The Cambria Daily Leader

CASTLE CINEMA (Adjoining Leader" Office). Mon., Tues. and Wed., 2.30 to 10.30. II THE MISSING I ADM!RALTY PLANS, A Three-Part ?ord?k Drama of Topical Interest. l THE WASTER, II A Stirring and Exciting Pathe Drama in Three Parts.

VERDUN BATTLE ENEMY TAKE THIAUMONT WORK I DESPERATE ATTACKS ON THREE MILES FRONT TO-DAY'S FRENCH OFFICIAL. Saturdays French official communique, issraed through the Press Bureau, was as foiicrws:— On the left bank of the Meuse the activity of the artillery was maintained very intensely at the Bois des Avocourt, Bill 304. e.nd at the Dearl Anottter grenade atuck on our position tt Hill 304 was repulsed. On the right bank, the battle continued during tOO whole of the night. On the .-weat,ern part of the front of attack, our counter-offensive, conducted with vigour in the region of Hill 311 and of Hill 302. enabled us to recapture a large portion of the ground lost and to drive back the enemy as far as the approaches to tho Tidaumani work, wilich is still occupied. Fighting assumed a character of especial violence in the neighbourhood of fkbo villeg of Fleury. Between the Bois de Fumin and of Ctenois Wood our counter-attack i-estored to us the whole of the trench element which the enemy took during the night of the 21st June. The eneiiiy's bombardment, to which OUT batteries energetically replied, con- tinued with equal intensity from the Meuae as far as the east of Chenois- The latest information" Aows that the offensive action during the day of yester- day on the right bank was conducted by German forces numbering over six divi- sions. At Eparges, the Germans exploded three mine chambers, which did not cause any dajnage. Paris, Friday (received Saturday.)—To- mgbt's official communique says:— On the left bank of the Meuse the bom- bardment with shells of heavy calibre continued all day against the region of Hill 304, tbe Mort Homme, and our eecond line6 in the sector of Chattancourt. On the right bank, following upon violent artillery preparations last night, the Germans at 8 o'clock in the morning launched a series of offensive actions of great extent on a front of about five kilo- metres from Hill 321 as far as the east of .Damloup battery. Attacks with great effectives fracceeded each other with extreme desperation, not- withstanding the enormous losses which oar curtain and machine-gun fire inflicted on the enemy. Between Hill 321 and Hill 320, after eeveraA fruitless assaults, the (lennans succeeded in carrying our first line trenches and the Thiaumont work. A powerful German attack which reached the village of Fleury was driven back by a sharp counter-attack of our troops. The attacks against Vaux, Chopitre Wood. Fumin and Clienois Woods, and the Damloup battery were shattered by our fire and completely repulsed. In Woevre there was a somewha;t sharp artillery duel in the Moulainville sector. There was no event of importance on the rest of the front. SEMI-OFFICIAL REVIEW ENEMY HOPED FOR BETTER RESULT. Paris, Friday (received tSatiirda,y).-A serin-o Si oxaii statximent issued to-night 6ay.B For the past forty-eight hours the battle before Verdun continues without inter- ruption with a desperation which becomes more ferocious hour by hour. During the whole of to-day a powerful column delivered a series of assaults between Hill 321 and the battery at Damloup, but were successfully smashed by the rafales of our batteri-es and our machine-guns. As an infernal hostile artillery fire had com- pletely wrecked our advanced trcnches be- tween Hill 321 and Hill 320. the Germans were able to invade them as weU as the work at Thiaumont, situated between the two heights. At the end of the day a etrong division, which pushed as far as the hill viMage of Fleury, was chased from it by a vigorous counter-attack which made it pay dearly for the momentary success. Everywhere else the enemy was unable to reach our lines at any point. Simul- taneously the enemy opened a violent heavy artillery fire on the left bank, the probable prelude of repetitions in this sector of the powerful offensive movement wbioh he had just made on the right bank. The fight not having finished, it is bet- ter to await the result before making any forecast, but it ig incontestable that the Germans hoped for a better result from the new formidable offensive than the evacuation of some hundreds of metres of advanced trenches and an advanced guard post. 1/ot us therefore not attach more importance than is necessary to the in- evitable lfuctuation of the battle, which can only have a relative influence on the final result. That result depends upon other events which will come at their proper time and which the Germans will not avert by wishing to forestall. THE BIG AIR RAID. Friday's German official refers to the ,v,reilt Allied all' raid (reported in the Leader on Friday) in terms of regret, and deplores a number of civil victims. It adds that no military damage was done and that four machines were brought down, amongst the occupants of these be- ing two Englishmen.

SNEERED AT. The multiplication of German war bureaux is sneered at by the Berlin "Tage- blatt." which refers t0 10.000 orders by the Federal Council and a monstrous do veiopmenl of the bureaucratic apparatus in the shope of imperial grain, imperial meat, imperial potato, imperial'clothing, imperial leather, impprial sngar, imperial coffee, and God only knows what other imperial bureau.

A house-to-house visitation at Middles- brough reveals the fact that a large num- her of people have not registered them- selves at all.

HEW RUSSIAN BATTLE. FIGHTING DEVELOPING IN PINSK REGION Petrograd, Friday.-To-clay's official communique says:—In some sectors south of the region of Dvinsk the GermaJis, after an artillery preparation, tried to take the offensive, but were everywhere repulsed. Enemy aeroplanes yesterday dropped about 40 bombs on the railway station of Molodttclino. At 11 o'clock in the evening of the 21st fighting began on the line of the Oginiske Canal, in the region of Logischin. Yes- terday evening the fiehting was still going on. Attempts to cross the canal by ourselves and the Germans failed. In the course of the fighting General Stegei- niann and Colonel Berghenstrole were wounded, and the latter succumbed to his injuries. < t all the front held by Genera. JSrusiloff there has been local fighting on old ground and in other districts, Rotiibiy near Radziviloff. Enemv troops continue to receive rein- forcements from the 1* rench and Italian fronts MORE TOWNS TAKEN. Our offensive in the Bukovina con- tinues. We have occupied the towns of Gura Humora, St raj a (west of Radutz), -mul Yisclinitz, near Kutty. During the pursuit of the enemy we captured about 800 men. The enemy is falling back to- wards the Carpathians. [The Ogniski Canal, where a new battle has been begun, runs north from the Fiver Yasielda above Pinsk to the Shtara, some miles south of Baranovitclu. whora Hindenbergs force was reported to be active during last week. The capture of Giara Humora lepre- sents an advance of 54 miles from nowitz. The town is in the 6511th of Bukowina, 24 miles beyond Radantz. Viznitz is about 30 miles west of C&er- nowitz, on' the 1. Ozeremos, a tributary of the Pruth.] Iia

I RUMANIA'S HOUR. Nationalists Eager to Join Entente Powers. The Morning Post's" correspondent at Bucharest, in a message dated June 18th. sa:Vf; The Nationalist I arty, as a result of a meeting held to-day, at which M. T^ke Jonescu was the principal speaker, has decided to recommence its campaign in order to induce the Govern- ment to profit by the Russian offensive by abandoning neutrality and joining the Entente Powers, and by this means realise Roumanian national ambitions.

SMALL. MAN: BIG MONEY. With reference to Jimmy Wilde's en- gagement to appear on the music-halls, it is stated that the famous boxer's salary will be £::>0 a week, with a percentage of the takings.

YOUTHFUL LORD WOUNDED. Second-Lieutenant IXJrd Doun. eldest son and heir of the Earl of Moray, is officially reported to have been wounded. Lord Donne, who is in the Royal Flying Corps. received the Military •Cross last month for bringing down a Fokker. He will be twenty-four years old in August.

A WORKMAN'S EXAMPLE. A Swiss workman employed at one of the Vickers works has asked the management of that company to dediiet Pl a week from hi- earnings, which he wishes to be for- warded to the Chateau l'Oex, Switzerland, for the benefit of the interned British wounded. The Vickers Company has de- cided to supplement this subscription by a weekly amount.

TEMPERATURE FALLS. Salonika, Friday.—To-day artillery ac- tivity was less severe as compared with that of the previous days. The village of Linbnitza was the scene of engagements lretween reconnaissance parties. The tem- Jperature at Salonika underwent an agree- able improvement to-day owing to the I rains in the mountain regions. This change is a source of much relief after the tropical heat of the past few days.

WHY HE OBJECTED. The Chief Constable of Meithyr on Friday objected to the transfer of the King's Arms Hotel from Godfrey George, who has E--e-n e,tllc-d to the colours, to Thomas Williams, a collier livi.ne at Aberavon. The chief ground of objec- tion was that should the application he granted it would be case of an individual of military age liable for sen-ice taking the place of one called to the colours and leaving work of national importance to do so. The application was refused. j

==-=-c: COAL BOARD CHAIRMAN Joint Deputation to Lord j Chief J, ustice. The deputation appointed by the coal- owners and workmen's representatives to > upo" the Lord Chief Justice (IvOid .iieaumg; in regard to the nomination of an independent chairman for the South Wale* Coal Conciliation Board will (writes our Mining Correspondent) wait upon his lordship in London on Tuesday llexL It will he remembered that by virtue of the 1915 wage agreement, the Coal Board shall have an independent chairman to j decido matters submitted to him, and that, if the two sets of representatives should fail to agree upon the se lection of J such independent chairman, the nomina- tion, which practically means the appoint- ment, should be left to the Lord Chief J ustice. In order to explain fully to the Tor(I Chief Justice the nature of the duties devolving upon the independent ehairma-n and the qualifications necessary, it was thought the best way would be to appoint a joint deputation, representative of em- ployers and workmen, who should wait upon him. That snggestion was acquieFcPo to by the Lord Chief Justice, and the interview on Tuesday is to be in pursuance of that I arrangement. j

HEADLONG FALL FROM TRAIN Leaeon Seymour, collier, Railway-ter- race. Resolven, was at Neath County Sessions on Friday fi n-ed 10s. for leaving a railway motor whilst in motion. Mr. j Rupert Lewis prosecuted for the G.W.R., and P.C. Jones said that on May 13, he noticed a carriage door open before the motor reached the platform, and saw a Iman fall headlong into thesiriill. Defen- 1 dant's excuse was that he was pushed out of the compartment. j

LUXURIES FOR U.S.A. How the flourishing Americans are j spending their money is indicated by figures obtained from the United States Consulate iu London. For the five months ended May 31 exports to America, declared in London, reached a total of ^615,423,027, an increase of on the same period last year. The increase is ehie-fly in luxuries. The biggest item is precious stones, which at the end of May last year amounted to Vr,0,00, and rose this year to

ON BRITISH FRONT. How Enemy Batteries Were Stisncsd. Press Bureau, Friday, 11.30 p.m.—The following telegraphic dispatch has been received :— General Headquarters. France, Friday. 9.55 p.m.—Yesterday in fine weather there was considerable activity in the air along the front. There were 22 combats in the 1 'wo c?t our air. mostly indecisive. Two of our machines were brought down. Our batteries obtained direct hi on two hostile anti-aircraft batteries, and the ammunition of one of these batteries continued .0 explode for twenty minutes. Last night the enemy emitted gas on a very small front south-west of Messines. but no infantry attack developed. Enemy patrols were driven off during the night east of Wytschaeto and west n; Pilkem. At midnight we successfully exploded a mine opposite Uaisiies and occupied the lip of the crater. A German mine was sprung this morn ing east of Neuville St. Vaast. but did no damage to our position and caused uo casualties. To-day there is no action of any im- portance to report. Isolated and unimportant artillery en- gagements have taken place. During one of these we siienctd a German battery west of Lens.

BALKANS CAMPAIGN. Bombs on Bulgar Positions. Salonika, Thursday (delayed).—Every- thing is quiet to-day on the front. French aeroplanes last night dropped bombs on camps in Strumnitza and Petritch.—Press Associa-tion War Special.

REMOVING THE DOUBT. "Whence is that knocking?" asked Macbeth on a rather breathless occasion. The Los Angeles film version of the play leaves the answer to the question in no doubt. An enlargement of a male hand is shown on the screen thumping on a pro- perty door to the accompaniment of a noise" off."

FIGHT AT UNDIE. Germans Beaten by Portuguese. Lourenco Marqnes, Friday.—It is offici- ally announced that in an attack on a Portuguest port at Undie the Germans lost eight killed and many wounded and missing. The Germans also lost much armament through the sinking of dug-out J canoes while cropping the river.—Press Association Vi ar Special.

S T A B B ED IN CARDIFF. I Alieged Assailant Remanded. Albert .ljehrun, a French sailor, who was charged at Cardiff on Friday with feloniously cutting and wounding Walter George Easton in the neck with a knite in Last-terrace, Cardiff, under circumstances already reported, was remanded in custody for seven days. The Stipendiary was in- formed that Easton was still in the In- firmarv and unable to attend the court.

KARLSRUHE BOMBED.* The German Official Report. Amsterdam, Friday (received Saturday). "The "Frankfurter Zeitung" publishes the following official vers ion of Thursday's air attack on Karisruiio: This afternoon enemy airmen dropped bombs from an extraordinarily great height on the open town of Karlsi-iillc. Unfortunately numerous civilians, chiefly women and Ni-lio were on the way to attend a performance, were victims. No impoi taiit military damage was done.

SKAGERAK FIGHT. I Germany's Impudent Claim I to Victory. Amsterdam, Saturday.—During a meet- ing of the German Navy League on .Tune 18th. telegrams were sent to the Kaiser, Prince Henry of Prussia. Admiral Bon 'J irpitz, and Admiral Von Scheer, con- gratulating them on the Skagerak vic- tor v. The Kaiser, according to the Cologne Gazette." replied to Admiral Von Koester, president of the Navy League, a<s lol- lows:—"Heartiest thanks for tlve loyal greetings of the Navy League, to which the sea battle off the Skagerak is the best reward for its long years of work." Prince Henry of Prussia telegraphed: Remembering the visit of the Navy league to the High Sea Fleet which T, at that time your Excellency's pupil and subaltern, was allowed to command. I wish, in view of the latest successes of the High Sea Fleet off the Skagerak, to express the special gratitude for the activity of the Navy League under your able leadership. God bless oi:* beloved and brave Fleet. May He bless our future work and impulsive labour of the Navy league." Admiral Von Tirpitz telegraphed- To youf Excellency and the Navy League I send heartiest greetings and accept an homrary nieiivl)eriliip- -,vi th the greatest joy. May the Navy League also in future work for Germany's influence on the sea, without which nationality canned exist in the future." I Admiral Von Scheer replied: "With a grateful heart we reply with three hearty cheers for the loyal work of the Narv League, which has done so much ip- wards strengthening our defence on the sea."—Press Association War Special.

114 IN THE SHADE! Press Bureau, Friday, 6.30 p.m.—The Secretary of the War Office makes the following announcement:—Mesopotamia.— General Lake reports that there is no change in the military situation in Meso- potamia. On the San-i-Yat front during „ the night of June 20-21 the enemy dis* played considerable activity with rifle, machine gun, and artillery fire, but no attack was launched. The shade tem- perature is reix>rted to be 114 degrees.

PRESENTATION TO "LEADER" EMPLOYE. t On his departure to take up a respon* sible position elsewhere, Mr. R. J. Ken- nett, of the Cambria Daily I/eader," has been made the recipient of a silver cigarette case and brief hag by the mem- bers of the combined staffs as a tribute of respect, esteem, and good will. The presentation was made by Mr W. Phillips, I the cashier, who referred to Mr. Kennett's good work during his three years' sojourn on the Leader," and the recipient made ¡ a suitable response. j

j AN EX-RUGBY PLAYER. AN EX-RUGBY PLAYER. SPrgt. 1. Jorps. V??ish Regiment, whose namA wal? amongst the Wp?sh D.C.M.'s announced this week, was prior to the war emnloved bv the Lla.nelly Motor and Engineering Company. He is well known in Rugby circles. The decoration was awarded him for conspicuous gallantry in going out in front of the parapet and bringing in six wounded men. He also assisted an officer to make a temporary shelter in front of the parapet where the wounded could be. treated. All this was under heavy rifle and machine gun fire."

7 7 = 7 TIMES WAR ISTORY. Part 07 of the always interesting "Tunes" History and Encyclopedia of the War is published. It treats in an illumi- native manner ot the part hitherto played by the Russian Empire in the world con- flict. It -shows how Russia It ad been im- bued with German ideas, and how nothing short of brutal violence could have brought the Russian people into a fighting mood. But war has been forced uJ){)n us." said the Emperor. I hereby take a solemn pledge not to concl ude peace so long as a single enemy remains on Russian soil." The sturdy figu rp ot the Sovereign, clad in a khaki Kohl tunic, was seen bow. ing repeatedly to the multitude. Banner hearers knelt, iuvoking the blessing of the Sovereign. The common people, especially the reservists, remained kneel- ing, then gaze rivetted on the Little Fat. It was a sight destined to live Ilonl, Russian history."

[ G. E.R. LINER. I I Supposed Capture by German Destroyers. A Reuters Amsterdam message says:— The Telegraaf learns that a Harwich liner, probably the Brussels, was seen by ifshermen with four German destroyers. The liner was taken to Zeebrugge. I Tlii- Great Eastern liner Brussels left ithe Hook of Holland on Thursday. At 5 o'clock on Friday the officials of the Har- I Ni-icit Line were still without any news of the vesseL I

I SOMEBODY'S BLUNDER. Afterr nine months in khaki with the A.O.C., a Chertsev mall has received papers to report himself as a conscript.

COSTLY ANGLING. Angling in the Neath Canal for the j evasive trout wit hout permission, kd to: j the appearance of Harold Sandy, Jeffrey Howells, and Brynmor Howells, three j Glvn Neath collier boys, at the -Neatli County Sessions on Friday. They bad i lines in the water with worm bait, but no trout. Their piscatorial experience cost them 10s. each. j

I SHIPPING RELEASED. Removal of Restrictions on Greek I Vessels. We are informed by Mr. R. A. Dawson, H.M. Collector of Customs at Swansea, that the restrictions imposed upon all,! Greek tonnage in this and other porttl in the Bristol Channel have now been taken off, and the several craft which have been lying in ports are now released. „ —

j VON DER GOLTZ. I Amsterdam, Friday, June 23.-A tl()- from from Constantinople to the Ber- liner Tageblatt" says that the body of Marshal von dor Goltz will be buried at the German Embassy at Therapia, w the desire of his relatives that the body should be brought to Germany could not be OOlll- plied with. The correspondent does not say why compliance with this request was iinpossible.-Tit-iii-er.

A WAR OFFICE WARMING. The Secretary of the War Office far- wards the following tor publication: The public are warned against having any communication or dealing with the Army Educational Bureau,' Grosvenor House. -!8. Winchester-street, Pimlico. This bureau, which also gives as its address Ilounslow and Aldershot,' pro- fesses to tritee missing, wounded, and dead friends and prisoners throush the various spheres of military operations,' and to be in daily contact with the various units of his Majesty's forces,'

TAKEN ALTOGETHER. There was such an increase in the nuoi- lx-r of Lighting Ordpr offenders at the Newport Court on Friday that the court dealt with them wholesale. The defend- ants were ranged round the well of the court and gave varied excuses. One lady was said to have argued with the police j officer for some time, and to have con- tended that the light, be had wen was the moon shining. The magistrates thought otherwise, and. as was the case with tatf, m;ljority of the other defendants, she was fined.

LORD TREDEGAR'S LINE. Mr. T. B. R. Wilson applied to the New- port Tribunal on Friday for conditional exemption of the shunter employed on Lord Tredegar's private railway connect- ing the Great Western Railway with the Alexandra Docks, Newport. Mr. Wilson said if this were a public railway the shunter would be automatically released. It was com.nlete as a private railway with a manager, traffic foreman, engine driver, ifreman, platelayers, and labourers. This wras the oyilv- riin on the railway for which his lordship intended to apply. Conditional exemption was granted.

ITALIAN ADVANCE SLOW PROGRESS OVER DIFFICULT GROUND- AUSTRIA WISING HER SET-BACKS Rome, Frida: (received Saturday).—A semi-official communique published here refers to the Austrian attempts to mini- mi.se among the. r allies the importance of Italy's counter-* fi'ensive, which is in pro- gress on the Tlvntino front, and 6ays the zone of Trentin-o where the Austrians are resisting with greatest tenacity is that of Sette Comuni, a large platen u where around a central ba.sin-that of Asiago and Gallio—rise mountainous ridges run- ning generally south. The ridges have tsteep sides clothed with thick forests of high trees inrcrsected by numerous; ravines mostly waterless in the dry eeason. Generally speu.:ng, the plateau does not favour the employment of large masses of troops for the operations, nor the use of heavy artillery. To advance in these conditions means to he foroed liter- ally to sweep the ground of all enemy occupations. To this must be added the obvious difficulties necessitated By trans- port, the reinotejie-ss of supply depots, and the lack of water. After this, it is not to be surprised if the advance of the Italians proceeds slowly agai nst the enemy, who sees in every set-back to which he may be forced, the danger or the beginning of a grave crisis.—P. A. War Special.

ONLY WORKS IN GAOL. Sentence of three months' hard labour was passed at Neath on Friday upon Wm. David Meek and AViii. Stephens, itinerant rag and bone gatherers, for stealing a quantity of scrap iron, value from the Abeipergwm Colliery, Glyn Neath.—Superintendent Ben Evans said flip record against Stephens was a had one; he never worked only when in prison, an establishment to which he had made an annual visitation since 1905.

SMALL ASSETS. Liabilities Over £ 1,100. Philip Zeiler, trading as P. Zeiier and Son, titi, Britonferry-road. M'dincrythan, :N..ath. clothier and boot dealer, under a receiving order oi 6tli June, 1916 on deb- j tor'6 own petition, came before the Official Receiver for the first meeting on Saturday. The liabilities expected to rank for divi- dend amounted to CI,131 Os. Id., assets 188. 6d., leaving a deficiency of 1::1.130 Is. 7d. The causes of fail nre as alleged hy the debtor were bed trade, no capital, heavy household expenses, and large family. No resolutions were passed, and the Official Receiver remained trustee. u

ALIENS MUST REGISTER. Although all hotel, boarding-house and lodging-house keeinvrs have to keep a register of all their vi sitors, anyone who takes a furnished house, even at the sea- side, does not have to register unless he is an alien. A Devonshire correspondent who wrote to thp Home Office on the mat- ter was informed that the section of the Act relating to the registration of visi- tors, etc., does not apply to a person letting or renting a house on lease or agreement." The official rer.lv went on to say that "all aliens taking up resi- dence in Devonshire must register with the police, irrespective of whether their residence is in a private house."

,MEXICAN TREACHERY. I American Cavalry Force Annihilated. i Washington, Saturday.—A meagre re-! port from General Pershing, commanding the American troops in Mexico, announces that two troops of cavalry may possibly have been annihilated in the fighting at Carrizal. The report has created greater tension than any of the previous develop- ments which have brought the United States and Mexico to the brink of war. The report stat only seven horse- holders have returned to the field base. They assert the Mexicans treacherously attacked the American cavalry on the flank with rifle fire, and on the front with a machine-gun at the conclusion of a parley. When the report arrived the War Secre- tary awakened the President, with wlioin he conferred at great length.

PLANS APPROVED. The War Pensions Statutory Committee I met on Friday, and approved plans pro-I posed by the Soldiers and Sailors' Fami- lies* A-s-wciation and the Soldiers and Sailors' Help Society for continuing the administration of supplementary separa- tion allowances, recoverable advances, etc., in areas where the new loc-a-1 committees have not been established.

HAZARDUOUS SHORT CUT. At Neath County Sessions on Friday, six Cwmgwrach residents were sum- moned for trespassing on the G.W.R. It was stated by Mr. Rupert Lewis that pas- sengers made it a practice to cross the line for a short cut to the village. The Clerk (Mr. Kempthorne) said he knew the spot, and the short cut saved 10 minutes. There was no means of provid- ing a bridge there. Each were fined 10s.

WANTON MISCHIEF. Two young colliers from Glyn-Neath- .Thomas Howells and Thomas Cowley— were at Neath County Sessions on Friday summoned by Mr. Godfrey Williams, J.P., Aberpergwm, toy, damaging m~e trees and flower beds in the garden of c.Il untenanted house. P.S. Morgan said he saw defendants in the garden. They were tearing up some roe trees by the roots and cutting j flowers. When he spoke to them, Ho'e?b said, I fiaw no one was living in the house, and I went in." They were fined 10s. and ordered to pay the damage.

WELSH FREE CHURCHES. A meeting of the National Free Church Council was held to-day in London, the Rev. J. H. Shakespeare presiding. The proposed scheme for uniting the two Free Church organisations in Wales was COTI- sidered, and on thp motion of the Rev. Dr. Meyer, seconded by Mr. Beddoc Reps, and suptwrted by Mr. Herbert Lewis, M.P., and other! it was unanimously adopted. The scheme provides for the amalgamation of the existing organisa- j tions into one National Free Church Council for Wales, affiliated to the Er.g- j lish organisation. The two organisations j will work in complete harmony, but as far as Welsh matters are concerned, the Welsh organisation will have absolute home rule.

BAD FOR THE CATS. I I From house to house in a London suburb i on Friday went the cats'-meat vendor to tell his old customers that he had been unable to obtain supplies. r" Meat tickets for cats is the only solution to this prob- lem," he declared emphatically "It is I no use the Board of Trade saving that | cats must eat an ounce a week less than before the war. Prices for cats'-meat rose this week from 10s. to 12s. a hundred- weight. On the land and everywhere! else horses are being worked that would have been slaughtered two years ago. Hun- drPd." of thousands of the best have goiie to France and none of the dead ones comes back. The cats know there's a war on I they are more serious than they used to; [ be and come in earlier at nights." 1

i'TO-DAY IS WAR RESUME "Leader" Office 4.50 p .m The Nationalist party in Rumania are eager to ..pin with the Entente Powers. They recognise the Russian advance i.6¡ being their opportunitv for abandoning the policy of neutrality. There have been desperate attacks on a three mile front in the course of the ¡ battle for Verdun. The enemy have taken Thiaumont work. The progress of the Russian Army is maintained. Towns have been occu* pied and fighting is developing in the I Pinsk division. The Italians are progressing slowly but surely over delicate ground. Austria is I minimising her set-backs. Bomhs have been dropped by an Allied airman upon Karlsrhue from a great tl-ie iniiitarv re- port no important military damage was done. A Harwich liner, believed to be the j Brussels, has been -een by hehermen with four German d est rovers. She has, it is said, been taken into Zeebrugge. I

TO-DA V'S HEWS IN BRIEF I London will be the meeting-place of next year's conference of rail way inen. Russian is to be taught at the Newport (Mon.) technical schools next session. Engine-winders in the South Stafford- shire coalfield are demanding an increase., in wages. The town council of Dresden has voted £ .2,0(>0 for advance to small farmers tor the purchase of sucking pigs. Another demonstration to demand the internment of enemy aliens will be held in Hyde Park on Sunday at 3.30 p.m. < Sir James Stirling, formerly a Lo-d Justice of Appeal, w ho is eighty, is lying seriously ill at Finchcoeks, Goudhurst, Kent. Attempts are to be made in Australia to acclimatise the valuable Algaroba tree, which possesses most useful fodder pro- perties. Messrs. Alfred Priest, James Qirnn, and Frank Salisbury were on Friday elected members of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. A twelfth of the white population of Papua has gone on active service, and an average of over A;2 per head has been sub- scribed to war funds. News of the proclamation of the inde- pendence of the Aralis in Hedjaz has caused a deep impression here, especially among the Moslems. The Berlin Omnibus Company's recent j report shows that the number of pasten- gers carried last year was only 79,000,000, against 104,000,000 in 1913. From Monday War Expenditure Certifi- cates will be issued M the Bank of Eng- land for £100 and £ 500, as well as for < £ 1,000, < £ 5,000 and = £ 10,000. Athens, Friday.—The official "GazeiiV publishes a decree closing the Parlia- mentary session. A decree for the dis- solution of the Chamber will follow. With 5,680 tons of foodstuff for relief in-Belgium, the Gothland arrived at Fal- mouth on FrilY, this being the sixth ship sent from Canada for this purpose. Oattleya Warscewiszii Firmin Lambeau was the orchid to realise the highest price of < £ 2*20 10s at the three days' sale of the late Mr. J. Gurney Fowler's collection. The Australian Commonwealth has framed regulations, in the nature of a moratorium, in order to protect the pro- perty of Australian soldiers on active ser- vice. The Metropolitan Asylums Board has lent the Hackney Wick Institution to the Government, at the request of the Home Secretary, for the internment of enemy aliens. The last of the old M-elbourne horse 'buses has gone out of action with the closing of the East Brunswick—North Carlton line. The 'bus system was started in 1869. For be-in, an absentee, Aylmer Rose, secretary of the No-Conscription Fellow- ship, was fined 40s. and handed over to the military at Clerkenwell Police Court on Friday. Sergt. H. Ball, who gained the V.C. and D.C.M. at Gallipoli, and ultimately lost his right arm and the sight of his eyes, has been doing good recruiting work in Melbourne. | The Commonwealth Government is con- sidering the calling up of all physkally fit men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five for military training in the. the citizen forces. At the end of April 14,831,217 Common- wealth of Australia notes were in circula-, tion of a face value of £ 43,646,771 10s., against which the Treasurer held gold to the extent of 1:15,784,052. In a thrilling air fight near Baronvitchv a Russian aviator looped the loop several times over a German Albatross, and thus got to the rear of the enemy aeroplane, which he destroyed by machine-gun fire. Mr. Beekerton H. Deakin, town clerks of Monmouth, died this morning. He was! 72 years of age. and had lived in MOïl- mouth over 50 years. He was a native of Wolverhampton, where his mother, who is 95, lives. Women teachers in Darmsiidt who had to give up their posts on marrying but! arc now being re-employed owing to the j shortage of men, threaten to strike unless married women are permitted to teadl i after the war. It was said of an applicant for exemp- tion at the R-amsbury (Wilts) Tribunal, an innkeeper aged thirty-nine, that he had been for sixteen years in the Army. had served throughout the South African war, and carrhnl the flag cf truce when General Cronje surrendered. Melbourne. Friday.—The Melbourne Argus." commenting on the Paris Con- ference, says that an unrelenting trade, campaign should be prosecuted against) the enemy. Resolutions relating to the i conditions after tiie war demand very r careful study. Mr. Hushes has pledged us to frame a sympathetic tariff. The King inspected at Buckingham Palaco on Saturday a convoy of mDtor. ambulances purchased with part of the sum of £ 40,000 subscribed by members of Lloyds and presented to the French Army! through the British Ambulance Com- mittee. in aid of the French wounded, Included in the convoy are 20 ambulances, two reserve ambulances, one light lorry, a travelling workshop and one staff car. One of the ambulances and the staff "ar f are the personal gift of Mr. Herbert Austin, of the firm by which the vonvoy was built. i

SPANISH LINER STRANDED. Manila, telegram, dated Friday, 11 Æ-tatP" tInt 'he Spaiibh i::u Fcrnu':u<»- « poo i: ,lr;jLJcd l north-A r f a x-erl -r ■3 s ri k-

MEDALS FOR MERIT. Statement by Secretary of War Office. The Secretary of the War Office statee ( that a desire having been expressed for the issue or information as to medals which may be earned by soldiers for war service, the Secretary of the War Office announces that the medals in question are follo,ng the Victoria Cross. The condi- tions under which this is awarded are ;l well-known. Up to the present 86 Victoria Crosses have been awarded in the present war, to warrant officers, non-commis- sioned officers and soldiers. The Military Cross is awarded for dis- tinguished service in time of war," and may be worn by warrant office-rs as well as by commissioned officers of rank not above that of captain. One hundred and thirty warrant officers have received the Military Cross up to date. The Dis- tinguished Conduct Medal is awarded for individual acts of distinguished conduct, j and for devotion to duty in the field. This medal ]1M been earned by about 61-50 warrant ofncers. non-commissioned officers and soldiers during the present war Up to date the Military Medal, which was in- stituted some two months ago, is awarded to non-com missioned officers and soldiers for individual or associated acts of bravery in the field. About 1,700 of these have been conferred up to date.