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mwiiiiim i mn ii i mi iiihi n '■ n mil ill mi ''in i nn ■iimiiiww iimiiiii niii11 iiiimi i 111i >»wi«imiimiiiii ihhui .E' V'!A-  L". ''S(\S:¡j'A'' 1  ) I i ?PECML | RUAIN DAY TO-DA Y (Friday). DOORS OPEN 9 O'CLOCK. =_n. You will practice the truest economy by | making your purchases NOW and at this SALE. All our usual lines in Costumes, Coats and Dresses and Sports Coats are marked down to GEVINQ AWAY PRICES. A few examples of the Sterling Value offered are appended bclow:- 25 White VoHe Dresses, usually 18111 & 211- j To Clear, 5/11 j 47 Navy Costumes, usually 35i6 and 42I- EI To Clear, 12/11 || 49 Black & White Check Costumes, usually 421- & 52/6. To Clear, 19/11 37 Lustre Coats, 4 shapes, usually 25/9 | and 31/6. To Cleats 10/- II 4S VVhite Pique Skirts. To Clear, 2/6 I   39 Fawn Gabardine Costumes. | To Cleap, 11/S j _+- 21 Dainty N avy & White Spot Dresses. |J To Clear, 5/11 S8 Navy Costumes, usually 421- & 63/- To Clear, 19/11 & 31/6 I 63 Saxe Blue Costumes, usually 38/6 and II 42/11. To Clear, 12/81 & Id/11 .-+ 10 Black Silk Moire Coats, usually 47ill. ) To Clear, 21/11 84 Tan Costumes, usually 37(11 & 4S/6. || 84 Tan Costif?nes, iisiltalty 37111 &P 4516. ———"— To Cleat,, IS/Ei 27 Black Costumes, usually 3116, 3516 and 42/ To Clear, 17/11 35 Shozverproofs, usually 21h & 31/6. To Clear, 7/88 & SO/28 3 Many moifs B&RGAiiftES afte to be seen in E our- Windows and Showrooms. @@@@@0@@@@@@000@@@@@0@@@@@ø@ø@@@@@@@0 |j NOTE ADDRESSES EVANS LASS AM, 19, HIGH STREET, and 260, OXFORD ST. (Under the Personal Supervision of Mr. S. G. LASSAM.)

KAMERAD, MERCY!" Stories of Incidents in Cap- I tured German Trenches. TlJe Pj p&s Association has received the ^'lo>ving from u reliable sou roe:—A coin-! sergeant-major of fit- .Middhvy-x RPglln-ent paid a warm tribufo to the! i Vcr, of our artillery. They wore i eiinply inagniifcent." bo said and as we advanced _hy lifted trench ],y trench. x/le ba> tal wn went over and on in fi 11e Bi-yle. It was just like parade, and the juen fdt confident, us they knew that large reserves were behind them. L,()O,k got into the German front trench. I ve-ry kw living, but in the second third lines we found a few. At the bottom of deep trenches were plenty of d-ad, and in the dug--oub too. The prisoners wo took haTt starved, and as .800n as they 1US coining shouted out Kamerad, mercy!' But they only said thie when thev saw the machine- guns, v hieh they had been previously forking for all they were worth, were ahout to l>e captured/' PEPPERED BY HIS OWN GUNS. A private in the West Yorks told a good story of a neat piece of work by tho, I iddlt"<;R\: who ":J;? on the flank of lii-s| battalion. The Middlesex ai^ault IukI oil They carried the hist trench comfortably, and in tlioj they found two German trench howitzers. Tlw gllll team had eiturof been Killed or had run. "Word was passed back to our trench mortar bat-i tcries, and three or four of our jjuiuiers] eame along. They had a look at the howitzers, found th<'m all in order, turned them round, and in a few minutes had t lie in hring on the Huns' last line trench and on his column citations. EVERYBODY WAS SINGING. An artillery otiioor attached to a trench Mortar battery had a word of praise for til. c-pirit inen in the fcector in ¡ it he was u ork TI-LO boy^ he a, lia,-di-, wait for the strafe I --top, and WLell it did they t'Jt av.-ay from the aseembliny tr,?nch,es in spiendid 6??. Tlie j n??  ?  l vesa? iP to tbo m,qf?Ix-ps as if. the. Wf>rf> off ?' ? '?"?. \n ?an's I?nr! ,1.6 (' rr I t. I! t: ?-:??'?-?'d m qnick Hn? and v h?n a?o?t j !?" Q '??'? ?rom Lhe Bodies they broke mto the double. Other lines followed en in I I the f'3 rue way. BETTER THAN LOOS. I I taw a regiment av.av on left anvamin^ at the slope. As the last hnes (If liattalions on my front went across the artillery, as If by instinct, lifted." picked up trencu after trench v itli uncanny accuracy. The Germans tried to open a loa rrag-n, but it way P-ett3- ff'(><bJ.p. The carriers wer^nT in the least.worried and the reserves tame steadily on. A bat> t i i<,v ItF,( l a tal ion say they had a good tiiuo in Mabtez. One lad said it was t.Jie bevt scrap be had IleCll in eo far. lie liked it much better than Loos. 0-

CARMARTHEN "RELICS." I Where is the Silver Oar? I At a meeting of ihe CarmartJK-n Town Council on Thursday, the Mayor (Mr. J. IÆwis) presiding, a letter was read from Mr. Goo. Eyre Evans, senior secretary of the (Airraarthenshire Antiyuarian Xociety, Hsldng if the (Corporation could say auy- thing- as to the present location of the formerly carried 1>efore tir" Mnyor of the borough in token Offico as -?djuiral of thA Towy ?oui Carlllarthem Bridge to its mouth an .¡fhee gran?.d to the Mavor b; Henry vn 1, ;lDd if 'v¡ns kn<)?n<? Uc /L:wap d ot Maintenance," which was hive wise borne bofor^ his worship on State occasions. Both those relics had disap- ?a?d, and ,Ii(-s liarl disal)- to paiticul^ ars ?bout them It transpired that no member of the Co,.nrd hade?r seen tlie^e relic* -uin it I wa, decided to reply that the Corporation h;l(l Ilk) i licni, n

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STUDEBAKER 15 CWT. DELIVERY VAN PRICE £ 270 COMPLETE. j STUDEBAKER, LTD., 117-14 Great Po.-tianti Street, Lartdlll, W I

[THE ALOES' OFFENSIVE. The shaded portion shows the ground gained by the British and French since I Saturday morning.

POOR LAW OFFICERS. I War Bonuses Granted at I Pontardawe. At the Pontardawe Guardians'' meeting on Thursday. Mr. JL. ,J. Powell. J.P.. pre- f?!?d. The Kinance Committee reported )!?'yl:ad considered the question of grant- in?n war homs to the officers, and they recommended that a bomis t? graftal only to full-time outdoor officers whose e-alary included travelling expenses, and excluding also certain officers where the ■-aiarirs were substantially high. They recommended thai a war bonus of £ 10 per year be granted to the following relieving I)aii,l Tenkiiia. I)ai-id officers: Maf?«*Jrsr. ffiTtTi..Toffrey;. and the fol- T h orn;:1-' anr towing rate c>!lectors: Messrs. Tlioimvs 'Mor' gan, Harry Jamcc; and I). T. Wil- I t liams. The report was adopied on condition that the Pepulv Clerk he included. j AUXILIARY HOSPITAL. I Mr. Herbert Lrwis, of the fit. John Am- bulance Association, wrote asking if the "Board would consider the question of al- lowing the Workhous" Infirmary to be used a,; an additional auxiliary hospital. This was referred to the Hou-sc Com- mit tec. DOCTORS AND ARMY SERVICE. The L.C.B. wro'r> asking that all doctors that could be spared should be allowed to go to the Army. The Clerk suggested that a re-ply be for- v. arded stating that they should amal- gamate districts if doctors would be called p. The suggestion was adopted. WIFE OF INTERNED ALIEN. In regard to the granting of relief to the wife and children 01 an interned Ger- man at Ysta)\fera, tho el-erk wrote in the Tj-easury on the matter, and the reply he received was that as considerable misap- prehension still existed as to the sourcn tr<>m which the allowances were derived it particularly requested that all ap- plicants and recipients may be informed that the funds were provided from the British Exchequer and that the money did not coroo from Germany or Austria. Furthornl0r,\ it was stated that the allow- ance was intended for the support of the woman and her children, and it ought pofc to be used in meeting the deficit on her br?TiMs. It was decided that relief should 00 paid ^1 ?'ndi?? an interview with the woman by the clerk. DISTRICT COUNCIL MEETING. House Unfit for Habitation. At Pontardawe District Council meeting on Thut\<day, Mr. ,T. G. Harries, J.P., I) re- siding, t here was a long discussion over a cottage known as .Penvbrynian, C'wmgorse, which was closed some timo ago by the Council, and which had l>een re-occupied before the closing order had he<>Jl revoked. Dr. W.. Lewis, medical officer of health, said the house was not fit for habi- tation at present on account of the damp- ness. Mr. J. I). Itees said he did not agree with tho medical officer of health. All he could find wrong was a little dampness in one spot. Messrs. L. W. Francis and the chairman said they Illlderstood t hat Mr. Ho wells was prepared to cement the premises. Mr. D. T. Jones said he could not under- stand why pome members came there to explain the intentions of the owners. It was agree dthat Mr. Ho wells should appear at the next meeting to explain why he had allowed the premises to be re- ocenpied, and that the defects of titm building be pointed out to him.

SWANSEA ATTESTED MEN. The Attested Married Men's Union at Swansea is making real prog roes and ap- pears to have met with the approval of at least ilVe military je.prepenfatiy.es on the tribunals. It has been recognised that the best and correct place for registering for employment in munition wor ks is the Board of Trade Labour Ezchange, and aiready many have registered their names ready to adapt, themselves to any ussful work on munitions. With married men ready to ,a.dapt. themselves it will be diffi- cult for employers to justify the retention of single men in those industries unless it be til ope. who can he honest]y termed trained and highly skilled men. Men cm register their names any evening during the week toth to latli July at the Labour Exchal1

Summer Fashions 1916. 11 ■> • Ladies Tailoring. Tailoring,, New Tailoring Cloths and Fashions for the Season now ready for the in- spection of our clientele. i Coats and Skirts from 3* Guineas. Mourning Orders Promptly Executed.  R. EAlABASTER 12, Heathfield St., SWANSEA.

NOT THE ENGLISH ARTICLE. An interesting illustration of the way in which a German firm is selling German razors in Russia is laid in that Bache Review," published by J. S. Bache and Co., of thp New York Stock Exchange. .The razors are drapped in a paper bear- ing an English name, and the razor itself is marked" Musspl Razor Works," fol- lowed by the Kussian words meaning To a Brave Russian F-olcber for Distinguished Service." These German razors are sell- ing- in large 1Tl Bussia to every- body who desires to send a gift to a friend at the, front.

The season of the TJussian Council of the hiDpirc has beta rj^pended until Nov. i t'

A. RECORD YEAR. [ A. RECOD YEAR. FINANCIAL ASPECT OF SWANSEA'S ELECTRICAL ENTERPRISE "DAYLIGHT SAVINC" ECONOMY When the Swansea Tramways and Lkctric Lighting Committee met on lhursday a nor noon, the Borough Trea- surer (Mr. Ashmole) submitted accounts ot the electrical undertaking lor the vear ended March 3Lst last. The net income during the past twelve  he ?'?ted out, amounted to ??.?:?, as compared ?ith ??.?-t? hj tb? previous year. Working expenditure totalled against &1b,lf<5 in J!IIi-1E>. the gross profit i>ejng £ ]H,]iit compared with last years £ 14.3*1. In loan charges 113,160 was paid--last year it was £ 12,.•>45 and the net profit was left, at £ 4.944, I against £ 1,786 In the previous twelve mouths, the greatest they bad ever ex- perienced. rI lie gross profit represented ii per cent. upon the gro^g capital out- lay. I SMALLER COAL CONSUMPTION. Att-ei increasing the price of electricity to cover the increased charges caused hy til-, war, some explanation ot the very taf;sfactoi £ result; would appear (u bo Decenary, he said, and he had -examined the accounts with that object in view. The result was that lie lound a much larger number of units had been generated with a reduction in the coal used ot over -0 per cent.. so that the increased price of coal and labour had been nearly met by gome economy in working the station. aoi compared with previous years. Tho economy was also observable in other items besides those relating to generation, and would, he presumed, be explained by the engineer, upon whom it reflected great credit. SOUND FINANCIAL POSITION. The net expenditure upon the capital account during the year was £ lu,lK4, bringing up the capital expenditure oi the undertaking (excluding stock issue cx- >xnse.-> ) to £ 210,410. The total amount paid to date into the reserve fund, in- cluding interest, amounted to which £ 9,133 had been expended upon works which otherwise would hay. in- volved loans, and the balance at the end of the year was A:10,318. Allowing loj the suggestion often made that depreciation exceeded the sinking flill contribution, the foregoing facts showed that the under- taking, in spite of some unremunerative capital expenditure, was in a sound financial condition. THE MOST SUCCESSFUL YEAR. In his report the e lectrical engineer said the terms represented the lowest successful year of working in the history of the undertaking. This result had been brought about mainly by the running of th." more efficient plant. With an iu- cieased output of 197,782 units the coal consumption was reduced by 1,660 tOllS, as compared with the previous year. The Coal Prices Limitation Act had effected a saving of £ 350. and. lit; pointed out, the effect- of the Summer Tima Act to data had been a reduction of ten per cent. in the output. The Chairman observed that the ac- counts were highly satisfactory. DAYLIGHT SAVING. I During the discussion the chairman re- ferred to the engineer's observation upon the Daylight Saving Act. and the Mayor (Alderman. Mcrrells) observed, That chows the real economy of the measure. When reference was made to street lighting a member humorously remarked, In one quarter of the town the lighting- is so bad that you have to strike a match to find the standard." (Laughter). The Chairman considered that the best thanks were dtie to the engineer, staff, and workmen for the way they had eariied out the work to bring about such excellent resul. Tho report was adopted.

CRAY LOSS LESS. I Last Year's Charge Lowest for Ten Years. Mumbles Main Progress. I Swansea. Water and Sewers Committee met an Thursday afternoon, under the chairmanship of Mr. D. J. Davics, when the Borough Treasurer (Mr. Ashmole) re- ported that the income for the year amounted to £ 47.811. Payments totalled cfi 19,238, and there tfas a gross profit of charges represented • £ 51,923, and there was a net loss of of."2:3,319. compared wI-t.1 X25,,596 in the pre- vious twelve months, the lowest tor the past ten years. The Chairman characterised tho state- ment as highly satisfactory, and tlio Borough Treasurer observed that in 1906-7 the not, lots was as the Cray loans came into toice the. not loss iii- creased to "£;55.b.;r; The present capital oii waterworks wa, of which = £ 320,395 had been paid off or otherwise provided for. It was reported that the British Man- rtfsmaiiii. Tube Company had handed over all of the pipes for the mains to the Mumbles.

SWANSEA "FIRST AID." Awards to Members. A communication from the St. John Ambulance Association advises the suct-cvs of the Trinity-place Female Ambulance Class. Thirty-three students sat for ex- amination and 32 passed. This reflects great credit upon Dr. F. R'ichings, who was ably assisted by Mr. W. H. Fisher, ui the Mannesmann Tubo Works. It will ho.scon that Mr. Fisher's connection with Swansea first aid is extensive, an,l he is Ilgain to be congratulated on the con- tinued success of his efforts. It is doubt- ful whether anyone in Wales bas ren- dered first aid to a larger number of ca.-es that he has. Dr. D. LI. Davie", of XeaGi, was the examiner. Award s:—Certiifcates.: Liizabeth Recce, Charlotte Birchall, K. Ceinwen Roberts, Winifred Davies. Ethel Hacna. Morgan, Bachol Devoy, Hilda Treweeks, Eleanor Richards. Maiv Dyer, and I/ott;e Stephenson. Voucher■ Gertrude Williams. Medallion: Lillycrap. Emily L. Brnnett, Jessie Lan- cion, Blodwen F. Phillips, Etbel Holmes. Gladys Symonds, Eliz. A. Leonard, Louifl Hanna, Margaret Bendall, Hilda M. Coni- bear, Ethel Beard, Gladys Davies, Wini- fred Hopkins, and Mary Carr-Jones. Labels: Annie Elston, Eunice Workman, Lizzie Wi.Iliiin: Evelyn' K. Morgan, May Davies, and Fanny R. Kin-sou. Hafod Ambulance Class (Men).—16 Ki( and all passed; lecturers. Dr. T. M. Jone*. Powell and Mr. W. H. Fisher. Awards: Certificate: Tbos. Davies. Voucher: Thos Davey, R. Richards, Tom Williams. Bertie Davies, Hubert G. Riddeford, Thos. J. Pearce, Dal. Griffiths, Gocrge Awbery Medallion: Herbert A. Fisher, Griff Charles, Trevor Davip?,. T?bel: D. MC.* .To?ph. Rees Evans. R. S!llich, Thos C Mitchell Municipal Seconda BovsJ School (Men's Classb—8 sat. all^assed lecturers. Dr. T. EnLD and Mr. J. H. Ferguson A wards:-Certificate: T. Williams. G Phillips, D. Wilson and F. Willhm: V<uc.h-r: T. Davies and R. Kingdom Medalhoxi; S. Thillips. ,LabeL>. U. A. I Llo/d. v 1

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