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TRANSFER OF MEN < t- I MR. L0NCS TRIBUTE TO  )At  IE?i:?U!ALS The House of Com.! Jons again wont into Committee on rile jiliitarv Service, Bill on Thursday Mr. Long. Piui i. Ining the clause for the circumstances, said il this Army Comn ii found that a man -was not w;¡n,ec! 1, It the colours for i>i Litary ps; rpo.vas lii'v would offer iiim <-tie opportunity t.o go home to his occupy tu. The moment lie „•;> s passed to i he reserve he would fcu* a li'eg. and independent workman, the only liability resting upon him being that oi being iecalie<i to the .olours in the e.'e'i); -of an invasion or other national emei gc.ncy. 'i'hv-^f: men would not be amenable to military discipline. In connection wi--4;h the new power for the transfer of TemVorials, Mr. Long said -the Army Counci! had no desire whatevei to ii-i iire the Territorial Force, whose the war they gratc- .\111," acknov.-lecl^'l. The SoiicitoM«eneral denied that any conseitni.ious objectors had been sent to penal servitude. LOCAL TRIBUNAL'S POWER. inoiigh an am^nunuvut. by Mr. i'ercy j Harris (Market Haj'borough), to empower local tribunals to imike training with the Volunteers a condition of exemption, was negatived, Mr. Long said the tribunals already had that power. A long discussion followed over the diffi- culties arising through the consc-icntious objector, and it was suggested that men who absolutely refused combatant or mili- tary service would do work of national im- portance under civil authority. Mr. Long said it had been suggested that these men should be formed into brigades. In that case there would be discipline and power of punishment. If there was no proper control over them they must realise that the difficulty of compelling these people to work would bo as difficult as compelling them to fight. The agitation on behalf of the consci-entious objector had done incalculable and infinite harm to the cause of genuine ot>jE"to-rs, NEW REGISTERS. Printed copies of the new form or register of every male employe between 18 and 41. which employer's must now post up for inspection and rev^ every month can be obtained from tlie post offices by May 22nd-a week cn Monday. Employers are warned that, under the Reserve Forces Act of 182 any person who employs a man belonging to the Army or Reserve Forces who is an absentee, without leave is liable to a heaVy tine. without leave i?. liable to a hec(.vy hne.

C.O.'s DEFENDED. I —————— Minister and Dangeraus Matters. The question of the treatment of con- I scientious objectors by the tribunals was raised by the Rev. J. Morgan Gibbon at the meeting of the assembly of the Con- gregational Union at the City Temple on gregational Union at the Cl ty Temple on Mr. Gibbon said he differed from the Conscientious objector in the practical conclusion at wlikh he arrived with re- gard to his personal duty. But he reverenoed every man's conscience, and he wanted to remind the meeting that the conscientious objector stood precisely where the majority of them stood yester- day, and where they would stand to- morrow. It had been said that there were a great many humbugs among the conscientious objectors, -but were there not also humbugs on the ot-lier side? The accounts in the papers of the treatment Off conscientious objectors reminded him of the worst days of Judge Jeffreys. Another dangerous matter he desired to mfer to was that in Ireland men were being shot behind screens, and nothing said. He thong-ht that they, as preachers of the gospel of righteousnevss, ought to weoond the efforts made by Mr. Redmond ano Mr. Dillon to get the Government to consent to the resumption of legal pro- cedure where capital punishment was in question. It was stated that the executive bad cent a letter to tr- Long in March draw- mg attention to the treAtm&nt of con- scie??ious objectors, and asking him if be would circulate tlw tribunals with regard to the procedure in these cases. Mr. Long bad replied that he had circu- lated the tribunals and enclosing a copy of the circular which had been sent.

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MONK MURDERED. One of Russia's Most Mys- terious Characters. Copenhagen, Thursday.—The Bucharest correspondent of the "Berliner Tageblatt" learns that, the Russian monk Rasputin has been murdered in Petrograd.—Ex- change. Gregory Rasputin was one of the most mysterious characters in Russia. The son of a peasant tanner of Tobolsk, in Siberia. UP lived a rural life lIntil about thirty •ears of age and then, seized with a quasi- religious mania, he started on a pilgrimage vhich brought him in 1900 to Kazan, the fatuous cathedral tow n, where he obtained a letter of introduction to a mystic bishop. Theofanos. at Petrograd- He created ther, •v kind of religious salon, a.nd though two bishops sought to get him banished thev foiled. Rasputin acquired great influence at Court, and one particularly gross scandal led to his exile, but he f-rightened the Eni- press hy stating that "something terrible" would follow his banishment, and wher fhe Czarewitch fell ill the illness was ir- ferprcted ns the fulfilment of his warn in and the Czar allowed him to return in flip spring of 1914. His salons were crowded with all sorts of nrople, from peasant women to ladies o' th? nobility and from generals to bejrgars but it was among women that his influenc was supreme. Women of unblemished reputation have fallen under the unex- plained but irresistible spell which he seemed to exercise. A fortnight before (he war broke out a woman stabbed him with a dagger at Pok rovsk, in the Government of Tobolsk, and for some davs he by at death's door.

U.S. AND THE CYMRIC. State Orders an Official Investigation. An official investigation into the sink- ing of the C ymric has been ordered by the Slate Department to ascertain whether Germany, after having again agreed not to torpedo merchantmen without warning, sent the Cvmfic to the bottom, once more to prove that a German promise is merely a scrap of paper (says the "Morning Tost Washington correspondent). There is doubt in the mind of the State Department as to the status of the vessel. And the facts must first be ascertained before action can be taken. If the Cymric was under charter to the Admiralty, was carrying only munitions, and was engaged ■m the Government transport service, then he present opinion of the Department is that, she might properly be regarded as similar in all respects to a warship, whether employed for offensive or de- fc-nsive purposes, and could legitimately be destroyed without warning and with- out provision being made for the safety of the crew. If, on the other hand, she was not under Government charter and was simply performing the ordinary duties of a merchantman, then, irrespec five of the nature of her cargo, her de struction without warning and withou' provision having been made for the safety of the crew ip a distinct violation of !h,' InteRt German pledge, according to the view now held by the State Department- There is. of course, always the possibility of the German Government being able to j escape responsibility by asserting that the new orders governing submarines had not reached the commander of the paxticular boat concerned. The result of the investigation now in orogress will determine the future course of the Washinsrton Government. The fact hat no Americans were among the crew )f the Cymric makes the case of less im- portance to the United States than that other vessels whose sinking caused the oss of the lives of Americans.

IN CASE OF RAIDS. Press Bureau, Friday.—As a result of recent, experience and special experiment, he Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief he Home Forces has issued, through the Railway Executive Committee, special in- itrijetions with regard to the working ights which are to be normally main- tained on railways, as well as to the fur- her reduction of these lights and the action to be taken hy rail way companies on the occasion of raids by hostile air- craft. These instructions provide for the re- "lnotion of railway lights other than sig--1 "uil lights in the districts threatened bv lost.ile aircraft to the minimum necessity 'or the continuance of traffic "which in the national interest it. is important to main- ain under all conditions. Subject to the above necessity the rail- way establishment* and trains actually | running will be rendered as inconspicuous as pos&bl&

FRESH EXEMPTIONS. IMPORTANT RULINGS AT MINERS' TrtlbuRAL lGy Our Mining Correspondent.) I ine Mining Tribunal for the Western, or Anthracite, area resumed its sittings at Swansea on Friday, and some decisions of exceptional interest were given. Mr. Dyer Lewis presided, and was assisted by Mr. J. D. Morgan, miners' agent, as assessor, and Col. Pearson as military representative. At the outset of the proceedings, the Chairman congratulated. Col. i'uwson and Mr. J. D. Morgan upon their recovery from the severe illness which both had suffered from, and which had been brought about, he understood, by their attendance at that court. Before entering into new appeals, lie (the chairman) had a few words to say re- garding matters which had occurred at previous sittings of this Court. In sev- eral cases exemptions had been granted to individual workmen for a month or two months, as the case might be. The time had expired in respect to some of the cases, and it appeared that the col- liery owners had failed to get anyone to take the places of the men thus tem- porarily exempted. Inquiry had been made as to the facts, and the Court now found it necessary to allow those people to be further exempted for the present. One case from Cilfrew Colliery was that of an engineman and stoker; another case, from Graigola, was that of a man working at the screens; and from Dill- wyn Colliery there was the case of a guard, who was practically indispensable. The Court had considered the cases, and decided to exempt them. Then from Northaman (or Cawdor) Colliery there were two cases, of surface- men—one a rider, and the other engaged in driving a small engine; for the same reason they were exempted. A case from Blaina Colliery, Pantyffynon and a Wernddu pitman were also further ex- empted. There were six surfacemen from Trimsaran Colliery who had been tem- porarily exempted, as practically all the surfacemen had been, owing to the diffi- culty in obtaining labour and getting others to take the places of those men. The six were, therefore, exempted. In one instance, an appeal in regard to a man at Cwmgwrach Colliery, Glyn- Neath. had been made to the Central Tribunal, the man being occupied part- time only underground. There was now a letter from the Central Tribunal stating that so long as he was employed under- ground the man was exempted. 'i bat man was, therefore, now declared n- empted by this Court upon the same ground. The further exemptions having been concluded, the Court proceeded to h- nr I appeals from collieries not previously dealt with. I SHORTAGE OF MEN. I In the course of the morning, although the work was mostly of a routine char- acter, there were some incidents, such as the claim of Col. Pearson for two out of tive stokers, hut the court upheld the view of the maiiagiment that the men were indispensable. Then. when Mr. Hinds, of the Glanmorlais Colliery, took his seat at the witness-table, it was noticed that he did not possess a copy of the list of names of men employed, and the court had to proceed with the list as supplied to the tribunal. The Chairman: Have you any papers, Mr. Hinds? The Manager: No, sir, I have not. All my staff has been taken from me under the Military Service Act, and the office is closed- I could not find any papers. (Laughter.) The shortage of men was further em- phasised by a witness from another col- liery. He stated that there was a good demand for coal, and yet two-thirds of the colliery which he represented was idle owing to the want of men. In one case Colonel Pearson claimed the son of the owner. He acts as surveyor, clerk, cashier, measurer of the colliers' work, etc. As the men employed numher only about 90, Colonel Pearson held that the surveying would only take about one day every three months, and an older man could do the other work. The man was,an attested married man. Mr. Dyer Lewis and Mr. J. D. Morgan pointed out that a somewhat similar case had already been dealt with from this rribunal. They had refused exemption. Hid, as the result of an appeal, an-ex- emption- was granted. Therefore, they would grant an exemption in this case. Col. Pearson: Well, I will appeal in this case, then. I do not think the cases are I on- all fours. Mr. Dyer Lewis: Practically, they are. THE RUSH TO THE PITS. A subject" which has attracted much attention outside was raised, viz., the allegation that, since the war began, a number of young men, previously em- ployed in other occupations, have rushed into the collieries in order to secure ex- emption from military service.—Colonel Pearson asked one manager to furnish him and the court with a list of those who had recently epme into his colliery, and the manager promised to do so. Mr. Dyer Lewis: I feel sure there are many men in the collieries to-day who have rushed there, and as these lista do not include their names, they do not come before us at all. Col. Pearson claimed one man who was said to have left Salvation Army work to go yndergrouud. It was explained that the man had worked in the colliery before the war, and was the sole support of a widowed mother. Col. Pearson: That has nothing to do with this appeal here. The Checkweigher: He might have come back to the colliery after a spell of ill- health. Col. Pearson: And thought his health would he better in the, pit, is it? V71311, I don't think so. I think his health would be better in the Salvation Army, and then we will get him for the King's Army. (Laughter). Mr. J. D. Morgan: But, as a Salvation I Army captain he would he exempt, like a minister of the Gospel, I think. Col. Pearson: Oh. no; they are not re- cognised. Mr. Dyer Lewis: Well, T must say I have respect tor the Salvation Army. I think they have done good work.

I A "FRONT" PLACE AFTER ALL. I The late post clerk of the Church Army I Headquarters, 'who made nine separate attempts to enlist in the Army before he gave up the hope as a had job, received his baptism of fire some days ago, when the second Church Army Recreation Hut to he hit hy the German gunners (which happened to be the hut of which he was in charge) was damaged by a shell, the con- tusion of w hose bursting so sh attered his nerves temporarily that he has had to he-J sent back to the base for a few weeks' rest.

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SWANSEA BAY ANGLERS. It, was announced at the annual meet- ing of the Swajieea, Bay Sea Ajigling Association, held at the Pier Hotel, Mumbles, on Thursday evening, that the Association had never been in so strong a position, financially or numerically, a", at present. The membership is nearly 100, and there is a credit balance of £45 14s. 2d. Mr. David James (manager Mumbles Railway Co.) ;.= ked to HC- cept the presidency in tlJC poom of the lato Lord Glantawe; Mr. J. >JI•: -ii, the retiring chairman, was elected vice- president; and the chairman will be, ap- ixiinted by the committee in due course. Mr. W. Bright was re-elected treasurer, and Mr. S. W. Cooper secretary, both for a period of three years. The secretary, in his report, said he had had a good deal of correspondence with tlie Board of Agriculture re the al- leged destruction of immature fish in the bay, and a sub-committee had met the secretary of the South Wales Fisheries1 Board on the matter. He had suggested the appointment of six honorary fisheries inspectors. The following had been ap- pointed Messrs. J. Allen, S. Griffiths..T. N ixon, —. Pobjoy, Hedley Davies and D. W. Davies.

UNCONVENTIONAL WILL. Some unconventional directions appear in the will of the Hon. Piers St. Aubyn, K.R.R.C., brother of Lord St. Levan, a subaltern, who died in Flanders. He wrote: Should I die in England, I wish to he buried at St. Michael's Mount, after pro- perly qualified doctors have performed an operation on my body to make death a cer- I tainty. I wish no one to wear mourning for me for more than one month, and that no abstention shall be made from shoot- ing, dancing, parties and amusements gen- erally for more than one month. I leave to my sisters Audrey Ponsonby and Evelyn i Alcoek in equal portions the residue of my property, not because I have a greater affection for them than my other brothers and sisters, but because I consider they require the money more. I ask them to see that my dog Captain is kept in com- fort all his life. Also that, they will with- out hesitation always help any woman who may ask for assistance, provided they have satisfied themselves she has some claim on me." He left his old servant and his faithful housekeeper each tl a week for life, and asked that his collection of china cats should be dispersed. He left 1:10,800.

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OFFICIAL NEWS EKEMY ACTIVITY ON THE BRITISH FRONT The following official news has been issued from the headquarters oi the belligerent Powers:— FBENCH. Paris, Thursday, 11 p.m.—To-night's official communique says In the Verdun region there was rather active artillery fighting in the Avocourt sector. There was a violent bombard- ment of our positions in the Cailette Wood and of our second line on the right bank of the Meuse. Some hurricane artillery firing occurred in the Woevre. Beyond the usual cannonading there is no important event to report on the rest of the front. BRITISH. France, Thursday, 10.35 p.m.—The enemy made an unsuccessful attempt to raid our trenches near Ovillers (north- east of Albert) last night. To-day there has been some mining activity near Beaumont-Haijiei and Fri- court (all around Al bert), both sides blow- ing camoutiets (counter-mines). The ad- vantage remains with us. Artillery on both sides has been aotive about Angres (north of Arras) and south- oast of Ypres. At the Ilohenzollern Re- doubt a severe mutual bombardment developed this afternoon. RUSSIAN. Petrograd, Thursday.—On the Armenian coast front our iorces progressed west and soutli-west of the town of Platana (west of Trebizond). In the fighting in the, region 'west of As-hlake (west of Erzernm and near Alount Kope) the Turks sur- rounded a reserve detachment which, pre- ferring a glorious death to shameful sur- render, with their non-commissioned offi- cers at their head, fell upon the Turkish eseort, vanquished it, and forced it to join their brave regiment. We repulsed an attempted Turkish offensive in the direction of Erzindjan,— Renter. GERMAN. Amsterdam, Thiirsda.y.-To-day,s man communique says; Western Theatre.—German aeroplanes bombarded Dunkirk and the railway pre- cincts near Adinkirke. On the western bank of the Meuse the French attacked yesterday afternoon near the -Ifoi-t Homme, and during the evening south-east, of Hill 301. Both attacks col- lapsed before the machine-gun and curtain fire of our artillery with considerable enemy losses In Camard Wood a Bavarian patrol captured 54 French. The number of un. wounded prisoners captured since May 4 in tha fighting near Hill 304 has increased to 53 officers and 1,51.5 men. On the east bank of the Meuse, in the sector of Cailette Wood, there was hand grenade fighting all night. A French at- tack here was repulsed. Eastern Theatre.—North of the railway- station of Sel bu rg we stormed 500 metres of enemy positions and some machine- guns and trench mortars. In tie Balkans no important events have occurred

7 7 7- 7  SCROLL OF FAME. GORSEINON MAN WOUNDED. Mrs. J-j I hhert, of High-street, Gorseinon, has received a postcard from her son, Pte. Alfre(I Hibbert, Welsh Regiment, stating that he has been wounded as a result of a shell explosion. Pte. Hibbert was pre- viously employed as a tinman at the Lewis' Works, Gorseinon. IN OFFICIAL LISTS. The following local casualties are iu- oludod in the latest lists: Wounded— Williams, 12372 E. (Neath), Royal War- wickshire Regiment; Graves, 25930, H. I. (Swansea), Durham Light Infantry.

FOR WELSH SOLDIERS. -e- Mr. Long and Question of Grarsts. In the House of Commons on Thursday, Sir Herbert Roberts (R., Denbighshire E.) asked the President of the Local Govern- ment Board whether, in connection with the proposed financial assistance to be pro- vided through the medium of the Statu- tory Committee to meet cases of bardship arising out of the civil liabilities of men joining the forces, he would consider re- presentations in favour of making, so far as Wales is concerned, the local commit- tees under the Naval and Military War Pensions Act the authorities responsible for investigating applications for grants in place of the Commissioners proposed to be specially appointed for this purpose. Mr. Long replied: I am afraid this sug- gestion is impracticable for various reasons, among others, because the local Commissioners under the Naval and Mili- tary War Pensions Act will not usually be constituted in time to deal with the ap- plications. I may add that, as the Prime Minister inforyied the House on the 25th of April, the statutory committee found that they could not undertake this work, and the scheme is being administered by a Special Committee set up for the purpose. My lion, friend has written to me suggest- ing that the need for appointing Welsh- speaking Commissioner^ should he borne in mind. I can assure him that this shall he done.

THE SPIRIT MOVED HIM! I Patriotic feetofalei-s willop-erliap, receive the following true story with mixed feel- ings (says the Daily Dispatch.") The ot her day the Canadians in Flandeifc made a prisoner of a. magnificent specimen of the Prussian Guard. He was captured while trying to cut our barbed wire. At first he wa.s very sulky, and refused to answer any questions, while treating his captors with the greatest disdain. However, after pome time, he so far unbent a6 to consent to take a ration of rum. The appetite grew by what it fed on, and this ration of rum was followed by several others in quick succession. Then a marvellous change came o'er the scene. The Prussian Guardsman be<:ame as genial and communicative as before he had been stand-offish and uncommuni- cative. It appeared he had just come over from the eastern front and had been taken on his very first night in the west. I tve- lieve the Canadian colonel had reason to congratulate himself on i ti,- information of military significance which the Prussian divulged. Among the men who had actu- ally captured him he began to distribute souvenirs broadcast. He even cut off the buttons of his trousers as souvenirs. And there; are some who think the Bri- J tish rum ration ought to be stopped! )

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WITH GENERAL SMUTS.) Progress of Campaign in the I Kondoa irangi Area. The Secretary of the War Office makes the following announcement:— Telegraphing late on May 9 Lieutenant- General Smuts reports that the enemy in the Kondoa Irangi area, afr our occupa- non of that centre, fell back a consider- able distance along the roads leading to the C-entral Railway at Dodoma and Kilimatindc. There they received rein- forcements and have again approached Kondoa Irangi, where our forces are quite sufficient to deal with them. An aeroplane dispatched to reconnoitre the line of the Usambara Railway has failed to return. The rains are abating. The Belgian advance into Ruanda, both north ar.d south of Lake Kinl, has pro- gressed satisfactorily, despite the natural difficulties of the country having been in- creased by recent rainfall. [Kondoa Irangi was occupied by General Van Deventer's foroe on April 19. It is distant 125 miles from Aruhj and 100 miles from the Central Railway. The opposed forces are therefore about the same distances from their bases of supply, with perhaps some slight advan- tage to the Germans in this respect. But this would appear to be outweighed by our occupation of the district of Kondoa Irangi. which is a rich agricultural one, and a centre from which roads radiate to the chief points of the colony. The Ger- mans were reported by General Smuts on May 1 to be holding strong positions on the hills south-east of Ivordoa Irangi.]

WAS HE PROMOTED? I Paris, Fi-ida,.v.Writin, in the Echo de Paris," M. Marcel Hutin sars: I should be pleased to know, and perhaps the American Government will display the samfl curiosity, what is the punish- ment meted out to the commander of the submarine which torpedoed the Sussex. Has not the German Minister of Marine. Admiral Von Capelle, promoted First Lieutenant Otto Sh'ilbriCk commander of I submarine C 18, which, according to my information, was the vessel which tor- pedoed the Sussex.

IN SWEATED WOMEN. i1 V. I How Increase of Food Prices j Affects Them. t; # <1 A t 1 t( A touching picture of the struggles of V sweated women in industry was given by Miss Margaret Bondfield, at a meeting of the Liberal Women's Suffrage Union. In many trades, she said, there had been no rise in wage.s .iace the outbreak of war. One woman in the confectionery trade. T who, at the best, could earn only 3d. an l' hour—the minimum wage under the h Trades Board Aet-had supplied her household budget before and after the war. It was made up as follows:— Before the During War. War. ft e. d. e. d. I1 Six loaves of bread 1 1 2 3 iJ lib. butter 0 10 1 2 h 6ozs. tea 0 6-l 0 9f tl 21b. mgar 0 t 1 0 One tin milk 0 51 0 8i ilb. c heese 0 4 0 8 41b. potatoes 0 2 0 6 lib. meat 0 8 1 6 r 4 52 8 71 d The ?arnin?s of this sweated woman f1 still remained at 12s. a w?k, aud thc? only incr?asp organisation had yet h?&u. able to get was one of an hour, which would come into force next month- a Mr. F. D. Acland, M.P., appealed for more women to go on the land. Some counties, lie was sorry to say. had liberated children under 12 for farm work. This ought to be done only in very excep- r I ional cases. Women should fill the gap. F I

> On Thursday afternoon a warrmt was f. granted at Neath to raid the premises t)f a lDt'al body of Socialists at Briton ferry. r The raid was carried out later in theTtaj- ) under the supervision of Inspector MortSjh t and several bundles of pamphlets o other documents were seized by the police, a R Frinted and Published for the Swznem HIGHAM. at Leader Buildines. Swansea. t Press, Limited, by ARTHUR PAEHELL c