The Cambria Daily Leader

? ? ?  '?  LElFRS SOLDIERS' LETTERS. The following are from a batch of letters that we have received during the past few days from soldiers—all men. from. South Vh ales—now at the frout. Each letter has been passed by the Press Llanefly's Cause for Pride. Writing from -Setlev, Larico-Crrporal George Hewitt. Llajieily. oi the Koval J Engineer*, says: No praise can be too! high. far the good work which has ben canied out both by the Pvüyal Engineers and the 1th Welsh. The people! 0; Llanelly have good raason to be proud cf them. A good many have unfortunately fit lien, but theirs was a noble death,! bich ought to inspire more of those tvlio Bail lag boh ind to rally up and avenge' the death of their fellow townsmen. Their j ;p:aesha..e got to be fille-d if our gooÜ narna if; to be maintained. I had the i.■'IortiItio to get wounded in the knee by fihrapnel, and was brought over to Eng-! land. We get woli treated hero in every r-spect. There is another Llanellyitc in tiie next bed to mine, so we are quite all right when we speak Welsh to each other. It is a source of great amusement to the ether chaps in the ward. A Eact!sss Skier's Dash in  <> .u'Drk.u "ù I Sapper T. Haydn Daniel, Llanelly, who I i. s attached to the Royal Engineer-s, in a lt-tter We have done some useful work 6ince ?-e have been out here, and I am now at the base having a rest. Vie aTO playing tii waging game, and later we hope to ijpe the lurks off the face cf tho earth. They cannot face t.ho bayonet at all. One night, while our section were •elccp, abont fifty yards from our head- quarters, some terribio firing was heard 81 along the line. it was about two o'clock in the morning when I was aroused by one of my mate-s, and itist then someone jumped 011 tov of us, shout- ing, np, wake np; riii( bavonet, Jtendolier. Come ctuick" Up I got with- out my boots, and ran across under a shower of bullets. How I got across I don'*t know. "\Ve all, however, laid down in ex- tended order, waiting for the Turks to come. We could not see anything; it was too dark. We waited for about an hour, until the firing was over, but no Turks came, 60 we went back to our dug-outs again. The following day Turlrish reinforce- ments were observed coming over the hills. Field and naval guns opened fire; upon them, and they were almost com- pletely cut up. The troops out here ure in good spirits. As I am writing now < he shrapnel ie exploding about thirty yards away, but we are all under cover in our dug-outs, which are shrapne1-proof." Liancily Man's Letter to His j « Wife. Driver I.,wis Evans, Royal Field1 Artillery. St. David's'street, Seaside, Llan-' 61.1y, wciting to his wife from France, j where he has been seen sineo August, of last year, expresses the hope that he will shortly be home for a month. "I see," writes Driver Evans, o. that t.he dl il cl:sii have had a. bit of bad luck but they havo only undergone the ex- perience of what wo had out hero at the start, bll t. thank the Lord, we are noti having it half as had now. You Eay thaf ■jwiie StviMfla toys have' gone under.' It is hard lines, but someone has to go. 1 must say I am or.o of the luckiest men en e-^rth, and I have some-thing to be j t.hankful for. I'- ;s a pity to seo this! placs now. Thousands have come out here never to return." Driver Evans writes with delight about) j having met his cousin, Private Harry Bvaus, Llwynhendy, at tho front, while watering his horse, and proceeds to gay: "li(\ told me ho had some cake in his dug-out, and I am going to nsf-ist him in eating it. as cake is regarded as a hizury in the trenches. We are both in tbo samo part of the line, ^o I will be able to see him often. I am told there are a. few other Llwvnhendy boys here as well. When I met sny.. cousin, thoughts of home were roused within me, and I could rf flit,, young fellows who L-xva £ 'iveii their Lves for the dear old Gag." LSancHy Bay On His Fallen Comrades. Bandsman W. J. Walters, the Llanelly Rugby half-back, who noted as a stretcher j bearer with the ith Welsh at the Dar- danelles. and is now at thia Red Cross Hospital, SoutLeandown, writes:— A good deal has been said about t66 splendid work done by the 4th Welch, but I do not think it has been exaggerated, because they all seem, to have done their j best. Colonel r-raxawell Jones did pot spare himself at all. After being tal-eii to an old farmhouse quito exhausted, he wanted to returu again almost irnraodi- ately, but his condition would not allow it. The stretcher bearers flie 4th Welsli were complimented by some of the Staff Officers of tiie Welsh Division for their geod vx vli. Since I was brought bak to Malta 1 have received nothing but kindness from everyone. Whilst stay- ing at Valetta Military Hospital, I met Mr. Denham Jones, of Ystradfai, Felin- 1001, who was on duty there as a member of the City of London B.A.M.C. I was moro than pleased to meet anyone from near home, aad I shall not forget his kindness. I also had the privilege of speaking to Lord Mothuen at the above hospital. He was very kind and consider- ate to the wounded. I was taken from Malta to Castleigh Clearing Station, Southampton, end was transferred from there to Splott Hospital, Cardiff, and now I am at a Red Cross Hospital at Southern- ??°.' where the utmost cam and atten- tion is being bestowed upon the patients. We are twelve patients, but I am tbA only one from the Dardanelles, the others hating been to France. The work of the .hcd Cross is truly marvellous, and cannot be too highly spoken of. It is very sad to j think that several of illY comrades have failer bnt there is the consolation that they au, to do be^t lor their j (country. J I Britonfsrry-Australian Drives Home the Truth. I I The following letter has been received by Mr. Robert Williams, of Waters-street. I Britont'erry, from his nephew Dan, an old! Britonferry boy, who left JorAustmlia a few years ago. IIo is in the 7rb Infantry Brigade of the Australian contingent, and after bin¡ wounded at the Dardanelles, was H:nt to hospital at Abbas?in in Egypt. He writes: I suppose you have heard that Jim (his brother) and I are at the j front. Yes, we are doing our bit/ and j are proud to be able to do it. This is the time when a man can show what he is mada 01. There is no better way cf showing your worth than by serving your country when it. needs you. It would do I goniy of the cold feet lot a bit of good to see some of the poor men here who j have given up all so that they could help to uphold the honoar and freedom of their country. I have seen a thing or two, but there is no finer sight in the world than to see the wa.y our poor lads bear then gashes and wounds, and without com- j plaining. Thev come up with smiling j faces every time. Those are the sort of men wanted here, not the able-bodied men who stand at the public-house bar with a pot of beer and a paper, discussing what they would do if they were at the front. Let them come and have a taste of it. There is no finer experience in a man's I ¡ life than to hear the roar of the guns and the whizz of the bullets around you. I em pleased to say our Australian Army has a good percentage of Old Country! ,;o of Old Colinfi,l' men in their ranks, but our little Welsh j ) country can claim that, she has done the best in the way of sending recruits to the front. Every company that has left 1\ Australia, has its little band of Welshmen, heroes every one of them, who can be trusted to Tipliold tLe honollr of their, country. Mumbles Man and the Tanta- I lising Fly. Asking that any mistakes in his letter 1 may be excused, as the Turks are pep- pering a battery about a hundred yards from us and we anxiously await the result of each shot, Private Clifford -Morgam, of the R.A.M.C,, writes, in in- teresting strain, from the Dardanelles to a friend at the Mumbles—his home:— "We were awfully hard worked the first week or two, but things have im- proved since:" he continues. We came a.shore a few days after a newlanding had been made, and you can imagine what that means out here. I don't suppose we had a sound four boursJ sleep the whole of the first week! However, we've had a week at the base to compensate—that means a bathe every day or a wash, any rate. Still we hare the music of shells whistling over us even here. You should 600 the flies here; it requires a jolly good training in sleight-of-hand business to get any food into one's month without chewing a dozen of Jem, especially when jam Iii on the board or, rather, biseuit! Still we are quite jolly with it all, having plenty of food. etc. The servant girl in the dng-out gets an occasional row for not shaking up the feather-bed su&Menth'I It's wonderful' (what « chap can put up with though, [ such as sleeping on the ground with a waterproof sheet and a blanket. Things move very slow'ly out here, andI we are only able to glean a little of what I goes on in our own particular area. The old-fashioaed notion of R.A.M.C. work has been knoclced clean on the head. W Q have carried chaps one, two, or three miles from the trenches to the beach, where they are shipped off as soon as possible, no injure d being kept her. It would hardly do, either, as we hai-e had them for c. few hours on the beach, and the poor fellows have been shelled before getting' into the boats. We work under the same difficulties, of course, but after) a while one gets used to it. Turks Like English Tramps, I They say there's a Peninsula P-,esq somewhere in the place, but it's not in our portion. The captured Turks I have seen are able-bodied locking chaps, though dressed similar to a good old English tramp. I don't fancy they bother much n?out equipment, mther. I I have several Leaders ? out here, and they are much appreciated in our villa. By the way, it's called Ivy! Cottage, as we (four of us) are such stickers to it when the squib? are flying around." The Silent Voice and the II Stilled Hand. In the course of an interesting letter to a il friend, the Rev. Connop Price, son of a late vicar of Llandilo, makes a touching refer- ence to death of a Llandilo boy in tho f Dardanelles. He say's he could fill many pages with the stories of heroic deeds, but they had probably read of them in tlio | papers. It filled one's heart with pain and sadne«9 to hear of the death of so many dear old pala-felioivs they hid loved from childhood in many cases. I will only mention two," he saya. "Tou remember Douglas Robotham in our old Llandaff Cathedral days. What a beautiful voice he had, and how he used to fill the old cathe- dral with hie exquisite solos. A nicer lad and a finer man and officer you oould never meet, so beloved by his men. ITo and his company of the 5th Welsh Eegiaieni got into a furious corner of the fight. He went straight on, never flinching. A bullet got him in the forehead, ,trd the dear fellow was dead in a few minutes. Sergt.-ilajor Tom Davies, from iJandilo, in the 4th V,"elr-.h Regiment, i3 the other. He was a splendid j fellow, ore of the very best. Ho and I were old bell-ringers it ray father's parish at Llandilo 25 years ago. To know him was to admire ait.! respect hfm, and his men adored him. Tie went straight on into the thick of it, and was killed instantly." The rev. gentleman, who went out as a chaplain, has been forced to return on ac- count of hia eyesight being affected by the heat and the slaif*. I Soldiers Have Rare Sport in Ducking. Sergt. It. Higgs, whose home is at Be-ttw?, Amruanford, writing to a friend, says:— We are fired at daily by Turkish guns, and I' we have some trouble in keeping the men in thair dug-outs. We have beoome eo ac- customed to shell fire that wo all go about quite headless, even when the shells come whizzing over 113 uo one takes any notice j whatever of them. It is wonderful how men do escape. I Twice we have been shelled while bath- iug- in the sea,. Yon ouehl to tee us all go 1 ing hcada down and heels up as the shells burst over Lis. It was rare sport, very ex- citing, and to me the more the excitement the more the enjoyment.. One day a piece of a J¡¡,ck Johnson' dropped only a few yards from me while I was drying on the boach. It was quite hot when I picked it up. In an attack on the enemy's position," Sergt. Higgs, who is a splendid marksman, adds: "I advanced to good cover, from where, I am proud to eay, I dropped a good number ol the Turks. I fired about seventy rotuid3." ————— i Gorseinon Crack Shot Comes Home. Corporal Ben Hughes, of the 6th Welsh, who has been on active service "somewhere in Franca," returned to hie home in Goresinon on Wednesday even- ing. In an interview wich oar represen- tative. he 6.atd that, as a time-expired man, he was home for good, and in the I usual course would get his discharge from ) the War Office. Corporal Hughes, one of Gorseinon's crack shots, is 48 years old, and has served continually for 28 years in the 3rd G.V.R. and the 6th Welsh. Having been on active service in France Tor 11 months, Fix of which wer& spent in the trenches, he has come to the oon- clusion that every able-bodied single young man rhould be out there doing his duty for King and country. The 6th Welsh Battalion, under the command of Lord Iviuian Stuart, are a fighting force to be reckoned with; even Corporal Hughes improved his shooting rr-oord out there. The men, he says, are all in good health and in fine spirits. In Lord Ninian Stuart they have an ideal commander. ILis last words were Tell the young men of Gorseinon from me to enlist in their country's cause without delay."

A NEW KIND OF "FIRST-AID- I NOVELTY FOR LOVERS OF DUMB ANiMALS. I Quite an interes-ting novelty has ade II its appearance, being a "first-aid" oint- mont devised especially for the cuts, ) spTains and skin diseases of our dumb friends. It is really Zam-Buk with all its well-known healing properties in a different or stronger form a.dapte.d for horses, dogs, sheep, cattle and pets. Veterinary Zam-Buk, as it is called, is I I j reddish in colour and is sold in red packets as distinguished from the green packets of the ordinary Zam-Buk. It is a little cheaper than the household pre- paration, in that it is 'not affected by the. new war tax on patent medicines. It is really a fine healing, soothing and anti- septic. preparation which has evoked a chorus of unstinted praise from farmers, stock-keepers, fanciers and lovers of pets. General Botha's famous charger was cured by this Zam-Buk of some obstinate sores which veterinary surgeons had treated for some time in vain. In the farm-yard, stable, kennel and poultry- run, Zam-Buk provides for the first time an ideal and handy Vet.

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Large shoals of whiting are reported off the Sussex and Kentish coasts. Payments of income tax in the half- year ended Thursday total nearly £17,000,000. trwioe as much as last year. Lady Roberts has urgently appealed to the stewards of the Jockey Club to help J her in obtainiuc race classes far cfuyeia.

CHEMICAL WORKS FUMES I Pontardawe Medical Officer I Reports on Complaints. The Pontardawe District Council met on j Thursday, Mr. John M. Davies, J.P., pre- siding. Tha Rev. Evan Davies moved that progress be made with regard to the report II which had been received relating to the additional supply of water located at Bryn- uchaf, Iiia-ck Mountain. The rev. gentle- man said that the report was a very satis- factory one, and he considered that boring operations EhouJd be commenced at once, as the Caegui-wen Ward had .£160 in hand from the estimates of la.st year. The motion was agreed to- A Drastic Lighting Resolve. In the minutes ox tha Finance Com- mittee there was a recommendation to the effect that the sum of AC47 2s. 9d. be de- ducted from the account of the Brrn- ajnmam end District Electric Supply for inferior lighting during the past nine months. This was agreed to. Alleged Noxious Fumes. Dr. W. J. Lewis, medical officer of health, reported that owing to complaints of alleged noxious fxmw* arising from thtt 1 process of manufacture of acid at th* Pontardawe Chemical Works, he had visited the place on September 2&th. On that day there was no excess of irrHatiag gas in the works. The effect of the funw on animal life was more annoying than dangerous, and the discomforts soon di&. appeared on habitation, whilst its action was very disastrous to vegetation. In üw immediate vicinity many fruit and orn&- mental trees seemed to have been VflW outright. The proprietors had supplied him with a statement giving partioai*ES of the process. The fumes condenser through which the gases were first introduced proved to be too small. A larger eon- denser had now been erected, aDd. had proved entirely satisfactory. It was decided to send a copy of ffee medical oiffcer's report to the Ckemdcal Company.