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CANADIAN 1"61 A N  a p a i ,I i-\ ). U .11 '1 t 8 ¡ i  1 '11 rlii I'Ll 0 I I n m i PaniaMt Kouse! B a Ù  rl I 0 n Fife. I I tj,  PREM[R'S DASii Foili i   LIFE. | i Sersiian Plot Suspected.! j The fire which imperilled the! Canadian Houses of Parlia- ment was got under on Fri- 1 day morning. The damage is estimated at five ii)'Il* is est- -ti?-at e 1 1011 11 dollars. b Che Times late edition publishes a message from Ottawa, dated Thursday, j etating that the Canadian Parliament Buildings are burning down, and it. is j irarod the magnificent structure AVill be completely destroyed. The House, was in session, and the mom- hers had a narrow cscape. It i« feared at. the present timo there may be Joes of life, either among the mem- bers in the gallery or the staff. j A loud explosion took plaf-c about an hour alter the lire broke out. Fears are expressed the fire may be the work of German sympathisers. PREMIER'S NARROW ESCAPE. One of the Members Reported Missing, j Ottawa. Thursday.— A fire broke out. in Parliament Building to-night while the i Ommons were in session, and the build- j ing is evidently doomed, j Mr. Burrell, Minister of Agriculture, 4ind.Dr. Michael Clark were badly burned, J and Mr. Loggie, member for Northumb'^r- land, is missing. Mr. McLean, one of the last members to i iJe&ve. says: The appearances indicate an incendiary explo-sion. There was amplûl -warnin- to thosp, in the building, but in the confusion incidental to the hurried j exit of members, several were overcome by i he smoke. Sir Robert Borden, the Premier, had a narrow escape, and Madame Sevigny had a perilous leap for life. The Speaker's chamber quickly filled with smoke, rendering escape into the cor- Ti(kr Imposslb1e, a nd she jumped from the window, twenty f(?tf from the ground, ?Mn? <'a.ught in a life o?. Hf'T two chil- dren n'?rp rescued with diSiculty. The fire is burning fiercHv, and the roof II of t-he chamber has fallen in. A high nort.h wind is blowing. Due to a Bomb. New York, Friday.—Members who were near the rea ding-room assert, the fire in the Ottawa Parliament Buildings was due to the explosion of a homb, The Duke of Connaught motored to the scene. Several policemen and firemen were buried by the collapse of one end of the building. The fire was mastered at three o'clock this morning. The estimated dam- age is five million dollar". Several Lives Lost. Ottawa, Friday—Mrs. Moriu and Mrs. Bray, both of Qiiciwc City, -p-I)o guests of the Speaker, lost their lives in the fire. Neuter's latest report is that two ladics and four men lost their lives, the latter including two artificers and two soldiers, Four Lives Lost. In the reading room, where the fire oc- curred ,was a woman perusing files. siac, said there was a sudden flash, and .imme- diately the newspapers were in flames. Fanned by a. srtrong north wind, the flames rapidly swept through the building. Two battalions of soldiers assisted the firemen. The building itself entails a loss of about a million dollars, in addition to which many members of Parliament lost valuables. The latest report states that two arti- fieel's and two soldiers aho lost their lives.

MONTENEGRO'S REPLY Traitor General Murdered by Sotd?ers. Copenhageno, Thursday.— A .message i f I-oil) Berlin states that the Montenegrin General Beeir, who signed the Monteneg- rin-Austrian convention, has IX'll mur- dered by bif own soldiers.

BELGIAN WOMAN AT MILFORD Given 24 Hours to Return to Family. At the Milford Petty Sessions on Thurs- day, Emenea Decaster Rykewarte was charged that Rhtl. a Belgian refugee, did enter a prohibited area without, a permit. Deputy Chief Constable James said that the defendant was a married woman. She had eight children, whom she had left at Glasgow. She entered the area on Decern- ber 18th without a permit. Defendant said she came to Milford in response to a wire from her mother, who wa ill. She would leave that evening. Defendant was committed to prison for 14 days, and thai the warrani would lie suspended for 24 hours in order that she i „ v .■>;

APPAi SECURED A PRIZE MYSTERY OF KSHAH RAIDER tiOT YET; SGILVEB. A CLAN KACTA'/ISH CHEW I Xew York, Thursday.—It i* announced that the Appam. has been docdared a prize, j t. h ;].< h e Appum ims bpcn dcc' h c'c d u prize. The mystery of the Herman sea raider which captured U?' liner becomes more surprising as fn'h dp?u? bc?orL:p known. | It slie', is a, merchant ves- sel which has been armed ?lih :) thr(?-? -,V  pounder, and four oilier runs ranging 1JC- tween four and six indies. i Outwardly she has the appearance of a tramp. At. the touch of a button strips of hUed to her sides disappear to slots, false deck-houses anish, and he: ??.n d s: revea l ?d as a warship. Clan Mactavish Crew. -) The owners of iLte clan Maetavish are officially informed thai- the captain and the entire. European crew are safe, bllt prisoners on the German raider. Several natives were killed, and four wounded; wore taken on the Appam. Captain Harrison's Report. New- lone, .1.hursday.—An Associated Press telegram from Washington says the; report of Captain Harrison, of (he Appam, is now in the hands of i he British Ambas- sador. Captain Harrison is understood to say thai lie does not know the name of j the raider which took the HDf']'. bmt?f' Swedish colours were painted on Lpr .-id". Other craft, probably supply ships, were th(, GERMANS' ARTFUL PLAN. Hmv the Appam Was i ricked Into Surrender. Norfolk (Virginia), Thur:day. — The story of the Appam's capture aud voyage ■ to America was told by Sir Edward 1 Mfcrewether. as follows:— The Moe.we, as if. seams to lie called, was, of course, not (he Moow1 at all. This boat was between '.U>00 and 4.000 tons, and I have every reason to believe that it was originally in the fruit trade. The w ay in w''<eo she managed til catch us was artful in the extreme, i When we picked her up on the horizon! she hove to flying the Eed Ensigu on he forepeak, a distress signal which meant she was out of control. Captain Harrison believed she was a British tramp, and change his course I" bear down on her. At her stern was a flag dropped in folds, j We discovered later that the Ensign was weighted, so that it would droop. All uf j us who gave it a second thought, took fit for granted it was the Union Jack. As a matter 0f fact, it was 1hc Hernial) ,1m- perial Navy ensign. hen Captain Harrison bad come. within 200 yards of the st ranger and i stopped his engines, a suddeii transforms- tion in the other boat's appearance electri-! fied its all. Forward and aft her railing- which had looked quite solid until that instant, simply disappeared, as if by magic. Wo learned later that whole sec- tions of these solid-looking railings were actually composed of accordion-like strips! of steels, which dropped into a slot at the pressure of a button on the bridge. At the same instant the square struc-rurcs we had mistaken for deck-houses also collapsed and exposed batteries of guns. I Raw two mounted forward, four mounted aft, and one three-pounder on the poop deck. These guns ranged between fin. and Bin., accord- ing to my judgment. An Armoured Cruiser. "Almost, simultaneously with the magi- cal transformation of the supposed tramp into an armoured cruiser one (If the for- ward guns spoke sharply, and a shell I shrieked over onr bridge. Prisoners Became Guards. 117 he', !I'(' t Ji ad h?ncom?et.ed we started on a course known only to the, ?t, ?i kTiowiL oiii.v to tht,,? hah'oi them oor former prisoners, in charge of us. frankly, things were not) nearly so bad as anticipnted. I had no 1 idea the Gcrman ('ouM ? so courteous as these Hermans proved to be. If bv chance they humpeciinh; one while walk- ing on deck (hey apologised profusely, and with every indication of sincerity. This spirit of decency, in my opinion, was largely owing to the tine example set by Lieutenant Bprg- himself. He was the em- bodiment of courtesy from first to last, No Chance Whatever. Captain Evan Jones, of the Trader (a i vessel well-known at Swansea) said:—"Ii had no chance whatever, and even if I had wanted a scrap for it 1 cotild not have made gQod. You see, s he was right on top of us before 1 knew what liji(I of ship she was. Of course, I wasn't looking for any Herman raiders, for I knew they had all been swept off the seas months before. | She was just an ordinary-looking old tramp. She came limping alongside, and I was looking down into the muzzles of halt a dozen or more mighty nasty-look-1 ing guns. They order«-d us to ahandon our ship, and twenty minutes later we saw the last of the Trader as she plunged down."

ADRIATIC COAST SHELLED Austrian Warships Bombard Two Towns. t Rome, Thursday.—About, seven o'clock this morning enemy vessels bombarded the port of San Vito Chieto a.nd the. rail- way establishments at Ortona-a-Mare, on the western shore ot the Adriatic, oppq- site Cattaro. Only slight material damage was done.— Keuter. fThe two places mentioued are about eight or nine miles apart.]

MILKING THE COWS. Inma-tps of the industrial colonies of the Metropolitan Asylums Board are to be employed to milk the cows on the farms. Difficulty ha,s been experienced in obtain- ing men owing to the demands of the war. As a special consideration for the inmates who are to do the work some responsible person is to be authorised to%ma,ke a small expenditure, not exceeding one shilling per 1SK»k, on their behalf. The Local Hov- ernm^nt. Board is to be asked to give its h- • 1

IEPPElN IN THE NORTH SEA, I • — WHAT THE TRAWLER i SAW. | SWANSEA SKIPPER LOSES HIS LIFE, SHiP BOMBED AT SEA Press Bureau, Thursday.—The Secretary of the Admiralty makes the following A fishing trawler iias reported io-day to the naval authorities that she had .seen a Herman Zeppelin in the Sea in a sinking condition. i What the Trawler Saw. The Hmushy trawkr ?h?)t'?D, l'Pl1l-' manded by Skipper William Mai!in. put j in Unm-hy on Thursday, and rp)(¡rle¿ that on Wednesday at day break she found the Zrppphii L'? di?b!p<l in t]? ?orth Sea. '.I he car v.-as entirely submerged, and pmt u! Ihp onvf??pc was ito?tn? in the ♦Yuier, tbf Zeppelin's crew being driven to the upper pa r: of the envelop. Although at least twenty Hermans came into v thei-- -??.e others on board, as of tapping with a hammer could be distinctly heard. In. all probability i he Zeppelin would remain afloat for several ho -i s. OwJug l<> the number of Hermans j; was. impossible to at tpmpl their capture. j Why They Were Left. I uey asked to he taken on n-eml 'he; ink I er, but, as the i r.twierV. erev un'v | numbered nine hands ail sence of two dozen Germans on Iviard would have been mr.-t inadvisable. The location o; the airship was after- wards made known >o the naval authori- ties. There v,as |j;i|e or no hope ef the air-, eraH being saiv^l. Th" captain of a ("'('11(,1, vessel which1 arrived on Thursday reports seie-1 ing a Zeppelin destroxed in the .North Sea on Wednesday morning. It thr Zeppelin on and hit by Dutch soldiers when the vessel passed over the 1-.1(' of Ameland un Tuesday. Another Zepjielin passed <>vcr the island laier /in day. and this wa.s possibly the airship which, as re 1 ported in a paragraph below, sank a Her- j man-oilned. collier from Hartlepool on Tuesday night. The raid by siX" or seven Zeripelins on England took place on Mon- day nkrh' BOMBS ON A STFAMEH. COMBS ON A ST[AMF.R, ¡ hormer German Craft Sunk by Zeppelin, j the sinKing ot a steamer hv a Zennelin bomb was reported a.t West. Hartlepool on Tli ursday. A capturevt enemy "of'I. employe,] as a coastjng collier, left Hartlepool on Mon- day afternoon bound south. According to a member of the crew, at about 10.30 ou Tuesday night, a n-oise was heard over- head. and a Zeppelin appeared over them. An explosive lvomb was dropped, and struck the. vessel amidships. The steamer remained atloni only two minutes, and of sixt een hands onlv three—Chief Engineer j Birch, of South Shields; Steward Taylor, ot London: and an able seaman—survived, the captain being among the thirteen victims. There was no time to tat-(, to the boats, and all were dragged beneath the waves, On coming to the surface," said Able Sea.nan Charles HilUpr. "I caught hdd of a lifebelt. A little later, after swimming ) about, I came across the other two sur- rivers, who also had lifebelts. « Cries of ot her men were heard, but we tb, shouts gradually died away. We were in a state of collapse, when a Belgian steamer came to our aid and: lowered a boat which pic?pd us up. We were afterwards transferred to another vessel and taken to London." Hillier added that the vessel, which was known as the Frank Fisher, was at anchor j when iior CAPTAIN DAVIES, OF SWANSEA. Skipper of the Bombed Collier. rhc captain of the Franz Fischer was Cal)taiii Jack I)avics, of Long Oaks- j avenue. Swansea, whose brother is Cap- tain W. J. Davies, dockmastcr at the King'6 Dock. The telegram conveying the sad tidings was received by Mrs. Jack Davies on Thursday afternoon, and much sympathy is felt with her and her son Hamilton in their loss:. Mrs. Davie- was the daughter of the late Mr. Morgan, who was a well- known Swansea builder. j Captain Jack Davies had been engaged in the mercantile marine for about 2.5 years, and was one of the smartest cap- tains that sailed the seas. For many years he was employed by a Glasgow j firm. TIe was wen-known at the Swansea doe! and last Christmas visitpd his home. and renewed many of his old acquaintances. He was .57 years of age.

BRING IT HOME TO THEM I -———— -P ————— Lord Rosebery Advocates II Policy of Reprisals. Lord Rosebery declares himself, in a letter to the Times of Friday, a be- liever in the policy of reprisals. | This last Zeppelin raid, ho (-ay:" has cleared the air. There may be difficulties from the aircraft I-ooint of view in re- prisals. I am not behind the scenes and do not know. But as regards policy there can be none. Wc have too long di-splayed a paseive and excessiveI patience. We all remember Gray's noble line "To scatter I)Ient 'vc(,r a smiling land." For plenty read bomtxs," and you have the Prussian ideal. To scatter boenbe over a countrywide, to destroy indis- criminately the mansion and cottage, the church and the school, to murder un- offendin.g civilians, women, children, ard sucklings in their beds, th ese are the noble aspirations of Prussian chivalry, accaliamed by their nation as deeds of merit and daring. Let them realise this triumph, let us bring it directly to their hearts and homes. Let tus unsparingly mete orl their measure to t h('m,'I('l ve*. Naming el<sc will make them realize their glories, i Atid the blood of any who may suffer will I I ■ J. „ |

ANOTHER BLOW AT PARIS! GERMAN TO AHEMPI TO REACH' FSEfiGff CAPITAL F "iCAPITAL I Paris, Thursday.—From information conveyed to me from a special source I have reason to believe that the bloodiest hattIn" recently referred to by the Kaiser will take (dace very shortly, per- haps almost immediately, Clud will have for its object the smashing of the line at the point nearest to Paris, to make what even the, Germans loust know will be a forlorn hope attempt to reach the capital. From statements:- by" deserters aud pri- soners, added to the contents of dvwm- j mev.ta, it is learned that the enemy has | loet very lieavily in his feeler: at i points along the We.-Ieru front. Ih: eer- > tainly fears the approach of f.pring, and j for very obvious reas- -r,; wishes to got j his blew in firsi. A di.slinguished officer j said to me to-dav:— Treiu-li wan are has taught the! generals that the morale of the men must hc kept ac a v< ry lijy;h level, 'i't?.?c.it!' only be done by fixgu-.ml and snccessful offensives. ll we e:;ccpt the taking of j Frise, the enemy has d?tt? nothing on ilis sue- ce.sses in tJie East mean little or | nothing to tlie men w in) have been re- pulsed almost ever.' wlisre. My own opinion of the recent | Zepp'din raids, on Paris was that they i tried to demoralise, the population, in- i te'tding to i'-ilinn !his np by a swift attack in the region of the capital, but. you who have seen our irenehes. and know the morale of t ]: Puritans ami. of U' troops. can tell the ¡>1;1iÍ1 people t'ee,- they have j nothing to icai- for Franco. Daiiv ENPRESS/

BRITISH PRIZE SEiZED I Austrian Submarine Captures 300 Serbians.  Amsterdam. Thursday.— According to a telegram received in Vienna the X?rth German Lloyd steamer Kopn? Albert 110,1-81 tonsi, which was seized some time ago by the Britisfi" and !¡:at to the Ita- lians. was sighted by Austro-JIungarian seaplanes near San Giovanni di Medua and captured by an Austro-Hungarian submarine. The vessel, which had 300 Serbian refugees on board, was towed into the Boeche di Cattaro by a destroyer.—Keuter

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DISGUISED AS TURKS I Latest Austrian Dodge to Escape Detection. Athens (undated), via Messina.—The Greek vessel Navrakatoussa, a postal courier between Messina and the Piraeus j (the port of Athens), was stopped 60 miles i west of the island of Zante by a large sub- marine on her last homeward journey. The mate of the ve?-?1 was obliged to go on board the submarine, which bore a Turkish name and had a number of j sailors wearing tarbooshes (native caps), j The Greek ship's passenger list was iii- spected by the officers of the submarine, and ihen the Navrakatoussa was aHowed to continue her journey. The vessel and the sailors, who spoke some English and Italian, were evidently Austrian. The in- { tion is obviously to throw the responsi- bility of any more accidents" such as the jaicona and Persia, cases, on the Turks. This is probably the same sub- marine wlich carried off Colonel Napier and "Captain Wilson from the Spetzai.

 THE WAR! I Resume of To-dsy's i Messages. j "Leader" Office 4.50 p.m. I A Zeppelin, hit by Dutch guns, lias been j sunk in the North Sea. and a Swansea Sfkippcv. Captain Jerk Davies. went down with iiis ship, which was sunk by t a Z"l'lwJill homb. j More cn?u'tKi? in the Swansea Battaliou are reported. j The Appam bn- I?tjn<1?cl.)r?d a pri/ Ail t';? British ?u??cct? Lav? bpc? landed. Violent artillery battles 11 tal, I-L 1)1;1: in the West.

DUTCH STEAMER SUNK .————— 1 LiGNT-COlOUEED GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT S, HIGH-HANDED ACT. j Hague. The owners of the ArtemK which was torpedoed Ly the GerLiiaus in the Nor' Sea, issue the follcvang account of 'h incident:— The. Artemis left Rotterdam on lay evening at a o'ehx-k. and was stopjK ai mi<lnight by four light '-oloured Ger- LLI;A ii- o: ovrtn of the No. r-dhinder. and boarded by one officer and three men. The Ar+emi-. was bound in a course south iiy east. After somi* time t he order to stop w;-c by .signals. A. V):I>v1", ■ m, • ilongtsuie tne A:t>:n: anu the ■•ma: .ifhc<-r and ta.k'-ii > '< i'oHi.iwing had lx'C.n put do wo m f ue tiiip's iog-book: "The steamer was- stop}x--d a li-i a.m.. and as she was not suspect wa igain reJ/ased. he must remain at inciioi until •"> n'elc-k in the morning. The Captain's Orders. The commander of The torpedo boaC- irdered the captain ot the Artemis t ;tea-iii lull i-ixcu for one hour in a dirt < ion south by east, and then drop anenor He arrived at the appointed anchor)n aiace, and the Artemis v. a., igain stopped by two dark-eoloarv^ ferisutu tyrpedo-l:s.a.iiich :he Artemis to proceed to Zcebrugge. i lie ?a pt a in declared he did not Know 11." wafers there, and asked that one of the Jermau officers should pilot the A rtHule- l'his rwpiest was not complied wi-.Ii, but 'he steamer was ordered to drop anchor, which was done. Then the captain was informed that he had not obeyed orders, md his vessel was to be torpedoed. Tie ain replied he had loyally exeeute<i he i-.rders, and cast anchor. For some :ime all was quiet. Finally, the captain was informed a -orpooo would 100 fired, and they would 11(- ranted live minutes to leave the ship re. boats. Before the boats were lowered a torpedo was fired, and the -hip mime- diately listed heavily. The torpedo boats disappeared arter a -hot was fired. The crew of the Artemis remained in boats • during Thp mght. and at daybreak hoarded a vessel, which at two o'clock :,i the afternoon was able to go to Rotterdam under her own steam. [The Artemis is a Dutch steamer of. 3,803 tons gross register.]

SOUTH WALES COLLISION —-— -—— Two Men Killed in Goods Train Smash. An alarming collision took place on the Brecon and Merthyr Railway between Dollygaer and Topantan. on the main Line from Menhyr to Brecon, on Thurs- day evening. It results! in two men being killed and one injured. The men killed were :— Thos. Lloyd (5(;-). driver n, a. married man with three children. James Moriran (23), tireman. u1 Brecon, who was only married a couple 01 months ago. It seems that a heavily-laden good- train was proceeding towards Merthy from Brecon when it came into colli si or with, a lighter good* train which was proceeding in the other direction. So great was the force of the impact that several trucks were thrown down the embankment. The driver and fireman of the Brecon and Merthvr train were.both hilled. The line between Brecon and Merthyr is a ;,ingl one practically a!! the w<y, and ?-iiigi?, otic I)ra(?'li?:?l-Ii- ,1 114-, war, ai,( i the accident occurred a,'uL :jlr mHp.s? from Pontstleill and about a mile iroli, Topantan. The !in<'wa-!?tm b!o'?d<onrt"'day; afternoon. Pa=?ng?: had t'j b:cah ih?ir  journey at one point and walk past thp scene of the disas-fer to a train which waited for them further on. j

THE RIGHT TO FEED HATfOUS J  P?s?e?i W!tso-?'s C!a? for | Amrejea. Topeka (Kansas). Vvc nr'-day fde- layed.- President 'ii.-v>n..in an address, here to-day in favour of iucpa:dii'-(ss." declared t!ia> it. might be neecs.-arv h use the force* of to i vindicate the rights of Americans every- w hen' to enjoy the protection of inter- national law. Fie said that Americans wer» not goiug j to submit to habitual or continual neg-j lect of those, rights. He predicted that the American flag] would come down in the Philippines as it had in Cuba a* soon as we feel that! the Philippines can lake care oi its own j affairs. America's Ctaims. An Exchange m?sa?c udd? <hp follow- íl iHo parage from the rr'?i?pnt's addi-<?: America has the right to teed the; nations of the world with your wheat. When then' is a ?Ic'-hadewe'-ecogni? the right to bl'wka.k. But the world T?wds wheat from Kansas, and America has the right to see that lite warring j iut.ti?ns??it. (10 tills t-Ii, COUU must prepare jh.eH to show other nations that it i" determined that ideals shall be respected. j ??

?., I SWANSEA SOLDIER'S PROMOTION. I The son of Mr. W. Harries. Bay View, Sketfy, cargo superintendent for Richards, Turpin ano Co., has WOI1 rapid promo- tion in the Army. Young Harris, who is 21 of age. joined the Army in Xo- vember. 1PM, leaving his job as assistant in the chemical laboratory of the English CrlJwn Spelter Co. He enlisted in. the 9th Border Regiment (Pioneers), and ho has seen a good deal of exciting service. Now news has arrived that he has been promoted to be Company Quartermaster- Sergeant—not bad after 15 months in f khaki!

SWEDISH STEAMERS ESCAPE. I Stockholm, Thursday.—A Swedish steam-1 ship company of Svea received last night a telegram from Karlshamn stating that their steamer, the Titania (750 tons), had been on the point of beiug rammed by two Herman destroyers off the S.mdham- maren light, but that through the skill of her captain the ramming wa« avoided. In a collision which took place, however, the Timnia received sore,e damage. The dest royers disappeared immediately in the ■ c: 1, :i .o ■ ], J

-n. __n- SWANSEA MEN KILLED ——- 0 BATTALiCti LOSSES. j I —— I HVE UNOFFIGiALLY REPORTED DEAD AND FiVE WOUNDED i Among the victims of the shell which., j bLt!1. in the trench. wounded Üyø and killed ide men of the Swansea Bat- talion was William Edward I'addix.m, whose mot lie r lives at .Y,\ Ma doc-street. She has had no otfu ial word, but in lett?r?. received from ..| "Will Thomas afnlid e j BeeL, iii;?itili(-,i, of ti(-- battalion, it is referred to. Charles U. Bees, a cou.-iu, who was with him. says that the lad died peace- fully in the <tug-c>ut. j Private C. Simons, another relative, writing to his wife, says: J suppo.-c ywu vill hear about poor littio Ruddy and the others before you get thi. letter. Thank God. I am able to write you this letter. I was only a few yards avray from tivm. i We are out again for a short • rest." Private Win. Edward Paddisou would been Wednesday, lie na> j a Battalion, Before that he was employed in Swansea as a mason's labourer. rs. i'addisoiv's husband, Sergl.-Major Thomas Paddison, has been to tim front, but. Oil iiiiii!l ]Olt two other sons on active service. T>yrid is in the Hfli AV'elsh. and Naval Division. Just Out of the Trenches., A private in the Svansea Battalion;, wrile.- home thus:— = Wo have iusl come from the trenche, after a fi\"e day-' spell. Our company (A I Co.) has estnned very well, but I that the other companies have suffered -< badly. ) heard last night as I was coming from the trenches that Elias Jones has been killed. The Cond. fdias Jon-> referred f<» in the above ktier reside-, a! Fo\Jvil»-roj»d. ( Swansea. He is a marrhvi man of ahoi]! young children, and one married daughter, He was employed at tllf' t ppcr .Hank Mill. and for several years at All Saints. Kilvey. He joined the bat-j talion soon after the outbreak (If war. Bad Luck. pany. 11111 (Swansea1 Battalion Welsh j < Regiment. write-, as follows; I Iremdtes this tin<e. We have ,-j t';ve «f | < W;-h.!ds"utPVf"?'?ad?fC?'!) t h j our fellows and five woutuied v, sitf*11; One of these ?''How- is Paddison, from ?fadoc-s?r?t. ?1? has been Mlled, poor fellow. T a-U! writing you these few lines T in the hospital, but there is not much the j* matter with me. so don't worry. I'm all right." i 1 Adjutant Wounded. 11 Aotvs Captain Leslie Boyle (acting adjutant of i the Swansea Battalion, who was wounded in the knee on Sunday last, has now ar- rived at Dover, his destination probably being a Red Cross Hospital fomewhere in England." ]

MINISTER AND THE  MASTER AM IHE FARMERS Parliamentary Secretary to Attend Meeting. j The Eight Hon. Francis A eland. M.P., I Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, will attend the annual general meeting of the Mid- land Farmers' Association, which takes, place at the Pavilion, Tipping-street, Stafford, at 11.:)û a.m. on Saturday, the 5th February. An open meeting will follow at 2.30 p.m.. at the same place, when Mr. Acland will give an address on Agriculture and the War." Mr. Acland is taking the place of the Earl of Sel- borne. K.H., the President of the Board. who had promised to attend the meeting, and give the address, but is unfortunately 1 prevented from doing so. The c<j*nmittee • of the Midland Farmers' Association in- vite all farmers interested, whether mem- bers of the Association or not, to be present.

PIPE IN THE MINE II Copper Pit Repairer Fined at Swansea. i Morgan Williams, repairer, was sum- moned at Swansea on Friday for having a pipe in his possession in the Copper Pit- Colliery, Morriston. Mr. W. H. Towlson, prosecuting for the company, said this was the hist case from the Copper Pit, and had been brought as a warning to the men. The new Act said that men must, not smoke in the mine. They did not want to lie vindictive, but that it should be publicly announced. He asked the magistrates to deal with the charge lightly if they thought fit. Mr. D. L. Thomas (rnanagpr) -aid that notice had been issued to the men 12 or 15 months ago. He told of how he smelt tobacco smoke in the mine, and spoke to defendant about it. Defendant (](-nip(i that he had been smoking, but a "-arm, pipf was found in his pocket. He 110W c-a lfl that he had not smoked in the mine, but only on his way to work. The Chairman said they considered the case a very serious one ind°ed, ])tit iii consequence of the recommendation of the I owners, they would inflict a ftn<> ol onlv

¡ PONTARDULAIS DARKNESS t Council Rejects Re-Lighting Proposal. Mr. D. Edgar Thomas presided at fhc monthly meeting of the Llandeilo-Taly- j bont Council at Gorseinon. The Gor- eeinon Trades and Labour Association complained of the bad t-tate of the fL).(I- path near Brynteg. and if was decided t j place uprights in the path to prevent it being used for carts. The Electric Ligli I Company said they were making evei;, effort, to light up Hrovesend. It w-ü alleged by a member that the poles were up before the copper was ordered for the installation of light at Hrovesend. Pontardulais Lighting. A. proposal to re-l*ght Ponturdulaf streets forthwith was lost. It was decidci the deputation should again meet, and that a report be submitted to a sene-rai meeting of consumers. The retiring members, Messrs. Thorn a1 Jenkins, merchant. Oak field-street. Pori- tardulais. and Alfred Morgan, C"fn,rda, Horseinon. were re-elected for j of School j

ARTILLERY ACTIVITY. Vrciv. h oificiul communifAue. isfu- d ixi Paris this afternoon:— TieTC was no important event to re- port .in the in the Yosges. where the -iri.tilery on both -sides showed con-h;abie ,o t;\ ity at Braunkopf, in the Yal'-y of th« Secht. and at Hett-mut*. no; th-v ert of Metier ah Bryncoch Ale-house License, At Neath Brewster Sessions, cr hn- day, all the licenses were r.-newed "X" cept that of the Bottle an<l Gla- ale* house, ]irynco<di. with regaid to whieh the Bench directed Supt. Jhut Evans to (serve notices. Mr. Edward Powell, Tor the applicant, intimated tit at he W011", advitu- his client to give notice of a ntw application in con'erupiaTicn c, re- building. Supt. Ben Ewe. in hi- re- port, said there were ]Kci.sc<i pre- luises— one per popuiutiou, Druukeuuviac hud dvcrca;d Hdil 1:1 ii) 117. STATUS OF THE APPAM, Washington, Thursday.—It is now stated that it. has not. been oiffcially de- Appam shall be re- turned to the British ov ner- under tho Hague. German prise uudcr the Pru-siau- American Treaty. Llansamlct Will Case. Further cKws-esamined to-day. rilain- tiff but dthat part of her grandiatuer's pro]ierty was shares in the Swansea Old Brewery Co., and again«t the directors of tlio company her father brongbt an action in She had written letters her father to the rural papcri aboug the matter. She alleged her ta.thej; was awarded £ l,0bO damage- but received She had hear 1 that things had now improved, and agreed that it was to her interest now that the shares should be kept, if the business continued to improve. Sporting. Betting; 7 to 4- llannibal. 3.110.—Lord Marcus beat £ ji3yciaea3, • f V t