange pause in hostilities is doubt- less in Far-, imposed by the clim&fcie condi- tio.ns, but may also be accepted as an m- dieation that the belligerent Powers are now j.<reoccopied chiefly with preparations for ib. a impending isupre.me» trial of strength in the Sp!?. n is cot?worthy tb:?. ?a A??' ?'?'?'c!? M'e ?mg l?!t nRdis?'-tx? to coRso?'' date positkvi at Salonika and amiable "M. 'I at discretion tne joint torces aee:ae« neces- sary for whatever plan of action has been determined upon. We may he sure that if the Ceutra? Powers and their Allies could hare struck effectively the blow woul d been delivered Jong before this. It is reason- able to believe that difficulties have heM. experienced in handling the ill-matched team of Turks and Bulg&rs distrustful of one an- other, and both utterSv abhorrent to the Greeks, whom the Kaifer is anxious not to provoke into intervention by being brought into conflict with hereditary enemies. The lend attack on Great Britain, whether oirected against F^vpt or Mesopotamia, also hangs iire. At all events, little is now odng sdd of a German thrust eastward at the vital parts of the British Empire, The Turks have no great stomach for an Egyptian ad venture, and it is doubtful if the Austro- Germans can spare the needful men ml guns to render it really formidable. And Bulgaria, having attained the objects de- sired in the defeat of Serbia. ard the occupa- tion of Macedonia, is likely to prove an in- tractable and exacting customer in any fur- th-er dealings-the more so as Salonika, the prize which would be irresistibly tempting, is already bespoken for the Germanic Powers, and constitutes an esssntial part of their grandiose scheme for practically appropriating Auia Minor. The task de- volving upon the Potsdam war-lords of re- conciling Turk with Bulgar to secure their joint and harmonious co-operation in i- ro-i moting Germanic ends is not an enviable 01: c, nor that of keeping both Greece and Rumania out of the field. In the Near East there are the elements for a general flare-up capable of happening with dramatic ui'expectednc.ss. It us unquestionable that the Entent Power- are looking forward to the spring with confident anticipations. Decisive re- v and if itiese are not cb tained the disappointment will I>io gTesft:' K is not necessary that these should be got at the first time of asking-. But the general offensive at the selected hour along tha whole front should at least be sufficiently fruitful to. indicate a definite turn in the fortunes of the Entente Allies on land. The. expectations entertained a year ago were not realised. On the miitrary, it tmni;pired that the winter preparation" of the enemy had been more t'horough and successful than those of the Allies, and by reason of the latter's deficiencies in munitions and equip- ment the Russians had to relinquish their gains in Galicia and were driven back bo- yond Warsaw. The long-promised great push through in the IA (2-st ivas deferred month, after month until the late autumn was reached, when it failed, not because the German lines were impenetrable, but because the Germans brought up their reserves promptly to fall upon and decimate the gal- lant lewis, who had accomplished all they had been asked to do, but at the crucial stage did not receive the support essential to make good their gains. The "all but complete yjctory" has become a painfully familiar feature of British war operations on land. Mr. Gibson Bowles, a supremely able man. and in respect of the laws of sea- nower about the best informed and compe- tent ot judges, argues, with characteristic vigour, in his magazine, "The Candid Quar- terly Review." that a wholly wrong direc- tion has bees given to British war policy by politicians who do not realise the truth that since the days of Elizabeth this coiuitry lias won all its wars on the (-a. To him a wholly unnatural and mischievous twist has 1 been given from the British standpoint to the world-struggle by concentrating na- tional effort ■ mainly on a land war instead of Ullig sea-power the main weapon of offence. Mr. Bowles insists that the fleet, though fettered and shackled by the juridi- cal pedantry of a Government of lawyers incapable of using the naval arm adequately, has y" et won our only real successes in this war. According to him. despit-e the enor- mou* forces gathered for land warfare, there:, have been no victories. The truth as revealed by the map leaves no loophole ior doubt. "It is terrible to look at. After eighteen months of war it shows Germany and her Allies still holding all Belgium and a good j piece of Fiance, to which she has now added all Poland and a good piece of Russia, all Serbia, all Montenegro, and ali Turkey, while she lias so wholly out diplomatised and out-manoeuvred us in the Balkans <1.'1 to have gained the armed support of Bulgaria, the open friendship and secret, assistance of Greece, and the probability of at least a similar friendship and assistance from Rumania. Brussels, Warsaw, Belgrade, Gettinge. and Constantinople—five capitals -have fallen to German, aritis or diplomacy. Our own troops have failed to break through the German front in France and Belgium they ha.ve been driven back from Serbia into Greece to h 11 baek on Salonika as on another Cormma; they have been driven back from Bagdad to Kut el-Amara; they have been withdrawn from Gailipoli. These are the brutal undeniable facts shown by the map," On the credit side we have succeeded in South Africa, thanks to General Botha act- ing independently in the Camero.ins, t' k to the ability and resource of the Wavy. And we have had—also thanks to the Navy —a success in New Guinea and ^im ng other Islands, and as auxiliaries of our Japanese Allies we have succeeded at Ki,,a- -C.ia.ii. "But apart from these the land has brought w nothing so far but reverses. In all the great theatres of land warfare we have had many failures and no successes." Mr. Bodies writes as an impassioned partisan, convinced that national efforts are being dissipated on land which. if made at pea by a. navy i-?deemcd fr?m the cr:ppling restraint;, imposfd by thimcky politicians, would batten a victorious end of the war. He is t?r the iolentle?s. ua? of nea.-pow?.i' to cut off all supplies to Germany regardless of tho protests of neutra ls which have tcJwpated the violation agpiii and again of their i | sovereign rights by Germany, and are un. [ likely to carry refistsnce to the milder II measures of Britnui beyond verbal re- monstrance. As to whether the judgment of Mr. OJ-ibson Bowles is sound or otherwise is a. point that must be deferred vntil we know the outcome of the mighty wrestl e on the j land promised for the spring. History is most emphatic in its pro- Jjouuoeunent that the occupation of terri- tories ia not necessarily a sign, of victory. Napoleon, with nearly all Europe subject to hip sway, found his power crumbling away. It is the sscend.Biicy astabiished at the close when the fighting dene which resolves the fate of on*my ooAupied countries. If in the spring and ea.r" ■srftnmer the Entente Allies demonstrate; their superiority in tangible fashion, we shall be able tu con- template the inap complacently, having the tem, plata the mar) CI O full assurance that success at the main fronts will lead to ? readjustment of fron- tiers altogether satisfactory to the several countries constituting the Grand Alliance for the beating down to the earth of Prussian militarism, which for decades has been a most sinister influence menacing the peace and liberty of the civilised world.

I The splendidly parctical and helpful work which the Y.M.C.A. has done throughout the war, both abroad and at home. received a well-merited tribute from the Minister of Munitions on his recent visit to a great centre of war industry "somewhere in England." As Mr. Lloyd George said, the distinguish- ing characteristic oi this struggle, as com- pared with all previous wars, has been the I manner in which the nation has looked after its troops in the field. In the more remote theatres of war in which British forces have been operating it has not always been possible to keep supplies and comforts up to the "concert pitch which prevails on the Western front. But there, at any rate, where the bulk of our fighting foroes are as- sembled, the material conditions of the life of our soldlers. have been studied down to the smallest details. Never in warfare were soldiers so well fed, so well found in necessary supplies and supplementary comforts, so well cared for in health and in sickness. At the front," said Mr. Lloyd George, I never met a sol- dier who grumbled' and everyone at home rejoices that it is S'" If no army ever was so well looked aftar, no army was ever called upon to face with their human flesh and blood such an appalling array of the monstrous machinery of modern warfare. The best that we at home can do to lighten and facilitate the tremendous task that they have on hand is the lea.st that we ought to do to recognise their gallantry and self-sac- lifice. In all the official work of pir-ovidixig prac- tical comforts for our expeditionary forces and for the troops in training—to say noth- ing ol tlie many unofficial and supplementary tasks which the military autliorities must ne- ('earily leave .in civilian bands- the Y.M.C.A. have -borne a most useful auxil- iary part, ajid the large measure of official favour that they hi. v e gained—after some in- itial delays and difficulties-is proof positive of the esteem in which their klbcars are ?r la f ,,<ur,,? are held by the heads of our military organisa- tion. the scope of t hose labours is now be- ing extended from the back of the front" and the home training camps to the muni- tion-works areas in Britain. Mr. Lloyd George's visit to the area, which, so far as the censorship permits, we have specified above, was the occasion for the inauguration of one of the familiar Y.M.C.A. huts, which is to be used as a mess-room for scm- munition-workers. As the, Minister of Muni- tions said, it is hardly less important for the munition worker than for the fighting man to be kept fit and cheerful and well- fed. The work on munition? is, of necessity, car- ried 011 under very trying conditions. persons, quite new to the work, are engaged, amid constant noise and, frequently, con- siderable heat or other discomforts, upon labour demanding a high degree of concen- tration and precision. Inevitably, the hous- ing accommodation is stall short of the new requirements in some areas, and the alter- native to overcrowded or cramped quarters is a long waJk or journey to and from the works in the late evening or early morning. Clearly, there is a wide field here for the further development of the systematised work of the Y.M.C.A. If their labours to improve the moral and physical fitness of the munition-workers are crowned with the success which they have met among the troops they will have doubled the, debt which the country already owes them. I

———————— ———————————————— Ii The Swansea Battalion has lost more officers and men so far than any other unit in the We-Ish Division. Arc yon in a group or a, class? All tlie "class" men arc in the "groups." what- ever the War Office may say! Is a man who expects a pacific outcome to the German-American blockade controversy t-o bf,. c?atl(-d ai3. Opt,illil st 01- 1, P, .-Ini i t ? to be called an Optimist or a P'?inn?t? A defendant at Swansea Police Court on Monday wanted to know if anyone could tell him how to pay a £7 debt out of 30s. The problem still remains unsolved. "Closing the public-houses at 9 p.m. doesn't seem to do myoId maOl any good." remarked a district Lvdv in the train on Monday. "Last Saturday he drove the horse Ifbme with the nosc-lmg (111." The 6th Welsh are now officially described in the casualty lists a, the "6th (Glamorgan) Battalion Welsh Regiment (T.F.)." An- other novelty in the lists is the "22nd (Welsh and Wessex) Rifle Brigade." I Do people remember the old song about Grandfather's Clock with the refrain, Stopped short, never to go again, When tha old man died." The author, Mr. Samiuel Lucae, has just died in the Sta.tes. The church-going record of the late Mrs. Thomas Phillips, who died at Swansea on Saturday at the age of 93. will take a lot of beating. The Rev. W. E. Prvtherch, I pastor of Trinity Calvinistic Methodist Church, says that for 87 years sh e had occu- pied the same seat at the church services. Swansea Battalion ha6 at, least one grand- fa,ther in the ranks—rejected Pq too old for the A.S.C. but accepted for a, combatant corps- More power to bit, elbow He was one of the best; known of tbe old Swansea cabbi'* in th" days of antiquity when the growm* reigned supreme and the t-euxi was undreamed of.

Ihe story the shell- that landed in a local dug-out had magnified to the wiping out of two- divisions by the time it reached 4,ertaiii at The Rev. B-enjamm Evans, of Bethel Chanel, Manselton, can sing as well as preach, and no member of the choir entered more heartily into the singing at Sketty on Thursday evening than he. or looked happier. Moles are the bane of Gower farmers and a price is put cn their heads—or tails, to be correct. -The farms are overrun with these pests and lads are employed in numbers to catch them. Twopence-halfpenny is paid for each tail by farmers. I» »■ With .proud sorrow Swansea folk read of eaoh fresh casualty in their "own" bat- tial-,on,-r-t,he 6th and the 14th Welsh. It is not to these fathers and mothers that the Union of Democratic'Control and their likes can ilcx,k to o rhope .for support. Some of the raw local Derbies were drafted straight a,wa,y into a company with- out knowing how to turn right or left or being initiated in the mysteries of "dree- ing," and "coveirng off." We would like to have ween that company when the first I order was given to parade. We have received the following from a St. Thomas man oldest son, I believe, is a born poet. He isn't much of a speller, or much of a haiiid at sums, but he's a second Bobby Burns aJ, poetry. Here is a I sample My uncle is a funny man, He comes here e\ary day. 1 He drinks our beer until he's full. And then he goes awav. —. (Passed by Censor). The sad news that Lieut. W. P. Hinds, of t,he Royal Welsh Fusiliers (London Welsh Batt.) had died of his wounds, received "Somewhere in Fiance" on Saturday last, was a great shook for t8t- people of Carmar- then, where Mr. Hiiiii., -was brought. np, and where a large number of the family still live. A sister of Mr. Hinds, by the way. lives at Swansea. Xot a million mike; from Pon Tdbot a young and very new member of the force, having answered the telephone, startled the officer in charge with, "Please, sir. you are wanted, 091 the 'phone by the 'cobbler' of Aberavon!" "By the what ? Hvith starts- ling einphasit,). "The Aberavon txibbler!" The police station "Pom" smiled joyfully when a second demand found it. was the "coroner" and not t.he "cobbler. There was almost some booting The fond Swa-nfea parent had been im- pressing upon her son and heir, aged seven years, not. to fight on the way home from school with the other boys, but to count 1CO before he struck a. blow*, and then his temper would vanish. One day he came in all bespattered with mud, and other traces of a "scrap" on him. "Didn't I tell You to count 100 before you struck" askctl his mother. "I did," was the reply, "and while I was doing so Willie Smith done this." •<S>-<!XxSxJxs> Motto for the Foreign Office Ham across the Sea.! Does I.L.P. stand for "Independent La bour Party" or "I Love Prussia" ? The Gaiety chorus girls are being provided with benches, upon which, in iiitei-Nals of leisure, they may rest and indulge in plea- sant converse. Most of them, however-, pre- fer a handsome country ftea.t. Sir Edward Carson, K.C., in the Slingsbv Appeal talked a bout one baby for seven days. This fea-t has been, however, far surpassed by many a fond mother. -"Thè Passing Show." The Baptist World (America) ,tat-es:- In the mighty stress of this great war Mr. Lloyd George seems to loom larger and larger on the horizon. From the first he seemed to realise more fully than other English leaders the magnitude and solemnity of the great crisis. His magnetic addresses de- livered all over United Kingdom seem to have done morsi than anything else to wake up England. To him was given the task-at a very late hour—of organising the war programme at its weakest point. David Lloyd G eorge stands out as tlv; most force- ful and commanding figure in the public life of the British Empire. I think [ will join the Navy," said an elderly Chinese cook near the Swansea shipping office. Ila ba: laughed an American steward who had been shipmate with him. "Oh, you need not laugh!" reported the Chinaman, in excellent English. "I belong to Hong Kong, and am a Britisher, and am proud of it. And what's thaii t.hq?t. I Nvaruli-ooni cook of the Iron Duke. the flagship of the C?ma Station, from 1880 to 1883. ?o put that in your pipe and ?moke it." And' then you could have heard a snowdrop ■ I A-mechanical transport driver now "Some- where in France" sends us the following joke: -One of his pals had just come out- of the trenches and retired to the nearest vil- lage and entered the local barber's shop for a shave. The boy in the shop lnthered and lathered for twenty minutes, "when in came the barber, who had been celebratiug a French victory and, in plain English, wa* "three sheets in the wind." He picked up a raaor and commenced to scrape away, vocife.rating "Vive la. France$ Vive, I' An- glltITe Together we will give ve Ger- man swfne-heads 10 ye dogs." Tommy. added that he had had some narrow shaves 111 the trenches, but that one was the nar- rowest of all. The new Welaii comedy, Machan niawr i. by Dyfnallt. has just been performed by a party of local dramatists at Stepney gall, Garnant. Thas was the first time for the comedy to be produced on the stage, and the performance—which was in every way exce considerable in- terest. The comedy is arranged in three a; the hero being an old soldier who served in the Zulu campaign, and whose enthu?ia?m has been kindled anew by the present war. The plot ulD1inac< in a fine climax when the oM soldier consents to the marriage of his only daughter to a yourag I sold ior who won the .C. for bravery on the field of battle. ft is a simple and natura l story, brimming with humour, and every incident telle to the ran of every day life. "It's gf),iug to "00 make or break, next time. says a Swansea soldier lwm on leave. i.ni-e cii Cl a vil Pontardawe has to the Black Moun- tains for a further water supply, a :< bo. cv-T )ji d No wratebed Saxon ought 6YeT t? "y and pronounce L<"tan€y .?d ih? H?' ?? Templ at the ?? ?:;f=ea Albf?'t Hall. ?'-<  -<   >«' St. David's Day, March lt, the last- day for the, slacker w such. Hence- forth he 13 to be—well a trained man. h We 've got, there beat, but they don t know it." Swansea soldier on the enemy. Same opinion with the Germans regarding ru:, In the making of Zeppelins, the ha by- killers have now reached lass L. Surety, even Huns do not desire further degrad a- tion "I have wont t.h?e tronseh," jd the old Gov'?r farmN'. "at 32 funel"Ü, 21 weddings, and Lord lcnow how many christenings: and they be good yet." I 4 I confess," said the Rev. W. Temple, M.A., at Swansea, that 1 like to address a meeting on a wet evening because I know that thase who come do so to listten. Tike two men of tite Svansp,, Battalion. Smithajn 3,nd Lumsdaine, killed in their dug- out, worked together, joined together, and did together, and were probably buried to- gether. They were ifrst-class men in every sense. > ♦ A candidate for the clerkship to the Gowerton Sc hools Group, rendered vacant by the death of Mr. J. donas Lewis, is Mr. .1. <r. Ind. clerk t.o the (jower Council and <ruardiaai;s, who is much esteemed down Gower way. +-a 3 t i:8I W}Ù:h do you despise the more (writes a correspondent) the man who ;n a crowded t ram car stubbornly declines to give up his seat to & female, or he who does so grudgingly and griintyling t-lie wliile' it up! The many lr j ends of Dr. Lloyd -!ones, kf I Langland. who is medical officer for a por- tion of Gower, will be pleased to learn he ba.s recovered to m a serious illness and subsequent operation, and will resume his dtit-iez, forthwith. on tli,, late ,\1:. Samuell. Swansea "He had a fine voice, much imisVfil instinct, and a remarkable power of characterisation. His early and lamented dentil cuts short, a career that warranted the highest expectations in opera- tic success." One of the <x-6th Welsh, now in the R.A.M.C., France, writing home, say., "We all IN,k forward to the arrival of the 'Weekly Pu'st.' I get mine about every Tnes- day. We love to read the Bag (Pot Rap) i and joke about them all day. The nial- garine question w?s a tickler. A Swansea fireimfi said that during the • submarine,scare in the Channel, if the chief j engineer, who was an Irishman, -wanted ->M- j other knot out of her he used to poke hi* head into the stokehole and nay :—"T he- lieve there is a submarine astern Then, In than fhe minutes, she would be blow- ing off steam. Lord Desborougli (writes Pro Pstria i who is. of course, a GrenfeU and a gallant British suorteman. who has already lost h:s i eldest son in the war. says this about Home Defence: If offii-ial recognition be giveii to the Volunteer Training Corps, I will j undertake to present the country w;th a force of a millon men." He can count >a t.he Swansea battalion to a man. A cavalryman on leave at Swansea came direct home from a, sap which he and a fellow-comrade (both bombers) had been left to hold by themselves, the remainder of the British troops having been withdrawn ag the sap was undermined by the enemy and they were expected to blow it up any mo- ment. The bombers were left hehind ill cae the Huns decided to rush the sap with inrantry ]1\ piaoe 01 oiowjug 1 lIj." ♦ <S» ♦ ♦ Economy" (Swansea) writes:—" There; have been several references in your 1 Pest Bag column recently to war-time economy, j May I be allowed to record a personal experience. In your market the other even- ing I saw a poorly-dressed woman buying beef-steak at a butcher's stall. It must have cast her any tiring between a shilling and Is. 3d. a lb. and at the same stall a stylish-Hooking lady was investing in a pound | of tripe, marked 6d. T daresay the latter had the better of the deals in every way." Every Thursday Afternoon. No matter the month. Or the state of the moon. ¡ You can bet yonr bottom dollar. 1 Your necktie and yout- collax, j "Twill be very wet on Thursday afternoon. < If it's fine in the mom, And quite sunny at noon. You can bet your war-time savings. To a bag of paper shavings. That. it's "pouring" every Thursday after- noon. If a-walk ing- you go I You "11 find these word* a boon), Just you listen to this "fellah," And take your best umbrella. For you'll want it every Thursday after- noon. NOAH. LITTLE." Dr. Campbell Morgan, in his Swansea sermon, mentioned that on a visit to Glasgow he was staying with a prominent official of that city. and noticed the official stationary of his host, which bore the city's coat-of-ajms and moHo" Let Glasgow Floun?. On expTC&sirg his viev that the motto smacked of a pagan ideal, his host explained that the motto had at some pre- vious time beeti abbreviated—the reverend doctor's opinion was not abbreviation, but inutilatl,,ii- -:tiid that the old and original motto was Let Glasgow flourish by the prea.ching of the Word." Glasgow's great- ness had. in the doctor's opinion, been built up by those who had steadily k<'pt in ?iew ti? principles contained ?nd exprtWd .;n j the city s motto. ^nd what of Swansea's motto? j The women of IJangwm (or L an gum. as it is locally srielt) who successfully struck ajgaansi the high price of butter at Ilaver- fordweet market—are a ifne, handsome race, and in ro need of any suffragi^-t agitation, for they are mostly the better half in every sense of the word. It is an old anecdote of Langum that when someone said, "Betty So-aaid-so is going to be married." the sur- to be tlw r prised reply was. "What Can she keep a man?" Langum women can "keep a man" by their own honest labour iu the oyster fishery and otherwise, whilst the Lan- gum m&!? v-ork? a.t the dockyard, ?-;Jku)g to a.ud fro daily, a journey of many miles Most of the ??t?op!€ in L;mgum arc rcJated. and at &uc time they we,-? so cla-ni?h th?t if anyone dared to T?)?,rTV outside the charmed circ? there was » general lisin; a.u.vlns* the tliei,e Leiip-ral thL- beautiful voices, and when pr??riy ?'?iu?d' ma.k.e sweet singer*, 1 Court News."— my gel. wo cur< go to the pieshurs this week my ole man's bought firewood." I Certain parte of Gower arc being denuded j of trees for the sake of its timber. Kil- j rough has been in the hands of the wood- cutters twelve months j The initial Luswi by the G.el'mMl. i with a number, on their Zeppelins, signifies j Lu.ft.?'hj?." or "airship"—" L 19 j Airship 19." L" signifies ?'UDten??' bunt." Underseahoat." The rev.iLtleman iv.r?tc? a correspon- dent) who prof"N' U, ha?c a preference for addressing gatherings on a "et night in tbe belief th3?t k) who come d? ro U- hsten might also recall the saving: "Any port ia a storm." "J am leading here the newspaper, remarked the man with the frayed collar, "that um society alone has sent. 260.000 bachelors* butLons to th? tren?hep. Wh bless m;. heart, that is more t?Mt I use All? whutct?'?Y?io?jith?.' It is announced tiiat "^cquah," th? no- tot'i?]? quack, who. when touring England some years ago yiiwd Swa-'?ea and caused much commotion, hM. died ?nnilesa in Johannesburg at the a,ge of 72. He mada and spent a fortune of a million. ..41. j Heard in a Morriston car. First soldier' s wife: I had a letter from J—— and he says I that they have got the Boches safe enough, Second soldier's wife: of fortune, Mary Ann. what the dickens did you waaift | to send iiim hrooches for safety pins are the best whatever A Swansea youth observed the other j night "Thu,, re not going t" got me mide» the Compulsion Act. I'm going to voiun- teer for the Navy 1 oon't want to do aiiv fighting." ffaj q. bluejacket been in the vicinity there would haH been a "certain I liveliness" to report. ."A** There has died in Australia M[. '.Tfor?e Titheta<i e, th? acK'r. who ?-hile m (i?l- eutta was selected because of his excellent voice to read the Proclamation of Queea Yictoria as Empress of India. His daugh- ter. Miss Madge Titheradge, has appeared -it Swansea Grand Theatre A Swansea man who ha a been reading about the strenuous the German work- man does "his bit." is reminded of all oppor- tunitv he once bad of seeing them work oil Rebuilding in a Rhenish town. The way Tt which thev strolled fround their job would have, a Swansea foreman convulsive spasms. A Rhonddait.e. whilst waiimg to cioss th, N• ;rth l'ktd, Bridge at Swansea with k best gitl. watched a big steamer passing through the kicks with interest. Presently a blast was :>unded 011 the steamer's whistle. cried he. "that's the killd. of buzzer we w ants ir cur house to stoi* Duvcy John from hsing ipiartcrs -eo-4" Tb? Hen. ?Hss Elaine -Ten id is. es ladv chairman of lie, ilid .\iiinibi?s way*. Ltd.. carried through lie: duties .:4i '?'t.'r.?ay'-? nft??' .in (n<if? t?? bu?in<?s style. \[o'€ovei.?t'ws<\f;ypte'<lsa?& about it. With good dividends assured, there was certainly prospect of having t<t face angry sharcholdei-s. -If.. "sot. since, the outbreak ej v ar have Swau<« sea streets been .?0 crowded a" en Saturday last. And it is to be record e d with prida and I-ii t?: il)at su,-Ii tll,?I 4)I armlets and munition workers' badges that all doubt is now removed a.- to the part Swansea <1110 its neighbourhood are playing in the greatest war of all time-. a- » harbour- master. has been writing about the very prerrlent belief that moonlight affects meat, and he makes the interesting statement that mooned fish is not sate to eat." Sailors and others believe that to go to sleep with, the Moon shining full on one's face is dan,- gcr<'us. <)nd may evoi b?d to blindne?->. The late Sequah when he A?i?d Swan:-? used to drive about in an open carriage, smothered in furs, with a huge sombrero hat. and one hand glistening with rings hanging negligently ii)i-er the side. The number of teeth he pul'hd out at the old Richard son-street drill-hall should have kepi# local chemists busy for months afterwards.. An old sailor with a wooden leg caused much amusement in Wind-street on Satur- day night by saying: "I have tried the Army and got the chuck. r tried the Navy and got the push. Why not have me for a. ftecond Nelscu I could stick mv wooden leg into a wash deck bucket and give orders fion the poop, just as old Nel used to put. his loose sleeve through the lanyards of tha mizzen rigging." A little yellow ticket is being issued ati Swansea tn letterpress on which begins > De Tipperary (lub is nu open voor da Belgische Yrouwen, elken Wocnsdag. Von 2. Tot 6." This is not a sentence in re- formed spelling, but ail intimation in Flem- ish that the institution ir; question will be pleased to extend its hospitalities each Wednesday to Belgian women. O ♦ ■> Who is the youngest coroner in Wales? M, Lewis M. Thomas, solicitor. Port Tal- bot. is only 35. and had just attained that nge whcH he was r'0entJy appointed coroner 4 for the Mid-Glamorgan district-. A striking I coincidence is that both Dr. Lloyd and Mr. Lewis Thomas are old National School pupils of Mr. James Nicholas, the present headmaster of the Port Talbot Central Schools. Old bovs of Bishop <jiore's Swansea Gram* mar School will learn with regret of the. death of Mrs. Emma. Young, widow of their headmaster, the late Rev. John Young, M.A Of a retiring disposition, the de- ceased lady was highly esteemed by her huftband' s pupils, and old "Grammar ducks will pleasantly recall the winsome smil ea and graceful greetings received in response to their salutations.—("Prosperc.") »•>»»» A request te the East Side parents of the late Lance-('orporal Chappie, of the Swan- sea Battalion, for Lif; photograph, revealed the fact that the dead hero—they are all heroes, these lad.- of Abertawe—had written home stating that if anything happened tq him his photograph was not to be published. Naturally the wnsh has been honoured. All Swansea must thrill with pride at the way these gallant, unassnmin? from, the old town went to their de'?' country- town went to their deit' hn r country. The late Dan Leaio o. t-hi'ul memory defined eggs as new-laid, tvesl:. shop, ai-A- well. eggs. Swansea has been favoured of late with a succession cf revues, the most modern form of entertainment, and a con- sensus of opinion of the audiences assembled agrees that a, few were of real artistic merit, pleasing to the eye and grateful to the ears others merry raid bright, and satisfying; while some—and they were among-sit the most pretentious—were frankly- disappoint- ing. For the rest, they were-—weil. revuee. Further bookings. in regard to retuiu visits, will be regarded with iuiere&t. «—J "Drfttnatiftnsf. "A